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Cable News Networks Have Grown More Polarized, Study Finds

An analysis of 10 years of cable TV news reveals a growing partisan gap as networks like Fox and MSNBC have shifted to the right or the left of the political spectrum, especially in their primetime programming.

• Political Communication

Survey: 1 in 5 Americans Fear Getting Monkeypox but Many Know Little About It

As Covid-19 cases surge across the United States dominated by a highly transmissible subvariant and worry about Covid persists, some in the public have begun to voice concern about the new health threat of monkeypox, according to a new Annenberg Public Policy Center national survey.

• Health Communication

Olivia González Named 2022-2024 George Gerbner Postdoctoral Fellow

González studies the politics of media education and production in the United States.

• Culture & Media
• Media Institutions

Dolores Albarracín Named Editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

The Alexandra Heyman Nash University Professor will begin editing the Attitudes and Social Cognition section on January 1, 2023.

• Health Communication

TV News Top Driver of Political Echo Chambers in U.S.

Duncan Watts and colleagues found that 17% of Americans consume television news from partisan left- or right-leaning sources compared to just 4% online.

• Political Communication

Tyler Leigh Receives 2022-23 Graduate Student Fellowship for Teaching Excellence

The fellowship is designed to help graduate students develop as teachers.

Who, What, Why: Annenberg Doctoral Student Ava Irysa Kikut

Kikut worked with high school students and Penn undergrads to develop media messages that speak to the health needs and inequalities pertinent to adolescent Philadelphians.

• Culture & Media
• Health Communication

Elihu Katz: Remembering a Pioneer in Communication

In this film, Annenberg remembers Israeli-American Communication Scholar Elihu Katz, his founding contributions to the field of Communication, and his warm and intellectually generous personality.

Building Solidarity in the Anthropocene Symposium Videos Now Available

CARGC and CDCS are delighted to share video recordings of the month-long symposium that took place in April 2022.

• Culture & Media
• Global Communication

Mutz Wins 2022 American Political Science Association Best Book Award

Her book, "Winners and Losers: The Psychology of Foreign Trade," reveals how people's orientations toward in-groups and out-groups influence how they think about trade with foreign countries

• Political Communication