News from the Annenberg School for Communication
February 9, 2010
Abstinence-only study by Prof. Jemmott generates substantial news coverage
Prof. Jamieson dissects State of the Union address
Abstinence-only study generates substantial news coverage
The study conducted by John B. Jemmott III, Ph.D., the Kenneth B. Clark Professor of Communication and Psychiatry at Annenberg, and his associated Penn colleagues from Penn Medicine and the School of Nursing, was discussed on NPR’s Radio Times today, Tuesday, February 9. Professor Jemmott’s study, which has gained extensive press coverage almost instantaneously (over 600 stories as of today), has shown that theory-based abstinence-only interventions might contribute to the overall goal of curbing the spread of STIs among adolescents in both the United States and other countries. The report appears in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. Some recent stories include an opinion piece in The New York Times, and news stories in Newsweek, The Christian Science Monitor, WHYY (NPR affiliate station), CNN, and ABC World News.
Prof. Jamieson on the State of the Union address
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 3 story in USA Today on what dialogue Obama’s State of the Union address might have sparked. "The word that will survive is jobs," said Professor Jamieson.
February 12 - Noon-time colloquium - Yasmin Kafai.
February 15 - Book talk by Robert McChesney and John Nichols The Death and Life of American Journalism.
February 22 - Alumna Brigette Rouson - book talk at the Penn Bookstore.
Annenberg alumna Idil Cakim (ASC '98) has published Implementing Word of Mouth Marketing: Online Strategies to Identify Influencers, Craft Stories and Draw Customers (Wiley, 2010).
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