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Dolores Albarracín Named Editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

The Alexandra Heyman Nash University Professor will begin editing the Attitudes and Social Cognition section on January 1, 2023.

• Health Communication

TV News Top Driver of Political Echo Chambers in U.S.

Duncan Watts and colleagues found that 17% of Americans consume television news from partisan left- or right-leaning sources compared to just 4% online.

• Political Communication

Tyler Leigh Receives 2022-23 Graduate Student Fellowship for Teaching Excellence

The fellowship is designed to help graduate students develop as teachers.

Who, What, Why: Annenberg Doctoral Student Ava Irysa Kikut

Kikut worked with high school students and Penn undergrads to develop media messages that speak to the health needs and inequalities pertinent to adolescent Philadelphians.

• Culture & Media
• Health Communication

Elihu Katz: Remembering a Pioneer in Communication

In this film, Annenberg remembers Israeli-American Communication Scholar Elihu Katz, his founding contributions to the field of Communication, and his warm and intellectually generous personality.

Building Solidarity in the Anthropocene Symposium Videos Now Available

CARGC and CDCS are delighted to share video recordings of the month-long symposium that took place in April 2022.

• Culture & Media
• Global Communication

Mutz Wins 2022 American Political Science Association Best Book Award

Her book, "Winners and Losers: The Psychology of Foreign Trade," reveals how people's orientations toward in-groups and out-groups influence how they think about trade with foreign countries

• Political Communication

The Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication Welcomes Three New Postdoctoral Fellows

Eszter Zimanyi, Ignatius Suglo, and Yuval Katz will join the Annenberg School in the fall.

• Global Communication

Global Communication Scholar Aswin Punathambekar to Join Annenberg

In addition to his own research on media globalization, Punathambekar will direct the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication.

• Culture & Media
• Global Communication
• Media Institutions
• Technology & Society

Video-Based Experiment Proves Successful at Brokering Peace Among Ex-FARC Combatants and Local Communities In Colombia

Five-minute videos showing ex-guerilla fighters co-existing with their new neighbors promoted peaceful reintegration.

• Culture & Media
• Political Communication