Cinema & Media Studies

Fourth-years Ejun Mary Hong and Jack Nicholas Roney were awarded a 2025 President's Engagement Prize to pursue their PIXEL project. The pair will collaborate to bring art mentorship, creative skill-building, and industry networking opportunities to under-resourced high school students in the greater Philadelphia area.

Empowering high school youth through immersive art mentorship

Penn fourth-years Ejun Mary Hong and Jack Nicholas Roney will use a President’s Engagement Prize to expand their existing initiative dedicated to connecting under-resourced high school students in Philadelphia with art mentorship, creative skill-building, and industry networking opportunities.

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‘Media and Propaganda in an Age of Disinformation’

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

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News on climate change is more persuasive than expected

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.

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A long, long way to run

“Any film is potentially a cult classic,” says Timothy Corrigan of the School of Arts & Sciences. “It depends to what extent it fires up or activates an audience to appropriate parts of it or all of it in terms of their own perception.”

Sarah J. Jackson awarded fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Study

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.

Joseph Turow: A career immersed in research of audiences

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.

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A person being interviewed by Penn students in a Ugandan village.

Recording oral histories in rural Uganda

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.

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Every book lover dreams of it. Few ever get it.

Shannon Mattern of the School of Arts & Sciences says that the book ladder represents a scaling up of the analog engagement with a physical book.

A news reporter reporting on the scene in Istanbul.

Coverage of civilian casualties in allied countries boosts support for U.S. involvement

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.

Violent language in film has increased

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

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Empowering high school youth through immersive art mentorship

‘Media and Propaganda in an Age of Disinformation’

News on climate change is more persuasive than expected

A long, long way to run

Sarah J. Jackson awarded fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Study

Joseph Turow: A career immersed in research of audiences

Recording oral histories in rural Uganda

Every book lover dreams of it. Few ever get it.

Coverage of civilian casualties in allied countries boosts support for U.S. involvement

Violent language in film has increased