News from the Annenberg School for Communication
November 8, 2011
Penn video on new book on media regimes by Dean Delli Carpini
After Broadcast News: Media Regimes, Democracy, and the New Information Environment is the new book by Bruce A. Williams, Ph.D. (University of Virginia) and Michael X. Delli Carpini, Ph.D., Professor of Communication and Walter H. Annenberg Dean. You can watch a short video produced by the University of Pennsylvania featuring Dean Delli Carpini and Prof. Williams talking about the book.
Annenberg Public Policy Center launches FlackCheck.org
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Ph.D., the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication and Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, talks about the new venture, FlackCheck, on ABC News. Read the full details on FlackCheck at the Annenberg Public Policy Center web site.
Annenberg news
Prof. Krippendorff is a guest speaker - via Skype - at Ithaca College.
Screen Scholarship series kicks off this Thursday, November 10, with the film Brother Towns. Details here.
Art exhibit, “Hopes and Fears Revisited,” featured story and multimedia in The Daily Pennsylvanian.
Al Felzenberg at Yale U. panel
Annenberg adjunct Alvin Felzenberg, right, chats with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger during a Nov. 4 conference at Yale University. Felzenberg was one of several panelists who discussed William F. Buckley’s book “God and Man at Yale.” The event will be broadcast on C-SPAN Book-TV some time in December.
Student news
Andy S. Tan published in the Journal of Youth Studies.
Sandra Riskova to present at the Inaugural Romani Studies Conference at the University of California, Berkeley, November 10. Her paper is titled “Silencing Images: the Controversy over Shutka Book of Records.”
Upcoming events
November 11 at noon - colloquium by Michael Slater, Ph.D., University of Ohio.
November 14 at 4:30 p.m. – George Gerbner Lecture in Communication by Visiting Scholar Itzik Yanovitzky, Ph.D.
November 15 at 6 p.m. in Washington, D.C. – Dean Michael X. Delli Carpini and Prof. Joseph Turow to speak at the inaugural Penn to You alumni event.
November 22 at 6:15 p.m. – Scholars lecture by Amit Pinchevski.
December 2 beginning at 9 a.m. - Scholars Program Symposium: Theorizing Production/Producing Theory.
December 5 at 4 p.m. – ICT4D seminar.
December 7 at noon, Room 500, CECCR Speaker Series, Ellen Peters, Ph.D.
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