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Louisa Shepard
News Officer
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Cinema & Media Studies
9/11, 20 years later
9/11, 20 years later
Experts across the University share their thoughts on how 9/11 transformed their field, their research, and the world.
Ilyse Reisman summer in the writers’ room
Ilyse Reisman summer in the writers’ room
An aspiring comedy writer, senior Ilyse Reisman got a chance to be on set and in meetings to pitch production ideas during her RealArts@Penn summer internship at the film studio Indigenous Media in Los Angeles.
Rising sophomore Paola Camacho’s Hollywood summer
Rising sophomore Paola Camacho’s Hollywood summer
Rising sophomore Paola Camacho is conducting research for Hollywood writers and Penn alums David Stern and Stuart Gibbs through a Real Arts@Penn internship in Los Angeles.
‘Dreaming of Jerusalem’
‘Dreaming of Jerusalem’
Penn’s Peter Decherney and Sosena Solomon make a documentary film about a Jewish community in Ethiopia waiting to emigrate to Israel.
Filmmaker Claire Sliney heads to Paris with a Nat Geo Storytelling Fulbright
Filmmaker Claire Sliney heads to Paris with a Nat Geo Storytelling Fulbright
May graduate Claire Sliney is the first Penn undergrad to receive an Academy Award, and to receive a Fulbright-National Geographic Storytelling Fellowship. She heads to Paris to shoot a documentary about how female immigrants in France are portrayed in film.
How news coverage affects public trust in science
How news coverage affects public trust in science
News media reports about scientific failures that do not recognize the self-correcting nature of science can damage public perceptions of trust and confidence in scientific work.
How the pandemic has—and hasn’t—changed the Oscars
How the pandemic has—and hasn’t—changed the Oscars
Ahead of the 2021 Academy Awards, to be held on Sunday, April 25, Penn film scholars discuss the highlights of this year’s contest and how the notoriously competitive Oscars campaigns have adapted to the pandemic.
A link between gun violence on TV and firearm deaths
A link between gun violence on TV and firearm deaths
Research from Annenberg Public Policy Center’s Daniel Romer and Patrick E. Jamieson found that gun use on television doubled from 2000 to 2018, rising in parallel with the proportion of homicides from firearms in the U.S. during the same period.
Middle East Film Festival highlights five directors from five countries
Middle East Film Festival highlights five directors from five countries
Transformed by the pandemic, this year’s festival featured a virtual dialogue with directors and watch-at-home film offerings.
How news messages affect views on vaccination
How news messages affect views on vaccination
News coverage of expert scientific evidence about vaccine safety is effective at increasing public acceptance of vaccines, but the positive effect is diminished when the expert message is juxtaposed with a personal narrative about real side effects.
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In the News
Reuters
How AT&T helped build far-right One America News
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center spoke about the origins of Fox News and OAN. “If somebody recognizes there’s a market for something and there’s a lot of money attached to that market, you get a news outlet,” she said.
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Slate.com
The radio hosts taking COVID denial to its grimmest endpoint
Brian Rosenwald of the School of Arts & Sciences was interviewed about how the right-wing media ecosystem has framed COVID-19 and the vaccines. “As much as many see conservative media as hosts who are puppeteers dragging their audience around, it’s kind of the other way around—hosts are afraid to lose the audience,” he said.
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The Atlantic
The Tucker Carlson fans who got vaxxed
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center said shows like “Tucker Carlson Tonight” foster distrust in the COVID-19 vaccine by perpetuating viewers’ assumptions. “If you hear the word lie tied to Anthony Fauci, and Anthony Fauci now comes on in a completely different venue, the assumption is, you can’t trust Anthony Fauci,” she said.
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Washington Monthly
Our divisions are worse than you think
Jonathan Zimmerman of the Graduate School of Education reflects on conservatives and progressives who are locked into their own media bubbles, while each presents America as under existential threat for vastly different reasons.
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Slate.com
Limbaugh’s lamentable legacy
Brian Rosenwald of the School of Arts & Sciences spoke about the late Rush Limbaugh’s role in shaping talk radio, conservative media, and the Republican Party. “He was this brilliant, gifted entertainer. But it was kind of like the dark arts,” said Rosenwald. “He used his power to do a lot of terrible things.”
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The Washington Post
Rush Limbaugh is ailing. And so is the conservative talk radio industry
Brian Rosenwald of the School of Arts & Sciences said radio station owners are unlikely to invest in local personalities due to financial constraints, putting AM radio “in imminent danger, unless someone comes along to invest enough to enable it to become a local medium again.”
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