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What Can Mainstream Journalism Learn From Prison Journalism?

In their study of the prison publication News Inside, Annenberg Professor Sarah J. Jackson and doctoral candidate Liz Hallgren find lessons for mainstream news.

• Culture & Media
• Media Institutions
• Technology & Society

Handbook on Sport and Culture: Q&A with Katerina Girginova

Our relationship with sports is changing. Now, with extended reality (XR) technology, we can watch live sporting events from the...

• Culture & Media

Amy Gutmann Honored by Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History

The museum honored Gutmann with the Only in America® Award, “given to Jewish Americans who have made enormous contributions to our world.”

A Scholar Who Listens

From grazing sheep in Irish bogs to the infrastructural hum of parks in Philadelphia, recent Annenberg Gilbert Seldes Multimodal Postdoctoral...

• Technology & Society

Brain Activity Reveals What Makes Persuasive Messages Stick

A new study by the Communication Neuroscience Lab and colleagues reveals that activity in brain regions associated with reward and social processing can predict the effectiveness of messages.

• Technology & Society

A Road Map To Reduce Firearm Harms by 2040

Three Penn faculty members, including PIK Professor Desmond Patton, are among more than 40 experts to author a report addressing the persistent challenge of gun violence and proposing solutions stemming from a JAMA Summit convened last spring.

• Technology & Society

A New Exhibit at Annenberg Explores Philadelphia’s History of Communicating With Ghosts

The exhibit from the Annenberg Extended Reality Lab explores the 19th-century religious movement Spiritualism.

How Has Talking About Politics Changed in the Last Quarter-Century?

Annenberg Professor Diana Mutz finds that we’re having more political conversations now with like-minded people, and that political intolerance has increased as a result.

• Political Communication

Public Not Highly Knowledgeable About Safety of MMR Vaccine or Risks of Getting Measles

A new survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania shows that a quarter of the American public thinks getting the measles is likely to be less deadly than it is.

• Health Communication

The Rage of Tradwives

In a new paper, Dean Sarah Banet-Weiser and doctoral student Sara Reinis analyze popular “tradwife” accounts on Instagram and TikTok.

• Technology & Society