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What is Real About Human-AI Relationships?

In a new paper, Annenberg doctoral student Arelí Rocha explores how people discuss their relationships with AI chatbots.

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Research

Creating an Atlas of Global Media

Flipping through the pages of Juan Llamas-Rodriguez’s new textbook on global media feels like embarking on a tour of the world’s complex communication landscapes.

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The Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication Welcomes Three Visiting Scholars for Fall 2025

Pallavi Guha, Julia Sonnevend, and Samhita Sunya will join the center this fall.

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Research

School Cellphone Bans: Annenberg Expert Reframes the Issue

SAFELab Director Desmond Patton provides insight into school cellphone bans and digital wellness for youth.

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Call for Submissions

Center on Digital Culture and Society Call for Applications - Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2025-2026

The Center on Digital Culture and Society is now accepting applications for a 2025-2026 postdoctoral fellowship.

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Research

Why is Hollywood So Obsessed with Con Women?

Sarah Banet-Weiser and Kathryn Claire Higgins examine how the shows “Inventing Anna” and “The Dropout” reflect a post #MeToo society.

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Call for Submissions

Call for Artists: Present Futures - Experiments in Feminist Futurity

A contemporary art exhibition envisioning feminist solidarities across space and time, in everyday life, with an outlook towards “the future we want to see, right now, in the present”

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Call for Submissions

Llamado de Artistas: Present Futures - Experiments in Feminist Futurity

Una exposición de arte contemporáneo que visualiza las solidaridades feministas a través del espacio y el tiempo, en la vida cotidiana, con una mirada hacia el futuro que queremos ver, ahora mismo, en el presente

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Undergraduate News

A New Class Has Students Use AI To Do Their Homework

Lecturer Matt O’Donnell’s course “Talking with AI: Computational and Communication Approaches” encourages undergraduates to play with AI.

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Call for Submissions

Call for Applications: Postdoctoral Fellowship - Center on Digital Culture and Society

The one-year fellowship runs from August 2024 until August 2025, and applications are due by March 15.