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Call for Submissions: 2025 CARGC Fellows Biennial Conference - "Unsettling Global Media and Communication Studies"

CARGC welcomes interdisciplinary and multimodal approaches and contributions from early career scholars across various fields. Submit your proposals by December 15, 2024.

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Youth Participatory Action Communication Research: A Model for Developing Youth-Driven Health Campaigns

Annenberg researchers worked with West Philadelphia high schoolers to develop a health communication campaign encouraging their peers to seek mental health support.

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How Everyday Stress Impacts Cigarette Smoking

Second-year Gabriella Jean worked at the AHA! Lab over the summer on a research project examining the association between everyday life stressors and cigarette smoking.

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A Majority of Americans Can’t Recall Most First Amendment Rights

Most Americans can name only one right guaranteed by the First Amendment, according to the Annenberg Public Policy Center’s 2024 Constitution Day Civics Survey.

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Race, Gender, and the Appeal to Youth in the Harris Campaign

Professor Sarah J. Jackson talks about how the Harris campaign is communicating differently than the Biden, Clinton, and Obama campaigns.

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Penn Students Find Community To Watch Debate at Annenberg

The first presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump was held in Philadelphia, as was a watch party at the Annenberg School for Communication.

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As the World Warms, How Are Young People Feeling?

Climate scientist Michael Mann of the Annenberg School and the School of Arts & Sciences leads a research community that aims to understand climate anxiety and improve climate communication.

Call for Applications: Postdoctoral Researcher in Tobacco Communication Regulatory Science

The fellowship starts in October 2024 and applications are due by September 30, 2024.

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Harris or Trump? A New Tool Gauges How the World Would Vote in the 2024 Election

Doctoral student Tom Etienne is leading a global collaboration to provide international audiences with objective information about the American presidential election.

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University of Pennsylvania launches Penn Center on Media, Technology, and Democracy

The Center will bring together six Schools at Penn with $10 million in support from Knight Foundation and the University.