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Study Reveals Impact of Concern About Misinformation on Americans’ Media Consumption Habits

A new study from Annenberg researchers evaluates whether perceiving misinformation as a threat influences how partisan Americans’ media consumption is.

Annenberg Public Policy Center Report Finds ‘Withering of Public Confidence in the Courts’

A new APPC report found that Americans’ trust and confidence in the judicial branch has fallen 25% over the last two decades.

• Political Communication

Annenberg Scholars Honored at the 2024 ICA Conference in Australia

Eleven members of the Annenberg community received awards for their scholarship.

New Survey Shows Majority of Americans Believe at Least One Supreme Court Justice Should be Investigated for Ethical Lapses

Research from the the Polarization Research Lab finds that Americans overwhelmingly agree that the U.S. Supreme Court should not have more power.

• Political Communication

The Many Stories of Magazinist Gail Cameron Wescott

Processing Archivist Andrew Williams provides a glimpse into the newest acquisition by the Annenberg School for Communication Library Archives — the papers of writer Gail Cameron Wescott.

• Culture & Media

Duncan Watts and CSSLab’s New Media Bias Detector

Researchers at the Computational Social Science Lab have developed the Media Bias Detector, which uses artificial intelligence to analyze news articles, examining factors like tone, partisan lean, and fact selection.

• Media Institutions

Five Takeaways From the Biden-Trump Debate

Annenberg Public Policy Center Director Kathleen Hall Jamieson discusses the Annenberg Debate Reform Working Group along with some thoughts on last week’s presidential debate

• Political Communication

Polarization Research Lab’s Path to 2024 Series Highlights Realities of American Attitudes

Focusing on corporate political action, AI, immigration, and more, the Polarization Research Lab aims to dispel myths about partisan beliefs.

• Political Communication

Adetobi Moses Awarded 2024 Penn Global Dissertation Grant

Penn Global has announced that Annenberg School doctoral candidate Adetobi Moses is an awardee of its newly established Penn Global...

• Health Communication

What Public Discourse Gets Wrong About Misinformation Online

A new study from the Computational Social Science Lab shows that while online misinformation exists, it isn’t as pervasive as pundits and the press suggest.

• Culture & Media
• Technology & Society