News from the Annenberg School for Communication
February 16, 2010
Still more coverage of Prof. Jemmott’s abstinence-only education study
Kathleen Hall Jamieson on Obama’s change from “hope” to “anger”
Post Doc Amelia Arsenault to lecture at Columbia University’s Communications Colloquium
Alumna Lee Humphreys published
Annenberg Book Talks at the Penn Bookstore
Still more coverage of Prof. Jemmott's abstinence-only education study
Today’s edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer carries both a story about the abstinence-only education study conducted by John B. Jemmott, III, Ph.D., the Kenneth B. Clark Professor of Communication and Psychiatry at Annenberg. The Inquirer’s opinion page also contains an op-ed by Jennifer A. Marshall, director of the DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society at the Heritage Foundation, citing the study.
Additionally, you can listen to Prof. Jemmott’s interview on the February 9 installment of the National Public Radio program Radio Times.
Prof. Jamieson on Obama's change from "hope" to "anger"
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Ph.D., the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication and director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, was interviewed for a February 15 story in the Associated Press on the latest sentiment to envelop the nation: anger.
Post-doc Amelia Arsenault to lecture at Columbia's Comm. Colloquium
Amelia Arsenault, a George Gerbner Post Doctoral Fellow at Annenberg, will lecture on “The Convergence of Networks and the Importance of Nodes: Mapping the Global Networks of the Information Industries” on Tuesday, February 23 at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism Communications Colloquium.
Noontime Symposium by Elihu Katz, Ph.D., Distinguished Trustee Professor of Communication - "The End of Television: Its Impact on the World (so far)"
Scholars Lecture by Graeme Turner – Tuesday, February 24 at 6 p.m. “Convergence and Divergence: The International Experience of Television in the Digital Age.”
CEECR Speaker Series, Dr. James Dillard – Wednesday, February 24, at noon, Room 500
Annual Annenberg Fontaine Lecture to cover Race-Based Messages – March 1 at Annenberg. Lecture by Charlton McIlwain, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, NYU.
CGCS partners with IE Communication University for Symposium – March 24 and 25 at IE University (Segovia, Spain) entitled, “Transitional Connections: Challenges and Opportunities for Political Communication.”
Alumna Lee Humphreys published
Annenberg alumna Lee Humphreys, Ph.D. (ASC ’07) published the article “Mobile social networks and urban public space” in the journal New Media & Society (February 2010).
Annenberg Book Talks at the Penn Bookstore
February 22 at 5:30 p.m. at the Penn Bookstore – Alumna Brigette Rouson (ASC ’94) will discuss her book Embracing Cultural Competency: A Roadmap for Nonprofit Capacity Builders (Fieldstone Alliance, 2009).
April 9 at 3 p.m. at the Penn Bookstore – Alumna Idil Cakim (ASC ’98) will discuss her book Implementing Word of Mouth Marketing: Online Strategies to Identify Influencers, Craft Stories, and Draw Customers (Wiley, 2010).
April 20 at 6 p.m. at the Penn Bookstore – Sharrona Pearl, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Communication, will discuss her new book, About Faces: Physiognomy in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2010 Harvard).
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