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Victor Pickard Wins Mott Book Award for America’s Battle for Media Democracy

With an eye to history, the book considers how the American media system became what it is today.

• Media Institutions

Kathleen Hall Jamieson Awarded American Philosophical Society Prize

The 2016 award recognizes her paper “Implications of the Demise of ‘Fact’ in Political Discourse."

• Political Communication

Annenberg Students Win 2016 Ackoff Fellowships

Doctoral students Natalie Herbert, Stella Lee, Sijia Yang, and Lori Young will use the award to pursue their dissertation work.

Twelve Undergraduates Present Honors Theses

The seniors presented their Communication theses, a culmination of their year-long work, to a panel of professors and guests.

Undergraduates Become Consultants in Joan Garry’s Course on Nonprofit Communication

Student teams work with local non-profits to design and help implement a comprehensive communication strategy.

• Culture & Media

Gender Differences and Relationship Power Could be Key in Preventing HIV Among South African Adolescents

The researchers identified promising pathways to reduce IPV and help prevent HIV infection, including promoting gender equity as a social norm.

• Global Communication
• Health Communication

Computational Social Science Course Brings Annenberg, Northwestern, and Wisconsin Together

The graduate course on the emerging field of computational social science brings the three schools together in real time.

• Technology & Society

Kraidy Receives Carnegie Fellowship to Study the Spectacle of the Islamic State

Kraidy will study how the Islamic State uses graphic violence in media to maximize fear and horror worldwide.

• Culture & Media
• Global Communication
• Political Communication
• Technology & Society

Diana Mutz Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship to Study Attitudes Toward Globalization

Mutz's project looks at how the public understands globalization and how it affects the way they form political preferences.

• Political Communication

When Social Movements Reach Their Tipping Point, and Why Scientific Collaboration is Important

Collective effervescence shows how the actions of a few activists online can bubble up, spread, and shape history.

• Political Communication
• Technology & Society