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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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Graduate Student News

Doctoral Student Elisabetta Ferrari Studies Activism and Technology

Ferrari researches how social movements use digital technologies, and how activists think about technology personally and politically.

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Faculty News

Kraidy Receives 2017 ICA Outstanding Book Award

The Naked Blogger of Cairo also won the best book award from the Global Communication Division.

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Call for Submissions

Call for Applications: 2017 Annenberg-Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute

Scholars, lawyers, activists, and policymakers discuss the effects of technology and policy from a multidisciplinary perspective.

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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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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.

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Research

Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication Releases CARGC Report 1

The study explores the potential of interactive voice response systems to engage citizens in peacebuilding in Rwanda.

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Alumni

Giving Voices to the Disenfranchised: Filmmaker, Novelist, Investigative Journalist, and Alumna Nilita Vachani (M.A.C. ’83)

Vachani’s work shares a common thread: giving a voice to the disenfranchised.