Departmental Papers (ASC)
The Annenberg School stands at the forefront of basic and applied empirical research on the institutions, processes, nature, and consequences of communication. This research is based on theories, methods, and knowledge emerging from our own discipline as well those adapted from cognate disciplines in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. Many Annenberg faculty members are jointly appointed or hold secondary faculty positions in other schools and departments at Penn. Annenberg faculty and students regularly collaborate with each other and with faculty, researchers, and students from Penn’s other distinguished schools and centers.
The result of this inter- and intra-disciplinary research network is a faculty and student body with the theoretical, methodological and substantive breadth, depth, and agility to produce cutting-edge research on the most pressing communication-centered issues of the twenty-first century.
Papers from 2023
Americans Can’t Consent To Companies’ Use Of Their Data, Joseph Turow, Yphtach Lelkes, Nora A. Draper, and Ari Ezra Waldman
Papers from 2022
Papers from 2021
Design Discourse, Klaus Krippendorff
Shhhh, They're Listening - Inside the Coming Voice-Profiling Revolution, Joseph Turow
Papers from 2020
Evaluating the Fake News Problem at the Scale of the Information Ecosystem, Jennifer Allen
The Beguiling: Glamour in/as Platformed Cultural Production, Sarah Banet-Weiser
Evaluating Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Associations Between Anti-Smoking / Anti-Vaping Beliefs, Intentions, and Behavior in a 3-Year Rolling Nationally Representative Survey of U.S. Youth and Young Adults, Emma Jesch, Ava Kikut, and Robert C. Hornik
Communication, Conversation, Discourse and Design, Klaus Krippendorff
Why Discourses in Action: An Introduction, Klaus Krippendorff and Hailong Tian
Papers from 2019
From Pick-Up Artists to Incels: Con(fidence) Games, Networked Misogyny, and the Failure of Neoliberalism, Sarah Banet-Weiser and Jack Bratich
Correlates of Sun Protection Behaviors in Racially and Ethnically Diverse U.S. Adults, Tirza Areli Calderón, Amy Bleakley, Amy B. Jordan, DeAnn Lazovich, and Karen Glanz
The Battle for #Baltimore: Networked Counterpublics and the Contested Framing of Urban Unrest, Brooke Foucault Welles and Sarah J. Jackson
Automated Content Analysis to Quantify Valence, Themes, and Norms Mentioned in Tobacco and E-cigarette Coverage across Four Media Sources, Laura Gibson, Sharon Williams, Leeann Siegel, Chae Lee, Allyson Volinsky, and Robert Hornik
Automated Content Analysis to Quantify Valence, Themes, and Norms Mentioned in Tobacco and E-cigarette Coverage across Four Media Sources (expanded version), Laura Gibson, Sharon Williams, Leeann Siegel, Chae Lee, Allyson Volinsky, and Robert Hornik
Automated Content Analysis to Quantify Valence, Themes, and Norms Mentioned in Tobacco and E-cigarette Coverage across Two Social Media Sources, Laura Gibson, Sharon Williams, Leeann Siegel, Chae Lee, Allyson Volinsky, and Robert Hornik
Automated Content Analysis to Quantify Valence, Themes, and Norms Mentioned in Tobacco and E-cigarette Coverage across Two Social Media Sources (expanded version), Laura Gibson, Sharon Williams, Leeann Siegel, Chae Lee, Allyson Volinsky, and Robert Hornik
Women Tweet on Violence: From #YesAllWomen to #MeToo, Sarah Jackson, Moya Bailey, and Brooke Foucault Welles
The Changing Landscape of Content Analysis: Reflections on Social Construction of Reality and Beyond, Klaus Krippendorff
Does Seeking e-Cigarette Information Lead to Vaping? Evidence from a National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and Young Adults, qinghua Yang, jiaying liu, Kirsten Lochbeuhler, and Robert Hornik
Papers from 2018
Persuasion and Influence: What Makes a Successful Persuader?, Elisa C. Baek and Emily B. Falk
Postfeminism and Popular Feminism, Sarah Banet-Weiser
Interventions Highlighting Hypocrisy Reduce Collective Blame of Muslims for Individual Acts of Violence and Assuage Anti-Muslim Hostility, Emile Bruneau, Nour Kteily, and Emily B. Falk
A Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) Replication of the Sunscreen Persuasion Paradigm, Shannon M. Burns, Lianne N. Barnes, Perri L. Katzman, Daniel L. Ames, Emily B. Falk, and Matthew D. Lieberman
How Behavior Spreads: The Science of Complex Contagions (Introduction), Damon Centola
Time-Evolving Dynamics in Brain Networks Forecast Responses to Health Messaging, Nicole Cooper, Javier O. Garcia, Steven Tompson, Matthew B. O'Donnell, Emily B. Falk, and Jean M. Vettel
Associations between Coherent Neural Activity, Nicole Cooper, Steven Tompson, Matthew B. O'Donnell, Jean M. Vettel, Danielle S. Bassett, and Emily B. Falk
How Black Twitter and Other Social Media Communities Interact With Mainstream News, Deen Freelon, Lori Lopez, Meredith D. Clark, and Sarah J. Jackson
#GirlsLikeUs: Trans advocacy and community building online, Sarah Jackson
Progressive Social Movements and the Internet, Sarah J. Jackson
A Professor’s Perspective on 50 Years, Klaus Krippendorff
Projetando socialilidades: o discurso do design e seus impactos, Klaus Krippendorff
A Bookmobile Critique of Institutions, Infrastructure, and Precarious Mobility, Jessa Lingel
The Strange Life and Death of the Fairness Doctrine: Tracing the Decline of Positive Freedoms in American Policy Discourse, Victor Pickard
Network Approaches to Understand Individual Differences in Brain Connectivity: Opportunities for Personality Neuroscience, Steven Tompson, Emily B. Falk, Jean M. Vettel, and Danielle S. Bassett
Individual Differences in Learning Social and Non-Social Network Structures, Steven Tompson, Ari E. Kahn, Emily B. Falk, Jean M. Vettel, and Danielle S. Bassett
AI Marketing as a Trojan Horse, Joseph Turow
Divided We Feel: Partisan Politics American's Emotions Regarding Surveillance of Low-Income Populations, Joseph Turow, Michael Hennessy, Ope Akanbi, Diami Virgilio, and Nora Draper
Divided We Feel: Partisan Politics Drive American's Emotions Regarding Surveillance of Low-Income Populations, Joseph Turow, Michael Hennessy, Nora Draper, Ope Akanbi, and Diami Virgilio
Tobacco 21 Policy Support by U.S. Individuals Aged 13–25 Years: Evidence From a Rolling Cross-sectional Study (2014–2017), Allyson C. Volinsky, Elissa C. Kranzier, Laura A. Gibson, and Robert Hornik
Global Brain Dynamics during Social Exclusion Predict Subsequent Behavioral Conformity, Nick Wasylyshyn, Brett H. Falk, Javier O. Garcia, Christopher N. Cascio, Matthew B. O'Donnell, C. R. Bingham, Bruce G. Simons-Morton, Jean M. Vettel, and Emily B. Falk
Semantic Networks and Applications in Public Opinion Research, Sijia Yang and Sandra González-Bailón
Why Journalism in the Age of Trump Shouldn’t Surprise Us, Barbie Zelizer
Papers from 2017
The Value of Sharing Information: A Neural Account of Information Transmission, Elisa C. Baek, Christin Scholz, Matthew B. O'Donnell, and Emily B. Falk
Internet Addiction, Amy Bleakley, Sunhee Park, and Daniel Romer
Online Supplementary Materials: Promising Themes for Antismoking Campaigns Targeting Youth and Young Adults, Emily Brennan, Laura Gibson, Ani Momjian-Kybert, Jiaying Liu, and Robert C. Hornik
Parochial Empathy Predicts Reduced Altruism and the Endorsement of Passive Harm, Emile Bruneau, Mina Cikara, and Rebecca Saxe
The Enemy as Animal: Symmetric Dehumanization during Asymmetric Warfare, Emile Bruneau and Nour Kteily
The Unique Effects of Blatant Dehumanization on Attitudes and Behavior towards Muslim Refugees during the European 'Refugee Crisis' Across Four Countries, Emile Bruneau, Nour Kteily, and Lasse Laustsen
Giving the Underdog a Leg Up: A Counternarrative of Nonviolent Resistance Improves Sustained Third-Party Support of a Disempowered Group, Emile Bruneau, Daniel Lane, and Muniba Saleem
Collective Intelligence: The Wisdom and Foolishness of Deliberating Groups, Joseph N. Cappella, Jingwen Zhang, and Vincent Price
How Do User Stories Inspire Design? A Study of Cultural Probes, Ozge Merzali Celikoglu, Sebnem Timur Ogut, and Klaus Krippendorff
How Do User Stories Inspire Design? A Study of Cultural Probes, Ozge Merzali Celikoglu, Sebnem Timur Ogut, and Klaus Krippendorff
Coherent Activity between Brain Regions that Code for Value is Linked to the Malleability of Human Behavior, Nicole Cooper, Danielle S. Bassett, and Emily B. Falk
Media and Communications, Nick Couldry, Clemencia Rodriguez, Göran Bolin, Julie Cohen, Gerard Goggin, Marwan M. Kraidy, Koichi Iwabuchi, Kwang-Suk Lee, Jack Qiu, Ingrid Volkmer, Herman Wasserman, and Yuezhi Zhao
Rhetoric and Presidential Politics, Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Karlyn Kohrs Campbell
The Political Uses and Abuses of Civility and Incivility, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Allyson Volinsky, Ilana Weitz, and Kate Kenski
Culturally Antagonistic Memes and the Zika Virus: An Experimental Test, Dan M. Kahan, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Asheley Landrum, and Kenneth Winneg
Convergence and Disjuncture in Global Digital Culture, Marwan Kraidy
Creative Insurgency and the Celebrity President: Politics and Popular Culture from the Arab Spring to the White House, Marwan Kraidy
Hybridity, Marwan Kraidy
Music Videos as Digital Media: The View from the Arab World, Marwan Kraidy
The Projectilic Image: Islamic State’s Digital Visual Warfare and Global Networked Affect, Marwan Kraidy
The Revolutionary Public Sphere: The Case of the Arab Uprisings, Marwan Kraidy and Marina Krikorian
Recall of “The Real Cost” Anti-Smoking Campaign Is Specifically Associated With Endorsement of Campaign-Targeted Beliefs, Elissa c. Kranzler, Laura A. Gibson, and Robert Hornik
Three Concepts to Retire, Klaus Krippendorff
Backlash: The Politics and Real-World Consequences of Minority Group Dehumanization, Nour Kteily and Emile Bruneau
Darker Demons of Our Nature: The Need to (Re)Focus Attention on Blatant Forms of Dehumanization, Nour Kteily and Emile Bruneau
The Limits of Partisan Prejudice, Yphtach Lelkes and Sean J. Westwood
Networked Field Studies: Comparative Inquiry and Online Communities, Jessa Lingel
The Influence of Peer Behavior as a Function of Social and Cultural Closeness: A Meta-Analysis of Normative Influence on Adolescent Smoking Initiation and Continuation, Jiaying Liu, Siman Zhao, Xi Chen, Emily B. Falk, and Dolores Albarracín
Resilient Cooperators Stabilize Long-run Cooperation In The Finitely Repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma, Andrew Mao, Lili Dworkin, Siddharth Suri, and Duncan J. Watts
Media Policy Research and Practice: Insights and Interventions - Introduction, Pawel Popiel, Victor Pickard, and Mark Lloyd
Beyond Stereotypes of Adolescent Risk Taking: Placing the Adolescent Brain in Developmental Context, Daniel Romer, Valerie F. Reyna, and Theodore D. Satterthwaite
Who Likes to be Reachable? Availability Preferences, Weak Ties, and Bridging Social Capital, Penny Trieu, Joseph B. Bayer, Nicole B. Ellison, Sarita Schonebeck, and Emily B. Falk
Personalization, Joseph Turow
The Future of Shopping is More Discrimination, Joseph Turow
Executive Function Capacities, Negative Driving Behavior and Crashes in Young Drivers, Elizabeth A. Walshe, Chelsea Ward McIntosh, Daniel Romer, and Flaura Winston
Papers from 2016
The Dynamics of Information-Driven Coordination Phenomena: A Transfer Entropy Analysis, Javier Borge-Holthoefer, Nicola Perra, Bruno Goncalves, Sandra González-Bailón, Alex Arenas, Yamir Moreno, and Alessandro Vespignani
Preventing and Reducing Tobacco Use among Youth and Young Adults: A Systematic Review of the Effectiveness of Mass Media Interventions, 2008-2013, Emily Brennan, Michelle Jeong, Ani Momjian-Kybert, and Robert Hornik
Self-Affirmation Activates Brain Systems Associated with Self-Related Processing and Reward and is Reinforced by Future Orientation, Christopher N. Cascio, Matthew B. O'Donnell, Francis J. Tinney, Matthew D. Lieberman, Shelley D. Taylor, Victor J. Strecher, and Emily B. Falk
Ask a Feminist: A Conversation with Cathy J. Cohen on Black Lives Matter, Feminism, and Contemporary Activism, Cathy Cohen and Sarah Jackson
Functional Brain Imaging Predicts Public Health Campaign Success, Emily B. Falk, Matthew B. O'Donnell, Steven Tompson, Richard Gonzalez, Sonya Dal Cin, Victor J. Strecher, Kenneth M. Cummings, and Lawrence An
Presentation on "Measuring Social Phenomena", Sandra González-Bailón and Markus Strohmaier
Young Adult Smokers' Neural Response to Graphic Cigarette Warning Labels, Adam E. Green, Darren Mays, Emily B. Falk, Donna Vallone, Natalie Gallagher, Amanda Richardson, Kenneth P. Tercyak, David B. Abrams, and Raymond S. Niaura
(Re)Imagining Intersectional Democracy from Black Feminism to Hashtag Activism, Sarah Jackson
Digital Standpoints: Debating Gendered Violence and Racial Exclusions in the Feminist Counter Public, Sarah Jackson and Sonia Banaszczyk
Defining Women in Need: Online Media Coverage of the Violence Against Women Act and Native and Undocumented Women, Sarah J. Jackson
#Ferguson Is Everywhere: Initiators In Emerging Counterpublic Networks, Sarah Jackson and Brooke Foucault Welles
Selective Exposure to Health Information: The Role of Headline Features in the Choice of Health Newsletter Articles, Hyun Suk Ki, Heather Forquer, Joseph Rusko, Robert Hornik, and Joseph N. Cappella
Public Space, Street Art and Communication in the Arab Uprisings, Marwan Kraidy
Revolutionary Creative Labor, Marwan Kraidy
Why It’s Been So Effective to Ridicule Syria’s Bashar al-Assad as a Pathetic Finger Puppet, Marwan Kraidy
Design, Klaus Krippendorff
Design, an Undisciplinable Profession, Klaus Krippendorff
Misunderstanding Reliability, Klaus Krippendorff
Rediseñar el diseño Una invitación a un futuro responsable, Klaus Krippendorff
Rediseñar El Diseño Una Invitación A Un Futuro Responsable, Klaus Krippendorff
They See Us as Less Than Human: Metadehumanization Predicts Intergroup Conflict via Reciprocal Dehumanization, Nour Kteily, Gordon Hodson, and Emile Bruneau
Predictive Validity of an Empirical Approach for Selecting Promising Message Topics: A Randomized-Controlled Study, stella juhyun lee, Emily Brennan, Laura Anne Gibson, Andy Tan, Ani Kybert-Momjian, Jiaying Liu, and Robert Hornik