News from the Annenberg School for Communication
March 26, 2013
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Prof. Guobin Yang publishes essay in Scientific American. (You can join the conversation on Twitter: @AnnenbergPenn, #China_Twitter.)
Additionally, Prof. Yang will speak at the event, “Media & Asian Globalization: China and India, 1977 – Present,” at New York University this weekend.
The Center for Global Communication Studies’ Iraq media program contributes to report on avoiding inflammatory language in news reporting. Join the conversation on Twitter (@AnnenbergPenn, #ASC_Iraq).
A team from CGCS has produced a detailed infographic spelling out the lengths Iran goes to in order to censor the internet.
Prof. Kathleen Hall Jamieson interviewed on The Takeaway on gun lobbying spending. She also was recently interviewed by Politico.com about partisan wrangling over a federal budget.
Additionally, Prof. Jamieson will present the talk “Fact, Fallacy and Fantasy in Political Advertising” at the University of Texas at Austin College of Communication on April 15.
Brooks Jackson, director emeritus of FactCheck.org, interviewed by CNN.com.
Doctoral candidate Piotr M. Szpunar will participate in a panel discussion on March 30 on history and cultural memory as part of the creative practice during the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts.
March 28 – CGCS lecture – India’s Civil Liberties Crisis: Of Banks, Blocks, Bullying and Biometrics. Noon in Room 500.
April 1 – CGCS lecture – Public Opinion Barometer: How to Aggregate and Analyze Fragmented Online Information in China. Noon in Room 500.
April 3 – CGCS lecture – Internet Censorship, Surveillance, and Corporate Transparency. 4:30 p.m. in Room 109.
April 8 – George Gerbner Lecture in Communication – Paul Waldman, Ph.D. (Gr ’00) to deliver the talk. Note: The lecture will be streamed live at www.asc.upenn.edu/live.
April 22 – Alumnus Mike Serazio, Ph.D. (Gr ’10) to discuss his new book, Your Ad Here: The Cool Sell of Guerrilla Marketing. 5:30 p.m. at the Penn Bookstore.
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