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Annenberg School for Communication
Michael X. Delli Carpini named interim dean of Annenberg School for Communication
Michael X. Delli Carpini named interim dean of Annenberg School for Communication
The Oscar H. Gandy Emeritus Professor of Communication and Democracy at the Annenberg School, and dean from 2003 to 2018, Delli Carpini is currently concluding a term as the inaugural faculty director of Penn’s Stavros Niarchos Foundation Paideia Program.
A time to celebrate for inaugural SNF Paideia Fellows
A time to celebrate for inaugural SNF Paideia Fellows
The first cohort of fellows is set to graduate, taking with them the pillars of the SNF Paideia Program—dialogue, citizenship, service, and wellness—on their next life adventures.
To spread important messages about teen mental health, make community connections
To spread important messages about teen mental health, make community connections
After creating memes and TikToks with Philly high schoolers, Jeffrey Fishman’s honors thesis explores how those messages can effectively reach their audience.
Symposium highlights breadth and depth of Penn Global research
Symposium highlights breadth and depth of Penn Global research
The Penn Global Research and Engagement Fund is supporting the 19 new faculty-led projects that span research, capacity-building, and development efforts across Africa, Latin America, India, China, and beyond.
Instead of refuting misinformation head-on, try ‘bypassing’ it
Instead of refuting misinformation head-on, try ‘bypassing’ it
A new study from PIK Professor Dolores Albarracín has found that redirecting an individual’s attention away from misinformation and toward other beliefs can be just as effective as debunking it.
Four from Penn elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Four from Penn elected to the National Academy of Sciences
The newly elected members, distinguished scholars recognized for their innovative contributions to original research, include faculty from the School of Arts & Sciences, Perelman School of Medicine, Annenberg School for Communication, and Wharton School.
A century of newspaper ads shed light on Indigenous slavery in colonial America
A century of newspaper ads shed light on Indigenous slavery in colonial America
A new paper, co-authored by Annenberg Doctoral Student Anjali DasSarma, uses a century of newspaper advertisements to document Indigenous slavery in the American colonies.
What do our ancestral family ties say about our political beliefs?
What do our ancestral family ties say about our political beliefs?
A new study from the Annenberg School for Communication finds that the stronger your ancestral family ties, the more likely you are to hold right-wing cultural policy preferences.
Archiving the creation of a memorial
Archiving the creation of a memorial
In a class taught by Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Annenberg School for Communication doctoral students are documenting the process of creating the Fallen Journalists Memorial in Washington, D.C., interrogating everything from physical site to word choice.
Scholarship beyond the written word
Scholarship beyond the written word
Ethnomusicologist Juan Castrillón, the inaugural Gilbert Seldes Multimodal Postdoctoral Fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication, is on a quest to get other academics to see multimedia work as he does: on par with scholarly text.
In the News
Managed Healthcare Executive
Name change needed for Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System to reduce misinformation, says Penn’s Annenberg Center
A report from the Annenberg Public Policy Center examines how the name, description, and contents of VAERS, the federal government’s vaccine monitoring system, allowed anti-vaxxers and politicians to more easily mislead the public about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines.
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Stat
We’ll soon have tools to protect infants against RSV. Can we put them to good use?
Research by the Annenberg Public Policy Center found that only 53% of women of childbearing age thought flu shots were safe to receive during pregnancy, with more pronounced distrust regarding COVID vaccines.
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Scientific American
People, not Google’s algorithm, create their own partisan ‘bubbles’ online
According to Homa Hosseinmardi of the Annenberg School for Communication, ensuring that search engine giants like Google operate with people’s best interest in mind requires knowing how people are using the algorithm, not just how the algorithm works.
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Time
The pandemic didn't really change how Americans think about sickness
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center says that overall scientific literacy has grown during the pandemic, even as more people began to believe conspiracy theories and misinformation.
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Los Angeles Blade
Washington law protects trans kids seeking care without parent’s ok
The Annenberg Public Policy Center’s FactCheck.org debunked the notion that a proposed Washington state law would allow the government to take children away from parents who don’t agree to gender transition surgery.
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