News from the Annenberg School for Communication
August 29, 2012
In this issue:
Faculty in the news - Kraidy, Krippendorff, Jamieson, Yang, Romano
More coverage of the tailored political advertising study
In the news - students at the conventions, APPC news
Faculty in the news – Kraidy, Krippendorff, Jamieson, Yang, Romano
Marwan M. Kraidy, Ph.D., Professor of Communication, talks about the proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran over Syria on the radio program “Background Briefing with Ian Masters.”
An article by Prof. Kraidy on reality television in the Middle East,“Les Médias en Arabie Séoudite: Lutte Politique et Controverse Sociale de Star Academy au Printemps Arabe” (Political Struggle and Social Controversy from StarAcademy to the Arab Uprisings) appears in the French language Canadian journal Anthropologie et Sociétés (36, 1 – 2, 181 – 200).
Klaus Krippendorff, Ph.D., the Gregory Bateson Professor of Cybernetics, Language, and Culture, received the “Article of the Year” award from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Ph.D., the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication and director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, was in the midst of discussions regarding the 2012 presidential campaign, including public radio program The Takeaway discussing negative campaign rhetoric, and in The Philadelphia Inquirer talking about taking statements out of context. Prof. Jamieson also talked to the Associated Press about the history of nominees’ wives playing a pivotal role in the campaigns.
Research by Guobin Yang, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Communication, was cited in Le Monde for a story about environmental protests in China. His research was also cited in a Los Angeles Times story on Chinese media coverage of a high-profile murder case.
Carlin Romano lectures at the Chautauqua Institution in upstate New York.
More coverage of the tailored political advertising study
The Philadelphia Daily News and KYW NewsRadio covered the study on tailored political advertising by Annenberg’s Prof. Joseph Turow, Dean Michael X. Delli Carpini, and graduate students Nora Draper and Rowan Howard-Williams. A new YouTube video also covers the study.
'In the news – Students at the conventions, APPC news
Follow the news from the Republican and Democratic campaigns from the standpoint of Annenberg students. Participants in the Communication 428 class are attending the Republican and Democratic conventions and Tweeting their observations. Follow @katekellz, @chrisjennison, @cobylerner, @afreina and @CloutCon for their observations from Tampa.
The Annenberg Public Policy Center’s “Voices of the Voters” focus groups by Peter Hart was given extensive coverage recently in The Los Angeles Times, MSNBC, and ABC News. Additionally, FactCheck.org is regularly cited in the news, including stories in The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, and The Sun-Times (Chicago).
Lori Robertson from FactCheck.org sorts out the Medicare debate on a recent edition of The Takeaway.
Doctoral student Andy S.L. Tan is the lead author on an article covering the importance of cancer patients maintaining communication with their clinicians.
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