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School districts emphasize safety, widen probes as concerns grow over rise in online threats

School districts emphasize safety, widen probes as concerns grow over rise in online threats

PIK Professor Desmond Patton of the School of Social Policy & Practice and Annenberg School for Communication believes that solutions exist to combat risky adolescent online behavior, beginning with the acknowledgment of the role that the internet plays in children’s lives.

Taylor Swift, storytelling, and climate communication
A Taylor Swift fan with friendship bracelets makes a heart sign with their hands.

As part of Climate Week at Penn, leading expert on climate solutions and clean energy Joseph Romm will lead a workshop titled “Communication is a Climate Solution: How Taylor Swift can Level Up Your Storytelling.”

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Taylor Swift, storytelling, and climate communication

Clean energy expert and senior research fellow at Penn Joseph Romm says that Taylor Swift’s lyrics offer storytelling techniques that can be applied for impact-driven climate communications.

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Researchers studied how Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek identify hate speech. Here’s how they vary

Researchers studied how Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek identify hate speech. Here’s how they vary

A study by Yphtach Lelkes and doctoral student Neil Fasching of the Annenberg School for Communication finds that different AI models produce different definitions of hate speech for the same content, undermining consistency and predictability.