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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.

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Research

Putting the Spotlight on the Gender Gaps in Digital Spaces

Prof. Sandra González-Bailón co-edited a new journal issue quantifying the extent to which gender bias occurs and is perpetuated online and in digital media.

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Alumni

The Authenticity Industries: Q&A with Michael Serazio (Ph.D. ‘10)

In his new book, Serazio explores America’s fixation on being “real” and the industries dedicated to the careful cultivation of authenticity.

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News

Annenberg and Temple Host the Association of Internet Researchers in Philadelphia

Annenberg faculty, students, and alumni helped plan the 2023 conference, where they also shared their research.

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Call for Submissions

International Call for Applications: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication

The Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication is now accepting applications for a 2024-2025 postdoctoral fellowship.

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Alumni

Alum Yoel Roth (Ph.D. ‘16) to Study Trust and Technology as Knight Visiting Scholar

During the 2023-24 academic year, the former head of Trust and Safety at Twitter will return to Annenberg as a visiting scholar with the Center for Media at Risk.

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Graduate Student News

Brendan Mahoney Wants To Know How the Internet Affects Us

Mahoney, a doctoral candidate at Annenberg, examines the ways we communicate online and the corporations that host those conversations.

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Faculty News

Desmond Patton and the Science of Being Human

Patton discusses his research in social media and violence, finding an interdisciplinary career in social work, communication, data science, and psychiatry, and why his open-mindedness never stops.

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Faculty News

Political and Computational Researcher Deen Freelon to Join Annenberg School Faculty 

Freelon, a specialist in the way social media and digital technology are used to express individuals’ politics and identities, will begin on July 1.

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Research

Americans Don’t Understand What Companies Can Do With Their Personal Data — and That’s a Problem

A new survey of 2,000 Americans finds that people don’t understand what marketers are learning about them online and don’t want their data collected, but feel powerless to stop it.