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Lee McGuigan and Professor Joseph Turow pose in front of McGuigan's book

Alumni 12 Aug 2024

Selling the American People: Q&A with Lee McGuigan (Ph.D. '18)

In his debut book, the UNC Hussman assistant professor delves into how data-driven marketing is entrenched in the daily interactions of people, products, and public spheres.

Technology & Society

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Undergraduate News 13 May 2024

A Comm Major’s Journey from Pop Culture to Free Speech to Networked Technology and Beyond

Anika Gururaj (C’24) followed her intellectual curiosity throughout her time at Penn, and will soon be off to Harvard Law School.

Technology & Society

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Research 7 Feb 2023

Americans Don’t Understand What Companies Can Do With Their Personal Data — and That’s a Problem

A new survey of 2,000 Americans finds that people don’t understand what marketers are learning about them online and don’t want their data collected, but feel powerless to stop it.

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Research 9 Aug 2022

The Importance of Protecting Privacy in a Post-Roe World

Professor Jessa Lingel says privacy watchdogs are warning Americans who seek abortions that authorities may use their digital data against them.

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Research 20 Dec 2021

What Can Be Done to Prevent and Resist Image-based Abuse?

A virtual symposium held by Annenberg’s Center for Media at Risk and the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative brought together experts from around the world to share findings, ideas, and solidarity.

Call for Submissions 23 Nov 2021

COMPASS Summer Fellowship Program Now Accepting Applications for 2022

Applications for the Consortium on Media Policy Studies Summer Fellowship Program in Washington, D.C. are due January 7, 2022.

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Research 7 Jul 2021

The Panoptic Sort: Surveillance Q&A with Oscar Gandy

With the second edition of his classic 1993 book, The Panoptic Sort, recently published, we speak to Gandy about the past, present, and future of surveillance.