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Undergraduate Research Project Awarded Penn’s Shah Family Prize

Hadeel Saab (C’20) and Anna Waldzinska (C’20) are researching how to increase voter turnout.

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New Democracy & Information Group Studies Political Communication

The newly established working group is led by Professor Yphtach Lelkes.

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Jin Woo Kim Named 2019-21 George Gerbner Postdoctoral Fellow

His work focuses how people are affected by political (mis)information and how new media environments shape politics.

Undergraduate News

“The Communication Research Experience” Tested How to Get Out the Vote for the Midterm Elections

Students conducted an experiment that tested competition and identity priming as possibilities for increasing voter turnout.

Research

Paradoxical Thinking: Changing Individuals’ Beliefs by Agreeing with Them to an Extreme Degree

Paradoxical thinking is intended to shock the participants with its absurdity and cause them to reevaluate their beliefs.

Alumni

Annenberg Alumni Make the Calls on Election Night

Kristen Conrad, Ken Winneg, Talia Jomini Stroud, Melissa Herrmann, and Eran Ben-Porath worked behind-the-scenes at ABC and CBS.

Faculty News

In Cyberwar, Jamieson Argues Russians Helped Secure Trump’s Victory

Jamieson investigates troll posts, polling data, and how the press used hacked content.

Faculty News

The New Yorker Features Jamieson’s Book Cyberwar, on Russia and the Election

The book is available now in ebook and in print on October 3.

Research

Can Social Media Networks Reduce Political Polarization on Climate Change?

The researchers tested how different kinds of social media environments would affect political polarization and group accuracy.