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Cover of PARGC Paper 4. Two wooden human-like figures stand to the left and right of the image on orange cubes with white tops. From head-to-head in an arc shape are circles of very faded green, red and yellow.

Research 22 Jun 2016

Project for Advanced Research in Global Communication Releases PARGC Paper 4 by Arjun Appadurai

"The Academic Digital Divide and Uneven Global Development" warns against the dangers of “knowledge-based imperialism and scholarly apartheid.”

Cover of Weiyu Zhang's 'The Internet and New Social Formation in China: Fandom Publics in the Making'. The left third of the cover is red, with Chinese characters right-aligned at the top. In the middle, slightly to the left is a drawing made of dotted lines that appears to be a light bulb. The other two-thirds is split horizontally. The top has what appears to the top quarter of the Earth drawn with bright yellow lines. Its background is red. The bottom half is orange and has the title and author name.

Graduate Student News 2 Jun 2016

Annenberg Student and Alumna Collaborate To Crowdsource Book Translation

Weiyu Zhang (Ph.D '08) and doctoral student Kecheng Fang collaborated on the Chinese translation of The Internet and New Social Formation in China: Fandom Publics in the Making.

Graduate Student News 2 Jun 2016

Elena Maris Receives 2016-17 Graduate Student Fellowship for Teaching Excellence

The Center for Teaching and Learning at Penn awards this highly-selective fellowship to help graduate students develop as teachers.

Picture of city in Japan, where to the left is a body of water and in front are buildings, photo credit @riverse / Unsplash

Presentations 26 May 2016

Annenberg Presentations at ICA 2016

More than 50 faculty and students will present research at the ICA's 66th annual conference in Fukuoka, Japan.

Rachel Stonecipher smiles. The background is very green and it is day time.

Graduate Student News 25 May 2016

Stonecipher Wins 2016 Graduate Teaching Prize

The highly competitive award recognizes the profound impact of graduate students on undergraduate education at Penn.

Marwan Kraidy in a suit and tie standing in front of the Annenberg School for Communication. The picture is from the chest up.

Research 23 May 2016

New Book by Marwan Kraidy: The Naked Blogger of Cairo

Kraidy's 10th book explores the creative insurgency behind the Arab Spring: its self-immolations, graffiti, puppetry, videos, slogans, and satire.

Cover of Guobin Yang's 'The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China' . The background is a star made of red and white star outlines. In the middle is a red rectangle bordered by a white line. In the center of the rectangle is the title in yellow. Below the title is a drawn black and ivory thumb of a hand that is holding the rectangle. Partially under the tip of the thumb is a yellow star.

Research 18 May 2016

New Book by Guobin Yang Explores the Red Guard Generation in China

Yang explores what happened to the "sent-down" generation and how their experiences shaped China for decades to come.

Alumni 17 May 2016

Brain Pickings Founder Maria Popova (C'07) Gives Annenberg Graduation Speech

Her speech encouraged students to avoid toxic comparisons to other people and artificial metrics, instead focusing on their own path and happiness.

Graduate Student News 9 May 2016

Jingwen Zhang Receives Honor from Chinese Government

The $6,000 award, founded in 2003 by the Chinese government, rewards academic excellence in Chinese students studying overseas.

Front of The New York Times building in New York City. There are people on the sidewalk walking in front of it, and on the road is a yellow taxi driving by. photo credit Stéphan Valentin/Unsplash

Faculty News 6 May 2016

Victor Pickard Wins Mott Book Award for America’s Battle for Media Democracy

With an eye to history, the book considers how the American media system became what it is today.

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