June 2, 2010
Marty Fishbein remembered by academic journal
Prof. Krippendorff gives closing presentation at U. Hawaii
Prof. Hampton's i-neighbors credited as a neighborhood crime fighting tool
APPC research cited in the news
Marty Fishbein remembered by academic journal
An appreciation of the lifework and influence of Martin Fishbein, Ph.D., the Harry C. Coles Jr. Distinguished Professor in Communication and Director of the Health Communication Program at the Annenberg Public Policy Center, appears in the June 2010 publication Sexually Transmitted Diseases (Volume 37, Number 6).
Prof. Krippendorff delivers closing presentation at U. Hawaii
Klaus Krippendorff, Ph.D., Gregory Bateson Professor of Communication, gave the closing presentation at a workshop titled: “Social Theory and Social Computing” at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu, May 22-23, 2010. The conference brought 20 scholars, social scientists, computer simulation, and text mining experts together to see what they could do together.
Prof. Hampton’s i-neighbors project lauded for combating crime
The i-neighbors web based community, developed by Keith N. Hampton, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Communication, was recognized in a May 28 story in Arkansas Online for its binary benefit of bringing neighbors together and stopping crime.
Professor Jamieson on the President’s video diaries
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Ph.D., the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication and Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, was quoted in a June 1 story in The Associated Press describing the White House video diary, West Wing Week. “You could get the impression from this that the president does a lot of things,” Prof. Jamieson said. “You wouldn’t know that any of them are important.”
Prof. Turow’s study on privacy and targeted advertising continues making news
A 2009 study by Joseph Turow, Ph.D., the Robert Lewis Shayon Professor of Communication (in conjunction with UCal/Berkeley) showing Americans' disdain for being targeted for online advertising without their prior consent continues to generate news coverage. A syndicated news story recently appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney, Australia), Total Telecom, The West Australian (Perth, Australia), the Bangkok Post (Bangkok, Thailand), the Bay Ledger news Zone (Montara, Calif.), Yahoo! News New Zealand/Canada/Singapore, and MSN News Philippines.
Jordan/Hennessy/Bleakley editorial on responsible messages about sex garners media attention
An April 7 Philadelphia Inquirer op-ed written by the Annenberg Public Policy Center’s Amy Jordan, Ph.D.; Michael Hennessy, Ph.D.; and Amy Bleakley, Ph.D. arguing that media should convey more responsible messages about sex to teen audiences has been referenced in a Canwest News Service story that appears on multiple Canadian press web sites.
APPC’s Brooks Jackson on tweeting in political campaigns
Brooks Jackson, Director of FactCheck.org, was quoted in a May 26 story in BostonHerald.com on the authenticity of tweets. According to Jackson, Twitter has become even worse than negative advertising when it comes to false tweets, or “mis-tweets.”
Prof. Yoo quoted in New York Times
Christopher S. Yoo, Professor of Law and Communication and director of the Center for Technology, Innovation, and Competition, and a secondary faculty member at Annenberg, was quoted in a May 21 story in the New York Times on the Supreme Court nomination of Elena Kagan.
Annenberg Public Policy Center research cited in the news
APPC civics conclusion “scary,” says former Supreme Court Justice O’Connor
The 2007 study conducted by the Annenberg Public Policy Center, which found that two out of three Americans can name an American Idol judge but only 1 in 7 can name the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, has been cited in a May 27 story in ABCNews.com.
A roundup of recent news mentions can be found here.
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