News from the Annenberg School for Communication
July 17, 2012
In this issue:
Report from IAMCR in Durban, South Africa
Annenberg Faculty, Students Present at IAMCR
Annenberg faculty and student presented their research at the International Association of Media and Communication Research annual conference in Durban, South Africa.
ANNENBERG REPRESENTATIVE |
PRESENTATION |
Barbie Zelizer, Ph.D., the Raymond Williams Professor of Communication. |
|
Victor Pickard, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Communication |
The Postwar Struggle for Regulatory Power and the Triumph of Market Libertarianism in U.S. Media Policy |
Imagining Diasporas: Birthright-Israel and the Narratives of Sexuality and Reproduction Geographies of Sound: The Flow and Entrapment of the Syrian Jazeera Music |
|
Can Museum Space Deconstruct Museum Authority with Visitors? Imagining Africa with the Penn Museum |
|
Mobilizing the Gay Bar: Grindr and the Layering of Spatial Context |
|
CommCare: Evaluation of a Mobile Application for Maternal Health In Rural India Issues Influencing Maternal Healthcare Behaviors in Rural India: A Needs-Assessment Study |
|
Internet Relay Chat and the Vicissitudes of the Global Protest Meme |
|
Reflex Actions: Risk Society, Public Campaigning and the Keystone XL Pipeline |
|
Sara Mourad |
Egypt Nude Blogger: Sexuality Citizenships, and the Arab Body Politic “This is not Tahrir Yet”: How the mainstream press framed the Occupy movement |
Sandra Ristovska |
“Documentary Film Reception and the Voice of the Visual” |
|
|
Homegrown Terrorism as a Communication Problematic |
Shifting privilege: the transcontinental struggle for representation of race and power during Holocaust and the rise of Apartheid |
New study by Dolores Albarracín, Ph.D., points to the use of the present verb tense in treating substance abuse.
Barbie Zelizer, Ph.D., delivered a talk at the Lisbon Consortium in Lisbon, Portugal on July 13 titled “When the Peripheral Masks as Central: American journalism, Modernity and Cold War mindedness.”
Klaus Krippendorff, Ph.D., delivers keynote at joint Cybernetics and Bateson conference.
Amy Jordan, Ph.D., named co-editor of the Journal of Children and Media.
Carlin Romano talks about his new book on WHYY’s “Radio Times With Marty Moss-Coane.”
The Center for Global Communication Studies releases the report “Finding A Way: How Iranians reach for news and information.”
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Ph.D., the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication and Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, wrote an op ed for The Washington Poston whether an honest politician can be elected president. She was regularly called upon by the news media to provide perspective as the 2012 campaign plays out. She also appeared in the news in a story about the public’s reaction to monthly job reports and how that affects voters’ views of the president, and in stories about third-party advertising and on a similar subject (deceptive advertising).
Christopher Ali published in the Canadian Journal of Communication.
Kevin Gotkin presented at the Society for Disability Studies conference in Denver, CO.
Lori Young presents at International Society of Political Psychology conference.
Editor’s note: Annenberg In Touch is currently on a summer schedule, publishing every other week until Labor Day.
Send news to Annenberg In Touch.
The Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania
3620 Walnut Street • Philadelphia PA, 19104