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How monkeypox myths mimic lies about COVID and AIDS

Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center says that the human impulse to scapegoat is both predictable and dangerous.

Republicans have long feuded with the mainstream media. Now many are shutting them out

Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center says that there’s a difference between temporarily avoiding media coverage and planning a strategy that broadly delegitimizes media outlets.

A person watching a television channel with the words FAKE NEWS on the screen.

Cable news networks have grown more polarized

An Annenberg School for Communication analysis of 10 years of cable TV news reveals a growing partisan gap as networks like Fox and MSNBC have shifted to the right or the left of the political spectrum.

Even journalists are avoiding bad news. How do we change media?

Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center says that local news coverage can engage an audience by providing a sense of substance and agency.

Why people believe conspiracy theories

Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Dolores Albarracín of the Annenberg Public Policy Center discuss the origin, spread, and audience of conspiracy theories and their ideological entrepreneurs.

Cable news networks have become more polarized in the last decade, study says

Yphtach Lelkes of the Annenberg School for Communication tracks the ideological movement of news networks and media bias following the 2016 election.

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TV news top driver of political echo chambers in U.S.

Duncan Watts and colleagues found that 17% of Americans consume television news from partisan left- or right-leaning sources compared to just 4% online. For TV news viewers, this audience segregation tends to last month over month.

Ava Kikut in front of the Annenberg School for Communication

Who, What, Why

Who, What, Why: Annenberg doctoral student Ava Irysa Kikut

Through a Netter Center ABCS course, Kikut worked with high school students and Penn undergrads to develop media messages that speak to the health needs and inequalities pertinent to adolescent Philadelphians.

Film still of two Colombian children meeting an ex-FARC member.

Video experiment brokers peace among ex-FARC combatants and locals in Colombia

A new study from the Peace and Conflict Neuroscience Lab explores the impact of media interventions on brokering peace among former members of Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and non-FARC Colombians.

Humans spread out in groups, clusters, and individuals conveying varying degrees of connectivity.

Which Americans are most isolationist? It may not be who you think

A course taught by Diana Mutz is designed to teach and implement research methodology, discovered a major shift in young Americans’ isolationist views on foreign aid.

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