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Matthew Conaty Named 2026 Pacific Telecommunications Council Emerging Scholar

Conaty studies the legal history of science, technology, and the administrative state.

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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...

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Research

What Makes an AI Livestreamer Seem Real?

In a new paper, Associate Professor Jessa Lingel and Visiting Scholar Wanyan Wu examined 15 months of livestreams from AI livestreamer Neuro-sama and proposed a new framework of what makes AI feel authentic.

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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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Working in Groups Can Help Republicans and Democrats Agree on Controversial Content Moderation Online

A new study by Professor Damon Centola and alum Douglas Guilbeault explored how content moderators can reach consensus on classifying controversial material online, including inflammatory, offensive, or hateful images.

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Centering Joy in AI Development and Implementation

Much of the research on artificial intelligence and human emotion focuses on potential negative implications and emotional states such as...

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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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What Can Mainstream Journalism Learn From Prison Journalism?

In their study of the prison publication News Inside, Annenberg Professor Sarah J. Jackson and doctoral candidate Liz Hallgren find lessons for mainstream news.

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A Scholar Who Listens

From grazing sheep in Irish bogs to the infrastructural hum of parks in Philadelphia, recent Annenberg Gilbert Seldes Multimodal Postdoctoral...

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Brain Activity Reveals What Makes Persuasive Messages Stick

A new study by the Communication Neuroscience Lab and colleagues reveals that activity in brain regions associated with reward and social processing can predict the effectiveness of messages.