News from the Annenberg School for Communication
July 19, 2011
Prof. Zelizer, Al Felzenberg discuss Rupert Murdoch
Prof. Cappella on cigarette warning labels
New documentary from Prof. Jackson
Prof. Turow's grammatical crusade picks up support
Annenberg, Penn GSE run seminar in China
From left, Annenberg doctoral student Sarah Vaala; Amy Jordan, Ph.D., Director of the Media and the Developing Child sector of the Annenberg Public Policy Center; and Annenberg alumnus Xiaoquan Zhao, Ph.D. (Gr ’05) in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China. Dr. Jordan, Ms. Vaala, and scholars from top U.S. universities (UMass, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, and New York University to name a few) participated in a week-long seminar with students from Renmin University of China on Media and the Well-Being of Children in Changing Societies. This was an Annenberg/Graduate School of Education endeavor, funded in part by the Office of the Provost and the Center for Global Communication Studies. Watch future issues of Annenberg In Touch and the ASC website for more details.
Annenberg’s Elihu Katz, Ph.D., Distinguished Trustee Professor of Communication, was honored by the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) for his “lifelong contribution to Media Studies.” The honor, bestowed upon Professor Katz and Denis McQuail, who is recently retired from the University of Amsterdam, took place during the IAMCR conference recently in Istanbul, Turkey.
Prof. Hampton’s research covered in Smithsonian, elsewhere
Keith Hampton, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Communication, was interviewed for a story that appears in Smithsonian magazine titled “How Technology Makes Us Better Social Beings.” Dr. Hampton is the lead author of the new Pew Internet report that found social media useful for keeping social ties, was also cited in a July 1 story in the Monterey County Herald. Dr. Hampton’s study continues to receive coverage in numerous news outlets including Technews.com; BigNewsNetwork.com, Bradenton.com (Bradenton, FL); Tacoma News Tribune (Tacoma, WA); and many others.
Additionally, just this week Time.com highlighted Professor Hampton's research into the use of technology is redefining the use of public spaces.
Prof. Zelizer, lecturer Al Felzenberg on Rupert Murdoch’s woes
Barbie Zelizer, Ph.D., the Raymond Williams Professor of Communication; and Adjunct Alvin Felzenberg were interviewed by The Philadelphia Inquirer for a story about the continuing scandal enveloping the publishing empire of Rupert Murdoch. (Note: Technology helped facilitate this interview; Professor Zelizer, who presently is in Turkey with the SummerCulture program, was interviewed by the Inquirer via Skype.)
Prof. Cappella on graphic anti-smoking warning labels
A Los Angeles Times interview with Joseph N. Cappella, Ph.D., the Gerald R. Miller Professor of Communication, about graphic warning labels on cigarette packages, syndicated by the Times news service, continues to appear in print. Most recently it was picked up in the Bellville News-Democrat (IL), and in Inforum (Fargo, ND).
New documentary forthcoming from Prof. Jackson
Bad Friday is a new documentary film co-directed by Annenberg’s John L. Jackson, Jr., Ph.D., the Richard Perry University Professor of Communication and Archaeology. It focuses on a community of Rastafarians in western Jamaica who commemorate the 1963 Coral Gardens “incident.” You can see a trailer for the documentary here.
Prof. Turow’s grammatical crusade picks up support
For some time now Annenberg’s Joseph Turow, Ph.D., the Robert Lewis Shayon Professor of Communication, has contended that the word “internet” should be lower-case (the Associated Press Stylebook and other directories initial-cap the word so it appears as “Internet.”) This was not to become the next Theodore Bernstein, but rather to “acknowledge a deep shift in the way we think about the online world,” he once said in an interview with The New York Times. Professor Turow picked up another supporter in his cause, as witnessed by a recent column that ran in The Christian Science Monitor.
Reminder: During the summer months Annenberg In Touch will be published on a bi-weekly basis. Weekly issues will resume on August 30.
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