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Graduate Student News

Data Artist and Doctoral Student Roopa Vasudevan Finds Creative Ways to Tell Untold Stories

She collects data about important issues and creates visually appealing ways to convey it to others.

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Faculty News

Price and Ristovska Edit Volume Visual Imagery and Human Rights Practice

The book examines the role images play in human rights claims.

Three people in the image who have been used to represent different things. There is a couple, where the man represents "you" and the woman represents "all the other news stories". There is another woman who has walked past and she represents "this article about a meme". In the picture, the man is looking back at the other woman who has walked past, and his partner is looking up at him in disbelief.
Undergraduate News

Undergrads Make Meaning Out of Memes

COMM 384 gives students the opportunity to explore the relationship between internet memes and society at large.

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News

New Book Celebrates the Scholarly Contributions of Long-time Annenberg Professor Larry Gross

Fifteen Annenberg alums, including Professors Messaris and Zelizer, are contributors.

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Research

New Study Finds Visuals of Vaping in E-Cigarette Advertisements Increase Anti-Vaping Beliefs and Policy Opinions

When vaping portrayals are reminiscent of cigarette smoking, viewers are likely to form negative opinions of vaping.

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Research

Black-Oriented Films Can Be Highly Profitable When Marketed to All Audiences, Study Finds

New research shows that the success of Black Panther may not be an outlier.

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News

Fishman Receives Everett Lee Hunt Award

The award recognizes her book Death Makes the News.

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Undergraduate News

Bevan Cohen C'20: Comm Major by Day, Instagram Influencer by Night

Cohen is co-founder and CEO of popular Instagram account @eastcoastfoodies.

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Alumni

New Book from Annenberg Alumna Traces Evolution of Kids' TV

Jo Holz examines seven decades of children's television through a sociocultural lens.

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News

Fishman Publishes New Book, Death Makes the News

The book discusses the forces that dictate how news and media cover death.