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“Planet Digital” Maps Power, Culture, and Connectivity in Global Media

In Planet Digital: A Global Media Cultures Reader, published by NYU Press, Professor Aswin Punathambekar, Director of the Center for...

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Annenberg Answers: Understanding the World Cup as a Media Event

Every four years, the FIFA World Cup captures the attention of billions, making it one of the largest and most...

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Call for Proposals: AoIR 2026 Preconference - “Lockdown and its (Digital) Afterlives: Media, Infrastructure, and Everyday Life in Regenerative Perspective”

CARGC is accepting proposals for the AoIR 2026 Preconference, “Lockdown and its (Digital) Afterlives: Media, Infrastructure, and Everyday Life in Regenerative Perspective,” that will take place on October 13, 2026 in Mexico City, Mexico. Proposals are due by July 15, 2026.

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100 Years of Television: Annenberg Answers

Annenberg experts share how television has evolved over the last century.

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Students Travel to Athens to Confront Journalism’s “Age of Doubt”

Amid a reckoning with misinformation, polarization, and artificial intelligence, students in the SNF Paideia designated course “Media Industries and Nationalism”...

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Mourning Li Wenliang, the Whistleblower of COVID-19, on the Chinese Internet

In a new paper, Professor Guobin Yang analyzes how Chinese social media users eulogized Li Wenliang through an ancient literary form.

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Call for Proposals: Edited Anthology on "The Long 1990s in Global Internet History"

The Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication is delighted to share a Call for Papers for an upcoming edited volume in the Turning Points in Media Studies anthology series, titled The Long 1990s in Global Internet Histories. This volume grows out of a multi-year collaborative project at CARGC that previously produced a 2023 satellite event at the Association of Internet Researchers conference on the same theme.

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International Call for Applications: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication

The Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania invites...

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Creating an Atlas of Global Media

Flipping through the pages of Juan Llamas-Rodriguez’s new textbook on global media feels like embarking on a tour of the world’s complex communication landscapes.

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The Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication Welcomes Three Visiting Scholars for Fall 2025

Pallavi Guha, Julia Sonnevend, and Samhita Sunya will join the center this fall.