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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.
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...
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.
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.
A Scholar Who Listens
From grazing sheep in Irish bogs to the infrastructural hum of parks in Philadelphia, recent Annenberg Gilbert Seldes Multimodal Postdoctoral...
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.
A Road Map To Reduce Firearm Harms by 2040
Three Penn faculty members, including PIK Professor Desmond Patton, are among more than 40 experts to author a report addressing the persistent challenge of gun violence and proposing solutions stemming from a JAMA Summit convened last spring.
The Rage of Tradwives
In a new paper, Dean Sarah Banet-Weiser and doctoral student Sara Reinis analyze popular “tradwife” accounts on Instagram and TikTok.
Annenberg Answers: Understanding AI Actress Tilly Norwood’s Arrival
Tilly Norwood, the “AI actress” recently making headlines, has sparked debate in the media industry about the future of AI in filmmaking.
OpenAI, DeepSeek, and Google Vary Widely in Identifying Hate Speech
Doctoral candidate Neil Fasching and Associate Professor Yphtach Lelkes have found dramatic differences in how large language models classify hate speech, with especially large variations for language about certain demographic groups, raising concerns about bias and disproportionate harm.
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