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The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania performs research in the fields of political communication, information and society, media and the developing child, health communication and adolescent risk. The Policy Center's goal is to provide expert analysis that brings these issues into focus.  We build upon the scholarship produced by the Annenberg School for Communication, which is our home.

With offices in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., the Policy Center conducts and disseminates research, hosts lectures and conferences and convenes expert panels to address important questions about the intersection of media, communication and public policy.

To further our mission, we launched this website. It is designed to give scholars, the media and the general public expanded access to the work that we began in 1993. On this site, we make available digests of our research and links to data sets and topline surveys. If there are any questions about materials not posted on the site, please contact our Philadelphia office at the number listed at the bottom of this page, or send an email to kriley@asc.upenn.edu.

Also, we invite you to learn more about the work of the Annenberg Public Policy Center by reading our newsletter, On the Record, available by clicking the On the Record link in our Library below.

Visit the website for Dr. Jamieson's newest book, co-authored with Dr. Joseph Cappella, Echo Chamber: Rush Limbaugh and the Conservative Media Establishment. 

Read the fall 2008 issue of On the Record.

Visit the Annenberg Center for Advanced Study in Communication.

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The Holiday-Suicide Myth: Newspapers (and TV Shows) Return to Old Ways

Monday, December 08, 2008

One of the more persistent myths about the end-of-year holidays is that suicides rise during this period. According to a recently completed analysis of news reporting during last year’s holiday period, there was renewed repetition of this myth in newspaper reporting. Despite the sizeable drop that occurred during the preceding holiday period in 2006, newspapers displayed a surge in both the number and proportion of stories that supported the myth.

The analysis, released today by the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) shows that about half of the articles written during last year’s holiday season that made a direct connection to the season perpetuated the myth. That represents a statistically significant increase from the previous holiday period when less than 10 percent supported the myth.

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Internet Gambling Stays Low Among Youth Ages 14 to 22 But Access to Gambling Sites Continues; Sports Gambling Makes Resurgence

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

After last year’s precipitous decline, card playing for money on the Internet has remained at the same low level among both high school and college-age males, according to the latest National Annenberg Survey of Youth.

Card playing for money at least once a month on the Internet among male youth remained at the same level in 2008 (3.3%) as in 2007 (2.4%). Weekly rates of gambling also did not change, going from 1.1% to 1.7%. Card playing in general remained at about the same levels for both monthly (26.0% to 25.6%) and weekly (5.0% to 4.2%) play.

“The card playing fad that we saw earlier in the decade appears to have lost its steam among young people ages 14 to 22,” said Dan Romer, director of the Annenberg Adolescent Risk Communication Institute, which conducts the annual survey. In addition, the strong drop in weekly use of Internet sites following passage of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) of 2006 appears to remain in place.

 

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Wet, Dry: Fresh concrete at APPC


Photo by Bob Jamieson

A site worker uses a wet-dry vac to suck up the remains of Tropical Storm Hanna from the agora floor. The area must be made bone dry before the top layer of concrete is poured, encasing the orange PEX tubes and steel grating within. Learn More
 
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12/08/2008 Adolescent Risk The Holiday-Suicide Myth: Newspapers (and TV Shows) Return to Old Ways
11/26/2008 Adolescent Risk Internet Gambling Stays Low Among Youth Ages 14 to 22 But Access to Gambling Sites Continues; Sports Gambling Makes Resurgence
11/04/2008 Political Communication Annenberg Classroom Receives A+ from Education World
10/29/2008 Political Communication American public still has much to learn about presidential candidates’ issue positions as campaign end draws near, Annenberg Survey shows
10/29/2008 Political Communication Over one in nine citizens have already voted, Annenberg Survey shows
10/27/2008 Political Communication C-SPAN to air APPC-sponsored focus group interview tonight
09/26/2008 Political Communication American public has much to learn about presidential candidates’ issue positions, National Annenberg Election Survey shows
09/12/2008 Political Communication Support for the presidential ticket and identification with party predicted convention speech viewing
09/09/2008 Political Communication Republicans and independents are more likely to think the United States is ready to elect a president who is a woman now that Governor Sarah Palin is Senator John McCain’s running mate, according to the National Annenberg Election Survey
08/29/2008 Political Communication FactCheck.org Makes PC Magazine’s Top 20 Political Site List
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