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Data Artist and Doctoral Student Roopa Vasudevan Finds Creative Ways to Tell Untold Stories

She collects data about important issues and creates visually appealing ways to convey it to others.

Research

Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication Releases CARGC Paper 10

The paper explores the conflation of hacktivism with cyber-terrorism that enables states to criminalize non-violent hackers.

Faculty News

Price and Ristovska Edit Volume Visual Imagery and Human Rights Practice

The book examines the role images play in human rights claims.

Faculty News

Professor Jessa Lingel Leads Zine-Making Workshop on Feminist Pedagogy

The zine includes contributions from postdoctoral fellow Rosemary Clark-Parsons and Dean's Fellow Sharrona Pearl.

Faculty News

Desmond Patton Receives Award from the Society for Social Work and Research

The Early Career Achievement Award recognizes the beginning of Dr. Patton's research career in the field of social work.

Undergraduate News

Doug Glanville's Communication, Sports, and Social Justice Class Takes Field Trip to Phillies' Stadium

The behind-the-scenes tour of Citizens Bank Park served as a culmination of the semester long course.

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Chelsea Manning Speaks at Penn on Technology, Government, and Activism

A former intelligence analyst, Manning is an advocate for government transparency and transgender rights.

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.

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.

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.