News from the Annenberg School for Communication
October 2, 2013
In this issue:
Profs. Turow, Zelizer at conferences in Haifa, San Diego, Stony Brook, and Richmond
Annenberg news - PennTCORS coverage, APPC study on cigarette packaging, more
Prof. Turow to speak at Haifa conference; Prof. Zelizer to speak at UCal-San Diego, Stony Brook, Richmond
Prof. Joseph Turow will be one of the speakers at the International Workshop on Culture Industries, sponsored by the Israel Science Foundation and organized by Haifa University Profs. Roei Davidson and Oren Meyers (Gr ’04). The title of his presentation is “The case for studying in-store media as culture industries.”
Prof. Barbie Zelizer will speak at the University of California San Diego’s Department of Communication on Oct. 4 at 12:45 p.m. (PST). The title of her talk is “Communication in the Fan of Disciplines.” She also will be a panelist at the Memory: Culture, Media, Cognition conference Oct. 11 at Stony Brook University, and on Oct. 25 she will speak at the University of Richmond’s Rhetoric and Communications Fall Forum 2013. The Richmond conference was organized by Annenberg alumna Nicole Maurantonio (Gr ’10).
PennTCORS announcement covered by KYW NewsRadio.
Prof. Turow’s quoted in The Wall Street Journal for a story about Google and targeted marketing.
APPC study: Cigarette pack warnings more effective combining text and images.
APPC’s Dan Romer’s letter to the editor was published in Sunday’s New York Times as part of a Sunday Dialogue on violence in the media.
Amy Jordan, Ph.D., talks about what today’s youth can teach us about the power of new media in an op ed in The Huffington Post.
Annenberg's Carlin Romano, the Critic-at-Large of The Chronicle of Higher Education, scrutinizes the rise of Chinese philosophy in the U.S. in the cover article of this week's Chronicle Review, the newspaper's cultural supplement. The piece is titled Dao Rising: The Liftoff of Chinese Philosophy in America."
George Gerbner Post-doctoral fellow Garrett Broad is one of the founders of the Critical Media Project, a website (launched in August 2013) designed to serve educators seeking to incorporate media literacy into their high school or college curriculums.
The Fall 2013 issue of NewsLink, the Annenberg school and alumni magazine, is now available online.
Rosemary Clark published in Proto, an undergraduate humanities journal.
News “3620” podcast – Silicon Savannah.
Call for presentations for the 2014 Screening Scholarship media festival.
October 4 – Colloquium by Milton L. Mueller. Noon in Room 500.
October 9 – Annenberg Lecture by Milton Lodge. 6 p.m. in Room 109.
October 10 – CGCS/PARGC conference: Digital Methods, Ethical Challenges - Room 500.
October 11 – Colloquium by Stuart Soroka. Noon in Room 500.
October 17 – Reading by author Beatriz Preciado in discussion with Visiting Scholar Cindy Patton. 6 p.m. at the Penn Museum.
October 17 – Scholarship after Snowden. Co-sponsored by Penn Law and the Annenberg Center
for Global Communication Studies. 4:30 p.m. at Gittis Hall, 3501 Sansom Street.
October 23 – CGCS/PARGC Colloquium by David Faris – 12:30 p.m. in Room 500.
October 26 – Iran: Art and Discourse. One-day symposium co-sponsored by the Annenberg Center for Global Communication Studies – Asia Society, New York, NY.
October 29 – Scholars Program lecture by José van Dijck. 6 p.m. in Room 109.
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