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What the Twitter upheaval means to Penn health services researchers
A Twitter icon on the ground with a large crowd of people circling, as seen from above.

What the Twitter upheaval means to Penn health services researchers

LDI senior fellows weigh in on Twitter’s current upheaval, and whether they think the situation at the social media company will impact how they disseminate research in the future.

Hoag Levins

‘My body belongs to me???’: Students question media messaging in an Annenberg course
A pile of zines read things like, "uneven skin...," "lose weight fast," and "I'm not going to change my mind."

A sampling of zines, one of the assignments for Sarah Banet-Weiser’s Gender and Media class.

‘My body belongs to me???’: Students question media messaging in an Annenberg course

Students in Sarah Banet-Weiser’s Annenberg course on Gender and the Media make zines responding to messaging and consumer products.

Kristina Linnea García

Journalist and activist Maria Ressa on ‘facts, truth, trust’
Maria Ressa

Journalist and activist Maria Ressa, a longtime CNN bureau chief who later co-founded Rappler, a digital-only news site in the Philippines, gave the annual Annenberg Lecture in early November.

Journalist and activist Maria Ressa on ‘facts, truth, trust’

In the annual Annenberg Lecture, the Nobel Peace Prize winner discussed being the target of online attacks and what it will take to ensure that truth prevails.

Michele W. Berger