Annenberg School for Communication

The Class of 2025 communications major was drawn to studying social media and culture, how gender is portrayed online, and the role of technology in perpetuating bias. “I loved how Annenberg enabled me to not only see the diversity of ways I could use my degree, but also learn from people who had much different academic interests than me.”

A collaborative study from researchers affiliated with the Annenberg School for Communication, Annenberg Public Policy Center, and School of Arts & Sciences tested 17 strategies in an “intervention tournament.”

A new study by Annnenberg School for Communication professor Damon Centola tests if AI tools could help improve medical care without increasing bias. The findings suggest that “AI can meaningfully augment physician decision-making without introducing inequities in clinical decisions,” Centola says.

For an Annenberg School for Communication dissertation, Staci L. Jones and four grandmother co-authors introduce the Kitchen Scholar Framework. Their work embraces knowledge that goes beyond academia.

Fourth-year communication student Nick Bausenwein took two gap years to skate professionally with a touring show, competed with the Penn Figure Skating Club, and wrote a thesis on children’s perceptions of film character meet-and-greets.

New research from the Communication Neuroscience Lab at the Annenberg School for Communication finds that people tend to share news that they find relevant to themselves or to people they know.

In a new book, Annenberg School for Communication professor Barbie Zelizer and other communication scholars explore media and propaganda across borders, topics, and timelines.

In a new paper, Computational Social Science Lab postdoctoral researcher Amir Tohidi and colleagues find that exposure to articles about climate change significantly increases climate change concerns among skeptics.

The Annenberg School for Communication associate professor will study how political hostility is shaped in an overloaded information environment. His research focuses on Lelkes the structure, dynamics, and causes of political attitudes, with a particular emphasis on polarization and American politics.

The first book from Emily Falk of the Annenberg School for Communication provides a window into the impacts of the brain’s value, self-relevance, and social relevance systems.