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Political Communication Scholar Yphtach Lelkes Promoted to Full Professor

Lelkes’s work spans political communication, public opinion, and polarization, often using large-scale computational data and experiments to understand citizens’ political attitudes.

• Political Communication

How Social Networks Reshaped Society and Politics

In recent years, the media has been saturated with stories about the effects of social media on our social, political...

• Political Communication
• Technology & Society

Understanding Vaccine Hesitancy and Building Healthy Lives

Recent doctoral graduate Brittany Zulkiewicz examines how communication can improve public health.

• Health Communication

Want To Succeed in Academia? Build a Network Beyond Your Co-Authors

Lluís Danús, Sandra González-Bailón, and colleagues analyzed the ‘thank you’ notes in 129,750 political science journal articles and found that informal connections between authors were more predictive of higher productivity and impact than formal connections.

• Technology & Society

Annenberg Scholars Awarded Information and Democracy Research Grants from the Penn Center for Media, Technology, and Democracy

Sixteen members of the Annenberg community received support for information and democracy research projects.

A New Study Uncovers How Information Spread on Facebook in the Lead up to and After the 2020 Election

Professor Sandra González-Bailón and colleagues analyzed the spread of over one billion Facebook posts to reveal how information flowed on the social network.

• Political Communication
• Technology & Society

A Comm Major’s Journey from Pop Culture to Free Speech to Networked Technology and Beyond 

Anika Gururaj (C’24) followed her intellectual curiosity throughout her time at Penn, and will soon be off to Harvard Law School.

• Technology & Society

Putting the Spotlight on the Gender Gaps in Digital Spaces

Prof. Sandra González-Bailón co-edited a new journal issue quantifying the extent to which gender bias occurs and is perpetuated online and in digital media.

• Technology & Society

Annenberg Faculty and Alumni Lead Efforts To Understand How Facebook and Instagram Impact Democratic Processes

With unprecedented data access from Meta, five Annenberg faculty and alumni are on a years-long quest to understand how Facebook and Instagram impact voters.

• Political Communication

First Findings from US 2020 Facebook & Instagram Election Study Released

Unprecedented research by Prof. Sandra González-Bailón and colleagues reveals the influence of Facebook's algorithms on political news exposure.

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• Political Communication
• Technology & Society