News from the Annenberg School for Communication
April 20, 2010
Tomorrow – Walter and Leonore Annenberg Distinguished Lecture in Communication
More upcoming events - on campus
Prof. Turow's study: despite what you see online, younger people care about privacy
Annenberg faculty participate in Penn's Silfen Forum
Alumni news - Paul Wilson, Lee Humphreys, Max Goodman
Tomorrow - Walter and Leonore Annenberg Distinguished Lecture in Communication
David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker magazine, will deliver the lecture “The Joshua Generation: Race and the Campaign of Barack Obama” tomorrow, April 21, at 6 p.m. in Room 110.
More upcoming events - on campus
TONIGHT: April 20 at 6 p.m. – Book talk at the Penn Bookstore – Sharrona Pearl, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Communication, discusses her new book About Faces: Physiognomy in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Read a review of Prof. Pearl’s book in the Times Higher Education supplement.
TODAY: APPC Political Communication Seminar, "Five Things that Still Puzzle Me after Half a Century of Research on Political Socialization and Civic Engagement." Talk by Prof. Judith Torney-Purta, University of Maryland. today, April 20 at noon in the Atrium at the Annenberg Public Policy Center. RSVP to Susan Lee.
April 21 – Noon time colloquium, Room 500 – Michael Kearns – “Behavioral Experiments in Strategic Networks.”
April 23 – Noon time colloquium, Room 500 – Klaus Krippendorff, Ph.D., Gregory Bateson Professor of Communication, “Redesigning Design: Discussion of an extra-curricular project and its implications for communication research.”
Prof. Turow study: despite what you see online, younger people care about privacy
A new study by Joseph Turow, Ph.D., the Robert Lewis Shayon Professor of Communication, and colleagues from the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, finds that - despite anecdotes about teens sharing inappropriate photos of themselves online - when asked, young people says that online privacy is as big a concern for them as it is among older individuals. The study has so far generated news coverage by the Associated Press, the Agence France Presse, the Canwest News service, and the e-newsletter Concurring Opinions.
Annenberg faculty participate in Penn's Silfen Forum
Annenberg standing faculty members Kathleen Hall Jamieson and John L. Jackson, Jr. were panelists in the University of Pennsylvania David and Lyn Silfen Forum, “The Polarized Polis: Public Debate in the United States.” You can watch the webcast of the event here.
Prof. Diana C. Mutz – “Not Necessarily the News: Does Fictional Television Influence Real-World Policy Preferences?” in Mass Communication and Society (April 2010).
Prof. Kathleen Hall Jamieson – “Is TV Starting a New Civil War?” – TV Guide magazine, April 14.
Alumni News
Virtual Reality Tours of the Sistine Chapel
Paul Wilson (ASC ’65), a faculty member at Villanova University, recently completed a panoramic virtual reality tour of the Sistine Chapel, which is viewable from the Vatican’s web site.
“About four years ago I showed Vatican officials virtual tours I have done of other venues, and said I could do one of the great basilicas and museums.”
The Sistine Chapel virtual reality tour comprises 233 photographs Wilson and a team of Villanova students took over a course of five nights then stitched them together on a software program.
“One of my favorite places is the Sistine Chapel, but when you are in there with hundreds of other people you can’t really appreciate it, and you can’t photograph it.”
He points out the detail you can see in the center painting of God touching Adam. “You can see the cracks in the painting that Michelangelo put in there as well as cracks that have developed over time. The details is so good that scholars who know this can enjoy the work, as well as and people who amateur or professional are painters, or who just want to see the chapel.”
More of Wilson’s virtual reality work can be seen elsewhere on the Vatican’s web site.
“Twittering” has been around for a long, long time
Lee Humphreys, Ph.D. (ASC ’07) currently an Assistant Professor of Communication at Cornell University, asserts that while the technology to “Tweet” one’s activities may be relatively new, putting out 140-word (or thereabouts) messages about one’s activities is as old as the printing press. Dr. Humphrey’s research has garnered the attention of The Wall Street Journal and The New Yorker magazine.
Nickelodeon producer, ASC undergrad alumni, spotlights educational television
Max Goodman, a 2001 Penn graduate and currently coordinating producer of the Nickelodeon television show Team Umizoomi, spoke to students recently about the concept of educational television.
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