Annenberg Hosts Annual Graduate Student Symposium
Each year, doctoral students present original research for feedback from faculty and peers.
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On March 31, Annenberg hosted its fifth annual Graduate Student Symposium. The event was organized by a student committee including Natalie Herbert, Danny Kim, Yotam Ophir, Christin Scholz, Allyson Volinsky, and Celeste Wagner. The day featured 16 presentations by 20 doctoral students and candidates.
Panel 1: More Than Just Entertainment
![Portraits of Jasmine Erdener, Elissa Krazler, Lee McGuigan, John Vilanova and Natalie Herbert](/sites/default/files/styles/1200w/public/2021-02/Screen%20Shot%202021-02-17%20at%201.22.55%20PM.png?itok=qJnDXl8S)
- Jasmine Erdener — "Embodied and Extended Publics: Political Activism through Puppetry"
- Elissa Krazler — "Teens and the 'Social Self': Neural Responses to Anti-Smoking Messages are Associated with Perceived Effectiveness and Intentions to Share"
- Lee McGuigan — "Selling Jennifer Aniston's Sweater: The Persistence of Shoppability in Framing Television's Future"
- John Vilanova and Natalie Herbert — "Not 'Simply the Best?': Querying Quantifying Discrimination at the Grammy Awards"
Panel 2: A Person, The People, and Their Politics
![Portraits of Joshua Becker, Eunji Kim and Jin Woo Kim, Hye-Yon Lee, Subhayan Mukerjee](/sites/default/files/styles/1200w/public/2021-02/Screen%20Shot%202021-02-17%20at%201.30.44%20PM.png?itok=Gc-0Qjkn)
- Joshua Becker — "The Network Dynamics of Social Influence in the Wisdom of Crowds"
- Eunji Kim and Jin Woo Kim — "First-Time Presidential Voting and Political Trust"
- Hye-Yon Lee — "The Impact of Electoral Victory and Loss on Partisan Social Identity"
- Subhayan Mukerjee — "Are Audiences Fragmented in How They Consume News Online? An Analysis of Web Browsing Behavior During Two Salient Political Events in the U.K."
Panel 3: Spreading Information and Emotion
![Portraits of Soojong Kim, Yilang Peng, Christin Scholz, Jazmyne Sutton](/sites/default/files/styles/1200w/public/2021-02/Screen%20Shot%202021-02-17%20at%201.37.40%20PM.png?itok=ZELZKqTL)
- Soojong Kim — "Emergence and Stability of Status Hierarchy"
- Yilang Peng — "Aggregate Emotional Display of Presidential Candidates Across Online Media Outlets"
- Christin Scholz and Elisa Baek — "A Neural Propagation System: Neurocognitive and Preference Synchrony in Information Sharers and Their Receivers"
- Jazmyne Sutton — "Investigating the Persuasive Features of Tobacco Warning Labels"
Panel 4: Preserving What Matters
![Portraits of Elisabetta Ferrari, Helene Langlamet, David Larochelle, Yotam Ophir](/sites/default/files/styles/1200w/public/2021-02/Screen%20Shot%202021-02-17%20at%201.41.38%20PM.png?itok=5FkI_ApU)
- Elisabetta Ferrari — "Fighting 'The Man's Technology': Visions of Technology in the Underground Press of the American Counterculture (1964-1974)"
- Helene Langlamet — "Can Digital Technologies Create a Stronger Model for Democratic Participation?"
- David Larochelle — "Exclusion from the Networked Public Sphere"
- Yotam Ophir and Dror Walter — "The Elephant and the Bird: Republican Candidates' Strategy and Issue Framing on Twitter during the 2016 Republican Presidential Primaries"