News from the Annenberg School for Communication
November 9, 2010
Scholars Symposium set for December 3
Faculty News, new book by Profs. Kraidy and Sender, more
Scholars Symposium on Communication and Power in the Global Era
Mark your calendar for Friday, December 3 for the 2010 Scholars Program in Culture and Communication Symposium “Orders and Borders: Communication and Power in the Global Era.” Guest speakers from ten different institutions, including the University of Virginia, the London School of Economics, the University of Southern California will be among the panelists at this symposium. Details, including RSVP information, available here.
More upcoming events can be found below.
Student Presentations at NCA Convention
Annenberg doctoral students will present their research at the National Communication Association’s Annual Convention November 13 – 17 in San Francisco. You can see a list of presentations here.
Professors Marwan M. Kraidy and Katherine Sender have published the book The Politics of Reality Television: Global Perspectives. The work is an outgrowth of a December 2008 symposium at Annenberg run by the Annenberg Scholars Program in Culture and Communication.
Two new publications by Professor Keith N. Hampton are available. One is an article in the Journal of Communication with doctoral students Oren Livio and Lauren Sessions Goulet. The second is an article in Information, Communication & Society with doctoral students Lauren Sessions Goulet and Eun Ja Her.
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Ph.D., the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication and Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, was quoted in a November 2 McClatchy newspaper story about voter opinions over seemingly relentless negative campaigning.
Prof. Jamieson also was interviewed for a recent story in the New York Post about male political candidates reticence to make disparaging gender-oriented comments about their female opponents.
Katherine Sender, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Communication is serving as GLBT History Month co-chair. Among other responsibilities, Prof. Sender will participate in the selection of the 2011 GLBT History Month icons, an honor bestowed by the Equality Forum.
Joseph Turow, Ph.D., the Robert Lewis Shayon Professor of Communication, recently gave a lecture titled “What Academics Miss When They Study the New Media World, and Why It Matters” at the University of Amsterdam in The Netherlands and at Roskilde University near Copenhagen, Denmark. He also gave a lecture titled “Advertising Rules: Its New Impact on the Digital World” at the New Media Days 2010 industry conference in Copenhagen.
Professor Turow also was interviewed for a recent Reuters news story about U.S. regulators dropping an inquiry into Google’s “Street View” practices.
Annenberg lecturer Al Felzenberg opined on President Obama's post election press conference for US News & World Report.
First-year doctoral student Sandra Ristovska’s film “Kaleidoscope” was featured at the Fifth Annual Macedonian Film Festival in Toronto recently.
Doctoral student Joel Penney published an essay in the website In Media Res.
New book by Annenberg alumnus David Perlmutter, Ph.D. (C ’85, ASC ’91), now the Director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa.
November 11 – Martin Fishbein Memorial Seminar: 1 p.m. in the Atrium of the Annenberg Public Policy Center.
November 15 – Huffington Post’s Howard Fineman to discuss mid-term elections: Noon in Room 500.
November 19 – Noon time colloquium by Annenberg Prof. Carolyn Marvin: Noon in Room 500.
November 23 - Scholars Lecture by Paddy Scannell: 6:15 p.m. in Room 109
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