Social Media
Social media has come to occupy a central role in our lives, becoming the primary vehicle for keeping in touch with friends, organizing groups, and getting news. Annenberg scholars evaluate its impact and effects on us and our society, from slacktivism to online harassment to influencers and more.
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What Makes an AI Livestreamer Seem Real?
In a new paper, Associate Professor Jessa Lingel and Visiting Scholar Wanyan Wu examined 15 months of livestreams from AI livestreamer Neuro-sama and proposed a new framework of what makes AI feel authentic.
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Faculty
Sandra González-Bailón, Ph.D.
Carolyn Marvin Professor of Communication and Sociology (Secondary Appointment)
Man-pui Sally Chan, Ph.D.
Research Associate Professor
Lluís Danús, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Information Networks and Democracy
Deen Freelon, Ph.D.
Presidential Professor
Nelanthi Hewa, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Collaborative Communication
R. Lance Holbert, Ph.D.
Director of Leonore Annenberg Institute for Civics (LAIC), Annenberg Public Policy Center
Sarah J. Jackson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Benjamin Todd Jealous
Professor of Practice, University of Pennsylvania
Aviv Landau, Ph.D., M.S.W.
Co-Director, SAFELab
Yphtach Lelkes, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Communication
Juan Llamas-Rodriguez, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Communication
Sophie Maddocks, Ph.D.
Research & Outreach Director, Center for Media at Risk
Lucy March, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center on Digital Culture and Society
Siva Mathiyazhagan, Ph.D., M.S.W.
Co-Director, SAFELab
Danaé Metaxa, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Computer and Information Science, School of Engineering and Applied Science
Cristina Monzer, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Desmond Upton Patton, M.S.W., Ph.D.
Penn Integrates Knowledge (PIK) University Professor and Waldo E. Johnson, Jr. Professor of Communication
Jeff Pooley, Ph.D.
Research Associate & Lecturer
Diego A. Reinero, Ph.D.
MindCORE Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Erin Walk, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Polarization Research Lab
Zhe Wang, Ph.D.
Visiting Scholar, Center on Digital Culture and Society
Duncan J. Watts, Ph.D.
Stevens University Professor
Guobin Yang, Ph.D.
Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology
Eszter Zimanyi, Ph.D.
Research Director, Center for Advanced Research in Global CommunicationGraduate Students
David S. Cordero
Doctoral Candidate
Cienna Davis
Doctoral Student
Christiana Dillard
Doctoral Candidate
Vishwanath E.V.S.
Doctoral Student
Shengchun Huang, Ph.D.
Upcoming Graduate
Gayoung Jeon
Doctoral Student
Hogeun Lee
Doctoral Student
Tyler Leigh, Ph.D.
Upcoming Graduate
Kirsten O. Lydic
Doctoral Student
