News from the Annenberg School for Communication
November 30, 2010
Faculty News - Klaus Krippendorff, Elihu Katz, Joseph Turow, more
Klaus Krippendorff, Ph.D., the Gregory Bateson Professor for Cybernetics, Language, and Culture, attended a conference on design semantics, an outgrowth of his pioneering work on the subject, November 3-5, in Luzern, Switzerland.
Prof. Krippendorff also recently ran a workshop on “Discourse and reality” for faculty at the newly formed Linean University in Kalmar, Sweden – November 8-9. This workshop (one of five) had three objectives, to merge two faculties (from Kalmar and Växiö) into one department, to highlight the importance of language in the construction of reality, and to set standards for doctoral dissertation work.
Prof. Krippendorff was invited by the Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland, to give a University-wide lecture on “Human-centered design; its epistemology, principles, and hopes” November 11. On November 12 he worked with doctoral students at the Media Lab of the University of Arts and Design, part of the Aalto University.
Elihu Katz, Ph.D., Distinguished Trustee Professor of Communication, will deliver a keynote at a conference on "Internationalizing International Communication" at the City University of Hong Kong. He also is scheduled to deliver talks at the communication departments of Fudan University in Shanghai, at Renmin University, and at the Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing.
The book Playing Doctor: Television, Storytelling, and Medical Power by Joseph Turow, Ph.D., the Robert Lewis Shayon Professor of Communication, was reviewed in a recent edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Annenberg team comprising Amy Jordan, Amy Bleakley, former postdoc Jennifer Manganello, Michael Hennessy, Robin Stevens, and Marty Fishbein published in the Journal of Children and Media.
Book by Amy Jordan receives thumbs up from the Journal of Children and Media.
Doctoral student Aymar Jean Christian writes about reaction to the current story arcs in this season’s FOX TV show Glee in the blog AfterElton.com.
December 1 – George Gerbner Lecture in Communication – Erika Falk – 5 p.m., Room 109.
December 2 – Jeff Reichert, writer/director of the documentary “Gerrymandering” – 3:30 p.m. Room 108.
December 3 – Scholars Program symposium, “Orders and Borders: Communication and Power in the Global Era.”
December 7 – George Gerbner Post Doctoral Fellow Dan Berger book talk, “The Hidden 1970’s” 6 p.m. at the Penn Bookstore.
December 8 – CECCR Speaker Series – Michael Rothschild, noon in Room 500.
December 8 – Painting Over Racial Injustice: A Panel on Race in the Media. This closing event for the “Undressing Race” Art Exhibit at SAS takes place at 5 p.m. in Philomathean Halls (4th Floor of College Hall). Panelists include Annenberg’s Carolyn Marvin and Dan Berger, along with Prof. Grace Kao from SAS and Sophie Sanders, a Philadelphia artist whose work is on display in the exhibit.
December 10 – Dan Berger, noon-time colloquium, Room 500.
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