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New Study: Responses to Grief Predict Aggressive Tweets Among Gang-Involved Chicago Youth

An analysis of thousands of tweets identified two main themes in Twitter usage among gang-involved youth in Chicago.

• Culture & Media
• Technology & Society

Opeyemi Akanbi Receives Jefferson Scholars Foundation National Fellowship

The $25,000 stipend will support her dissertation research and writing.

Jennifer R. Henrichsen Awarded Fellowship from Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University

As a fellow, Henrichsen will consider how concerns about surveillance are changing journalists’ digital newsgathering practices.

• Media Institutions

Litty Paxton To Become Annenberg’s Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies

Currently the Director of Penn Women's Center, Paxton has long been a popular lecturer at Annenberg.

Pro-Tobacco Videos on YouTube Sway Young Adults on E-Cigarettes and Hookahs

While cigarette advertising and marketing have been restricted in one way or another since the ’60s, videos on YouTube are largely unregulated.

• Health Communication

In the Brain, Dislike and Dehumanization Are Not the Same Thing

Processed by separate regions of the brain, dehumanization and dislike may be different psychological processes.

• Global Communication
• Political Communication

Liberals Do Drink More Lattes, But Maybe Not For the Reasons You Think

A new study found that liberals are more open to globalization, while conservatives are more nationalistic.

• Political Communication

Kecheng Fang Wins Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Doctoral Fellowship

The fellowship will support Fang's dissertation on the ideological and structural biases of Chinese news media.

• Global Communication

Research Finds Tipping Point for Large-Scale Social Change

This tipping point — roughly 25% of people — applies to any kind of movement or initiative.

• Technology & Society

2018 COMPASS Summer Fellows Head to Washington D.C.

The program aims to bridge the research interests of future scholars with active policy agendas.

• Media Institutions