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Political Communication

Political Communication

Politics depends heavily on communication among and between political elites, the media, and citizens. Scholars at Annenberg examine the role of interpersonal and mass-mediated communication on the attitudes, opinions, information-processing, and behavior of citizens, political elites, political institutions, and political systems.

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Political Communication

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How Has Talking About Politics Changed in the Last Quarter-Century?

Annenberg Professor Diana Mutz finds that we’re having more political conversations now with like-minded people, and that political intolerance has increased as a result.

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28 Oct 2025

Research Shows There Are No Easy Fixes to Political Hatred

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17 Sep 2025

Americans’ Knowledge of Civics Increases, Annenberg Constitution Day Civics Survey Finds

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22 Jul 2025

AI Used for Real-Time Selection of Actionable Messages for Government and Public Health Campaigns

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10 Jun 2025

The FBI’s Secret Impact on American Broadcasting

Faculty

Dolores Albarracín, Ph.D.

Amy Gutmann Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor

Murali Balaji, Ph.D.

Lecturer, Annenberg Undergraduate Program

Carolyn Biltoft, Ph.D.

Visiting Faculty Fellow, Center on Digital Culture and Society

Michael X. Delli Carpini, Ph.D.

Oscar H. Gandy Emeritus Professor of Communication & Democracy

David Eisenhower, J.D.

Director, Institute for Public Service

Maya Enisman, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Annenberg Public Policy Center and Social Action Lab

Emily Falk, Ph.D.

Professor of Communication, Psychology, Marketing, and OID (Operations, Informatics, and Decisions)

Bita Fayaz-Farkhad, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor, Social Action Lab

Deen Freelon, Ph.D.

Presidential Professor

Oscar H. Gandy, Jr., Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus of Communication

Sandra González-Bailón, Ph.D.

Carolyn Marvin Professor of Communication and Sociology (Secondary Appointment)

R. Lance Holbert, Ph.D.

Director of Leonore Annenberg Institute for Civics (LAIC), Annenberg Public Policy Center

Daniel J. Hopkins, Ph.D.

Professor of Political Science, School of Arts and Sciences

Aaron Hyzen, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Media, Inequality & Change Center

Sarah J. Jackson, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Ph.D.

Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication

Benjamin Todd Jealous

Professor of Practice, University of Pennsylvania

Yphtach Lelkes, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Communication

Matthew Levendusky, Ph.D.

Penny and Robert A. Fox Director of the Fels Institute of Government, School of Arts & Sciences

Marjorie Margolies

Lecturer, Annenberg Undergraduate Program

Carolyn Marvin, Ph.D.

Frances Yates Professor Emeritus of Communication

Danaé Metaxa, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Computer and Information Science, School of Engineering and Applied Science

Cristina Monzer, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Diana C. Mutz, Ph.D.

Samuel A. Stouffer Professor of Political Science and Communication

Vincent Price, Ph.D.

Provost Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania

Diego A. Reinero, Ph.D.

MindCORE Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Craig Snyder

Lecturer

Philip Tetlock, Ph.D.

Leonore Annenberg University Professor of Psychology and Management, Wharton School of Business and School of Arts and Sciences

Erin Walk, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Polarization Research Lab

Ken Winneg, Ph.D.

Managing Director of Survey Research, Annenberg Public Policy Center

Guobin Yang, Ph.D.

Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology

Tukufu Zuberi, Ph.D.

Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations, School of Arts and Sciences

Graduate Students

Chloe (Jae-Kyung) Ahn

Joint Doctoral Student in Communication and Political Science

Kinjal Dave

Doctoral Candidate

Nicholas Dias, Ph.D.

Upcoming Graduate

Timothy Dennys Steven Dorr

Doctoral Candidate

Tom W. Etienne

Doctoral Candidate

Vishwanath E.V.S.

Doctoral Student

Neil Fasching

Doctoral Candidate

Emilie Grybos

Doctoral Candidate

Gayoung Jeon

Doctoral Student

Tyler Leigh, Ph.D.

Upcoming Graduate

Kirsten O. Lydic

Doctoral Student

Lizzie Martin

Joint Doctoral Candidate in Communication and Political Science

Adetobi Moses

Doctoral Student

Ify Okpali

Doctoral Student

Devo Probol

Doctoral Candidate

Yingchuan Qu

Doctoral Candidate

Farrah Rahaman

Doctoral Candidate

Shane Sheehy

Doctoral Candidate

Alex Tolkin, Ph.D.

Upcoming Graduate

Natasha Williams

Joint Doctoral Student in Communication and Political Science

Sam Wolken

Joint Doctoral Student in Communication and Political Science