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Students Travel to Athens to Confront Journalism’s “Age of Doubt”
Amid a reckoning with misinformation, polarization, and artificial intelligence, students in the SNF Paideia designated course “Media Industries and Nationalism”...
Working in Groups Can Help Republicans and Democrats Agree on Controversial Content Moderation Online
A new study by Professor Damon Centola and alum Douglas Guilbeault explored how content moderators can reach consensus on classifying controversial material online, including inflammatory, offensive, or hateful images.
Mourning Li Wenliang, the Whistleblower of COVID-19, on the Chinese Internet
In a new paper, Professor Guobin Yang analyzes how Chinese social media users eulogized Li Wenliang through an ancient literary form.
Love and Loss After Wounded Knee: Q&A with Julie Dobrow (M.A.C ‘84, Ph.D. ‘87)
In her latest book, the Tufts University professor delves into the lives of Charles Alexander Eastman and Elaine Goodale, whose interracial marriage reflected a changing America.
Lowest Suicide Rate Is in December but Some in Media Still Promote Holiday-Suicide Myth
A new media analysis by Annenberg Public Policy Center found 19 stories in print media outlets that spread the false myth that suicides increase during the holidays.
Although Public Overwhelmingly Supports Hepatitis B Vaccine for a Newborn, Partisan Differences Exist
On December 5, 2025, the Trump administration’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), whose members were handpicked by Health and...
‘Mental Model’ Approach Shows Promise in Reducing Susceptibility to Misconceptions About mRNA Vaccination
Researchers at the Annenberg Public Policy Center have tested the effectiveness of a ‘mental model’ approach to presenting scientific information, incorporating visual, verbal, or animated models to teach scientific or medical concepts to better identify misconceptions.
New HIV Mapping Tool Helps Public Health Workers Track and Predict HIV Outbreaks
Researchers from the Social Action Lab, including PIK Professor Dolores Albarracín, have created a new tool to help public health workers predict future HIV outbreaks in the U.S.
Call for Proposals: Edited Anthology on "The Long 1990s in Global Internet History"
The Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication is delighted to share a Call for Papers for an upcoming edited volume in the Turning Points in Media Studies anthology series, titled The Long 1990s in Global Internet Histories. This volume grows out of a multi-year collaborative project at CARGC that previously produced a 2023 satellite event at the Association of Internet Researchers conference on the same theme.
International Call for Applications: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication
The Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania invites...
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