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Annenberg Researchers Shift Focus to Coronavirus

Topics include media consumption and misinformation, social media whistle blowers, partisanship, impact on workers, and more.

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Philadelphia's Media Ecosystem is Broken. Can We Fix It?

The MIC Center and its collaborators have received a $2.6 million grant to try.

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Democracy Without Journalism? Q&A with Victor Pickard

Pickard argues that the journalism crisis and the spread of misinformation are rooted in our profit-driven media system.

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Cell-Mostly Internet Users Place Privacy Burden on Themselves

Participants lacked understanding of how near-constant mobile internet use potentially compounds other inequalities in their lives.

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Improving Journalists’ Access to Public Information Records

Researchers consider how local and state level bureaucracies have impacted the functioning of contemporary Philadelphia newsrooms.

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MIC Center Releases “The Platform Economy and the Future of the City” Report

Philadelphia is in a unique position to become proactive on issues surrounding the platform economy.

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MIC Center Hosts “The Platform Economy and the Future of the City” Symposium

The event brought together workers, organizers and activists, lawyers and other legal experts, and academics studying worker rights.

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Media, Inequality and Change Center Receives Lenfest Institute Grant

The grant will allow MIC to facilitate dialogue between Philadelphia’s leading journalists and public advocates.

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2018 COMPASS Summer Fellows Head to Washington D.C.

The program aims to bridge the research interests of future scholars with active policy agendas.