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Alumni Bookshelf: Spring-Summer 2022

See what our alumni have been publishing!

• Culture & Media

MIC Receives $1 Million Grant To Continue Research on Philadelphia News Media

The “Shift the Narrative Coalition” will focus on changing news narratives around policing, trauma, safety, and crime in Philadelphia.

• Media Institutions

The Importance of Protecting Privacy in a Post-Roe World

Professor Jessa Lingel says privacy watchdogs are warning Americans who seek abortions that authorities may use their digital data against them.

• Culture & Media
• Health Communication
• Technology & Society

Desmond Patton Appointed Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor

Interim President Wendell Pritchett and Interim Provost Beth Winkelstein announce the appointment of Desmond Upton Patton as the University of Pennsylvania’s thirty-first Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor, effective July 1, 2022.

• Culture & Media
• Media Institutions
• Technology & Society

MIC Center Recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher

The MIC Center Is Recruiting a Post-doctoral Researcher to Focus on the Political Economy of Local Media.

• Media Institutions
• Technology & Society

Climate Scientist Michael E. Mann Leads Annenberg Seminar on Climate Action

Climate scientist Michael E. Mann led a panel discussion on “Urgency, Agency, and Climate Action: The Role of Communication” for the spring 2022 Annenberg Seminar, which was hosted jointly by the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) and the Annenberg School for Communication (ASC).

• Culture & Media
• Global Communication

“Broadband for All” Project Recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher

The Media, Inequality & Change Center seeks researcher for full-time, one-year position.

• Media Institutions
• Technology & Society

DMSI Meeting Develops Big Ideas into Real-World Social Impact

The inaugural cohort of Annenberg and SP2’s Executive Program in Digital Media for Social Impact reflects on how digital tools and platforms can help drive social change.

The Black Lives Matter Movement, but not COVID-19, Encouraged Voters Toward Biden in the 2020 Election

As swing voters registered more awareness about discrimination against Black Americans, they became more likely to vote for the party they felt would best rectify that — Democrats.

• Culture & Media
• Political Communication

Chaz Antoine Barracks Named Black and Bold Awards Honoree

Chaz Antoine Barracks, Ph.D., a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Media at Risk and lecturer in the Annenberg School’s...