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Louisa Shepard
Senior News Officer
lshepard@upenn.edu
Communications
What do our ancestral family ties say about our political beliefs?
What do our ancestral family ties say about our political beliefs?
A new study from the Annenberg School for Communication finds that the stronger your ancestral family ties, the more likely you are to hold right-wing cultural policy preferences.
Scholarship beyond the written word
Scholarship beyond the written word
Ethnomusicologist Juan Castrillón, the inaugural Gilbert Seldes Multimodal Postdoctoral Fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication, is on a quest to get other academics to see multimedia work as he does: on par with scholarly text.
How to protect the integrity of survey research
How to protect the integrity of survey research
Surveys provide a scientific way of acquiring information that inform policy and help society understand itself. In a new article, 20 experts from diverse fields offer a dozen recommendations to improve the accuracy and trustworthiness of surveys.
Climate scientist Michael Mann makes a home at Penn
Climate scientist Michael Mann makes a home at Penn
Known for his “hockey stick” graph that hammered home the dramatic rise of the warming climate, the climate scientist is now making his mark on Penn’s campus, both through his science and his work on communicating the urgent need for action on the climate crisis.
With frank text and bold illustrations, graphic novel tackles puberty head on
With frank text and bold illustrations, graphic novel tackles puberty head on
The new book, for 9- to 14-year-olds and written by two Penn undergrads and an alum, details what physically happens in the body as girls experience puberty, plus the internal emotions and external social forces that accompany it.
New York Times journalist Brent Staples and Penn’s Tukufu Zuberi in conversation
New York Times journalist Brent Staples and Penn’s Tukufu Zuberi in conversation
At the inaugural W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture in Public Social Science, the two discussed Du Bois’ legacy and influence, Staples’ personal and professional journey, and the importance of speaking truth to power.
Tracing public opinion on global issues
Tracing public opinion on global issues
Tom Etienne, a joint doctoral student at the Annenberg School for Communication and the Department of Political Science, uses his skills in data collection to analyze political opinions.
What statistics are most likely to promote positive actions during a pandemic?
What statistics are most likely to promote positive actions during a pandemic?
A new study from PIK Professor Dolores Albarracín and research associate Haesung Annie Jung finds that some COVID statistics are more effective than others at encouraging people to change their behavior.
Bringing Ukraine to Penn
Bringing Ukraine to Penn
On the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion of the Ukraine, displaced and visiting scholars and students from Ukraine share their experience at Penn.
Americans don’t understand what companies can do with their personal data
Americans don’t understand what companies can do with their personal data
A new survey of 2,000 Americans finds that people don’t understand what marketers are learning about them online and don’t want their data collected, but feel powerless to stop it.
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The Washington Post
Trust in science hasn’t fully recovered from pandemic controversies
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center says that Republican lawmakers engaged in a sustained attack on a sector of science during and after the pandemic.
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Bloomberg
More than two million voters backed both Trump and abortion access
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center says that Donald Trump’s ambiguity on abortion served him well during his campaign.
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Newsweek
Donald Trump, evangelicals and the 2024 MAGA coalition
Shawn Patterson Jr. of the Annenberg Public Policy Center says that Donald Trump was largely an apolitical figure in 2016 with a wide array of celebrity relationships, donations to candidates of both parties, and a career in New York real estate.
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NBC News
The U.S. has a new strategy for combating foreign election interference, but is it working?
According to Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, democracies are based on common understandings, among them that rival political factions will accept election outcomes and work to win back power at the next opportunity.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
How a rave with Bill Nye and Quavo turned out droves of early voters at City Hall
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center says that some celebrities aren’t helpful to political candidates because their followers are already engaged and have already made up their minds.
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The New Yorker
The U.S. spies who sound the alarm about election interference
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center says that the Foreign Malign Influence Center’s warnings about election interference are being drowned out by partisan noise.
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