News from the Annenberg School for Communication
March 19, 2014
In this issue:
John L. Jackson, Jr. named Dean of Penn's School of Social Pollicy & Practice
New book by Prof. Barbie Zelizer, alumna Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt
Katz colloquium can be seen online
John L. Jackson, Jr. named Dean of Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice
The announcement came today from Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price. His new position will become effective July 1.
New book by Professor Barbie Zelizer and alumna Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt (Gr ’11)
The edited volume, Journalism and Memory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) is the result of work by advisor (Zelizer) and advisee (Tenenboim-Weinblatt).
Katz colloquium can be seen online
A video of the Elihu Katz Colloquium is now available via YouTube. Also, well-wishers for Professor Katz, who has moved to emeritus status, can still sign the online guest book.
Professor Joseph Cappella discussed the burning issue of e-cigarettes on a recent edition of the National Public Radio program “Radio Times with Marty Moss Coane.”
Professor Kathleen Hall Jamieson was interviewed by The Wall Street Journal for a story about President Obama’s choices to help promote health coverage under the Affordable Care Act. She also talked to The Huffington Post for a story about politics and gun control.
Professor Guobin Yang will be a discussant on a panel about religious cyber-activism in China at the meeting of the Association for Asian Studies March 27, and will deliver a keynote address, “The Historicity of Digital Activism” at a conference on Digital Activism #Now to be held at King’s College in London on April 4.
Professor Joseph Turow discusses his research into online data collection with the magazine Marketing News. Additionally, Prof. Turow was the invited speaker for a media-and-ethics lecture series at Loyola Marymount University. He charted changes in digital retailing and their implications for merchants, customers, and society at large. While at LMU, Prof. Turow also spoke to a class in digital media taught by Annenberg alum Chris Finlay (Gr ’11).
New publication on Twitter sampling bias by Professor Sandra González-Bailón.
Registration is now open for the 2014 Annenberg-Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute.
March 20 – Project for Advanced Research in Global Communication (PARGC) postdoctoral scholar colloquium, Shayna Silverstein – Noon in Room 300.
March 24 – Tools you can use: Intro to Computer Automated Content Analysis (for non-programmers) – Noon in Room 500.
March 27 – PARGC Colloquium, Mimi Sheller – Noon in Room 500.
March 28 – Colloquium by Emile Bruneau - Noon in Room 500.
March 31 – Lecture by Wharton Public Policy/Annenberg guest Mark Patterson, “Choosing Civic Engagement: Costs, Benefits, and Strategies for Contributing to the Public Good.” – 4:30 p.m. at John M. Huntsman Hall, Room 350.
April 2 – APPC Speaker Series. David Allison, University of Alabama - 12:30 p.m., APPC atrium (3rd floor).
April 3 – PARGC student panel, Prelude to ‘The Revolutionary Public Sphere’ – Noon in Room 500.
April 8 – Scholars Program public lecture by Visiting Scholar Robin Mansell - 6:15 p.m. in Room 109.
April 9 – TCORS Seminar Series, Kurt Ribisl, University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health – Noon in Room 500.
April 10 – Inaugural PARGC Symposium – all day.
April 23 – TCORS Seminar Series, Brian Southwell (Gr ’02), Director, Science in the Public Sphere Program – Center for Communication Science at RTI International – Noon in Room 500.
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