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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Portrait of Elena Maris
Graduate Student News

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.

Picture of city in Japan, where to the left is a body of water and in front are buildings, photo credit @riverse / Unsplash
Presentations

Annenberg Presentations at ICA 2016

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

Rachel Stonecipher smiles. The background is very green and it is day time.
Graduate Student News

Stonecipher Wins 2016 Graduate Teaching Prize

The highly competitive award recognizes the profound impact of graduate students on undergraduate education at Penn.

Marwan Kraidy in a suit and tie standing in front of the Annenberg School for Communication. The picture is from the chest up.
Research

New Book by Marwan Kraidy: The Naked Blogger of Cairo

Kraidy's 10th book explores the creative insurgency behind the Arab Spring: its self-immolations, graffiti, puppetry, videos, slogans, and satire.

Cover of Guobin Yang's 'The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China' . The background is a star made of red and white star outlines. In the middle is a red rectangle bordered by a white line. In the center of the rectangle is the title in yellow. Below the title is a drawn black and ivory thumb of a hand that is holding the rectangle. Partially under the tip of the thumb is a yellow star.
Research

New Book by Guobin Yang Explores the Red Guard Generation in China

Yang explores what happened to the "sent-down" generation and how their experiences shaped China for decades to come.

Maria Popova
Alumni

Brain Pickings Founder Maria Popova (C'07) Gives Annenberg Graduation Speech

Her speech encouraged students to avoid toxic comparisons to other people and artificial metrics, instead focusing on their own path and happiness.