Cinema & Media Studies

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.

Jackson, an associate professor at Penn’s Annenberg School for Communication will begin a one-year fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study, one of the world’s foremost centers for intellectual inquiry. Jackson studies the ways media, journalism, and technology represent and are used by marginalized publics. Her research focuses on how communication arising from Black, feminist, and activist spaces contributes to U.S. progress.

During the five decades of his academic career, Annenberg School for Communication professor Joseph Turow has tackled many topics related to advertiser-sponsored media industries.

As part of the Penn Global Seminar, Global Jewish Communities, 15 students traveled to rural Uganda in January to film oral histories that will become part of the Shoah Foundation archive.

Research from Penn’s Annenberg Public Policy Center examines whether media coverage of foreign conflicts affects public opinion about U.S. military, diplomatic, and economic involvement.

A new study from the Annenberg School for Communication finds that violent speech in movies is increasing over time, even in non-crime films.

Sarah Banet-Weiser and Kathryn Claire Higgins examine how the shows “Inventing Anna” and “The Dropout” reflect a post #MeToo society.

The Center will bring together six Schools at Penn with $10 million in support from Knight Foundation and the University.