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Annenberg School for Communication
Bringing Ukraine to Penn
Bringing Ukraine to Penn
On the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion of the Ukraine, displaced and visiting scholars and students from Ukraine share their experience at Penn.
Americans don’t understand what companies can do with their personal data
Americans don’t understand what companies can do with their personal data
A new survey of 2,000 Americans finds that people don’t understand what marketers are learning about them online and don’t want their data collected, but feel powerless to stop it.
Beyond America’s racial fault line
Beyond America’s racial fault line
Professor of practice Ben Jealous discussed race, politics, America’s long history of interracial collaboration, and his new book with Camille Z. Charles during a co-sponsored event at Kelly Writers House.
Is social media good or bad for social unity?
Is social media good or bad for social unity?
Annenberg professors Sandra González-Bailón and Yphtach Lelkes reviewed all of the previous literature to determine what scholars have discovered to date.
‘Fight for it:’ Nikole Hannah-Jones on abolition, reparation, and building a more just future
‘Fight for it:’ Nikole Hannah-Jones on abolition, reparation, and building a more just future
Nikole Hannah-Jones, award-winning journalist and author of the 1619 Project, delivered the 22nd annual Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture in Social Justice on Jan. 25 in conversation with Sarah Jackson of the Annenberg School for Communication.
Matthew Levendusky and Kathleen Hall Jamieson on democracy amid crises
Matthew Levendusky and Kathleen Hall Jamieson on democracy amid crises
A new book by a team of scholars—including Matthew Levendusky of the School of Arts & Sciences and the Annenberg Public Policy Center’s Kathleen Hall Jamieson—analyzes the crises surrounding the 2020 election and its aftermath.
John L. Jackson Jr. named Penn’s next provost
John L. Jackson Jr. named Penn’s next provost
The Walter H. Annenberg Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication and Richard Perry University Professor will begin his appointment on June 1, 2023.
Students compete to help their classmates fall asleep
For their Public Health Communication class, students pitch ideas in a (friendly) “Shark Tank”-style to promote healthy sleep habits on campus.
How dark money fuels climate denialism
How dark money fuels climate denialism
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse joined Penn faculty to discuss distrust in science, the fossil fuel industry, and the conservative Supreme Court.
At Engaging Minds, three Penn Integrates Knowledge Professors take the stage
Alumni heard Lance Freeman examine racial equity in city planning, Dolores Albarracín talk about how conspiracy theories take hold, and Kevin Johnson discuss the importance of clear science communication.
In the News
The Washington Post
Trust in science hasn’t fully recovered from pandemic controversies
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center says that Republican lawmakers engaged in a sustained attack on a sector of science during and after the pandemic.
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Bloomberg
More than two million voters backed both Trump and abortion access
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center says that Donald Trump’s ambiguity on abortion served him well during his campaign.
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Newsweek
Donald Trump, evangelicals and the 2024 MAGA coalition
Shawn Patterson Jr. of the Annenberg Public Policy Center says that Donald Trump was largely an apolitical figure in 2016 with a wide array of celebrity relationships, donations to candidates of both parties, and a career in New York real estate.
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NBC News
The U.S. has a new strategy for combating foreign election interference, but is it working?
According to Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, democracies are based on common understandings, among them that rival political factions will accept election outcomes and work to win back power at the next opportunity.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
How a rave with Bill Nye and Quavo turned out droves of early voters at City Hall
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center says that some celebrities aren’t helpful to political candidates because their followers are already engaged and have already made up their minds.
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