News from the Annenberg School for Communication
April 30, 2013
In this issue:
Annenberg presentations at MPSA
Annenberg Presentations at the Midwest Political Science Association
Congratulations to the following Annenberg students and faculty who presented research at the Midwest Political Science Association conference in Chicago (April 11 – 14).
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PRESENTER(S) |
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Emily Thorson |
Effects of the Misinformation Economy on Citizens, the Media, and Politicians |
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Andrew M. Daniller, Alex Garlick, Laura Silver, Devon Brackbill |
Why do People Hate the Media?: A Survey-Experimental Investigation |
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Devra C. Moehler, Ph.D.; Jeffrey Conroy-Krutz (Michigan State) |
Partisan Voices on the African Airwaves: A Field Experiment on the Political Effects of Exposure to Talk Radio |
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Christopher Brown |
Measuring the Effects of Partisan Rhetoric on Attention and Influence in the Political Blogosphere |
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Christopher Warshaw (M.I.T.) |
New Evidence on the Trade Off Between Issue Voting and Retrospective Voting |
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Diana C. Mutz, Ph.D., |
Declining Trust in the American Press: Models of the Survey Response |
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Diana C. Mutz, Ph.D. |
(Panelist): Twenty-Five Years of Media Effects Experiments: The Silver Anniversary of News That Matters |
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Seth K. Goldman, Ph.D. |
Victims, Heroes, and Changing Times: How Media Portrayals Affect Attitudes about Gay People and Gay Rights |
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Jeffrey A. Gottfried, Ph.D. |
Do Debates Increase Viewers’ Ability to Identify the Accuracy of Deceptive Claims in the 2012 Presidential Election |
Congratulations to Barbie Zelizer, Ph.D., the Raymond Williams Professor of Communication, who currently is serving as a visiting scholar at the Free University of Brussels.
Prof. Zelizer also recently spoke to The Philadelphia Inquirer about the varied images that arose from the April 15 bombing of the Boston Marathon.
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Ph.D., the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication, recently wrote an essay on civics education for the journal Dadealus.
Victor Pickard, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Communication discussed the future of news with “The Scholars Circle” radio program on KPFK radio. The program aired earlier this week. You can follow a conversation about this subject on Twitter @annenbergpenn #futureofnews.
Congratulations to Diana C. Mutz, Ph.D., the Samuel A. Stouffer Professor of Communication, who will receive an honorary doctoral degree this fall from the University of Southern Denmark.
Klaus Krippendorff, Ph.D., the Gregory Bateson Professor of Communication, contributes chapter to new scholarly book.
Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine, the Annenberg School for Communication, and the Annenberg Public Policy Center determined that strong arguments rather than flashy editing, sound, and video effects are the most important factor in developing a strong anti-smoking Public Service Announcement. In addition to coverage in WHYY’s NewsWorks, the story was covered in Science Daily, and Medical Daily.
George Gerbner post-doctoral fellows Susanna Dilliplane, Ph.D. (Gr ’12), Seth Goldman, Ph.D. (Gr ’10), and Diana C. Mutz, Ph.D., the Samuel A. Stouffer Professor of Communication and Political science, have developed a new measure for understanding how well people gain political knowledge from watching television news. Their findings are discussed in the January issue of the American Journal of Political Science.
Christopher Ali pens book review in Inmedia.org.
May 7 – CGCS lecture: UNESCO, literacy and educational development – Noon in Room 203 at the Graduate School of Education.
May 9 – American Academy of Political and Social Science Moynihan Lecture – National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
May 12 – Undergraduate graduation ceremony – 10 a.m., Annenberg Center, Zellerbach Theatre.
May 31 – Data-Crunched Democracy: Where do we go from here? All day. Annenberg School for Communication.
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