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Announcing the Master of Communication and Media Industries (MCMI)
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Rooted in Annenberg’s tradition of academic excellence and public impact, our new master's program — the Master of Communication and Media Industries — offers a chance to develop your skills in research, critical inquiry, and applied practice:
For the inaugural Annabelle Sreberny Distinguished Lecture, Anikó Imre explored how storytelling shapes politics and media economies, particularly in illiberal, populist states in Eastern Europe:
At the Inaugural Annabelle Sreberny Distinguished Lecture, Anikó Imre Explored the Intersection Between Fantasy, Storytelling, and Politics in Eastern Europe
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January 13, 2026 at 7:15 PM
For the inaugural Annabelle Sreberny Distinguished Lecture, Anikó Imre explored how storytelling shapes politics and media economies, particularly in illiberal, populist states in Eastern Europe:
Prof. Jessa Lingel on Craigslist: “It’s not a perfect platform by any means, but it does show that you can make a lot of money through an online endeavor that just treats users like they have some autonomy and grants everybody a degree of privacy.”
Millennials are still using Craigslist to find jobs, find love, and even to cast creative projects—eschewing other AI- and algorithm-dominated online spaces. “There’s a purity to it.” www.wired.com/story/is-cra...
Is Craigslist the Last Real Place on the Internet?
Millennials are still using Craigslist to find jobs, find love, and even to cast creative projects—eschewing other AI- and algorithm-dominated online spaces. “There’s a purity to it.”
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January 12, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Prof. Jessa Lingel on Craigslist: “It’s not a perfect platform by any means, but it does show that you can make a lot of money through an online endeavor that just treats users like they have some autonomy and grants everybody a degree of privacy.”
For his honors thesis, Communication major graduate C.H. Henry examined how presidential campaigns have used music to court voters, with guidance from Institute for Public Service Director David Eisenhower. Read our Q&A, where he discusses the challenges and rewards of archival research:
Q&A: In the Archives, A Student Uncovers How Music Shaped Presidential Campaigns
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January 9, 2026 at 8:09 PM
For his honors thesis, Communication major graduate C.H. Henry examined how presidential campaigns have used music to court voters, with guidance from Institute for Public Service Director David Eisenhower. Read our Q&A, where he discusses the challenges and rewards of archival research:
Associate Professor Andy Tan testified before the Philadelphia City Council Committee on Public Health & Human Services about an amendment to the ordinance regulating the sale of tobacco products. His remarks were about the high density of tobacco-selling retail stores in low-income neighborhoods:
Andy Tan Testifies Before Philadelphia Council Committee
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January 7, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Associate Professor Andy Tan testified before the Philadelphia City Council Committee on Public Health & Human Services about an amendment to the ordinance regulating the sale of tobacco products. His remarks were about the high density of tobacco-selling retail stores in low-income neighborhoods:
Journalism in a Changing Information Landscape. The Starving Artist vs. A.I.: Guess Who Is Winning? Networks Can Help Partisans Agree on Content Moderation. These were some of the topics explored last month at Annenberg. Learn more on our website: www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...
January 6, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Journalism in a Changing Information Landscape. The Starving Artist vs. A.I.: Guess Who Is Winning? Networks Can Help Partisans Agree on Content Moderation. These were some of the topics explored last month at Annenberg. Learn more on our website: www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...
As Paramount mounted a hostile takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, we asked Annenberg professor @victorpickard.bsky.social, co-director of the Media, Inequality & Change Center, to weigh in on the potential consequences.
December 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
As Paramount mounted a hostile takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, we asked Annenberg professor @victorpickard.bsky.social, co-director of the Media, Inequality & Change Center, to weigh in on the potential consequences.
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Really enjoyed this timely conversation!
As media institutions lose their funding, Dean Sarah Banet-Weiser invited professors @victorpickard.bsky.social and Duncan Watts (@csspenn.bsky.social) to discuss the role of journalism in our democracy. Listen to Annenberg Conversations on your favorite podcast app, or visit our website.
December 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Really enjoyed this timely conversation!
As media institutions lose their funding, Dean Sarah Banet-Weiser invited professors @victorpickard.bsky.social and Duncan Watts (@csspenn.bsky.social) to discuss the role of journalism in our democracy. Listen to Annenberg Conversations on your favorite podcast app, or visit our website.
December 23, 2025 at 8:11 PM
As media institutions lose their funding, Dean Sarah Banet-Weiser invited professors @victorpickard.bsky.social and Duncan Watts (@csspenn.bsky.social) to discuss the role of journalism in our democracy. Listen to Annenberg Conversations on your favorite podcast app, or visit our website.
A new study by Professor Damon Centola and alum Douglas Guilbeault explored how content moderators can reach consensus on classifying controversial material online, including inflammatory, offensive, or hateful images:
Working in Groups Can Help Republicans and Democrats Agree on Controversial Content Moderation Online
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December 22, 2025 at 9:28 PM
A new study by Professor Damon Centola and alum Douglas Guilbeault explored how content moderators can reach consensus on classifying controversial material online, including inflammatory, offensive, or hateful images:
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A scary trend driven almost entirely by the spread of (political identity associated) misinformation...👇
As Measles Cases Rise, Views of MMR Vaccine Safety and Effectiveness and Willingness to Recommend It Drop www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/as-measles-c... via @asc.upenn.edu
Dark Age 2.0
As Measles Cases Rise, Views of MMR Vaccine Safety and Effectiveness and Willingness to Recommend It Drop www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/as-measles-c... via @asc.upenn.edu
Dark Age 2.0
December 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
A scary trend driven almost entirely by the spread of (political identity associated) misinformation...👇
As Measles Cases Rise, Views of MMR Vaccine Safety and Effectiveness and Willingness to Recommend It Drop www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/as-measles-c... via @asc.upenn.edu
Dark Age 2.0
As Measles Cases Rise, Views of MMR Vaccine Safety and Effectiveness and Willingness to Recommend It Drop www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/as-measles-c... via @asc.upenn.edu
Dark Age 2.0
In Athens, Penn Communication majors heard media practitioners around the world debate the challenges of journalism in a world of misinformation and AI:
Students Travel to Athens to Confront Journalism’s “Age of Doubt”
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December 19, 2025 at 9:11 PM
In Athens, Penn Communication majors heard media practitioners around the world debate the challenges of journalism in a world of misinformation and AI:
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From @jticona.bsky.social and Caitlin Petre, some great insights for policy and organizing from their interviews with artists grappling with the economic and labor impacts of AI
Opinion | Will Creative Work Survive A.I.?
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December 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
From @jticona.bsky.social and Caitlin Petre, some great insights for policy and organizing from their interviews with artists grappling with the economic and labor impacts of AI
In a new paper, @guobin-yang.bsky.social analyzes how Chinese social media users eulogized Li Wenliang through an ancient literary form:
Mourning Li Wenliang, the Whistleblower of COVID-19, on the Chinese Internet
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December 18, 2025 at 7:18 PM
In a new paper, @guobin-yang.bsky.social analyzes how Chinese social media users eulogized Li Wenliang through an ancient literary form:
Great to see Prof. Emily Falk's new book - What We Value: The Neuroscience of Choice and Change - on the list!
A meticulously researched account of replacement body parts to the virtuosic debut of an Oakland Native novelist—writer Lou Fancher's list of books she loved will have you turning pages well into the new year.
Tip-top tomes: Our favorite books of 2025 - 48 hills
Oakland community history, knockout African folklore, Julian Brave Noisecat's debut.. Here's what got us through the year.
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December 18, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Great to see Prof. Emily Falk's new book - What We Value: The Neuroscience of Choice and Change - on the list!
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We’ve been talking with writers, artists, and actors, and they’re not worried about AI’s abilities, they’re mad that it stole its creativity from them and worried that it’s now being used in ways that threaten to dry up the pipeline of creative jobs that gave many their start.
“The threat is monumental but the outcome is not inevitable,” write Caitlin Petre and Julia Ticona. “The actions that artists, audiences and regulators take in the next few years will shape the future of the arts for a long time to come.”
Opinion | Will Creative Work Survive A.I.?
What A.I. imperils is not human creativity itself but the ability to make a living from creative endeavor.
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December 17, 2025 at 12:32 PM
We’ve been talking with writers, artists, and actors, and they’re not worried about AI’s abilities, they’re mad that it stole its creativity from them and worried that it’s now being used in ways that threaten to dry up the pipeline of creative jobs that gave many their start.
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"We really have to this paradigm shift, where we think of our news media, especially local journalism, the same way that we think of public education, libraries, public parks. There are these public goods that we would never leave entirely up to the market," says @victorpickard.bsky.social.
December 16, 2025 at 7:32 PM
"We really have to this paradigm shift, where we think of our news media, especially local journalism, the same way that we think of public education, libraries, public parks. There are these public goods that we would never leave entirely up to the market," says @victorpickard.bsky.social.
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“The threat is monumental but the outcome is not inevitable,” write Caitlin Petre and Julia Ticona. “The actions that artists, audiences and regulators take in the next few years will shape the future of the arts for a long time to come.”
Opinion | Will Creative Work Survive A.I.?
What A.I. imperils is not human creativity itself but the ability to make a living from creative endeavor.
nyti.ms
December 16, 2025 at 9:53 PM
“The threat is monumental but the outcome is not inevitable,” write Caitlin Petre and Julia Ticona. “The actions that artists, audiences and regulators take in the next few years will shape the future of the arts for a long time to come.”
In her latest book, Annenberg alum Julie Dobrow (M.A.C ‘84, Ph.D. ‘87) delves into the lives of Charles Alexander Eastman and Elaine Goodale, whose interracial marriage reflected a changing America:
Love and Loss After Wounded Knee: Q&A with Julie Dobrow (M.A.C ‘84, Ph.D. ‘87)
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December 16, 2025 at 8:40 PM
In her latest book, Annenberg alum Julie Dobrow (M.A.C ‘84, Ph.D. ‘87) delves into the lives of Charles Alexander Eastman and Elaine Goodale, whose interracial marriage reflected a changing America:
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This short video beautifully captures the spirit of my @asc.upenn.edu course “The Past and Present of Latin American Television” and my students’ commitment to and enthusiasm for the class material from this past spring:
In 2020, Netflix announced it would base its regional operations in Mexico City, which has long been the central hub for telenovelas, news and variety shows, led by giants like Televisa. Now with Netflix in town, what’s changed? A course taught by @llamasjr.bsky.social asked that question:
The Past and Present of Latin American Television
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December 15, 2025 at 5:36 PM
This short video beautifully captures the spirit of my @asc.upenn.edu course “The Past and Present of Latin American Television” and my students’ commitment to and enthusiasm for the class material from this past spring:
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NEW📰: Democracy requires both an informed citizenry and a free press. But how do these ideals show up in public policy?
Today, we have a paper out that looks at how media has become highly concentrated, commercialized, and drained of its public interest potential.
Today, we have a paper out that looks at how media has become highly concentrated, commercialized, and drained of its public interest potential.
December 4, 2025 at 1:55 PM
NEW📰: Democracy requires both an informed citizenry and a free press. But how do these ideals show up in public policy?
Today, we have a paper out that looks at how media has become highly concentrated, commercialized, and drained of its public interest potential.
Today, we have a paper out that looks at how media has become highly concentrated, commercialized, and drained of its public interest potential.
A new survey from @appc.upenn.edu found that more than three quarters of Americans indicate that they would be either very likely or somewhat likely to recommend that a newborn in their household be vaccinated against hepatitis B:
Although Public Overwhelmingly Supports Hepatitis B Vaccine for a Newborn, Partisan Differences Exist
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December 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
A new survey from @appc.upenn.edu found that more than three quarters of Americans indicate that they would be either very likely or somewhat likely to recommend that a newborn in their household be vaccinated against hepatitis B:
A new media analysis by @appc.upenn.edu found 19 stories in print media outlets that spread the false myth that suicides increase during the holidays:
Lowest Suicide Rate Is in December but Some in Media Still Promote Holiday-Suicide Myth
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December 10, 2025 at 9:40 PM
A new media analysis by @appc.upenn.edu found 19 stories in print media outlets that spread the false myth that suicides increase during the holidays:
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Prof. Kate Shaw (@kateshaw.bsky.social) and political commentator Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes.bsky.social) delivered this year’s Annenberg Lecture (@asc.upenn.edu), discussing how changes in media and public attention are reshaping U.S. politics.
https://penncareylaw.news/4iJQIoX
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December 9, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Prof. Kate Shaw (@kateshaw.bsky.social) and political commentator Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes.bsky.social) delivered this year’s Annenberg Lecture (@asc.upenn.edu), discussing how changes in media and public attention are reshaping U.S. politics.
https://penncareylaw.news/4iJQIoX
https://penncareylaw.news/4iJQIoX
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APPC Director and @upenn.edu professor Kathleen Hall Jamieson talks with @pnas.org News about using a "mental model" approach to help people understand how science and medicine work, and undercut misinformation before it takes hold. cc: @asc.upenn.edu
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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December 9, 2025 at 7:08 PM
APPC Director and @upenn.edu professor Kathleen Hall Jamieson talks with @pnas.org News about using a "mental model" approach to help people understand how science and medicine work, and undercut misinformation before it takes hold. cc: @asc.upenn.edu
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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New @thenation.com piece by @bilalb.bsky.social, @shahrzadshams.bsky.social and myself that draws from our recent @rooseveltinstitute.org report to argue for structural media reform: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
A New Roosevelt Institute Report Confronts the Roots of Our Media Crisis—and Calls for Breaking Up Corporate Media
Today’s journalism crisis wasn’t inevitable, but it’s time to free journalism from the straitjacket of turning a democratic obligation into a profit-maximizing business model.
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December 5, 2025 at 6:28 PM
New @thenation.com piece by @bilalb.bsky.social, @shahrzadshams.bsky.social and myself that draws from our recent @rooseveltinstitute.org report to argue for structural media reform: www.thenation.com/article/soci...