Communications

Small Kansas paper raided by police has a history of hard-hitting reporting

Victor Pickard of the Annenberg School for Communication says that when a local newspaper is lost, levels of corruption rise, civic engagement declines, people are less likely to vote, and community taxes go up.

Teia Hudson and Miraya Gesheva sit on steps.

How has Netflix changed in Mexico over the past decade?

Undergraduates Miraya Gesheva and Teia Hudson spent the summer working with Juan Llamas-Rodriguez to look at how streaming in Mexico has changed during the past 10 years.

There are lessons for the NYPD after the chaos in Union Square

PIK Professor Desmond Upton Patton says that the Union Square riot by fans of Twitch streamer Kai Cenat is a wake-up call for understanding social media and the digital world as real life.

How social media apps could be fueling homicides among young Americans

PIK Professor Desmond Upton Patton and colleagues have designed algorithms that analyze social media posts to identify users at risk of harming themselves or others..

Four doctors at a table, one gestures to an open laptop.

To reduce medical errors, connect doctors with other doctors

A new study from Annenberg’s Damon Centola uncovers how information-sharing networks can improve medical care.

Journalism is a public good and should be publicly funded

Victor Pickard of the Annenberg School for Communication explains that the “positive” interpretation of the First Amendment focuses on government’s affirmative role to help guarantee the public access to a “diverse and informative media system.”

Hands holding a smartphone open to Facebook in front of a laptop open to Facebook.

First findings from U.S. 2020 Facebook and Instagram election study

Research by Annenberg School for Communication professor Sandra González-Bailón and colleagues reveals the influence of Facebook’s algorithms on political news exposure.

After Texas used cruel tactics at Mexico border: Why didn’t Biden speak out?

Diana Mutz of the School of Arts & Sciences and the Annenberg School for Communication says that the backlash President Biden could get for speaking out against draconian state immigration policies might not be worth the political risk.

Facebook opened its doors to researchers. What they found paints a complicated picture of social media and echo chambers

A study led by Sandra González-Bailón of the Annenberg School for Communication found that Facebook resulted in significant ideological segregation regarding political news exposure of the 2020 election, specifically among conservative users who encountered misinformation.

At the National Liberty Museum, people’s browsing history is on display through art

Annenberg’s Roopa Vasudevan created a browser extension that transforms a person’s portrait based on the websites they visited.

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