Sexual minority adults in Hispanic groups, particularly Hispanic sexual minority females, may be at increased risk for e-cigarette use compared with Hispanic heterosexual females, find Juhan Lee and Andy Tan. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...

An informed electorate is a cornerstone of whatever comes next, something that can’t be attained without significant U.S. media reform, notes Victor Pickard, professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication. www.theverge.com/tech/656653/...

It was such a treat to chat with my incredible @asc.upenn.edu colleagues Sarah Banet-Weiser and Aswin Punathambekar about the stakes and joys of studying popular global media —and geek out about K-POP DEMON HUNTERS👩🏼‍🎤 —in the latest Annenberg Conversations podcast! www.asc.upenn.edu/annenberg-co...

New from Vice Dean Emily Falk: "Our findings suggest one set of possibilities for people navigating conversations with those across divides. We can be more open, curious and exploratory when speaking with others rather than avoid controversies or start off pushing our viewpoint."

In a new piece for @sciam.bsky.social, neuroscientist Emily Falk @asc.upenn.edu @appc.upenn.edu writes that brain imaging is illuminating the patterns linked to productive, positive dialogue. www.scientificamerican.com/article/good...

🎤 In the first episode of season two of Annenberg Conversations, Dean Sarah Banet Weiser talks with Professor Aswin Punathambekar and Assistant Professor Juan Llamas Rodriguez about the cross-border flow of media. Listen on our website or your favorite podcast app: www.asc.upenn.edu/annenberg-co...

A recent survey by @appc.upenn.edu found that 70% of the public supports vaccine requirements for MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) for children to attend public school:

Excited to kick off my postdoc @cdcspenn.bsky.social @asc.upenn.edu with a colloquium on Monday, September 29th ✨ I’ll be sharing from my dissertation-to-book project titled, "Creator Logic-in-Practice: Political Content Creators and the Negotiation of Influence in the Post-Networked Era."

🚨Fall events are here! Next month, @theguardian.com columnist Arwa Mahdawi speaks on politics of censorship followed by a panel with exiled journalists @kasimkashgar.bsky.social & @youmnaelsid17.bsky.social. Don't miss our symposium in Dec. on media & hope @asc.upenn.edu. Register here! bit.ly/j3f6R

Are you seeing this post? It might be because of divine intervention. A study by @sarareinis.bsky.social and @corrinalaughlin.bsky.social shows the many ways the #ChristianTikTok community conceptualizes and makes use of the TikTok algorithm:

🎤 Introducing Season Two of Annenberg Conversations This season, Dean Sarah Banet Weiser talks with Annenberg faculty about global media flows, climate communication, and the complexities of the way information moves in today’s world. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts to listen!

📜The annual Annenberg Constitution Day Civics Survey is out. The Annenberg Public Policy Center found that 70% of U.S. adults are able to name all three branches of government, up from 65% last year. 🔗 Read more of their findings here:

Ever noticed how people instinctively defend themselves when receiving feedback? Maybe you’ve caught yourself doing it, too. This week, we continue our conversation with neuroscientist Emily Falk to explore why we tend to push back against suggestions. www.hiddenbrain.org/podcast/its-...

Tomorrow 9/17 from 6-8:00pm: join @annenbergcargc.bsky.social at Public Trust for "Slippages in Time: Oil, Sovereignty and Media," a film screening and conversation with artist Sanaz Sohrabi. Learn more: www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...

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:

The interdisciplinary team behind the interactive, data-driven map that communicated the economic impact of sweeping cuts to federal funding for scientific and medical research have received a $336,000 award from Open Philanthropy to sustain and expand their project:

Google, OpenAI, DeepSeek, and Anthropic vary widely in how they identify hate speech, according to new research from @asc.upenn.edu Here's my latest for @fastcompany.com www.fastcompany.com/91403820/res... #Google #OpenAI #Anthropic

Interested in our new master's program? Join us on September 25 at 11:00am to learn more about the Master of Communication and Media Industries, which offers a chance to develop your skills in research, critical inquiry, and applied practice: 🔗Register: upenn.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Vice Dean Emily Falk talks about how we can initiate change in our lives in the most recent episode of @hiddenbrain.bsky.social. Listen here: hiddenbrain.org/podcast/winn... @falklab.bsky.social

In the mid-twentieth century, Gilbert Seldes, the founding dean of Annenberg, proposed a revolutionary idea: that cultural forms like jazz, comics, and television were crucial to shaping our democracy. Learn about how this work continues at Annenberg today:

"There are lots of tools that marketers and advertisers use to design and select messaging. Neuroscience can help people understand: What are the factors that shape decision making? What goes into the value calculation?" says Emily Falk to the Penn Gazette. thepenngazette.com/w...

This Wednesday at 1pm! Prof. Victor Pickard will join a panel of experts to discuss funding the future of local news, organized by @freepress.bsky.social. RSVP for the webinar and Q&A: bit.ly/fpabbsoc9

Bought last summer, but getting to it now. So very good. @asc.upenn.edu @kat-hig.bsky.social @mandigray.bsky.social

Prof. @bzelizer.bsky.social wrote about Penn student journalists' creativity and tenacity in the face of attacks on higher education for the @inquirer.com. www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm... @ascmediarisk.org

“Good Vibes Only? How Affects and Emotions Are Mediated for Justice in Digital Culture” www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/... @asc.upenn.edu @cdcspenn.bsky.social l

@apnews.com spoke to Prof. Jessa Lingel and Annenberg alum @ophiryotam.bsky.social about wplace. The digital space allows people to express themselves over a map of the world, one pixel at a time. "In a way, every person is zooming in on what reflects them and who they are,” Ophir said. Read more:

BCFG is co-hosting a conversation between & @katymilkman.bsky.social and Team Scientist Emily Falk on her new book, What We Value. 📅 Wed, Sept 10 | 4–5:30PM 📍 The Agora, Annenberg Public Policy Center Co-hosted with @appc.upenn.edu, @asc.upenn.edu, and @pennmindcore.bsky.social

New @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with Juan Llamas-Rodriguez on his new collection, Media Travels: Toward an Atlas of Global Media. Check it out. And check out the book -- it's open access! -- in the first comment below. newbooksnetwork.com/media-travels

Welcome to the Fall semester and the start of a new academic year! Watch Dean Sarah Banet-Weiser kick off the year with a special welcome message here:

To address nicotine misperceptions, researchers created targeted, curiosity-eliciting messages for 3 populations. These significantly reduced misperceptions in Black & rural adults, but weren't more effective than standard ones for young adults. Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

People are falling in love with artificial intelligence. Literally. In a new paper, Annenberg doctoral student Arelí Rocha explores how people discuss their relationships with AI chatbots:

A new study by @appc.upenn.edu has found that the portrayal of guns in popular entertainment in the past two decades closely paralleled the increase in firearm use in real-world homicide rates among American youth:

LDI Fellow @dalbarra.bsky.social and colleagues built an AI system that creates effective public health social media campaigns in real time, and these messages were six times as likely to be posted by public health agencies. Read more on our blog: ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/res...

Here Is the Science of Why You Doomscroll www.nytimes.com/2025/07/06/o... by Emily Falk Take steps toward meaningful action. "When we feel connected, it immediately produces activation in the reward system and changes our value calculations."

"Falk’s intriguing book explores how the value system works; how we can alter our behaviour; and how we can better interact with large webs of influence." Andrew Robinson of @nature.com reviews Vice Dean Emily Falk's book "What We Value" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

📣 New preprint from the SCIMaP team! Across three studies, we show that communicating the economic impact of NIH funding cuts—especially with interactive quizzes and maps—decreases approval and motivates action to oppose the cuts, across the political spectrum. 🧵 1/8 osf.io/preprints/ps...

"We see a range of #female-centric groups who have begun to mimic the rage of bioessentialist logics of the #manosphere" Listen to a replay of our recent public event where Prof Sarah Banet-Weiser examines the rise of #antifeminist influencers. Listen now: www.lse.ac.uk/lse-player?i... #feminism

Congratulations to Annenberg's newest Ph.D. @sarahuang.bsky.social, who successfully defended her dissertation yesterday! She will be joining the faculty at UT Austin’s Moody College of Communication as an Assistant Professor. Join us in congratulating Dr. Huang!

Catch up on the Sydney Sweeny American Eagle controversy with Dean Sarah Banet-Weiser, who told @npr.org, "It's an attention economy here that is focused on her.” "But it is also about the profitability of anger and profitability of hate. And we see this over and over again." More:

Postdoctoral Fellow Allie Sinclair spoke with @whyy.org about the economic impacts on Pennsylvania after the cancellation of federal research grants:

If you’re preparing your fall syllabi and would like to expand the global 🌏 focus of your media courses, check out the eleven chapters in our open access, multimodal edited collection MEDIA TRAVELS! 🎮📺📻🎧 Read more about the goals and contributions of the collection here:

A new edited collection from @llamasjr.bsky.social brings readers on a tour of media beyond the typical U.S. canon:

Tomorrow!

A new study by Annenberg researchers reveals effective ways to reduce false beliefs about nicotine:

A Message from Dean Sarah Banet-Weiser on the passing of Wallis Annenberg: www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...

Last week, the House voted to cut roughly $535 million a year in federal funding for PBS, NPR and local stations nationwide. We asked Annenberg experts to explain how this sweeping move could reshape the landscape of public broadcasting:

We are looking for a Research Coordinator! Come to Penn to do research with us! my.spsp.org/Career-Cente...

A new study by @appc.upenn.edu suggests that artificial intelligence can facilitate theory- and evidence-based message selection:

Sharing my latest pub, "News Inside: What Mainstream Journalism Can Learn From the Radical Humanism of Prison Journalism." Particularly proud b/c incarcerated/formerly incarcerated folks can teach us a lot about democracy & media. A pleasure to collaborate w/ @lizhallgren.bsky.social on this:

Congratulations to Annenberg's newest Ph.D. Mariela Morales Suárez, who successfully defended her dissertation, titled "The Cuban Digital Archipelago: Media and Identity in the Margins of National Culture," yesterday!