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What Makes College Students Support Disciplinary Action for Objectionable Speech?
A new study by Associate Professor Yphtach Lelkes and Professor Guy Grossman finds that U.S. college students oppose punishing objectionable speech unless it is highly harmful, and hateful speech against minority groups elicits stronger punitive responses than statements directed at white students.
Insults Get Attention, Not Results, for Some U.S. Lawmakers
A new study offers one of the most comprehensive analyses to date of how and why U.S. legislators deploy personal...
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...
Diana Mutz Elected National Academy of Sciences Councilor
Mutz has been elected to a three-year term on the Council.
Professor Matthew Levendusky Named Joint Professor at the Annenberg School and the Department of Political Science
In this Q&A, Levendusky reflects on his research and teaching.
How the Cold War Broke the News
While big tech and market forces get much of the blame for the decline of news media, Professor Barbie Zelizer makes the bold claim in her new book that problematic journalistic practices that became entrenched during the Cold War are responsible for the current issues facing journalism, such as inadequate funding and declining public trust.
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”...
At the Annual Annenberg Lecture, Kate Shaw and Chris Hayes Reflect on Capturing Attention in a Changing Political Landscape
Every year, the Annenberg School for Communication and the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania’s annual Annenberg...
Youth Voter Turnout: Annenberg Expert Unpacks the Issue
Voting in an election helps shape the government to work on their behalf. However, the majority of U.S. youth don’t vote regularly.
How Has Talking About Politics Changed in the Last Quarter-Century?
Annenberg Professor Diana Mutz finds that we’re having more political conversations now with like-minded people, and that political intolerance has increased as a result.
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