News from the Annenberg School for Communication
June 21, 2011
Prof. Hampton study finds Facebook is useful
Prof. Jemmott takes research on the bus
Prof. Hampton study finds Facebook is useful
Keith Hampton, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Communication, is the lead author of a new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project that finds Facebook users are more trusting, have more close friends, are more politically engaged, and get more support from their friends. The report has generated considerable media attention, including an Associated Press story that appeared in hundreds of news outlets, including The New York Times. Additionally, you can hear an interview of Professor Hampton discussing his research with Ross Reynolds on Seattle’s National Public Radio affiliate, KUOW.
Prof. Jemmott takes research on the bus
Working off of a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health, a team under the direction of John B. Jemmott, III, the Kenneth B. Clark Professor of Communication and Psychiatry, will study the efficacy of a video program designed to increase HIV testing awareness.
Dan Romer, Ph.D., Director of the Adolescent Communication Institute of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, and Joseph N. Cappella, Ph.D., the Gerald R. Miller Professor of Communication, talked to National Public Radio affiliate WHYY for a story about graphic images used to help people quit smoking.
Joseph Turow, Ph.D., the Robert Lewis Shayon Professor of Communication, was interviewed by the NPR program “On the Media,” with respect to the trend in the media toward cherry picking one’s news. Professor Turow discussed his research into how web marketers are able to select what news and information one gets from web surfing.
Monroe E. Price, Director of the Center for Global Communication Studies, writes for The Huffington Post about China’s emerging media infrastructure.
Klaus Krippendorff, Ph.D., the Gregory Bateson Professor of Cybernetics, Language, and Culture, published in the Journal of Product Innovation Management.
The book The Press Effect (Oxford 2004) by Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Ph.D., the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication and Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, and alumnus Paul Waldman, Ph.D. (Gr ’00), was cited in a column in The Atlantic about potential Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty.
Annenberg’s Center for Global Communication Studies’ Iran Media Program director Mahmood Enayat is quoted in the Journal of Turkish Weekly about Iran’s attempts to sever public communication, be it online or off. “They don't even let people gather in the streets for a funeral,” he said in the article.
Adjunct faculty member Al Felzenberg writes about GOP Presidential candidate John Huntsman for U.S. News and World Report.
Annenberg’s FactCheck was cited in the Washington Post about recent misleading Medicare campaign ads that Factcheck.org deemed “a test market for spin.”
Annenberg’s FactCheck.org is cited in The Wall Street Journal for declaring DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s statements on Medicare “simply wrong.”
Brooks Jackson, Director of FactCheck.org, is quoted in USA Today for a story about Sarah Palin’s comments about Paul Revere, saying “… Palin’s much-ridiculed story of Paul Revere isn’t entirely wrong but badly twisted.”
Doctoral student Susanna Dilliplane published in Public Opinion Quarterly.
Doctoral student Stephanie Mannis presents her research at conference in Warsaw.
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