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Faculty News

Price Publishes New Edited Volume, Speech and Society in Turbulent Times

The book considers how societies address the relationship between expression, traditional and societal values, and new technologies.

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Graduate Student News

Fang Receives Young Scholar Award from China Times Cultural Foundation

The award includes a scholarship, which he will use for his dissertation research.

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Research

Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication Releases CARGC Paper 6

In this paper, Mariela Morales Suárez examines the motivations and challenges of Cuban journalists.

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Undergraduate News

Undergrads Explore Chinese Media Landscape with Penn Media Scholars in China

Led by Professor Guobin Yang, the students visited six internet firms and ten media agencies.

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Faculty News

Zelizer Delivers Plenary Keynote on Al Jazeera and Media Freedom in Crisis, Outlines New Center for Media at Risk

The new center will help monitor and sustain a free and critical global media environment.

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Call for Submissions

Call for Applications: 2017 Milton Wolf Seminar on Media and Diplomacy

The Seminar will examine how visions for society are produced, sustained, and at times defeated.

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Research

Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication Releases CARGC Paper 5 by Mimi Sheller

The paper is entitled, "On the Maintenance of Humanity: Learning from Refugee Mobile Practices."

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Undergraduate News

New Program Brings Undergrads to China This Summer

Over 25 days in Beijing, students will study China’s media industries, institutions, and citizens’ everyday media practices.

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Alumni

Alumna Q&A: Eileen Le Han (Ph.D. '14) On Her New Book, Micro-blogging Memories

Han's book looks at the past and present of the Chinese microblogging site Weibo.

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Research

Two New Books by Marwan M. Kraidy

The Director of the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication has two new edited volumes published this month.