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González-Bailón Named 2019-20 Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Fellow

She will work on a book manuscript about how algorithms translate social expectations into code.

Call for Papers: Symposium on Social Media, Algorithms, and Journalism Innovations

Submissions should examine aspects of social media and algorithms in connection to information production and flow.Submissions should examine aspects of social media and algorithms in connection to information production and flow.

Data Artist and Doctoral Student Roopa Vasudevan Finds Creative Ways to Tell Untold Stories

She collects data about important issues and creates visually appealing ways to convey it to others.

Research

Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication Releases CARGC Paper 10

The paper explores the conflation of hacktivism with cyber-terrorism that enables states to criminalize non-violent hackers.

Faculty News

Duncan Watts Appointed Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor

He is jointly appointed in the School of Engineering, the Annenberg School, and the Wharton School.

Alumni

Rainbow Arcade: Alumna-Created Exhibit on LGBTQ Video Game History

Adrienne Shaw’s decades-long research will be on display as an exhibit at Schwules Museum in Berlin.

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Former FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler Delivered the 2018 Annenberg Lecture

Wheeler discussed the connection between the wealthy industrial barons of the early 1900s and today's tech moguls.

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APPC Postdoc Ozan Kuru Receives Research Award From WhatsApp

Kuru will study news sharing and misinformation in the United States, Turkey, and Singapore.

Undergraduate News

Undergrads Make Meaning Out of Memes

COMM 384 gives students the opportunity to explore the relationship between internet memes and society at large.

What Do Bots, Climate Change, and Academic Grants Have in Common?

Doctoral student Douglas Guilbeault points to the importance of categories.