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To Spread Important Messages About Teen Mental Health, Make Community Connections

After creating memes and TikToks with Philly high schoolers, Jeffrey Fishman’s senior honors thesis explores how those messages can effectively reach their audience.

• Health Communication

Eight Comm Majors Present Senior Honors Theses

Their subjects span the field of Communication, from intersectional identities on TikTok to the function of religion in American politics.

Instead of Refuting Misinformation Head-On, Try “Bypassing” It

A new study from Professor Dolores Albarracín has found that redirecting an individual’s attention away from misinformation and toward other beliefs can be just as effective as debunking it.

• Health Communication

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.

• Political Communication
• Technology & Society

Communication Networks Scholar Sandra González-Bailón Promoted to Full Professor

González-Bailón was also recently named director of the new Center for Information Networks and Democracy.

• Political Communication

Democratizing the Internet: Platforms, Pipes, Possibilities

A symposium held by the Media, Inequality & Change Center brought together a diverse array of thinkers to envision a more democratic internet.

Yphtach Lelkes Named 2023-2024 Center for the Study of Democratic Politics Fellow

He will spend the next academic year in residence at Princeton University.

A Century of Newspaper Ads Shed Light on Indigenous Slavery in Colonial America

Since the beginning of journalism in America, newspapers have been funded by advertising. In the 18th century, alongside advertisements for...

• Media Institutions

Archiving the Creation of a Memorial

In a class taught by Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Annenberg School for Communication doctoral students are documenting the process of creating the Fallen Journalists Memorial in Washington, D.C., interrogating everything from physical site to word choice.

• Political Communication

Haywood and Jackson Honored by Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists

Doctoral candidate Antoine Haywood and Walter H. Annenberg Dean John L. Jackson, Jr. receive 2023 PABJ Media Professional Awards.