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Clinician peer networks remove race and gender bias
An illustration of six faces with different skin tones, ranging from dark to light. Above the faces are connected lines that look like jacks, to indicate social networks.

Image: Somalee Banerjee

Somalee Banerjee

Clinician peer networks remove race and gender bias

Research from Damon Centola of the Annenberg School for Communication shows that structured health care networks significantly reduce health care inequities and disparities in patient treatment.

Alina Ladyzhensky

Believability in the wake of #MeToo
Masked people marching in protest holding signs that read I BELIEVE YOU and PROTECT ALL WORKERS.

Image: Mélodie Descoubes via Unsplash

Believability in the wake of #MeToo

Sarah Banet-Weiser analyzes representations of sexual violence survivorship in recent TV shows to explore how and why believing women remains a contentious cultural battle.

From Annenberg School for Communication

Scholarship and identity through family, Afrofuturism, and 1,600 vinyl records
DJ Kid Charlemagne spins records at a turntable, a pool table is behind him.

DJ Kid Charlemagne, aka Antoine Haywood. (Image: Annenberg School for Communication)

Scholarship and identity through family, Afrofuturism, and 1,600 vinyl records

As part of his ongoing exploration into multimodal scholarship, doctoral student Antoine Haywood pairs his newly published autoethnographic essay with a curated soundtrack.

From Annenberg School for Communication

Twitter accounts tied to China lied that COVID came from Maine lobsters

Twitter accounts tied to China lied that COVID came from Maine lobsters

Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center said public health disinformation from China-based social media accounts is nothing new. "Early in the pandemic, Chinese sources spread the theory that SARS CoV-2 originated at Fort Detrick and was spread to China by U.S. military," she said. "The platforms can remove it, or if they decide against doing so, can downgrade it or flag it and attach fact-checking content."

Mandates likely work to increase vaccine uptake
Five rows of COVID-19 vaccine vials. The vials are angled diagonally, from bottom left to top right.

Mandates likely work to increase vaccine uptake

Rather than causing a backlash, vaccination requirements will succeed at getting more people inoculated, according to research from PIK Professor Dolores Albarracín and colleagues at Penn.

Michele W. Berger , Michele W. Berger

Darin Johnson breaks down what code switching is
Darin Johnson stands outside in front of steps.

Annenberg School for Communication doctoral student Darin Johnson. (Image: Annenberg School for Communication)

Darin Johnson breaks down what code switching is

The doctoral student at Annenberg School for Communication explores the mental processes behind code switching and their implications.

From Annenberg School for Communication

Martin Baron on the future of news and importance of investigative journalism
A zoom meeting screen shows Elizabeth Vale on the left screen and former Washington Post executive editor Martin Baron on the right screen.

Fels Distinguished Fellow Elizabeth Vale chats with former Washington Post executive editor Martin Baron, part of the Fels Public Policy in Practice series.

Martin Baron on the future of news and importance of investigative journalism

The former executive editor of The Washington Post spoke with Fels Distinguished Fellow Elizabeth Vale as part of the Fels Public Policy in Practice series.

Kristen de Groot

9/11, 20 years later
ground zero from liberty state park

Tribute in Light, an annual display near the site of Ground Zero, commemorates the Sept. 11 attacks. (Homepage image: Scott Spitzer)

9/11, 20 years later

Experts across the University share their thoughts on how 9/11 transformed their field, their research, and the world.

Kristen de Groot , Louisa Shepard