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Annenberg Scholars Program in Culture and Communication Welcomes Des Freedman and E. Patrick Johnson

Freedman studies media policy, and Johnson is interested in black, feminist, and sexuality studies.

• Culture & Media

Debunking Study Suggests Ways to Counter Misinformation and Correct ‘Fake News’

Debunking is more effective — and misinformation is less persistent — when an audience develops an explanation for the corrected information.

• Health Communication
• Media Institutions

Annenberg Welcomes 18 New Visiting Scholars and Postdoctoral Fellows

From children's media to hacktivism to live cultural production, these scholars' work spans the field of Communication.

Mutz Wins Doris Graber Award from American Political Science Association

Mutz won for her book In-Your-Face Politics: The Consequences of Uncivil Media.

• Political Communication

Zelizer Named 2017-2018 USC Shoah Foundation Rutman Teaching Fellow

Zelizer will use her fellowship to teach a research seminar on visual memory of war and genocide.

• Culture & Media

New Meta-Analysis Shows Peer Influence Doubles the Risk Adolescents Will Smoke

Teens from collectivistic cultures also more swayed by peers than those in individualistic cultures.

• Health Communication

Jamieson Named a Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard for Fall 2017

She will explore the role of the press in reinforcing norms of democratic discourse.

• Political Communication

Studies in Visual Communication, a Pioneering Journal Published 1974-1985, Now Available Online

A number of the works published in the journal became foundational texts in visual studies.

• Culture & Media

Numerous Annenberg Faculty and Alumni in New Book: The Oxford Handbook of Political Communication

The handbook focuses on the greatest theoretical contributions to the field of political communication.

• Political Communication

Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication Releases CARGC Paper 6

In this paper, Mariela Morales Suárez examines the motivations and challenges of Cuban journalists.

• Global Communication