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Presentations 1 Aug 2016

Fifteen Annenberg Faculty and Students Present at IAMCR 2016

Professor Barbie Zelizer gave the plenary speech, "Journalism’s Deep Memory: Cold War Mindedness and Coverage of Islamic State."

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Research 20 Jul 2016

New Study Shows Reading Harry Potter Lowers Americans’ Opinions of Donald Trump

Even when controlling for party identification, gender, education level, age, and other factors, the effect remained.

Undergraduate News 1 Jul 2016

Amy Jordan Named Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies at Annenberg

Jordan succeeds Carolyn Marvin, the Francis Yates Professor of Communication, who served in the role for three years.

Doorway entrance that reads Communicating with Power

News 27 Jun 2016

Highlights and Awards from the 66th International Communication Association Annual Conference

Amy Jordan gave her farewell address as ICA President and numerous faculty and students won awards.

Emile Bruneau shakes hands while Dalai Lama as they both smile for the picture

Faculty News 24 Jun 2016

Emile Bruneau Meets With Dalai Lama Through United States Institute for Peace Delegation

Bruneau traveled to India to accompany a United States Institute of Peace delegation of 28 youth activists.

Global Communication

Man in a purple shirt stands behind a hip-level-high bookshelf as he speaks to numerous high school students that are standing around him. All around them are book-filled shelves so presumably, they are in a library.

Graduate Student News 22 Jun 2016

Annenberg Graduate Students Host Roxborough High School Students for a Day of Communication Studies

Their recent visit included classroom learning about Communication studies and an advanced video editing lesson.

Cover of PARGC Paper 4. Two wooden human-like figures stand to the left and right of the image on orange cubes with white tops. From head-to-head in an arc shape are circles of very faded green, red and yellow.

Research 22 Jun 2016

Project for Advanced Research in Global Communication Releases PARGC Paper 4 by Arjun Appadurai

"The Academic Digital Divide and Uneven Global Development" warns against the dangers of “knowledge-based imperialism and scholarly apartheid.”

Cover of Weiyu Zhang's 'The Internet and New Social Formation in China: Fandom Publics in the Making'. The left third of the cover is red, with Chinese characters right-aligned at the top. In the middle, slightly to the left is a drawing made of dotted lines that appears to be a light bulb. The other two-thirds is split horizontally. The top has what appears to the top quarter of the Earth drawn with bright yellow lines. Its background is red. The bottom half is orange and has the title and author name.

Graduate Student News 2 Jun 2016

Annenberg Student and Alumna Collaborate To Crowdsource Book Translation

Weiyu Zhang (Ph.D '08) and doctoral student Kecheng Fang collaborated on the Chinese translation of The Internet and New Social Formation in China: Fandom Publics in the Making.

Graduate Student News 2 Jun 2016

Elena Maris Receives 2016-17 Graduate Student Fellowship for Teaching Excellence

The Center for Teaching and Learning at Penn awards this highly-selective fellowship to help graduate students develop as teachers.

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Presentations 26 May 2016

Annenberg Presentations at ICA 2016

More than 50 faculty and students will present research at the ICA's 66th annual conference in Fukuoka, Japan.

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