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Worldmaking in the Age of Streaming
Does representation in mainstream media deliver the social change it promises? Or have we mistaken visibility for progress, celebrating symbolic...
At the Inaugural Annabelle Sreberny Distinguished Lecture, Anikó Imre Explored the Intersection Between Fantasy, Storytelling, and Politics in Eastern Europe
The USC professor analyzed political worldbuilding in Eastern Europe.
Students Travel to Athens to Confront Journalism’s “Age of Doubt”
Amid a reckoning with misinformation, polarization, and artificial intelligence, students in the SNF Paideia designated course “Media Industries and Nationalism”...
Mourning Li Wenliang, the Whistleblower of COVID-19, on the Chinese Internet
In a new paper, Professor Guobin Yang analyzes how Chinese social media users eulogized Li Wenliang through an ancient literary form.
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.
International Call for Applications: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication
The Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania invites...
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.
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.
Coverage of Civilian Casualties in Allied Countries Boosts Support for U.S. Involvement
A new paper by researchers at the Annenberg School finds that media coverage of civilian casualties in world conflicts increases public support for U.S. involvement, but only when the casualties are civilians from an ally, not an adversary, country.
How Fanfiction Communities in China Cope With Censorship
In a new paper, doctoral student Ran Wang explores what happened to Chinese fanfiction communities after a wave of increased government censorship in early 2020.
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