Digital Media and Social Networks

Digital media and social networks have radically changed the communication environment, albeit at different paces and in different ways across social groups and global regions. Annenberg’s research in this field explores the development, diffusion, uses, and individual and collective social, political, cultural, and economic impact of digital information and communication technologies, networks, and systems.

Digital Media and Social Networks News

01/19/2021

Damon Centola Publishes New Book on Behavior Change

01/13/2021

Sarah J. Jackson Wins McGannon Award for #HashtagActivism

01/12/2021

Studying ‘Hunters and Busybodies,’ Researchers Measure Different Types of Curiosity

01/12/2021

Why Independent Cultures Think Alike When It Comes to Categories: It's Not in the Brain

Andy Tan, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., M.B.B.S.

Associate Professor of Communication

Damon Centola, Ph.D.

Professor of Communication, Sociology and Engineering

David Lydon-Staley, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Communication

Duncan J. Watts, Ph.D.

Stevens University Professor

Jessa Lingel, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Communication

Joe Cappella at Annenberg School for Communication ASC UPenn

Joseph N. Cappella, Ph.D.

Gerald R. Miller Professor of Communication

Joseph Turow, Ph.D.

Robert Lewis Shayon Professor of Communication

Julia Ticona, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Communication

Michael X. Delli Carpini, Ph.D.

Oscar H. Gandy Professor of Communication & Democracy

Sandra González-Bailón, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Communication

Sarah J. Jackson, Ph.D.

Presidential Associate Professor

Portrait of Victor Pickard in front of a bookcase

Victor Pickard, Ph.D.

Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy

Secondary Faculty

Professor Christopher Yoo at Annenberg School for Communication ASC UPenn

Christopher Yoo, J.D.

John H. Chestnut Professor of Law, Communication, and Computer & Information Science, Penn Law

Ezekiel Dixon-Román, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, School of Social Policy and Practice

Research Staff

Clovis Bergère, Ph.D.

Assistant Director for Research, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication

Postdoctoral Researcher

Emily Hund, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Center on Digital Culture and Society

Fernanda R. Rosa, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication

Sonia Jawaid Shaikh, Ph.D.

George Gerbner Postdoctoral Fellow

Zeyno Ustun, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Media at Risk

Videos

Faculty Profile: David Lydon-Staley

Uploaded on Monday, March 2, 2020 - 9:46am

New Annenberg assistant professor David Lydon-Staley, Ph.D., studies substance use and abuse over the lifespan, with an emphasis on how the small...

Control Societies Lecture Series: Stephanie Dinkins

Control Socities Speaker Series: Stephanie Dinkins, Stony Brook University

Uploaded on Thursday, February 27, 2020 - 4:17pm

On Monday, February 17, 2020, Stephanie Dinkins of Stony Brook University gave a Control Socities lecture at the Annenberg School entitled "Afro-Now-...

#HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice

Uploaded on Friday, February 21, 2020 - 4:13pm

In their new book, out now from The MIT Press, Sarah J. Jackson, Moya Bailey, and Brooke Foucault Welles unpack the phenomenon of hashtag activism....

An Internet for the People: The Politics and Promise of Craigslist

Uploaded on Tuesday, February 4, 2020 - 3:14pm

How can a site barely upgraded since 1996 remain the leading classified service on the planet? In a new book published by Princeton University Press...

Resisting Authoritarian Control Over Media: The Center for Media at Risk

Uploaded on Friday, December 20, 2019 - 4:21pm

Authoritarian governments are on the rise worldwide, and their dampening effect on media freedom is a direct threat to the free flow of information...

Projects & Grants

01 Sep 2020 to 31 Aug 2023

Centers

Network Dynamics
Digital Media, Networks, and Political Communication Group
Media Activism Research Collective
Media, Inequality, and Change Center
Democracy & Information Group
Center on Digital Culture and Society

Digital Media and Social Networks

Damon Centola Publishes New Book on Behavior Change

Sarah J. Jackson Wins McGannon Award for #HashtagActivism

Studying ‘Hunters and Busybodies,’ Researchers Measure Different Types of Curiosity

Why Independent Cultures Think Alike When It Comes to Categories: It's Not in the Brain

Faculty Profile: David Lydon-Staley

Faculty Profile: David Lydon-Staley

Control Societies Lecture Series: Stephanie Dinkins

Control Socities Speaker Series: Stephanie Dinkins, Stony Brook University

#HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice

#HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice

An Internet for the People: The Politics and Promise of Craigslist

An Internet for the People: The Politics and Promise of Craigslist

Resisting Authoritarian Control Over Media: The Center for Media at Risk

Resisting Authoritarian Control Over Media: The Center for Media at Risk

Behavioral Effects of Exposure to Political Content in Social Media

Digital News and the Consumption of Information Online

Improving Medical Decision Making through the Wisdom of Crowds

CDCS Colloquium: Britt S....

CDCS Colloquium: Craig...

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