News from the Annenberg School for Communication
March 5, 2013
In this issue:
Research by Goldman, Prof. Mutz cited in NYT
Prof. Yang delivers keynote at WSU event
Research by Goldman, Prof. Mutz cited in NYT blog
“The Obama Effect: How the 2008 Campaign Changed White Racial Attitudes,” representing detailed research by Seth K. Goldman, Ph.D. (Gr ’10), currently a George Gerbner Post Doctoral Fellow; and Diana C. Mutz, Ph.D., the Samuel A. Stouffer Professor of Communication and Political Science, was extensively covered recently in an “Opinionator” blog in The New York Times.
Prof. Yang delivers keynote at Washington State University event
Guobin Yang, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Communication at Annenberg, delivered the keynote address March 4 at Washington State University’s Pullman campus during a four-day symposium titled “The Environment and East Asia.” The event was a gathering of experts and Washington State University faculty to discuss some of the critical environmental issues facing East Asia. The title of Prof. Yang’s keynote was “Friending Nature: Media and the Environmental Movement in China.”
Rosemary Avance published in the Journal of Media and Religion.
Ms. Avance also presented a work-in-progress talk at the University of Utah's Tanner Humanities Center (where she is in residence for her dissertation completion fellowship in Mormon studies). The talk was on 12 February and was titled "The Internet and modern Mormon identities."
Amy Bleakley, Ph.D., senior research scientist in the Health Communication group of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, is quoted in a Reuters Health story about contraceptive use among at-risk teens.
Episode #20: Heroin’s Perfect Storm.
March 12 – Scholars Lecture by Visiting Scholar Orhan Tekelioğlu - 6:15 p.m. in Room 109
April 8 – Paul Waldman, Ph.D. (Gr ’00) delivers the 2012 Georger Gerbner Lecture in Communication – 6 p.m. in Room 109
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