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Get To Know Our ​​Communication Majors: Emmy Keogh (C’26)

Whenever the question of post-graduation plans came up, Communication major Emmy Keogh (C’26) and her mom had a running joke...

• Culture & Media

John L. Jackson, Jr., Duncan J. Watts, and Michael E. Mann Elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences

The Annenberg scholars are being honored for their contributions to the social, behavioral, and physical sciences.

• Health Communication
• 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 Signal Through the Noise: How the Media Bias Detector Is Cutting Through Our Cluttered Media Landscape

“Explorer” isn’t one of Duncan Watts’s many titles, but perhaps it should be. As the Stevens University Professor and the...

• Media Institutions
• Political Communication

George Gerbner Postdoctoral Fellow Baird Howland Analyzes the News With AI

Baird Howland arrived at the Annenberg School for Communication five years ago, driven by big questions about the media’s influence...

• Technology & Society

Annenberg Conversations Podcast: Journalism in a Changing Information Landscape

In the second episode of season two of the Annenberg Conversations podcast, Dean Sarah Banet-Weiser talks to Professors Victor Pickard and Duncan Watts about the role of journalism in our democracy.

• Media Institutions

How Cable News Has Diverged From Broadcast News

A team of researchers from the Computational Social Science Lab at the University of Pennsylvania find that cable news has increasingly diverged from broadcast news in the topics covered and language used.

• Culture & Media

Can Social Media Be Less Toxic?

A new study by Annenberg doctoral student Timothy Dörr explores how social media can encourage good behavior online.

• Technology & Society

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.

• Political Communication
• Technology & Society

Duncan Watts and CSSLab’s New Media Bias Detector

Researchers at the Computational Social Science Lab have developed the Media Bias Detector, which uses artificial intelligence to analyze news articles, examining factors like tone, partisan lean, and fact selection.

• Media Institutions