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The Annenberg School for Communication has named a new George Gerbner Postdoctoral Fellow for 2019-21: Jin Woo Kim.

Kim, who received his Ph.D. from the Annenberg School in 2016, has spent the last two years as a postdoctoral research fellow at Dartmouth College’s Program in Quantitative Social Science.  

President Amy Gutmann and Provost Wendell Pritchett are pleased to announce the appointment of Duncan Watts as the University of Pennsylvania’s twenty-third Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor, effective July 1, 2019.  

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On election night 2018, five Annenberg alumni were behind the scenes at ABC and CBS, helping to make sense of a mind-boggling quantity of precinct-level returns and exit polling.

A hub for the Annenberg School's scholarship in global communication and its global vision, the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication is celebrating its fifth anniversary with a new report: CARGC@5.

Marwan M. Kraidy, Anthony Shadid Chair in Global Media, Politics & Culture and Director of the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC), says “Fellows are the core of CARGC.” That core is expanding as CARGC welcomes four new postdoctoral fellows this month: Yakein Abdelmagid, Clovis Bergère, Stanislav Budnitsky, and Giang Nyugen-Thu.

As a complement to its expert faculty members, the Annenberg School for Communication invites notable practitioners of Communication to offer undergraduate courses in their areas of expertise. This Fall, Annenberg is welcoming four new lecturers to its roster, including two of its alumni.

The Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication is proud to present CARGC Paper 9, “Mediating Possibility after Suffering: Meaning Making of the Micro-political through Digital Media,” by CARGC Postdoctoral Fellow, Samira Rajabi.

When you see a McDonalds, you might think about the delicious-meets-unhealthy world of Big Macs and fries. But there is a whole strata of society that sees something else first: free internet.

These are the people that Julia Ticona studies: the low-income workers in America who scrape by juggling multiple minimum wage jobs and side hustles. For many, computers and reliable home internet can be unaffordable luxuries, making cell phones an essential lifeline to employers who may call them to work — and induce a childcare scramble — at any time. 

Dean Michael Delli Carpini announced this week that Felicity (Litty) Paxton, Ph.D., will become Annenberg’s new Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies, starting on August 13.