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The Executive Program in Digital Media for Social Impact is accepting applications for the 2024 cohort. A partnership between the Annenberg...

The Executive Program in Digital Media for Social Impact is accepting applications for the 2024 cohort. A partnership between the Annenberg School for Communication the School of Social Policy and Practice, this executive program helps changemakers not only master their digital tools, but develop a digital practice that reflects their goals and values. Early bird deadline is November 19. The program starts February 1 and will run through June 2024.
https://www.asc.upenn.edu/research/centers/executive-program-digital-media-social-impact/next-steps

Researchers from around the world explored media from the "long 1990s" at CARGC's recent symposium, a satellite event of...

Researchers from around the world explored media from the "long 1990s" at CARGC's recent symposium, a satellite event of #AoIR2023: https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/news/forums-dial-and-satire-1990s-internet-global-south

New publication alert! Research from the Communication Neuroscience Lab finds that, even across cultures, neural models can reliably predict...

New publication alert! Research from the Communication Neuroscience Lab finds that, even across cultures, neural models can reliably predict whether an article is popular on Facebook: https://bit.ly/3rXe6JI

And Juan's new book, Border Tunnels, is also hot off the press! Saw it for the first time in the wild at #AOIR2023 at the Ideas on Fire...

And Juan's new book, Border Tunnels, is also hot off the press! Saw it for the first time in the wild at #AOIR2023 at the Ideas on Fire table.

Just got out of a great talk by Juan Llamas-Rodriguez at #AOIR2023 talking about the term "whitexican," a term that sprung up on...

Just got out of a great talk by Juan Llamas-Rodriguez at #AOIR2023 talking about the term "whitexican," a term that sprung up on social media to encapsulate an array of concerns about class and race in the definition of what it means to be Mexican. Even if the term does nothing more than mock tone-deaf social media posts, Juan made the case that the term provides language with which to discuss and dismantle racialism in Mexico.

Many thought-provoking ideas from Kat Higgins and Sarah Banet-Weiser this morning at #AOIR2023 about the ways that our hypermediated world...

Many thought-provoking ideas from Kat Higgins and Sarah Banet-Weiser this morning at #AOIR2023 about the ways that our hypermediated world can allow victims of sexual violence to be heard, but then those same platforms give voice to counterattacks by those accused. As platforms algorithms favor outrage, arguments by the accused tend to dominate, whether by real people or bots. There's a lot to know, so you can read it in their new book, Believability, out now from Polity!

It me! #AOIR2023SelfieGame #AOIR2023

It me! #AOIR2023SelfieGame #AOIR2023

Some stellar faculty presentations this morning at #AoIR2023: Dean Sarah Banet-Weiser speaking on Misogyny, Survivorship, and Believability...

Some stellar faculty presentations this morning at #AoIR2023: Dean Sarah Banet-Weiser speaking on Misogyny, Survivorship, and Believability on Digital Platforms - she's up next! - and Juan Llamas Rodriguez speaking on the racial politics of digital culture in Mexico at 10:30. Juan got stuck in an elevator last night, so show the guy some support!

Tomorrow marks the start of the 2023 Union for Democratic Communications conference, held here at Annenberg. We spoke to Prof....

Tomorrow marks the start of the 2023 Union for Democratic Communications conference, held here at Annenberg. We spoke to Prof. @victorpickard about the UDC's beginnings - a history that involves Prof. Emeritus Oscar Gandy, George Gerbner, and many other ASC community members:
https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/news/after-41-years-union-democratic-communications-conference-returns-philadelphia

Big news! Brian and Randi Schwartz University Professor and SAFElab Director Desmond Upton Patton has been elected to the National Academy...

Big news! Brian and Randi Schwartz University Professor and SAFElab Director Desmond Upton Patton has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine: https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/news/desmond-upton-patton-elected-national-academy-medicine

New publication alert! "The puzzle of misinformation: Exposure to unreliable content in the United States is higher among the better...

New publication alert! "The puzzle of misinformation: Exposure to unreliable content in the United States is higher among the better informed" in New Media & Society by Tian Yang (Ph.D. '22), Alvin Zhou (Ph.D. '22), Prof. Sandra González-Bailón: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14614448231196863

Great news — applications are now open for our Ph.D. program! Apply now to study with some of the most distinguished scholars in the...

Great news — applications are now open for our Ph.D. program! Apply now to study with some of the most distinguished scholars in the Communication field and shape the future of Communication research. Learn more and apply here: https://www.asc.upenn.edu/graduate/apply-phd-program

Center for Media at Risk @knightcolumbia visiting scholar @yoyoel writes about "jawboning," Missouri v. Biden, and the complex...

Center for Media at Risk @knightcolumbia visiting scholar @yoyoel writes about "jawboning," Missouri v. Biden, and the complex relationship between technology platforms and the government: https://knightcolumbia.org/blog/getting-the-facts-straight-some-observations-on-the-fifth-circuit-ruling-in-missouri-v-biden-1

🎉 New paper alert! 🎉 "Vaping of Cannabis, Cannabidiol, and Synthetic Cannabis Among US Sexual Minority Youths" by Prof. Andy...

🎉 New paper alert! 🎉 "Vaping of Cannabis, Cannabidiol, and Synthetic Cannabis Among US Sexual Minority Youths" by Prof. Andy Tan, Stanford postdoc Jessica Liu, and Yale postdoc Juhan Lee: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2808361

Yesterday, a first-of-its-kind collaboration between academics and Meta researchers released initial findings from their research on...

Yesterday, a first-of-its-kind collaboration between academics and Meta researchers released initial findings from their research on #SocialMediaAndElections. Prof. Sandra González-Bailón is the lead author of “Asymmetric Ideological Segregation in Exposure to Political News on Facebook,” a study exploring the influence of Facebook's algorithms on political news exposure: https://bit.ly/44JDVei

A new PNAS study led by Prof. Damon Centola found a simple, effective way to reduce medical errors in patient diagnosis and treatment - use...

A new PNAS study led by Prof. Damon Centola found a simple, effective way to reduce medical errors in patient diagnosis and treatment - use structured networks to connect clinicians with other clinicians: https://bit.ly/3Q9fm5W

Professors Dan Romer and Kathleen Hall Jamieson have found that people who had a conspiracy mindset in 2021 resisted childhood vaccination...

Professors Dan Romer and Kathleen Hall Jamieson have found that people who had a conspiracy mindset in 2021 resisted childhood vaccination in 2022: https://bit.ly/3rxtOdE

The Annenberg Virtual Reality ColLABorative has released the inaugural issue of “Social Grammars of Virtuality,” the first scholarly...

The Annenberg Virtual Reality ColLABorative has released the inaugural issue of “Social Grammars of Virtuality,” the first scholarly publication to provide a yearly review of social science XR research: https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/news/new-report-comprehensively-reviews-state-extended-reality-xr-research

A new episode of CARGC's Global Media & Communication podcast is up!In this episode, CARGC postdoc Ignatius Suglo spoke to Thomas...

A new episode of CARGC's Global Media & Communication podcast is up!

In this episode, CARGC postdoc Ignatius Suglo spoke to Thomas Chen, Associate Professor of Chinese at Lehigh University, about his book, "Made in Censorship: The Tiananmen Movement in Chinese Literature and Film."

https://newbooksnetwork.com/made-in-censorship

Get to know Tim Wortham, Jr., our Senior Director of Institutional Advancement! In this video, we talk to Tim about his hobbies and passions...

Get to know Tim Wortham, Jr., our Senior Director of Institutional Advancement! In this video, we talk to Tim about his hobbies and passions and what he plans to do at Annenberg: https://youtu.be/QjpfszJKQSw