A right hand holds up, at an angle, a professional camera with an attached lens up to the sky. Photo by Christian Wiediger on Unsplash.

Research
Topics
Visual Communication

Visual Communication

Images, photography, and film can have a profound effect on people, sometimes even more so than the words that accompany them. Researchers at Annenberg consider the power of visuals, what we can learn from them, and how they can be used to communicate in ways that words cannot.

Photo Credit: Christian Wiediger / Unsplash

Visual Communication

News

All Visual Communication News

Emile Bruneau with the word "Emile" and the logos showing it is an official selection for the Morehouse College Human Rights Film Festival 2021 and the Global Peace Film Festival 2021

News

Annenberg Film “Emile” Accepted Into Two Film Festivals

The short film about peace and conflict researcher Emile Bruneau will feature in the Global Peace Film Festival and the Morehouse Human Rights Film Festival.

abstract representation of an eye and surveillance

Research

7 Jul 2021

CARGC Press Releases CARGC Paper 15 by Anikó Imre

side closeup of metal sculpture in Annenberg front lobby on a sunny day

News

26 May 2021

Juan Castrillón Named Inaugural Seldes Fellow

The late show with Stephen Colbert sign lit up outside, photo credit iStock / Joel Carillet

Research

6 Jan 2021

Delivering the News with Humor Makes Young Adults More Likely to Remember and Share

hands holding memory cards and a camera, photo credit Samsung Memory / Unsplash

Faculty News

18 Dec 2020

Black Media-Makers and the Fierce Urgency of Now

Faculty

Chaz Antoine Barracks, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Media at Risk

Juan Castrillón, Ph.D.

Gilbert Seldes Multimodal Postdoctoral Fellow

Peter Decherney, Ph.D.

Professor of Cinema Studies and English, School of Arts and Sciences

David Grazian, Ph.D.

Professor of Sociology, School of Arts and Sciences

Maori Karmael Holmes

Mediamaker-in-Residence

John L. Jackson, Jr., Ph.D.

Walter H. Annenberg Dean

Jasmine E. Johnson, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Africana Studies, School of Arts and Sciences

Dasol Kim, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Center on Digital Culture and Society

David Lydon-Staley, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Communication

Ayesha Omer, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication

A.E. Stevenson

Predoctoral Fellow for Excellence through Diversity, University of Pennsylvania

LaCharles Ward, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Barbie Zelizer, Ph.D.

Raymond Williams Professor of Communication

Graduate Students

Zane Griffin Talley Cooper

Doctoral Candidate

Arlene Fernández

Doctoral Student

Hanna E. Morris, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Pris Nasrat

Doctoral Student

Jeanna Sybert

Doctoral Candidate

Roopa Vasudevan

Doctoral Candidate

Brittany Zulkiewicz

Doctoral Student