News from the Annenberg School for Communication
May 15, 2012
In this issue:
Undergraduate awards and honors
Faculty, Annenberg in the news
Congratulations doctoral graduates!
Eleven Annenberg doctoral students were honored during the University of Pennsylvania’s 256th Commencement on Monday, May 14. The Annenberg School for Communication also recognized them during the annual graduate ceremony at the School. Congratulations to all!
The Annenberg School for Communication recognized its 2012 undergraduate communication graduates during a ceremony at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on Sunday, May 13.
Faculty, Annenberg in the news
Dolores Albarracín joins Annenberg as the Martin Fishbein Chair in Communication.
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Ph.D., the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication and Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, continues to be in demand as the 2012 presidential election heats up. Just recently she discussed political advertising on Moyers & Company, and talked about President Obama stating his support for same-sex marriages.
Prof. Jamieson is one of the speakers at the Third Annual Peterson Foundation Fiscal Summit May 15 in Washington, D.C.
Amy Jordan, Ph.D., Director of the Media and the Developing Child Segment of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, talks about the impact Maurice Sendak (author of, among other things, Where the Wild Things Are) in an obituary in The Philadelphia Inquirer. Dr. Jordan also wrote about Sendak in an opinion column that appeared in The Inquirer on Mother’s Day.
Diana C. Mutz, Ph.D., the Samuel A. Stouffer Professor of Communication and Political Science, talks about the impact of in-your-face talking heads in a story that appeared in the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
References: Personal Influence by Elihu Katz, Ph.D., Distinguished Trustee Professor of Communication, and Paul Lazarsfeld was referenced in a story about social marketing. And About Faces: Psysiognomy in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Sharrona Pearl, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Communication, was referenced in a New York Times article about facial recognition.
Title translation: Media Events: The Live Broadcasting of History by Daniel Dayan and Prof. Elihu Katz, was just translated into Korean. According to Prof. Katz, that makes eight language translations for that title. Also, Visual Persuasion: The Role of Images in Advertising by Paul Messaris, Ph.D., the Lev Kuleshov Professor of Communication, recently was translated into Korean and Chinese.
Nora Draper and Prof. Joseph Turow have contributed a chapter to the book Routledge Handbook of Surveillance Studies (Routledge, March 2012) titled “Advertising’s New Surveillance Ecosystem.” The book also contains a chapter from former Annenberg professor Oscar Gandy titled “Statistical Surveillance: Remote Sensing in the Digital Age.”
Nora Draper paper published in the Journal of Children and Media.
Rosemary Avance receives first-of-its-kind fellowship from the University of Utah.
Susan Mello published in Health, Risk & Society.
Gretta Moody receives undergraduate teaching assistant honor.
Jingwen Zhang to participate in Harvard summer internship.
Doctoral student Sara Mourad has published a article titled “Politics at the Tip of the Clitoris: Why, in Fact, Do They Hate Us?” in the journal Jadaliyya. The article is a thoughtful response to the Foreign Policy article published earlier this year titled "Why Do They Hate Us? The real war on women is in the Middle East.”
May 30 – Book talk by Annenberg’s Carlin Romano. 6 p.m. at the Penn Bookstore.
Editor’s note: Starting with this issue and continuing until mid-August, Annenberg In Touch will publish every other week.
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