News from the Annenberg School for Communication
January 3, 2011
Undergrad students sit in on focus group
Joseph Turow, Ph.D., the Robert Lewis Shayon Professor of Communication, recently appeared on the radio program Marketplace to talk about a new technology from DirectTV that enables marketers to watch us as we watch TV.
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Ph.D., the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication, talks about the new Congress in a recent edition of The Washington Post, and discusses American's outlook on health care reform on National Public Radio.
Monroe E. Price, Director of the Center for Global Communication Studies, recorded a brief talk about WikiLeaks for the ICCD/Internews Internet, Media and Law conference in Bangkok, Thailand. The video is available from the Annenberg YouTube channel.
Additional faculty member Al Felzenberg, Ph.D., writes in his column in US News and World Report about initiatives President Obama should announce in his State of the Union address. Dr. Felzenberg also recently wrote about new "American isolationism" in the National Review Online.
Deborah Linebarger, Ph.D., Director of the Children's Media Lab, is the co-editor of a new issue of Infant and Child Development.
Phyllis Kaniss, Ph.D., executive director of the American Academy of Political and Social Science and a faculty member at Annenberg, died December 17. You can leave a message of condolence in memory of Dr. Kaniss by visiting the Annenberg web site.
Undergrad students sit in on voter focus group
Annenberg undergraduate students had a ring side seat to research by Peter Hart Associates recently when they watched a voter focus group discussing opinions about the Obama Administration. Details ...
January 25 at 6 p.m. - Book talk at the Penn Bookstore - Prof. Barbie Zelizer to discuss About to Die: How News Images Move the Public.
February 17 at noon - Fontaine Society colloquium - Nicole Fleetwood.
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