News from the Annenberg School for Communication
December 5, 2012
In this issue:
Barbie Zelizer, Ph.D., the Raymond Williams Professor of Communication, contributed to multiple news forums as the discussion went on over whether The New York Post and, subsequently, other news organizations should have used the photo of a man about to be run over by a New York City subway train. Prof. Zelizer was interviewed on the subject on Minnesota Public Radio, Slate.com, and she wrote an opinion piece for Oxford University Press (Publisher of her book, About to Die: How News Images Move the Public). That op ed later appeared in The New York Post.
Prof. Cappella on e-cigarettes
Joseph N. Cappella, Ph.D., the Gerald R. Miller Professor of Communication, spoke to the BBC recently for a story about the growing marketing behind e-cigarettes.
Faculty lectures in China (Zelizer), Columbia University (Pickard)
Prof. Zelizer will deliver two lectures in Beijing, China this week; a keynote titled “Tools for the Future of Journalism” at a conference on the Future of Global Communication and Journalism Education, and a talk about her book, About to Die: How News Images Move the Public, at Tsinghua University.
Victor Pickard, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Communication delivered a talk recently at a Columbia University colloquium.
Prof. Krippendorff on YouTube
A recent trip by Klaus Krippendorff, Ph.D., the Gregory Bateson Professor of Communication, to the University of Bogota in Columbia was highlighted in a short YouTube video. Titled “Intersections of Design 2011,” the text in the video (in Spanish) roughly translates to “We humans are not concerned about the physical, format, aesthetics or technological realities of things except about what they mean to us.”
Watch C-SPAN’S BookTV.org for schedule of Annenberg author interviews.
Penn President Amy Gutmann’s interview for her book, “The Spirit of Compromise” can be seen on the BookTV web site. Watch the BookTV web page for upcoming interviews.
A news announcement from the Annenberg Public Policy Center about the suicide rate during the holidays was covered by USA Today and Slate.com.
Episode #12 – “On Finaling.” Producer Sandra Ristovska shares reflections on the process of finals. The podcast features interviews with doctoral students Nora Draper Sunha Hong, Corrina Laughlin, and Lori Young.
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