Faculty

Joseph N. Cappella, Ph.D.
GERALD R. MILLER PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATION
Social cognition, communication theory, health communication, persuasion and politics, nonverbal behavior, and statistical and mathematical methods. Studies on cognitive processing of verbal and visual materials, organization of social interaction, and message effects.
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Michael X. Delli Carpini, Ph.D.
PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATION AND WALTER H. ANNENBERG DEAN
The extent, sources and impact of public deliberation. The causes and consequences of the blurring between news and entertainment. Generational differences in political and civic participation. The impact of the media on political knowledge and democratic engagement.
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Martin Fishbein, Ph.D.
HARRY C. COLES, JR. DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATION
Attitude theory and measurement, communication and persuasion, behavioral prediction and change, intervention development, implementation and evaluation. Studies of the relations among beliefs, attitudes, intentions and behaviors in field and laboratory settings including studies of the effectiveness of health-related behavior change interventions.
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Keith N. Hampton, Ph.D
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATION
New media and community, social network analysis, research design and methodology, the relationship between information and communication technologies and the urban environment.
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Robert C. Hornik, Ph.D.
WILBUR SCHRAMM PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATION
Public health communication, mass media effects, research methodology. Evaluations of large scale public health communication interventions, studies of effects of mass media coverage on health behavior, cancer communication.
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John L. Jackson, Jr., Ph.D.
RICHARD PERRY UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATION AND ANTHROPOLOGY
Ethnographic methods in media analysis. Impact of mass media on urban life. Mediamaking as a form of community-building and proselytizing among religious organizations. Globalization and the remaking of ethnic/racial diasporas. Visual studies and theories of reality. Racialization and media technology.
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Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Ph.D.
ELIZABETH WARE PACKARD PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATION
Political communication, rhetorical theory and criticism. Studies of various forms of campaign communication, as well as the discourse of the presidency.
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John B. Jemmott III, Ph.D.
KENNETH B. CLARK PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATION
Health communication and behavior, HIV prevention, behavioral interventions, sexual risk behavior, cultural influences on risk-reduction, violent behavior among adolescents, theories of health behavior, and design and methodology.
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Elihu Katz, Ph.D.
DISTINGUISHED TRUSTEE PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATION
Functions and effects of mass media in different social systems; diffusion of ideas and innovations; dynamics of public opinion. Recent studies of the live broadcasting of political ceremony, the reception of American popular culture overseas, public opinion in conflict situations, pre-election polling.
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Marwan Kraidy, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Communication
Global communication studies Comparative and regional media systems Arab media, politics, and culture Theories of globalization and modernity
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Klaus Krippendorff, Ph.D.
GREGORY BATESON PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATION
The role of language and dialogue in the social construction of reality: identities, institutions, cultural artifacts, power, Otherness, and meanings. Emancipatory epistemology (hermeneutics) of human communication and the design of technology. Content analysis, semantics, pragmatics of social interaction, and related research methods. Conversation theory, information theory, and cyberspace. Sec...
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Deborah L. Linebarger, Ph.D.
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATION
I am interested in both new and traditional media and how attentional processes are guided by the features inherent in each medium especially as it pertains to the cognitive and social development of young children. I am also interested in the ways that these attentional processes are mediated by various contextual factors including perceptions of the media, parents, siblings, and peers.
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Carolyn Marvin, Ph.D.
FRANCES YATES PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATION
Cultural studies, public space, freedom of expression, social construction of taboo, history of literacy, written language practice as a system of cultural authority, symbols and rituals of nationalism, social impact of communication technologies, history of communication technologies.
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Paul Messaris, Ph.D.
LEV KULESHOV PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATION
Studies of viewers' reactions to movies, visual media, and digital media.
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Diana Mutz, Ph.D.
SAMUEL A. STOUFFER PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATION AND POLITICAL SCIENCE
Diana C. Mutz, Ph.D. Stanford University, teaches and does research on public opinion, political psychology and mass political behavior, with a particular emphasis on political communication.
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Monroe Price
DIRECTOR OF CENTER FOR GLOBAL COMMUNICATION STUDIES AND ADJUNCT FULL PROFESSOR
Professor Price is the director of the Center for Global Communication Studies at the Annenberg School. He is also the Joseph and Sadie Danciger Professor of Law and Director of the Howard M. Squadron Program in Law, Media and Society at the Cardozo School of Law. He directs the Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research in London and is the Chair of the Center for Media and Commun...
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Vincent Price, Ph.D.
STEVEN H. CHAFFEE PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATION AND POLITICAL SCIENCE & ASSOCIATE PROVOST
Mass communication and public opinion, social influence processes, political communication, and survey research methods. Recent studies have examined public attention to and cognitive processing of news stories, media framing of issues, and the role of conversation in shaping public opinion.
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Katherine Sender, Ph.D.
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATION
My areas of expertise include consumer and popular culture; reality television, especially makeover shows; audience research; cultural production; gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender media and marketing; and documentary film and video, including production.
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Joseph Turow, Ph.D.
ROBERT LEWIS SHAYON PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATION
Research on cultural industries, especially at the intersection of new media, marketing and society. Studies on database marketing, media and privacy, the process of innovation in the mass media, and the relationship between media and the medical system.
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Charles R. Wright, Ph.D.
PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF COMMUNICATION AND SOCIOLOGY
Sociological analysis and the sociology of communication. Studies on the sociology of mass communication, the enduring effects of education, mass communication behavior and social structure.
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Barbie Zelizer, Ph.D.
RAYMOND WILLIAMS PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATION
Journalism, news images, cultural studies & popular culture, collective memory, media criticism, impact of the disciplines on inquiry. Studies on journalism as cultural practice, journalists as interpretive communities, news images & crisis - JFK assassination, Holocaust, September 11, war. Studies on disciplinary knowledge and the academy.
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