News from the Annenberg School for Communication
July 5, 2011
"Did you download that article?" You weren't alone.
Annenberg west alumna becomes UConn president
Alumni news – “Did you download that article?” You weren’t alone.
Annenberg alumni Dan Berger, Ph.D. (Gr ’10) and Adrienne Shaw, Ph.D. (Gr ’10) published markedly different journal articles in 2009 and 2010 – one dealt with routines of criminalization, the other with video games – yet the two works have one thing in common. Both were the most downloaded article from their respective journal for 2009 – 2010.
Dr. Berger’s article, “Constructing crime, framing disaster: Routines of criminalization and crisis in Hurricane Katrina,” first published in Punishment & Society in 2009, and Dr. Shaw’s work, “What Is Video Game Culture? Cultural Studies and Game Studies” published in Games and Culture in 2010 both were the most downloaded articles from their respective journals.
To enable Dr. Berger and Dr. Shaw to share this achievement with friends and colleagues, SAGE Publications has made the articles free to access in perpetuity. Dr. Berger’s article can be found here, and Dr. Shaw’s article is available via this link.
Joseph N. Cappella, Ph.D., the Gerald R. Miller Professor of Communication, was interviewed by The Los Angeles Times for a story about new Food and Drug Administration-mandated warning labels on packs of cigarettes. The story was syndicated through the Los Angeles Times, and picked up in a number of regional publications, including The Republic in Columbus, IN.
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Ph.D., the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication and Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, was interviewed for a story in the Las Vegas Sun about a controversial and racially-charged campaign television advertisement.
Carolyn Marvin, Ph.D., the Frances Yates Professor of Communication, was interviewed for a story that first appeared in Salon.com about the American Flag and the symbolism that accompanies it. The story was syndicated to numerous daily newspapers throughout the country, including the Kansas City Star.
A report about people’s use of social media and how such technology does not isolate individuals, a research project led by Keith N. Hampton, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Communication, is cited in a recent Voice of America report.
Adjunct instructor Alvin Felzenberg writes about when a war is not a war in two columns in U.S. News & World Report – one from June 23, and a second from June 30.
FactCheck.org was cited in a Jun 27 Agence France-Press story about numerous inaccurate statements by Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann.
FactCheck.org was again cited in the July 3 Philadelphia Inquirer in another story about Mrs. Bachmann.
Data from the National Annenberg Election Survey is cited in The New York Times’ “FiveThirtyEight” blog.
The Leonore Annenberg School Fund’s award of $100,000 to a New York City school is covered by News 12 television in New York.
The University of Connecticut has named Susan Herbst, Ph.D. as that school’s 15th President. Dr. Herbst received her doctoral degree in communication from Annenberg at USC.
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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