News from the Annenberg School for Communication
February 1, 2012
In this issue:
Prof. Jamieson talk at University of Richmond
Faculty news
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Ph.D., the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication and Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, will be a guest speaker at the University of Richmond on Thursday, Feb. 23 discussing “What the Words of Presidents (and Presidential Candidates) Reveal About Them and About Us.” She will be speaking along with Karlyn Cohrs Campbell, Ph.D., her co-author of Presidents Creating the Presidency: Deeds Done in Words (University of Chicago, 2008).
Prof. Jamieson wrote an opinion piece for CNN.com explaining how to tame the Super PACs. She talks about Mitt Romney’s performance in the Florida primary debates with Bloomberg.com, and again for a story with The Associated Press. She also discussed political incivility in a story with USA Today.
The Chronicle of Higher Education reviews The Daily You: How the New Advertising Industry is Defining Your Identity and Your Worth (Yale University Press, 2011) by Joseph Turow, Ph.D., the Robert Lewis Shayon Professor of Communication. Another review of the book appears today, February 1, in the current issue of Upstream.com.
Joseph N. Cappella, Ph.D., the Gerald R. Miller Professor of Communication, was honored as the Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism for a January 27 talk titled “Collective intelligence: Wisdom and foolishness in group deliberations.”
Aymar Jean Christian to edit media blog … published in Continuum.
February 3 – Colloquium by Murali Balaji, “Re-making the Indian man: Transformation, masculinity and the consumption of ‘fairness’.” Noon in Room 500.
February 8 – Book talk by Prof. Joseph Turow, “The Daily You: How the New Advertising Industry Is Defining Your Identity and Your Worth.” 6 p.m. in the Penn Bookstore.
February 17 – Colloquium by NYU Prof. Eric Klinenberg, “Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone.” Noon in Room 500. NOTE: A recent news story about Prof. Klinenberg’s work on CNN.com can be seen here.
February 21 – Book talk by Rebecca MacKinnon (sponsored by the Center for Global Communication Studies). 2 p.m. at the Penn Bookstore.
February 23 – Book talk by visiting scholar Murali Balaji. 2 p.m. at the Penn Bookstore.
Also, save the date! Details to come!
February 21 - Lecture by Visiting Scholar John Caldwell. 6:15 p.m., Room 109.
February 24 - Student Conference, Department of Germanic Languages and Literature presents "Minority Reports: Representing Social Identity in (New) Media." Time and place TBA.
March 19 - Lecture by Fred Turner. 6:15 p.m. in Room 109.
April 3 - Lecture by Wendy Chun. 6:15 p.m. in room 109.
And in case you missed it:
January 24 lecture by Dorothy Chou, senior policy analyst from Google discusses “A New Social Contract: The role of Transparency in an Information Society.” Watch it on YouTube.
January 26 lecture by author/historian Rick Perlstein, “Invisible Bridge: The 1970s and the Rise of Ronald Reagan.” Watch it on YouTube.
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