Activism & Social Justice
Activists around the globe are employing a wide array of tools to achieve social justice, from grassroots organizing and in-person protests to creating social media movements and utilizing 21st-century technology to advance their causes. Scholars at Annenberg study the way that activism, social movements, and media combine to advance social change.
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What Makes College Students Support Disciplinary Action for Objectionable Speech?
A new study by Associate Professor Yphtach Lelkes and Professor Guy Grossman finds that U.S. college students oppose punishing objectionable speech unless it is highly harmful, and hateful speech against minority groups elicits stronger punitive responses than statements directed at white students.
Faculty
Sarah Banet-Weiser, Ph.D.
Walter H. Annenberg Dean
Sandra González-Bailón, Ph.D.
Carolyn Marvin Professor of Communication and Sociology (Secondary Appointment)
Aaron Hyzen, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Media, Inequality & Change Center
Sarah J. Jackson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Benjamin Todd Jealous
Professor of Practice, University of Pennsylvania
DeMarcus A. Jenkins, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, School of Social Policy and Practice
Sima Kokotović, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication
Aviv Landau, Ph.D., M.S.W.
Co-Director, SAFELab
Jessa Lingel, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Communication
Sophie Maddocks, Ph.D.
Research & Outreach Director, Center for Media at Risk
Michael E. Mann, Ph.D.
Presidential Distinguished Professor
Desmond Upton Patton, M.S.W., Ph.D.
Penn Integrates Knowledge (PIK) University Professor and Waldo E. Johnson, Jr. Professor of Communication
Victor Pickard, Ph.D.
C. Edwin Baker Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy
Diego A. Reinero, Ph.D.
MindCORE Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Donovan Schaefer, Ph.D.
Secondary Faculty, Annenberg School for Communication
Guobin Yang, Ph.D.
Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology
