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September 22, 2014

On September 23, 2014 PARGC director Marwan M. Kraidy will present "The Revolutionary Body Politic: Corporeal and Digital Dissent in the Arab Uprisings" at the Amsterdam Middle Eastern Studies Lecture Series.

September 2, 2014

PARGC welcomes Maria Repnikova as its 2014-2015 PARGC Postdoctoral Fellow. Maria's current research examines state-media relations in China, drawing some comparisons to Russia and the Soviet Union.

September 2, 2014

Marwan M. Kraidy, PARGC director and Anthony Shadid Chair of Global Media, Politics & Culture at the Annenberg School for Communication, appeared on the September 1st edition of Background Briefing with Ian Masters to discuss the Islamic State's use of the media.

 

May 30, 2014

PARGC is pleased to present our inaugural PARGC Press publication, "In the Shadow of Official Ambition: National Media Policy Confronts Global Media Capital," by Michael Curtin (University of California, Santa Barbara).

April 16, 2014

In conjunction with our inaugrual symposium,  PARGC is currently hosting an exhibition of Beirut graffiti, entitled “Before This It Was Just a Wall.” The photos, taken by PARGC director Marwan M. Kraidy, include graffiti inspired by the Arab uprisings, as well as other social and political causes; all share a common concern with the human body. The exhibit will be on display in the ASC plaza through April.

April 16, 2014

PARGC director Marwan M. Kraidy has been awarded fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities in support of his project, Creative Insurgency: Arab Dissent in an Age of Revolution.

March 24, 2014

"The popular rebellions that have swept Arab countries since December 2010 have spawned an active field of revolutionary cultural production. Scholars from around the world will gather at the Annenberg School for Communication's Project for Advanced Research in Global Communication's (PARGC) inaugural symposium."

February 26, 2014

In a new op-ed for Al Jazeera America, PARGC director Marwan M. Kraidy looks at the fate of political comedy in Egypt’s increasingly hostile media environment.

January 31, 2014

PARGC Postdoctoral Fellow Donatella Della Ratta recently attened the Forth Arab Bloggers Meeting in Amman, Jordan. Here she writes about the workshop she helped to organized entitled "Mind the Gap: Bridging Knowledge and Practices of Activism.”

January 29, 2014

An Annenberg project to study the global impact of mobile communication technology on commerce, health, and government has received a $21,000 Global Engagement Fund grant from Penn’s Office of the Vice Provost for Global Initiatives.

January 9, 2014

In a recent interview with online magazine Jadaliyya, PARGC Postdoctoral Fellow Donatella Della Ratta dicscusses televsion dramas and power relations in Syria, recounting her doctoral studies fieldwork in Syria and work on her soon-to-be-published book on the subject.

Donatella Della Ratta joins Annenberg as the first PARGC Postdoctoral Fellow

November 19, 2013

The Annenberg School for Communication’s Project for Advanced Research in Global Communication (PARGC) welcomes Donatella Della Ratta, Ph.D., as the first PARGC Postdoctoral Fellow. 

PARGC director Marwan M. Kraidy and Annenberg doctoral student Omar Al-Ghazzi published in the International Journal of Communication

October 23, 2013

Annenberg doctoral student Omar Al-Ghazi and Prof. Marwan M. Kraidy have published the article “Turkey, the Middle East & the Media: Neo-Ottoman Cool 2: Turkish Nation Branding and Arabic-Language Transnational Broadcasting” in a special section of the the International Journal of Communication (Vol. 7, 2013). The article is part of a broader, multi-year research project about the evolutions of constructions and perceptions of Turkey in Arab media and public discourse.

PARGC director Marwan M. Kraidy contributes chapter to new book

September 10, 2013

Marwan M. Kraidy, Professor of Communication and Director of the Annenberg Project for Advanced Research in Global Communication, has contributed a chapter, "Mapping Arab Television: Multiple Scales and Proximities," to the book Global Communication: New Agendas in Communication, edited by J. Straubhaar, K. Wilkins, and S. Kumar (London and New York: Routledge, 2013).

 

Annenberg extends its international scholarly research with launch of PARGC

July 15, 2013

Strengthening its reputation for scholarly and applied global, comparative, and international research, training, and networking, Penn's Annenberg School for Communication this fall will open the Project for Advanced Research in Global Communication (PARGC).

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