News from the Annenberg School for Communication
January 8, 2013
In this issue:
Faculty news - Profs. Kraidy, Yang, Jamieson, Turow, Pickard
Faculty news – Profs. Kraidy, Yang, Jamieson, Turow, Pickard
Prof. Kraidy analyzes Al-Jazeera’s purchase of Current TV
Marwan M. Kraidy, Ph.D., Professor of Communication, talks about Al-Jazeera’s purchase of Current TV from former U.S. Vice President Al Gore in an interview with the Associated Press.
Prof. Kraidy also recently ran a workshop at Georgetown University in Qatar.
He also was interviewed about his research in the journal Jadaliyya.com.
Prof. Turow Research cited in NYT article
Research into online privacy by Joseph Turow, Ph.D., the Robert Lewis Shayon Professor of Communication was cited in a recent AdAdge digital article titled “Just Who Do The Data Paranoiacs Think We Are?”
Prof. Yang to speak at Amsterdam social media conference
Guobin Yang, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Communication, will be one of the speakers at a social media activism conference January 21 in Amsterdam.
Prof. Jamieson talks politics (not as usual)
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Ph.D., the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication and Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center comments on the overheated rhetoric between House Speaker John Boehner and Senator Harry Reid.
Prof. Pickard interviewed by Bill Moyers
Victor Pickard, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Communication, talked about his research into media policy in a Q&A interviews that can be found at Bill Moyers.com.
Annenberg’s Carlin Romano talks about his book to audiences in Russia.
Jeffrey A. Gottfried, Ph.D. and colleagues from the Annenberg Public Policy Center published in Communication Research.
Doctoral student Sara Mourad published an essay in the journal Jadaliyya titled “The Naked Bodies of Alia,” about Egyptian activist Alia al-Mahdy and nude photographs she posted of herself.
The article “An Analysis of the Association Between Cancer-Related Information Seeking and Adherence to Breast Cancer Surveillance Procedures” has been published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention (online, November 2012). The work is by Annenberg doctoral Student Andy S.L. Tan, Mihaela Moldovan-Johnson, Ph.D. (Nebraska Dept. of Health and Human Services); Stacy W. Gray, MD (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston); Robert C. Hornik, Ph.D., the Wilbur Schramm Professor of Communication at Annenberg; and Katrina Armstrong, MD (Leonard Davis Institute).
January 10 – Lecture by Philip N. Howard, “The New Cold War: Information Policy and Political Rift,” noon in Room 500.
January 23 – CECCR Speaker Series, Catherine MacLean, “Tobacco Control Programs Revisited: Going Inside the Black Box,” noon in Room 500.
February 8 – CGCS Iran Media Conference, “From Tehran to Tahrir: Public Space Redefined,” all day.
February 13 – CECCR Speaker Series, Sonya Dal Cin, “Movie Messages: Substance use Imagery in movies and adolescent health,” noon in Room 500.
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