Annenberg School for Communication

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Founded through the generosity and vision of publisher, diplomat and philanthropist Walter Annenberg, the Annenberg School is devoted to furthering our understanding of the role of communication in public life through research, education, and service

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Mar 2, 2026	Semafor Keeps Hosting Ridiculous “Restoring Trust In Media” Events That Only Further Undermine Trust In Media	You might recall that when political news website Semafor entered the media industry on the back of $25 million in private money, they made all kinds of promises about how they were somehow going to revolutionize U.S. media. In reality most...
Mar 28, 2025	Trump’s FCC Starts Harassing Public Broadcasters With Bogus Investigations	If you hadn’t noticed, consolidated corporate media hasn’t been meeting the challenges of the current moment very well. There’s generally two reasons: one, these media outlets tend to reflect the interests of generally white, older, male, r...
Nov 20, 2023	Omegle’s death is the end of an era for anonymous online connection	After 14 years online, Omegle shut down as part of a settlement in a $22 million sex trafficking lawsuit. If anything was a surprise, it was that the anonymous, randomized chat site was still operational. In a time when multibillion-dollar ...
May 16, 2023	Addressing Media Capture	For years, industry, governments, and civil society have grappled with how to address the potential harm from state media while protecting people’s right to information in the digital domain. In some cases, the harm from state media can be ...
Sep 15, 2022	Getting DEI Right In The Metaverse (And Why It Matters)	Award-winning talent expert at Ketchum. E-sports/gaming marketing enthusiast. DEI Practioner, learning ambassador. Latina.
Jun 14, 2021	Joseph Turow Author of Voice Catchers on Voice Tech, Marketing and Privacy – Voicebot Podcast 213	Joseph Turow Author of Voice Catchers on Voice Tech, Marketing and Privacy – Voicebot Podcast 213 Bret Kinsella on June 14, 2021 at 11:30 pm Joseph Turow is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication ...
Apr 7, 2021	Social Media Users In Kenya And SA Trust Science, But Still Share COVID-19 Hoaxes	wp_booster error: td_api_base::get_key : a component with the ID: single_template_2 Key: show_featured_image_on_all_pages is not set. /home/r8qkakm4wchc/public_html/wp-content/plugins/td-composer/legacy/common/wp_booster/td_api.php (rara-er...
Apr 7, 2021	Social Media Users In Kenya And SA Trust Science, But Still Share COVID-19 Hoaxes	wp_booster error: td_api_base::get_key : a component with the ID: single_template_2 Key: show_featured_image_on_all_pages is not set. /var/web/site/public_html/wp-content/plugins/td-composer/legacy/common/wp_booster/td_api.php (rara-error) ...
Jul 1, 2020	Diversity in the workplace: If you’re going to talk the talk, you need to walk the walk	In the wake of the current civil unrest occurring throughout our country, many companies are now seeing the gaping corporate hole where cultural diversity and inclusion initiatives should have been. Some may think it’s too little too late o...
Feb 24, 2020	Craigslist turns 25 — a reminder that a more democratic version of the internet can still thrive	Fake news. Online surveillance. Phishing scams. Biased algorithms. It’s easy to be cynical about the internet, and harder to remember a time when being online felt less commercial and more democratic. But there was a period when websites di...
Oct 16, 2019	Low Cost Phones Are Turning Privacy Into A Luxury Option	Even when you're shelling out thousands of dollars for the latest smartphone and an "unlimited" data plan for it to run on, that cost expenditure still puts you at great privacy risk. Wireless carriers, for years, have collected a...
Oct 16, 2019	Low Cost Phones Are Turning Privacy Into A Luxury Option	Even when you’re shelling out thousands of dollars for the latest smartphone and an “unlimited” data plan for it to run on, that cost expenditure still puts you at great privacy risk. Wireless carriers, for years, have collected and sold yo...
Oct 24, 2017	‘To what extent is a tweet a federal record?’	When the Obama White House joined Snapchat, it made sure that posts to that account would not be ephemeral, in accordance with presidential records rules, according to the Washington Post. It turns out that not every other federal office wo...
Apr 25, 2017	Privacy-touting email service Unroll.me gets caught in Uber backlash	Uber’s bad PR is growing -- and spreading to its business partners. On Monday, internet users were in an uproar after a New York Times article revealed that a popular email management service sold data on its users’ ride-hailing information...
Jul 30, 2016	It’s okay for Pikachu to watch you — as long as you want it to	Denelle Dixon-Thayer Contributor Denelle Dixon-Thayer is the chief legal and business officer of Mozilla. Millions who downloaded the new Pokémon Go app are living in a brave, new, augmented reality world. For the early adopters (meaning ap...
May 17, 2016	Why you should bet big on privacy	Rand Hindi Contributor Rand Hindi is the founder and CEO of Snips. More posts by this contributor The birth of the Universal Digital Profile Ever felt like you were being watched online? You know, like when you read something about New York...
Jul 17, 2015	Data Privacy Just Makes Good Business Sense	Data, data everywhere and companies sucking it up at breakneck speed, sometimes without rhyme or reason, just feeding the big data collection machine. A few years ago in an interview with Forbes, Tim O’Reilly famously said, “The Guy With Th...
Jun 7, 2015	Internet users are powerless to protect their privacy, and they know it	A paper produced by a team at the University of Pennsylvania confirms something many people have probably thought true for some time: the notion that internet users are unhappy with the way their privacy is undermined by advertisers and onl...
Jun 6, 2015	The Online Privacy Lie Is Unraveling	A new report into U.S. consumers’ attitude to the collection of personal data has highlighted the disconnect between commercial claims that web users are happy to trade privacy in exchange for ‘benefits’ like discounts. On the contrary, it ...
Aug 16, 2012	Why Targeted Online Political Ads Can Be Dangerous To A Campaign	As the campaign season is in full swing, you may be seeing more of those wonderfully annoying political advertisements showing up on social media pages and other sites. It seems like common sense at this point that, to some degree or anothe...
Apr 4, 2012	55 percent of Philadelphia households lack access to Internet	Sources: U.S. Census; FCC. Map courtesy of American University’s Investigative Reporting Workshop. Last week at an event hosted at Penn’s Annenberg School for Communication and put together by the New America Foundation, academics, datahead...
Nov 23, 2011	Perelman School of Medicine gets $7.5M for breast cancer detection research	The program has three goals. It will set out to improve breast cancer screening through a “breast complexity index” to predict individual screening outcomes. The team will also compare the effectiveness of new imaging technology, including ...
Feb 26, 2010	Friday Q&A: Jason Tocci on his Geek Cultures dissertation	The typical breakdown of nerds and geeks runs on a taxonomy of their interests, says Dr. Jason Tocci, who received his Ph.D from the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication last year, studying the often stereotypical...
	Что заставляет нас шерить информацию в соц сетях?	В Университете Пенсильвании провели исследование о том, почему один пост становится вирусным, а другой теряется в бесконечной ленте новостей. Кандидаты психологических наук Даниэль Косме и Эмили Фальк проанализировали поведение более 3000 л...
	1 in 3 Gen Z men turn to social media for health advice: Here’s how to spot medical misinformation online	With access to what seems like a never-ending flow of information online, some Gen Z men are relying on social media for their health advice. One out of 3 Gen Z men in the U.S. are turning to social media for their health information, accor...
	4 signs of health misinformation online—if it 'seems a bit ridiculous' that's a red flag, expert says	In a tech-driven world with news just at our fingertips, it can be hard to determine what's true and what's false. Of all of the misinformation floating online, fake health news can be particularly dangerous, especially if it promotes thing...
	Perelman School of Medicine gets $7.5M for breast cancer detection research	The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has received $7.5 million from the National Cancer Institute to establish a breast cancer screening center. The Penn Center for Innovation in Personalized Breast Cancer Scree...

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Parsers VC has collected 28 articles mentioning Annenberg School for Communication, among them “Semafor Keeps Hosting Ridiculous “Restoring Trust In Media” Events That Only Further Undermine Trust In Media” (Mar 2, 2026) and “Trump’s FCC Starts Harassing Public Broadcasters With Bogus Investigations” (Mar 28, 2025).

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