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Association found between media diet and science-consistent beliefs about climate change
A person watching a news channel showing a weather map.

Image: Michael Holahan/The Augusta Chronicle via AP

Association found between media diet and science-consistent beliefs about climate change

A new paper from experts at the Annenberg Public Policy Center examines the associations between media exposure and science-consistent beliefs about climate change and the threat it posed to the respondent.

From the Annenberg Public Policy Center

Oscars predictions 2024
Barbie and Oppenheimer advertisements on a theater.

Advertisements for the films “Oppenheimer” and “Barbie” in Los Angeles.

(Image: AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Oscars predictions 2024

Ahead of the 96th Academy Awards on March 10, Kathy DeMarco Van Cleve of Cinema & Media Studies offers predictions for the screenplay categories.
Bringing museum filmmaking into the classroom
Claire Elliot watches her film.

Claire Elliot watches the short film she made on existential dread for Sosena Solomon’s Documentary Ethnography for Museums and Exhibitions class.

(Image: Courtesy of Alissa Jordan)

Bringing museum filmmaking into the classroom

Filmmaker Sosena Solomon, who has been filming in Africa for a major Metropolitan Museum of Art redesign, taught Documentary Ethnography for Museums and Exhibitions to graduate students this fall.
Filmmaker Mira Nair’s approach to storytelling
A group of people cluster around Mira Nair at the Penn Museum with the Sphinx in the background.

Mira Nair speaks with students and lecture attendees after the event.

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Filmmaker Mira Nair’s approach to storytelling

As a Saluja Global Fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study of India, filmmaker Mira Nair gave a lecture at the Penn Museum on art, storytelling, and filmmaking.

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PBS is coming to Philly to talk climate, community empowerment at Penn
WHYY (Philadelphia)

PBS is coming to Philly to talk climate, community empowerment at Penn

The Penn Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media will convene with PBS, WHYY, community leaders, science communicators, journalists, and leading scientists at an upcoming Philadelphia panel to discuss the value of storytelling to educate about climate change.