News from the Annenberg School for Communication
March 20, 2012
In this issue:
Dean Delli Carpini to speak at CDI conference
New book by Prof. Peter Decherney
Dean Delli Carpini to speak at CDI conference
Michael X. Delli Carpini, Ph.D., Professor of Communication and Walter H. Annenberg Dean, will be a panelist for the event “Philanthropy and the Digital Public Dialogue: Challenges and New Opportunities,” April 30 in Los Angeles. The event is being run by the Center for Digital Information.
New book by secondary faculty member Peter Decherney
Hollywood’s Copyright Wars: From Edison to the Internet is the new book by Peter Decherney, Ph.D., Associate Professor of English and Cinema Studies and a secondary faculty member at the Annenberg School for Communication.
Prof. Decherney discussed his book and related research at two events. On March 2 he spoke to an audience at the University of Toronto during a symposium on law and film. And just this week he addressed an audience at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Ph.D., the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication, in:
March 8 - The Pennsylvania Record for a story about merit selection bills.
March 14 – PennLive.com, for a story about pandering to voters by presidential candidates.
March 14 – WHYY’s “NewsWorks” for a story about getting facts straight during primary season.
March 17 – ABC News for a story headlined “Why Politicians Can’t Just Be Friends.”
March 19 – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for a story about political attack ads.
Annenberg doctoral student Sandra Ristovska will present her paper, “Nostalgia, National Identity, and the Chase of Montevideo, Taste of a Dream” this week at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference (SCMS) in Boston.
Additionally, Ms. Ristovska is the recipient of a “Distinguished Student Delegate Award” during the upcoming Milton Wolf Seminar.
March 20 – SOPA/PIPA and the Future of Internet Politics – 1:30 p.m., Room 500.
March 22 – Brave Testimony Poetry Series (sponsored with the Penn Center for Africana Studies) – 6 p.m. at the Kelly Writers House.
March 23 – Colloquium by Penn Sociology professor David Gibson. Noon in Room 500.
March 30 – Colloquium by Temple University’s Kevin Arceneaux. Noon in Room 500.
April 5 – “Screening Scholarship” film and panel discussion. 2:30 p.m. in Room 500.
April 5 – Brave Testimony Poetry Series (sponsored with the Penn Center for Africana Studies) – 6 p.m. at the Kelly Writers House.
April 11 – Annenberg Lecture by Richard Thaler – 5:15 p.m. in Room 109.
Also, save the date! Details to come!
April 3 - Lecture by Wendy Chun. 6:15 p.m. in room 109.
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