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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.

This week, eight doctoral students in Communication will begin summer fellowships with government and policy organizations, thanks to the Consortium on Media Policy Studies (COMPASS).

For more than a decade, this consortium of Communication doctoral programs has sponsored a select group of Ph.D. students to spend a summer in Washington, D.C. These COMPASS Summer Fellows have a front row seat to learn about U.S. federal policymaking as they make their own contributions to the policy process through their research and writing.

On April 19 - 21, the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania celebrated the official launch of the Center for Media at Risk, a new center to study and counteract the way that practitioners of all forms of media — journalism, entertainment, film, and digital — have been harassed, silenced, and coerced by the rising tide of authoritarianism around the globe.

Lik Sam Chan has been named the 2018-20 George Gerbner Postdoctoral Fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication.

INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

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The Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania invites applications for a “CARGC Postdoctoral Fellowship.” This is a one-year position renewable for a second year based on successful performance.