News from the Annenberg School for Communication
March 22, 2011
Prof. Kraidy discusses Middle East media
Undergraduate graduation speaker announced
Prof. Jamieson's keynote and scholar-in-residence
Prof. Krippendorff speaks at Penn conference
The Nation reviews Prof. Zelizer's new book
Marwan Kraidy tapped for expertise on Middle East media
Marwan M. Kraidy, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Communication, was again called upon by national and international news media for his perspectives on media in the Middle East and elsewhere. He discussed the current role of media in the Arab world in a March 9 interview on the program “Background Briefing with Ian Masters.” On March 22 he was a guest on American Public Media’s Marketplace report about state-controlled media, and his views were reported today in a story in the Spanish newspaper El País . The headline says “Fear and Caution on the Arab Street” (watch for a translated version on the ASC web page).
Alumna Vanessa Bayer to speak at ASC undergraduate graduation
Alumna Vanessa Bayer (C ’04), a featured player on the NBC program Saturday Night Live, will be the guest speaker at the 2011 undergraduate graduation ceremony, May 15.
Faculty news
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Ph.D., the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication and Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, today (March 23) is delivering the keynote address at “Communication, Technology, and Democracy, a 75th Anniversary event at Hofstra University. The title of her presentation is “From Phonographs to Facebook: How Media Shape the Rhetoric of Presidents and Those Who Aspire to the Job.”
Prof. Jamieson also has been named a Scholar-in-Residence at the College of Saint Benedict, Saint John’s University.
Klaus Krippendorff, Ph.D., the Gregory Bateson Professor for Cybernetics, Language, and Culture gave a public lecture March 15, invited by the Integrated Product Design Program at the University of Pennsylvania. The program was an effort between the Wharton School, Penn Design, and the School of Engineering. The lecture was sponsored by the National Science Foundation, Ethics Education for Integrated Product Design. He addressed issues of culturally sensitive approaches to design and the new responsibilities arising from the new technologies for the increasing ability to question existing certainties, have more choices, and an intention to shaping material reality.
Joseph Turow, Ph.D., the Robert Lewis Shayon Professor of Communication, talked to Marketplace Radio’s “Marketplace Tech” March 16 about the implications of not having a federal privacy bill of rights.
Prof. Turow also spoke before the Online Media, Marketing and Advertising conference in New York City on March 22. His comments, which can be read here, are similar to those he will deliver on Friday, March 25 at Yale Law School’s “From Mad Men to Mad Bots: Advertising in the Digital Age.”
The book, About to Die: How News Images Move the Public, by Annenberg’s Barbie Zelizer, Ph.D., the Raymond Williams Professor of Communication and Director of the Scholars Program in Culture in Communication, was reviewed in the March 16 edition of The Nation.
FactCheck.org cited in Minnesota Public Radio.
Dan Berger (Gr ’10) published in Chromatikon VI.
Aymar Jean Christian and Khadijah White present papers at Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference.
Doctoral student Piotr M. Szpunar has published in Cultural Studies.
March 30 at noon – CECCR Speaker Series – Deborah Small, Ph.D.
March 30 - 5:30 p.m. - 10th Annual Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture in Social Justice (rescheduled from January) - Irvine Auditorium.
April 1 at noon - Colloquium by Prof. Sharrona Pearl - Room 500.
April 5 at noon - Lecture by Visiting Scholar Akiba Cohen - Room 300.
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