News

Five Takeaways From the Biden-Trump Debate

Annenberg Public Policy Center Director Kathleen Hall Jamieson discusses the Annenberg Debate Reform Working Group along with some thoughts on last week’s presidential debate

• Political Communication

Adetobi Moses Awarded 2024 Penn Global Dissertation Grant

Penn Global has announced that Annenberg School doctoral candidate Adetobi Moses is an awardee of its newly established Penn Global...

• Health Communication

What Public Discourse Gets Wrong About Misinformation Online

A new study from the Computational Social Science Lab shows that while online misinformation exists, it isn’t as pervasive as pundits and the press suggest.

• Culture & Media
• Technology & Society

Mapping Media Bias: How AI Powers the Computational Social Science Lab’s Media Bias Detector

The CSSLab’s Media Bias Detector empowers users to analyze bias in major news outlets, not just based on the outlets’ political leaning, but on the topics they choose to cover.

• Political Communication

The Polarization Research Lab Welcomes New Postdoctoral Fellow

Erin Walk will join the Annenberg School in July.

• Political Communication

Shawnika Hull (Ph.D. '10) Delivers 2024 Communication Major Graduation Speech

Rutgers Associate Professor Shawnika Hull spoke about finding your purpose and following it into the future.

Syphilis Cases Are Rising, But Many People Don’t Know Symptoms

A recent survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center found that less than a third of Americans could name syphilis signs and symptoms.

• Health Communication

The Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication Welcomes Another Postdoctoral Fellow for 2024-25

Ennuri Jo will join the Annenberg School in the fall.

Call for Applications: Postdoctoral Researcher in Communication, Group Identity, and Computational Methods

The fellowship starts in October 2024 and applications are due by August 15.

Association Found Between Media Diet and Science-Consistent Beliefs About Climate Change

A recent study from the Annenberg Public Policy Center found that people who consume far-right media were less likely to believe in human-caused climate change, while those who read centrist and science media were more likely to believe in it and support a carbon tax.

• Science Communication