Digital Media and Social Networks

Digital media and social networks have radically changed the communication environment, albeit at different paces and in different ways across social groups and global regions. Annenberg’s research in this field explores the development, diffusion, uses, and individual and collective social, political, cultural, and economic impact of digital information and communication technologies, networks, and systems.

Digital Media and Social Networks News

04/06/2021

Toward a Better Understanding of "Fake News"

03/29/2021

Media Studies Scholar Sarah Banet-Weiser Researches Gender, Pop Culture, and Feminism

03/24/2021

Narratives of COVID-19 in China and the World

03/09/2021

Twitter Bots May Not Be as Influential as You Think

Andy Tan, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., M.B.B.S.

Associate Professor of Communication

Damon Centola, Ph.D.

Professor of Communication, Sociology and Engineering

David Lydon-Staley, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Communication

Duncan J. Watts, Ph.D.

Stevens University Professor

Jessa Lingel, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Communication

Joe Cappella at Annenberg School for Communication ASC UPenn

Joseph N. Cappella, Ph.D.

Gerald R. Miller Professor of Communication

Joseph Turow, Ph.D.

Robert Lewis Shayon Professor of Media Systems & Industries

Julia Ticona, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Communication

Michael X. Delli Carpini, Ph.D.

Oscar H. Gandy Professor of Communication & Democracy

Sandra González-Bailón, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Communication

Sarah J. Jackson, Ph.D.

Presidential Associate Professor

Portrait of Victor Pickard in front of a bookcase

Victor Pickard, Ph.D.

Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy

Secondary Faculty

Professor Christopher Yoo at Annenberg School for Communication ASC UPenn

Christopher Yoo, J.D.

John H. Chestnut Professor of Law, Communication, and Computer & Information Science, Penn Law

Ezekiel Dixon-Román, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, School of Social Policy and Practice

Research Staff

Clovis Bergère, Ph.D.

Assistant Director for Research, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication

Postdoctoral Researcher

Emily Hund, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Center on Digital Culture and Society

Fernanda R. Rosa, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication

Sonia Jawaid Shaikh, Ph.D.

George Gerbner Postdoctoral Fellow

Zeyno Ustun, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Media at Risk

Videos

MISC Oct 4, 2016: Jessa Lingel

Book talk at University of Michigan

Uploaded on Tuesday, March 28, 2017 - 8:46am

Assistant Professor Jessa Lingel gives a talk on her new book, Digital Countercultures, at the MISC group at the University of Michigan.

Want To Exercise More? Get Yourself Some Competition.

Uploaded on Thursday, October 27, 2016 - 8:37am

Research by the Network Dynamics Group at the Annenberg School for Communication compared different ways that exercise programs motivate people to...

Student Profile: Sijia Yang

Uploaded on Friday, August 12, 2016 - 11:47am

Doctoral Candidate Sijia Yang talks about his research on message effects, which looks at how social media impacts how we produce and process...

Finding the Tipping Point in Social Movements

Uploaded on Wednesday, April 6, 2016 - 1:51pm

In a new study published in Science Advances, a team of researchers including Annenberg Professor Sandra González-Bailón developed a new methodology...