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Culture and Technology Scholar Julia Ticona Studies the Promise and Perils of the Gig Economy

Ticona begins today as an assistant professor of communication at the Annenberg School.

• Technology & Society

Professors González-Bailón and Mutz to Participate in Research Partnership with Facebook

González-Bailón and Mutz will advise how data might be divided into subsets for further study.

• Political Communication
• Technology & Society

Alarm and Response for Emerging Health Threats: Social Media, News and Zika

Traditional news accounts and Twitter messages had different associations with risk perceptions and behavior during the 2016 U.S. Zika virus outbreak.

• Health Communication

Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication Releases CARGC Paper 8

Rayya El Zein develops an approach to aesthetics in cultural production from the vantage of global media studies.

• Culture & Media
• Global Communication

Desmond Patton Receives Award from the Society for Social Work and Research

The Early Career Achievement Award recognizes the beginning of Dr. Patton's research career in the field of social work.

• Culture & Media
• Technology & Society

New Study: Responses to Grief Predict Aggressive Tweets Among Gang-Involved Chicago Youth

An analysis of thousands of tweets identified two main themes in Twitter usage among gang-involved youth in Chicago.

• Culture & Media
• Technology & Society

Opeyemi Akanbi Receives Jefferson Scholars Foundation National Fellowship

The $25,000 stipend will support her dissertation research and writing.

Jennifer R. Henrichsen Awarded Fellowship from Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University

As a fellow, Henrichsen will consider how concerns about surveillance are changing journalists’ digital newsgathering practices.

• Media Institutions

Litty Paxton To Become Annenberg’s Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies

Currently the Director of Penn Women's Center, Paxton has long been a popular lecturer at Annenberg.

Pro-Tobacco Videos on YouTube Sway Young Adults on E-Cigarettes and Hookahs

While cigarette advertising and marketing have been restricted in one way or another since the ’60s, videos on YouTube are largely unregulated.

• Health Communication