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Graduate Student News

Akanbi Wins Yale Law Journal Essay Competition

Akanbi’s winning essay explores the shifting conceptualization of labor in the digital age.

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Faculty News

Is Social Media Surveillance the Virtual Stop-and-Frisk?

A new study by Desmond Patton develops a theory of everyday racism in digital policing.

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Call for Submissions

Call for Papers: ICA Preconference on Data and Publics

Submit papers that critically rethink the meaning and practices of publics and public communication.

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Alumni

Annenberg Alumna Jenny Stromer-Galley (Ph.D. ‘02) Studies Political Communication and Develops Apps for Intelligence Analysts

Stromer-Galley has been studying campaign messaging since she encountered Bob Dole’s website in 1996.

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Faculty News

Pickard and Yang Edit New Book, Media Activism in the Digital Age

The book includes case studies of feminist, technological, and political interventions.

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Research

Refuting Groupthink, Network Dynamics Group Research Proves That Wisdom of Crowds Can Prevail

Real-world implications include climate-change science, financial forecasting, medical decision-making, and organizational design.

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Alumni

Digital Media: Transformations in Human Communication, Second Edition Edited by Paul Messaris and Lee Humphreys (Ph.D. ‘07)

The book boasts a wide range of scholars as contributors, including 11 with Annenberg connections.

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Graduate Student News

Doctoral Student Elisabetta Ferrari Studies Activism and Technology

Ferrari researches how social movements use digital technologies, and how activists think about technology personally and politically.

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Faculty News

Intervening in Gang Violence

Columbia's interdisciplinary research team is using language processing and qualitative analysis of social media posts to develop a mechanism to identify and intervene in gang violence.

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Research

Study Finds Linkage Between Social Network Structure and Brain Activity

People who are surrounded by different types of social networks use their brains differently.