Annenberg School for Communication
The Annenberg School for Communication is a vibrant, diverse, and close-knit community of scholars at the forefront of today’s media landscape who engage with the major issues of communication in our world.
Communication has never been more important—or imperiled. The same radically shifting information environment that gave rise to multiple media channels and social networking opportunities also results in news deserts, echo chambers, and misinformation, which challenge the very fabric of democracy.
Our faculty and students work collaboratively on questions ranging from how the brain processes media messages to how the structure of online social networks and larger media systems influence the quality and accessibility of public information. Connecting these diverse approaches is the search for understanding how communications can shape—and ultimately improve—individual and collective decision-making.
Tim Wortham, Jr.
Senior Director of Institutional Advancement
timothy.wortham@asc.upenn.edu
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Annenberg Creative offers multimodal grants to support student scholarship that connects media theory to practice using modes of production such as film, podcasting, and VR.
Highlighted Priorities
- Supporting the educational and research missions of our faculty and centers in the areas of media policy; journalism; and health, political and global communication.
- Expanding the boundaries of scholarship by integrating media, arts, and technology into communication research.
- Generating new forms of knowledge that can serve the public interest through the analysis of digital data, online social networks, and new forms of information and communication technologies.
“Our community is profoundly interdisciplinary and collaborative, with award-winning faculty, researchers, and students working alongside other scholars at Penn to reimagine and revolutionize approaches to issues such as health care, data privacy, cultural and demographic change, politics, new technologies, gender and racial justice, media literacy and policy, journalistic trust, and the re-structuring of media industries amid ever-changing conditions.”
- Sarah Banet-Weiser
Dean and Lauren Berlant Professor of Communication
