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Grief in the Time of Social Media

When someone is incarcerated, the pain extends far beyond the prison walls. Families and communities are left to endure a...

• Technology & Society

Why Are There So Few Wireless Carriers in the United States? A New Study Says “Performative Competition”

A new study examines the evolving political economy of the U.S. wireless communications market.

• Technology & Society

Awareness of Alcohol-Cancer Link Holds Steady Despite Omission in New U.S. Dietary Guidelines

Public awareness of the link between drinking alcohol and elevated cancer risk remains unchanged since February 2025, with over half...

• Health Communication

Insults Get Attention, Not Results, for Some U.S. Lawmakers

A new study offers one of the most comprehensive analyses to date of how and why U.S. legislators deploy personal...

• Political Communication

A Signal Through the Noise: How the Media Bias Detector Is Cutting Through Our Cluttered Media Landscape

“Explorer” isn’t one of Duncan Watts’s many titles, but perhaps it should be. As the Stevens University Professor and the...

• Media Institutions
• Political Communication

Stark Divide: Americans More Confident in Career Scientists at U.S. Health Agencies Than Leaders

A new survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center finds that 67% of Americans have confidence in career scientists working at U.S. federal health agencies, compared with just 43% confidence in agency leaders overall.

• Health Communication

Paper Offers Framework for Assessing Trustworthiness of Scientific Research

A multidisciplinary group of scholars from different institutions, including Annenberg Public Policy Center Director Kathleen Hall Jamieson, has proposed a systems-level framework for evaluating the trustworthiness of research findings.

To Save the Media, Ditch Capitalism, a New Study Says

In a new paper, Professor Victor Pickard argues for a more democratic media system.

• Culture & Media
• Media Institutions

What Makes an AI Livestreamer Seem Real?

In a new paper, Associate Professor Jessa Lingel and Visiting Scholar Wanyan Wu examined 15 months of livestreams from AI livestreamer Neuro-sama and proposed a new framework of what makes AI feel authentic.

• Culture & Media
• Technology & Society

An Inside Look at the History of Television

Materials in the Annenberg School for Communication Library Archives include thousands of TV scripts, the first issue of TV Guide, and interviews about the early days of HBO—which help to chronicle TV’s 100-year story.

• Media Institutions