http://www.asc.upenn.edu/news/ Current news items for the Annenberg School for Communications en-us Wed, 16 May 2012 16:20:24 GMT Wed, 16 May 2012 16:20:24 GMT 60 http://www.asc.upenn.edu/news/ http://www.asc.upenn.edu/assets/images/logo.jpg http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss <div style="text-align: center;"><img width="475" height="316" src="http://www.asc.upenn.edu/userfiles/image/Gretta_Moody.jpg" alt="" /><br /> <em>Gretta Moody with Dean Michael X. Delli Carpini</em></div> <br /> <div>Annenberg doctoral student Gretta Moody was presented with the James D. Woods Award, given to an outstanding graduate teaching assistant, during the undergraduate graduation ceremony May 13 at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Nominated by her students and peers, and recognized for her work in Communication 225: Children and Media, Ms. Moody was cited for her dedication to undergraduate learning, her commitment to fairness and excellence, and her accessibility to the students of the class.&nbsp;&ldquo;She got to know each and every student&rsquo;s name, and was highly respected by the students for both her academic standards and her willingness to put the time in necessary to ensure their success,&rdquo; said John L. Jackson, Jr., Richard Perry University Professor of Communication and Anthropology, who was master of ceremonies at the graduation ceremony.&nbsp;</div> <br /> http://www.asc.upenn.edu/news/NewsDetail.aspx?nid=1073 http://www.asc.upenn.edu/news/NewsDetail.aspx?nid=1073 Tue, 15 May 2012 13:56:00 GMT <div>The Annenberg School for Communication honored graduates of the communication major during a ceremony at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on Sunday, May 13.&nbsp;Several graduating students were honored for their academic accomplishments.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><b>Eisenhower Award<br /> <br /> </b></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><img width="550" height="300" src="http://www.asc.upenn.edu/userfiles/image/Eisenhower_Award.jpg" alt="" /><br /> <em>Left, Monica Collinsgru and John L. Jackson, Jr.; Right, Monica Gojman and Michael X. Delli Carpini</em></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Maura A. Collinsgru and Monica Gojman were recipients of the Communication and Public Service (Eisenhower) Award, which <span>recognizes a graduating senior who is part of the Communication and Public Service program and has completed an outstanding honors thesis on a topic related to either public policy of public service issues.</span></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Ms. Collinsgru&rsquo;s thesis is titled &ldquo;Evidence of Personal Narrative in the Leadership Rhetoric of Alice Paul, Dorothy Day, and Eleanor Roosevelt.&rdquo; The work combines rhetorical and historical analyses to explore the role personal narrative played in the leadership of three twentieth century women: Alice Paul, Dorothy Day, and Eleanor Roosevelt. Her use of narrative theory to analyze the speech and writings of these women is a unique approach that brings new insights into women who have been the subjects of many biographers.<br /> <br /> Ms. Gojman's thesis is titled &quot;Signed, Sealed, Delivered: NAFTA and the Marriage between Mexico and the United States.&nbsp; Using the metaphor of marriage to structure her analysis, she examines how NAFTA shaped the relationship between the U.S. and Mexico.&nbsp; Her thesis is impressive for her ability to integrate historical and rhetorical analysis of presidential speeches, letters, conversations and other documents with her analysis of media coverage with NAFTA and her in-depth interviews with key advisors to Mexican presidents.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><b>George Gerbner Award</b></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div style="text-align: center;"><img width="550" height="300" src="http://www.asc.upenn.edu/userfiles/image/Gerbner_Award_News.jpg" alt="" />&nbsp;<br /> <em>Left: Lily Enuice Kim and Dean Delli Carpini; right: Annie Norbitz and Dean Delli Carpini</em><br /> &nbsp;</div> <div>Lily Enuice Kim and Annie Norbitz are the recipients of the George Gerbner Award. Honoring the School&rsquo;s former Dean (1964 &ndash; 1989), this award is presented to a graduating senior for the honors thesis that best demonstrates an original and comprehensive application of research skills and a thorough understanding of communication scholarship.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Ms. Kim&rsquo;s thesis is titled &ldquo;<span>Post-racial Princess: An Examination of Racial Portrayals in Disney's The Princess and the Frog.&rdquo; &nbsp;For this work she conducted an in-depth textual analysis of the film&rsquo;s representation of race and used a semiotic framework to connect her findings to a larger system of meaning. Her work is remarkable for the depth of her analysis, her integration of her findings with previous research, and her use of developmental theory to shape the implications of her findings.</span></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Ms. Norbitz&rsquo; thesis, <span>entitled &ldquo;The Unique Role of the Implicit Association Test in Assessing the Effects of an Educational Video on Adolescents&rsquo; Implicit Out Group Attitudes,&rdquo; was developed out her work with the Annenberg Public Policy Center where research was being conducted to see how</span> exposure to compelling video can decrease discrimination amongst adolescents.&nbsp;Annie developed original hypotheses for the study, helped recruit subjects and improved the quality of an intervention that will affect students in over 40,000 high school classrooms.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div style="text-align: center;"><img width="275" height="300" src="http://www.asc.upenn.edu/userfiles/image/Nichole_Johnson_News.jpg" alt="" /><br /> <em>Nichole Johnson with Dean Delli Carpini</em><br /> &nbsp;</div> <div>Also recognized is Nichole Johnson, who wrote the thesis &ldquo;Deeds &amp; Dreams: Robert Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and the Struggle for Civil Rights Leadership.&rdquo;&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><strong>Charles Morris Price Prize</strong></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><img width="275" height="300" src="http://www.asc.upenn.edu/userfiles/image/Charles_Morris_Price.jpg" alt="" /><br /> <em>Kathryn L. Llewellyn with Dean Delli Carpini</em></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Kathryn L. Llewellyn is the recipient of the Charles Morris Price Prize, which is given to an outstanding graduating senior in the Communication major who in the view of departmental faculty has most distinguished themself through a combination of academic excellence, research accomplishments, and/or other achievements contributing to the department&rsquo;s academic objectives.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Ms. Llewellyn was recognized by her professors as being an articulate, insightful and intelligent student.&nbsp;As one professor stated her work is &ldquo;at the level of a top Annenberg graduate student.&rdquo;&nbsp;And another professor stated, &ldquo;She does careful, painstaking research that would be a credit to good graduate students. Her work is insightful, conscientious and thorough. All this is done without show or drama, but modestly and with a real feel for the multiple layers of substantive and moral complexity that a thorough account of any social problem with multiple players and stakes requires.&rdquo;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><strong>C. Nicole Dickerson Award</strong></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><img width="275" height="300" src="http://www.asc.upenn.edu/userfiles/image/Dickerson_Award.jpg" alt="" /><br /> <em>Andrea Faith Highbloom with Dean Delli Carpini</em></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Andrea Faith Highbloom is the recipient of the C. Nicole Dickerson Award, which is given in memory of undergraduate adviser Nicole Dickerson. It is given to a graduating communication major who has made a significant contribution to our neighbors in the West Philadelphia community.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>In Andrea&rsquo;s sophomore year, she was Community Service Chair for her sorority, Sigma Delta Tau, where she organized fundraisers for the Prevent Child Abuse America and recruited volunteers for school-based clean up and garden planting projects.&nbsp;</div> <div>In her junior year she assisted teachers and tutored students at University City High School, working in corrective reading and math intervention classrooms, tutored individual students in the student success center, and served as a graduation coach for seniors, assisting with college and financial aid applications.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><b>Honorable Walter H. Annenberg Award</b></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div style="text-align: center;"><img width="275" height="300" src="http://www.asc.upenn.edu/userfiles/image/Walter_Annenberg_Award.jpg" alt="" />&nbsp;<br /> <em>Florentina Dragulescu with Dean Delli Carpini</em></div> <div align="left"><br /> Florentina Dragulescu is the recipient of the Walter H. Annenberg Award, given to the student who has strengthened and improved the University of Pennsylvania&rsquo;s student community through his or her communication service activities.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Ms. Dragulescu has worked with an Annenberg faculty member as part of the Penn Undergraduate Research Mentorship Program, where she studied how mobile phones and other new technologies have changed social interactions in public spaces.&nbsp;She spent a summer in Washington, D.C. as an intern with Free Press where she worked with the Governmental and External Affairs Directors on developing governmental and press strategies for advocacy in the field of media policy reform. And she worked with the Annenberg Center for Global Communication Studies, assisting with media strengthening programs that took place in Afghanistan, Iran, and elsewhere.<br /> &nbsp;</div> <div><b>Kathleen Hall Jamieson Award</b></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div style="text-align: center;"><img width="275" height="300" src="http://www.asc.upenn.edu/userfiles/image/KHJ_Award.jpg" alt="" /><br /> <em>Nikolas R. Stergiopoulos with Dean Delli Carpini</em></div> <div><br /> Nikolas R. Stergiopoulos is the recipient of the Kathleen Hall Jamieson Award, given the graduating senior with the highest cumulative grade point average in the major.&nbsp;</div> <div><b><br /> Phyllis C. Kaniss Award</b></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div style="text-align: center;"><img width="275" height="300" src="http://www.asc.upenn.edu/userfiles/image/Kaniss_Award.jpg" alt="" /><br /> <em>Sara Brenes-Ackerman with Dean Delli Carpini</em></div> <div><br /> Sara Brenes-Ackerman was presented with the Phyllis C. Kaniss Award, which is presented to a graduating communication major who has demonstrated a commitment to civic participation.&nbsp;That participation can comprise meaningful involvement in actions designed to identify and address issues of public concern.&nbsp;Ms. Brenes-Ackerman was active as an editorial intern with RedCultura, Costa Rica&rsquo;s leading online cultural magazine; she wrote a column for <i>The Daily Pennsylvanian</i>, and she was an editor for <i>34^th Street</i>, Penn&rsquo;s weekly arts and culture magazine.</div> <br /> http://www.asc.upenn.edu/news/NewsDetail.aspx?nid=1072 http://www.asc.upenn.edu/news/NewsDetail.aspx?nid=1072 Tue, 15 May 2012 13:17:00 GMT <div>Doctoral student Sara Mourad has published a article titled <a href="http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/5355/politics-at-the-tip-of-the-clitoris_why-in-fact-do">&ldquo;Politics at the Tip of the Clitoris: Why, in Fact, Do They Hate Us?&rdquo; in the journal <i>Jadaliyya</i></a>. The article is a thoughtful response to the <i>Foreign Policy</i> article published earlier this year titled <a href="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/04/23/why_do_they_hate_us">&quot;Why Do They Hate Us? The real war on women is in the Middle East.&rdquo;</a></div> <br /> http://www.asc.upenn.edu/news/NewsDetail.aspx?nid=1071 http://www.asc.upenn.edu/news/NewsDetail.aspx?nid=1071 Tue, 15 May 2012 12:01:00 GMT <div style="text-align: center;"><img width="174" height="213" src="http://www.asc.upenn.edu/userfiles/image/Nora_Draper_2.jpg" alt="" /><br /> <em>Nora Draper</em></div> <br /> <div>Annenberg doctoral student <a href="http://www.asc.upenn.edu/Students/Graduate/GraduateStudentProfile.aspx?id=65&amp;pageType=grad">Nora Draper</a> has published the article &ldquo;Is Your Teen at Risk? Discourses of adolescent sexting in the United States television news&rdquo; in the <i>Journal of Children and Media</i> (Vol. 6, Issue 2).</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><strong>Abstract:</strong></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>&ldquo;Sexting&rdquo; is the term commonly used to refer to the transfer of nude or semi-nude pictures or videos between mobile devices. This paper contextualizes the reaction to the practice of sexting among adolescents by exploring legal responses and reviewing the literature on teens and cell phone use. The purpose of the paper is to identify, explore and analyze the key themes emerging from the coverage of teen sexting by television news in the United States. The author explores three primary themes that emerge from the broadcast discourse: preference for technologically deterministic explanations; reliance on gender-differentiated scenarios; and, a preference for solutions involving surveillance. This paper further explores whether the discourse around sexting can be understood using media panic theory. Noting the problematic conflation of risk and harm in the discourse, the author concludes by suggesting avenues for future research regarding the creation and transmission of sexual images using digital devices.</div> <br /> <br /> http://www.asc.upenn.edu/news/NewsDetail.aspx?nid=1070 http://www.asc.upenn.edu/news/NewsDetail.aspx?nid=1070 Tue, 15 May 2012 11:39:00 GMT <br /> <br /> <div>Eleven Annenberg doctoral students were honored during the University of Pennsylvania&rsquo;s 256^th Commencement on Monday, May 14. The Annenberg School for Communication also recognized them during the annual graduate ceremony at the School. Congratulations to all!</div> <div style="text-align: center;"><img width="500" height="333" src="http://www.asc.upenn.edu/userfiles/image/Joel_Cabral.jpg" alt="" /><br /> <em>Cabral Bigman-Galimore, front, Joel Penney</em></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="1"> <tbody> <tr> <td width="319" valign="top"> <div><b>Graduate</b></div> </td> <td width="319" valign="top"> <div><b>Dissertation title</b></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="319" valign="top"> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Young Min Baek</div> </td> <td width="319" valign="top"> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The Impact of Deliberation on Social and Semantic Networks: Citizens&rsquo; Mental Models of Bioethical Issues in Genetics Using Automated Textual Analysis</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="319" valign="top"> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Joel Penney</div> </td> <td width="319" valign="top"> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Body Screen/Body Politic: The Uses of Political T-Shirts in the Digital Age</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="319" valign="top"> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Cabral Bigman-Galimore</div> </td> <td width="319" valign="top"> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Social Comparison Framing: Examining the Effects of Racial Health Disparities Risk Information</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="319" valign="top"> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Son-Ho Kim</div> </td> <td width="319" valign="top"> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The Voice on Paper: A Dialogic Critique of Public Opinion Polling</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="319" valign="top"> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Mario G. Rodriguez</div> </td> <td width="319" valign="top"> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Facebook Privacy, Online Reputation &amp; Employment Concerns of College Seniors</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="319" valign="top"> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Sarah Vaala</div> </td> <td width="319" valign="top"> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Mothers&rsquo; Cognitions and Structural Life Circumstances as Predictors of Infants&rsquo; and Toddlers&rsquo; Television and Video Exposure</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="319" valign="top"> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Aymar Jean Christian</div> </td> <td width="319" valign="top"> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Off the Line: Independent Television and the Pitch to Reinvent Hollywood</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="319" valign="top"> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Susanna Dilliplane</div> </td> <td width="319" valign="top"> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The Impact of Partisan News Exposure on American Political Opinion and Behavior: Evidence from the 2008 Presidential Election</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="319" valign="top"> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Heidi Khaled</div> </td> <td width="319" valign="top"> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Fashionable Politics: Discourses, Dissonance and Status in American Consumer Culture</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="319" valign="top"> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Matt Lapierre</div> </td> <td width="319" valign="top"> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Development and Persuasion Processing: An Investigation of Children&rsquo;s Advertising Susceptibility and Understanding</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="319" valign="top"> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Khadijah White</div> </td> <td width="319" valign="top"> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Tea&rsquo;d Off: Media and the Rise of the 21^st Century Tea Party</div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <div>&nbsp;<br /> &nbsp;</div> <br /> http://www.asc.upenn.edu/news/NewsDetail.aspx?nid=1068 http://www.asc.upenn.edu/news/NewsDetail.aspx?nid=1068 Mon, 14 May 2012 14:38:00 GMT <div style="text-align: center;"><img width="400" height="266" src="http://www.asc.upenn.edu/userfiles/image/Susan_Mello.jpg" alt="" /><br /> <em>Susan Mello</em></div> <br /> <div>Annenberg doctoral student <a href="http://www.asc.upenn.edu/Students/Graduate/GraduateStudentProfile.aspx?id=56&amp;pageType=grad">Susan Mello</a> has published the article &ldquo;Selling a super cosmeceutical: Contextualising risk in direct-to-consumer advertising of BOTOX&reg; Cosmetic&rdquo; in the journal <i>Health, Risk &amp; Society</i> (Volume 14, Number 4, pages 385 &ndash; 398).</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><b>Abstract:</b></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Botulinum Toxin Type A, otherwise known as BOTOX&reg;, has dramatically changed the face of modern cosmetic medicine. This study examines the communication of the product's risks and benefits in online direct-to-consumer marketing by Allergan, maker of BOTOX Cosmetic, BOTOX Therapeutic, and BOTOX for Severe Underarm Sweating. Findings suggest that Allergan's heavy reliance on existing social norms of ideal beauty &ndash; as youthful, gendered, and self-actualized &ndash; for marketing BOTOX Cosmetic cultivates a meta-message of greater social and psychological risks associated with <i>not</i> using the product. In addition, the drug's medical indications are routinely conflated with its cosmetic purpose, resulting in a redefinition of the product as a &lsquo;super cosmeceutical&rsquo;. These observations have important implications for how social representations of risk may detract from consumer perceptions of physical harms and further promote risk-taking in the widespread pursuit of idealized beauty.</div> <br /> http://www.asc.upenn.edu/news/NewsDetail.aspx?nid=1069 http://www.asc.upenn.edu/news/NewsDetail.aspx?nid=1069 Fri, 11 May 2012 15:15:00 GMT <div style="text-align: center;"><img width="413" height="275" src="http://www.asc.upenn.edu/userfiles/image/Rosemary_Avance.jpg" alt="" /></div> <br /> <div><a href="http://www.asc.upenn.edu/Students/Graduate/GraduateStudentProfile.aspx?id=61&amp;pageType=grad">Rosemary Avance</a>, a fourth-year doctoral student at the Annenberg School for Communication, is the recipient of a Fellowship in Mormon Studies from the Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah.&nbsp;The first of its kind, the fellowship provides a doctoral candidate with funds to spend a year researching the history, beliefs, and culture of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its members.</div> <div><br /> Ms. Avance&rsquo;s research project is entitled &ldquo;Voices and Silences: On the Dialogic Construction of Mormon Identities,&rdquo; and will consider the ways that modern Mormon identities are rendered from multiple, often conflicting sources: secular authorities, faithful members, the media, and heterodox and former Mormons. Her project seeks to contribute to an understanding of Mormon religious identity as a blend of voices and silences in the ritual sphere.</div> <div><br /> Ms. Avance is currently a doctoral candidate with a focus on religious identity and cultural studies at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. She received an M.A in Communication from the University of Pennsylvania in 2010. Ms. Avance will be in residence at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City for the 2012-2013 school year as she researches and writes her&nbsp;dissertation on the dialogic construction of Mormon identity in the Internet age.</div> <div><br /> Bob Goldberg, professor of history and director of the Tanner Humanities Center, describes Avance&rsquo;s research as &ldquo;an intriguing examination of the formation of LDS social and religious identities in the current &lsquo;Mormon moment.&rsquo;&nbsp;The Tanner Humanities Center is excited to extend this research opportunity to Ms. Avance.&rdquo;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <br /> http://www.asc.upenn.edu/news/NewsDetail.aspx?nid=1067 http://www.asc.upenn.edu/news/NewsDetail.aspx?nid=1067 Fri, 11 May 2012 14:01:00 GMT <div style="text-align: center;"><img height="290" width="193" alt="" src="http://www.asc.upenn.edu/userfiles/image/Jingwen_Zhang_news.jpg" /><br /> <em>Jingwen Zhang</em></div> <br /> <div>Annenberg doctoral student Jingwen Zhang will attend the Harvard Berkman Summer Internship (June 4 &ndash; August 10) in Cambridge, MA.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Each summer, the <a href="http://youthandmedia.org/">Youth and Media lab</a> <span>at Harvard's Berkman Center selects a group of full-time interns who share an interest in the exploration and study of youth and their engagement with media. Once selected, the interns complete a two-month program working alongside the Youth and Media Team and other members of the Berkman community where they explore issues that relate to youth and their engagement with media.</span></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>During this summer, Jingwen Zhang is going to work with Dr.&nbsp;John Palfrey and Dr.&nbsp;Urs Gasser with other interns to&nbsp;study youth sexual health-information seeking behavior, which entails great implication for developing online sexual health communication programs. Both interviews and query logs will be employed to understand the searching dynamics. Specific research questions may include: 1) What are the motivations for youth to search sexual health information online? 2) How does searching online interact with seeking information offline to inform decision? 3) For specific concerns (e.g. pregnancy), what are the searching processes? These research projects will extend the literature on youth digital literacy and health communication involving social media applications.&nbsp;</div> <br /> http://www.asc.upenn.edu/news/NewsDetail.aspx?nid=1058 http://www.asc.upenn.edu/news/NewsDetail.aspx?nid=1058 Mon, 07 May 2012 00:55:00 GMT <div style="text-align: center;"><img width="220" height="319" alt="" src="http://www.asc.upenn.edu/userfiles/image/albarracin_dolores_b(1).jpg" /><br /> <em>Dolores Albarrac&iacute;n, Ph.D.</em></div> <br /> <div>Dolores Albarrac&iacute;n, Ph.D., has joined the Annenberg School for Communication as a full professor and the first Martin Fishbein Chair in Communication, beginning in the Fall 2012 term.</div> <div><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br /> Prof. Albarrac&iacute;n comes to Annenberg from the University of Illinois, where she held professorships in both the departments of psychology and business administration.&nbsp;She describes herself as a social psychologist, studying attitudes and persuasion from a social cognitive point of view.&nbsp;Her major research interests include motivational processes in attitude and behavior change, action goals and cognitive processes, and applications of social cognition to disease prevention programs.</span></div> <div><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br /> &ldquo;Dolores is one of the world&rsquo;s leading scholars of the role of communication in persuasion and attitude and behavior change,&rdquo; said Michael X. Delli Carpini, Ph.D., Professor of Communication and Walter H. Annenberg Dean. &ldquo;Her coming to Annenberg strengthens what is already the number one health communication and media effects program in the country.&nbsp;I can think of no more fitting person to hold the Martin Fishbein Chair.&rdquo;</span></div> <div><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br /> The Martin Fishbein Chair in Communication is named in honor of <a href="http://www.asc.upenn.edu/news/NewsDetail.aspx?nid=631">former Annenberg Prof. Martin Fishbein, Ph.D., the Harry C. Coles, Jr. Chair in Communication (1936 &ndash; 2009)</a>.&nbsp;Prof. Fishbein was Prof. Albarrac&iacute;n&rsquo;s thesis director during her studies for a master of arts in psychology at the University of Illinois, as well as her dissertation chair (with Robert S. Wyer, Jr. as thesis director).&nbsp;He also was her co-author on several academic articles.</span></div> <div><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br /> &ldquo;Training graduate students is what we live for in academia,&rdquo; Prof. Albarrac&iacute;n said during Annenberg&rsquo;s prospective student&rsquo;s day earlier this year.&nbsp;&ldquo;It is a privilege to work with and train brilliant people.&rdquo;</span></div> <div><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br /> Prof. Albarrac&iacute;n received a doctoral degree in Social Psychology from the University of Illinois, and received a doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from the Universidad de Belgrano in Buenos Aires, Argentina.&nbsp;She is the recipient of nearly two dozen academic awards and honors, and her work has been continuously funded by the national institutes of health since receiving her Ph.D. in 1997.&nbsp;She is the author/editor of two books &ndash; including <i>Prediction and change of health behavior: Applying the theory of reasoned action approach</i> (Lawrence Erlbaum, 2007) which she co-edited with Icek Ajzen and <a href="http://www.asc.upenn.edu/Faculty/Faculty-Bio.aspx?id=142">Annenberg&rsquo;s Prof. Robert Hornik</a>.&nbsp;Additionally Prof. Albarrac&iacute;n is the lead or co-author of more than 80 published articles and/or book chapters.</span></div> <br /> http://www.asc.upenn.edu/news/NewsDetail.aspx?nid=1066 http://www.asc.upenn.edu/news/NewsDetail.aspx?nid=1066 Wed, 02 May 2012 11:55:00 GMT <div style="text-align: center;"><img width="240" height="250" src="http://www.asc.upenn.edu/userfiles/image/Monroe_Price.jpg" alt="" /><br /> <em>Monroe E. Price</em></div> <br /> <br /> <div>Annenberg&rsquo;s <a href="http://www.asc.upenn.edu/Faculty/Faculty-Bio.aspx?id=154">Monroe E. Price</a>, Adjunct Full Professor and Director of the <a href="http://www.global.asc.upenn.edu/">Center for Global Communication Studies</a>, has published the article &ldquo;Media and transitional Justice: Toward a Systematic Approach,&rdquo; (with Nicole Stremlau, University of Oxford) in the <i>International Journal of Communication</i>.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><b>Abstract:</b></div> <div><b>&nbsp;</b></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>This article addresses a major gap in the transitional justice literature by exploring the role of the media in transitional justice processes. We offer a framework for analyzing the information environment in which media intervention and transitional justice occurs. We suggest an approach that can offer a more nuanced understanding of information flows and the ways in which key actors use communication to compete for loyalty in the political marketplace. Several tools for conceptualizing the approaches toward media during transitional justice processes are offered, including the use of law, force, subsidy, and negotiation. Examples of how these tools have been used both effectively and ineffectively by international actors in the former Yugoslavia illuminate our arguments.</div> <br /> http://www.asc.upenn.edu/news/NewsDetail.aspx?nid=1065 http://www.asc.upenn.edu/news/NewsDetail.aspx?nid=1065 Tue, 01 May 2012 13:01:00 GMT