The Project for Advanced Research in Global Communication (PARGC) at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania promotes theoretical and empirical innovation in the study of global communication in public life. We aim to stimulate critical conversations between disciplines, interdisciplinary fields, and area studies, about entrenched and emerging issues in worldwide communication. We also aspire to understand changing dynamics of knowledge production and dissemination, including comparative and transnational approaches to the world, electronic publication and digital archives. Focused on the development of doctoral students and early career postdoctoral scholars, PARGC sponsors the Distinguished Lecture in Global Communication in the fall by an eminent scholar who also gives a master class, and the PARGC Symposium in the spring. We also host visiting postdoctoral scholars, publish occasional papers, and organize other thematic activities.

                        publishes papers and co-publishes books resulting from our activities.