News from the Annenberg School for Communication
March 5, 2014
In this issue:
Prof. Katz retirement colloquium, guest book
John Jackson featured in The Pennsylvania Gazette
Prof. Katz retirement colloquium, guest book
Prof. Elihu Katz will move to emeritus status this year. There will be a lecture on Friday, March 7, honoring Dr. Katz, which will be video streamed live beginning at 12:15 p.m. from http://www.asc.upenn.edu/live. Additionally, please take a moment to offer good wishes to Prof. Katz via an online forum.
John Jackson featured in The Pennsylvania Gazette
Prof. John L. Jackson, Jr.’s research behind his new book, Thin Description: Ethnography and the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem (Harvard University Press, 2013) is featured in the next edition of The Pennsylvania Gazette.
Prof. Kathleen Hall Jamieson was interviewed by The New York Times about early Republican Party campaign tactics.
Prof. Guobin Yang will present “Three Types of Environmental Activism in Contemporary China” at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies on Wednesday, March 12. He also will be a discussant on a panel about religious cyber-activism in China at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies March 27 in Philadelphia. The panel is organized to apply the lens of Prof. Yang’s book The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online to the study of religious cyber-activism in China.
Prof. Klaus Krippendorff’s book: Content Analysis; An Introduction to Its Methodology was translated into Persian by Houshang Nayyebi and published in Tehran by NEY, an academic publisher.
Prof. Sharrona Pearl will be a guest speaker at the Penn History and Sociology of Science seminar on Monday, March 31, discussing “Face Transplants and the Meaning of Identity.”
Prof. Victor Pickard recently participated in a panel on the politics of digital infrastructure at a policy conference event at the University of California/Santa Barbara’s Carsey-Wolf Center.
A Q&A with Karen Fikkers, a doctoral candidate from the University of Amsterdam studying media violence and youth studies at both Annenberg and the Annenberg Public Policy Center.
Annenberg Public Policy Center’s Amy Bleakley was quoted in a column that appeared recently in The Daily Pennsylvanian, and Dan Romer was quoted in a Washington Post story about Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly blaming the Internet for mass ignorance.
Doctoral student Lee McGuigan publishes edited volume, The Audience Commodity in a Digital Age: Revisiting a Critical Theory of Commercial Media.
March 17 – Tools You Can Use: Intro to Computer Automated Content Analysis – Noon in Room 500.
March 17 – Annenberg alumni book talk by Riley Snorton. Noon in the Penn Bookstore.
March 18 – George Gerbner Lecture by alumna Mary Ellen Mark. 6 p.m. in Room 109.
March 29 – PARGC Postdoctoral Scholar Colloquium featuring Shayna Silverstein – Noon in Room 300.
March 27 – PARGC Colloquium featuring Mimi Sheller, Drexel University – Noon in Room 500.
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