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Annenberg School for Communication
Art Matters: Sam Maitin’s ‘Celebration’ mural
The artist known as Philadelphia’s “Mayor of the Arts” created the 17 colorful, playful pieces specifically for the Annenberg School for Communication.
The majority of Americans do not support anti-democratic behavior, even when elected officials do
Despite rampant political polarization, the majority of Democrats and Republicans support democratic values and oppose political violence.
One-on-one with Jordan Obi
The fourth-year forward discusses her love of basketball, building team chemistry, being a quiet leader, her most memorable game, and her most interesting class.
Finding new ways to evaluate voters’ beliefs
In his dissertation research, joint communication and political science doctoral student Nicholas Dias searches for new ways to gauge voter competency.
The YouTube algorithm isn’t radicalizing people
A new study from Annenberg School for Communication’s Computational Social Science Lab finds that the YouTube recommendation system is less influential on users’ political views than is commonly believed.
The mission to get Pennsylvanians online
The Pennsylvania Broadband Research Institute, a collaboration between Penn and Penn State, looks for ways to bridge the digital divide in the state—and the rest of the nation.
Targeted anti-smoking messages for LGBTQ+ young women
In an effort to understand how to reduce smoking among LGBQT+ young women, Professor Andy Tan and colleagues tested tailored anti-smoking campaigns.
How common is common sense?
Researchers from Penn develop a framework for quantifying common sense, findings address a critical gap in how knowledge is understood.
When young people seem to make threats on social media, do they mean it?
A new app from SAFELab helps teachers, police, and journalists interpret social media posts by BIPOC youth and understand which threats may be real.
The 2023 Provost/Netter Center Faculty-Community Partnership Award
Andy Tan, an associate professor at the Annenberg School for Communication, and community partners Cross-Grade Sports and OurSpace were honored for their work in the West Philadelphia community.
In the News
After four years with COVID-19, the U.S. is settling into a new approach to respiratory virus season
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center says that the sense of urgency around vaccination has faded as attention on respiratory viruses wanes.
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Americans’ confidence in science remains high, finds new review
A survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center suggests that most Americans continue to have confidence in science and scientists.
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Media companies cut thousands of jobs so far this year. They're not coming back
Victor Pickard of the Annenberg School for Communication says that the ad-revenue business model for journalism has collapsed and can’t be replaced with paywalls.
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Meet Sora: AI-created videos test public trust
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center says that AI video-creation can manipulate images in ways that make them seem more real than the original artifacts.
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Meta, Google and other social-media companies brace for heightened deepfake perils ahead of 2024 elections
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center says that the capacity exists in 2024 for individuals and nation-states to generate more misleading content that is microtargeted and harder to detect.
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