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

06/07/2018

Research Finds Tipping Point for Large-scale Social Change

05/02/2018

Sixteen Undergraduates Present Senior Honors Theses

04/30/2018

New Report Finds Partisan Politics Drives Americans' Attitudes On Surveillance

04/27/2018

Annenberg Launches Center for Media at Risk

Damon Centola, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Communication

Jessa Lingel, Ph.D.

Assistant 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

Marwan M. Kraidy, Ph.D.

Professor of Communication and the Anthony Shadid Chair in Global Media, Politics & Culture

Michael X. Delli Carpini, Ph.D.

Walter H. Annenberg Dean

Professor Monroe Price at Annenberg School for Communication ASC UPenn

Monroe Price, J.D.

Adjunct Full Professor of Communication

Sandra González-Bailón, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Communication

Victor Pickard, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Communication

Secondary Faculty

Christopher Yoo

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

Postdoctoral Researcher

Dayna Chatman, Ph.D.

George Gerbner Postdoctoral Fellow, Annenberg School for Communication

Samira Rajabi, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication

Videos

How Many People Does It Take to Start a Revolution?

Uploaded on Thursday, June 7, 2018 - 11:24am

A study in Science by Professor Damon Centola finds that when 25% of people in a group adopt a new social norm, it creates a tipping point where the...

Center for Media at Risk Launch Symposium, Panel 1: Digital

Uploaded on Thursday, May 24, 2018 - 3:36pm

The Center for Media at Risk, directed by Professor Barbie Zelizer, formally launched in April 2018. Entitled “What is Media at Risk?,” its launch...

Decoding the Social World: Data Science and the Unintended Consequences of Communication

Uploaded on Tuesday, October 17, 2017 - 11:15am

In her new book, to be published Nov. 2017 by The MIT Press, Sandra González-Bailón explains how new tools are allowing us to understand social life...

20170622 Lecture by Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon

Decoding the Social World

Uploaded on Thursday, August 10, 2017 - 2:30pm

Professor Sandra González-Bailón gave a lecture entitled Decoding the Social World at Princeton University's Summer Institute in Computational Social...