News from the Annenberg School for Communication
August 14, 2012
In this issue:
Book/arts review site launched by Prof. Jackson and colleagues
Annenberg presentations at the annual conference of the American Political Science Association (August 30 – September 2 in New Orleans, LA) include:
Devra C. Moehler, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Communication:
- “Measuring the Effects of Partisan Rhetoric on Attention and Influence in the Political Blogosphere (with Christopher Brown from Penn’s School of Arts and Science and Annenberg doctoral student Elizabeth Roodhouse)
- “Faces on the Ballot: Candidate Appearance and Vote Outcomes in a Developing Democracy” (with Jeffrey K. Conroy-Krutz from Michigan State University)
- “Media Partisanship Scores: Developing a Holistic Measure for the Effects of Politically Relevant Media” (with doctoral students Elizabeth Roodhouse and Douglas Michael Allen)
- Panel discussion – Renewing Representative Institutions (with Tarek Masoud from Harvard University, Rabab El-Mahdi from the American University of Cairo, Jamai Aboubakr from Lakome.com, and Carlos Valenzuela from the United Nations Development Programme).
Doctoral student Emily Thorson
- “Belief Echoes: Experimental Evidence for the Persistent Effects of False Information.”
Book/arts review site launched by Prof. Jackson and colleagues
John L. Jackson, Jr., Ph.D., the Richard Perry University Professor of Communication and Anthropology, is part of a team of scholars who have begun a new online book and arts review web site called publicbooks.org.
Funded by the Duke University Press and the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University, the site is described as a “curated monthly review devoted to spirited debate about books and the arts.” Prof. Jackson will serve as editor for Art and Media. You can read more about the site’s mission, as well as review some of its contents, here.
Research into tailored political advertising by Joseph Turow, Ph.D., the Robert Lewis Shayon Professor of Communication; Michael X. Delli Carpini, Ph.D., Professor of Communication and Walter H. Annenberg Dean; and doctoral students Nora Draper and Rowan Howard Williams about tailored political advertising was covered in a recent issue of Forbes.com.
FactCheck.org Deputy Director Eugene Kiely and Managing Editor Lori Robertson talked about political spin on a recent segment of the NPR member station (WHYY) program Radio Times with Marty Moss Coane.
Political communication viewpoints from Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Ph.D., the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication and Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, appeared in the following recent stories:
- On the BBC, talking about the cost of a U.S. election.
- In McClatchy news service, talking about Sen. Harry Reid’s claims about Mitt Romney’s taxes.
- In the Chicago Tribune, talking about Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s “values” statements about Chick-fil-A.
- In Bloomberg BusinessWeek for a story about presumptive GOP Vice Presidential Candidate Paul Ryan.
Research by Prof. Turow was noted in a recent story in The New York Times about supermarket pricing and marketing tactics.
Amy Jordan, Ph.D., director of the Media and the Developing Child sector of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, talked to The Philadelphia Inquirer about cartoon versions of classic literature.
Khadijah White, Nicholas Gilewicz, Christopher Ali, and Omar Al-Ghazzi present their research at a journalism conference in Chile.
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