Bellisario Grad Ed
@bellisariograded.bsky.social
The MA and PhD programs in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications at Penn State.
Congratulations to PhD candidate Yansheng Liu who passed her dissertation defense today! With advisor @olivermb.bsky.social and committee members S. Shyam Sundar, Fuyuan Shen, & Mike Schmierbach.
December 5, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Congratulations to PhD candidate Yansheng Liu who passed her dissertation defense today! With advisor @olivermb.bsky.social and committee members S. Shyam Sundar, Fuyuan Shen, & Mike Schmierbach.
Faculty Russell Frank gives some thanks to State College. www.statecollege.com/articles/col...
Gratitude With a Touch of Attitude
Last Monday, I chanced upon an e-bike lying on its side on the strip of grass between the sidewalk and the street. Odd, I thought. I looked around, saw no
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November 26, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Faculty Russell Frank gives some thanks to State College. www.statecollege.com/articles/col...
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EVENT ALERT!
For the last year we've been cooking up a critical conversation between myself and orator, educator, and influential content creator Conscious Lee. We’ll discuss how he determines what's true, communicates complex stories, and promotes compelling, accessible public political education
For the last year we've been cooking up a critical conversation between myself and orator, educator, and influential content creator Conscious Lee. We’ll discuss how he determines what's true, communicates complex stories, and promotes compelling, accessible public political education
November 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
EVENT ALERT!
For the last year we've been cooking up a critical conversation between myself and orator, educator, and influential content creator Conscious Lee. We’ll discuss how he determines what's true, communicates complex stories, and promotes compelling, accessible public political education
For the last year we've been cooking up a critical conversation between myself and orator, educator, and influential content creator Conscious Lee. We’ll discuss how he determines what's true, communicates complex stories, and promotes compelling, accessible public political education
A new podcast from PhD alum @chenjerai.bsky.social: Unruley Subjects!
🚨The first episode of Unruly Subjects with @chenjerai.bsky.social is live!
It features a conversation with the Emmy-nominated writer and comedian @roywoodjr.bsky.social. Chenjerai and Roy discuss his new book "The Man of Many Fathers".
Listen here: pod.link/1849696769/e...
It features a conversation with the Emmy-nominated writer and comedian @roywoodjr.bsky.social. Chenjerai and Roy discuss his new book "The Man of Many Fathers".
Listen here: pod.link/1849696769/e...
November 24, 2025 at 6:22 PM
A new podcast from PhD alum @chenjerai.bsky.social: Unruley Subjects!
Pioneers Chair @christopherali.bsky.social reviews "Bridging the Digital Divide in the US: Planning Innovative State and Local Approaches." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Bridging the Digital Divide in the US: Planning Innovative State and Local Approaches
Published in Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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November 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Pioneers Chair @christopherali.bsky.social reviews "Bridging the Digital Divide in the US: Planning Innovative State and Local Approaches." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
PhD candidate Eunchae Jang and the Davis Professor in Ethics Patrick Lee Plaisance coauthor "Textual and Comparative Analyses on AI Policies: How Big Tech and Their Global Watchdogs Frame Virtues and Responsibility*," published in Journal of Media Ethics. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Textual and Comparative Analyses on AI Policies: How Big Tech and Their Global Watchdogs Frame Virtues and Responsibility*
The rapid advancement of AI has raised pressing moral considerations, prompting many stakeholders to publish guidelines for responsible development. However, the specific virtues organizations prio...
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November 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
PhD candidate Eunchae Jang and the Davis Professor in Ethics Patrick Lee Plaisance coauthor "Textual and Comparative Analyses on AI Policies: How Big Tech and Their Global Watchdogs Frame Virtues and Responsibility*," published in Journal of Media Ethics. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Congrats to PhD candidate Wilhelmina Antwi, who passed her Comprehensive Exams today! With co-advisors Lee Ahern and Juliet Pinto, and committee members @chrisskurka.bsky.social, @matthewpmcallister.bsky.social & Sinfree Makoni (Director of African Studies).
November 17, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Congrats to PhD candidate Wilhelmina Antwi, who passed her Comprehensive Exams today! With co-advisors Lee Ahern and Juliet Pinto, and committee members @chrisskurka.bsky.social, @matthewpmcallister.bsky.social & Sinfree Makoni (Director of African Studies).
Learn about the new book from alum @wunpini.bsky.social!
Next week, I will be giving my first book talk 📚 at Cornell University - after finally holding the book in my hands. 🥹
Thanks to the Media Studies Initiative for the opportunity to share my work with the university community.
Come through if you're in the area. 💙💛
Thanks to the Media Studies Initiative for the opportunity to share my work with the university community.
Come through if you're in the area. 💙💛
November 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Learn about the new book from alum @wunpini.bsky.social!
The Centre Film Festival, with Artistic Director Pearl Gluck and lots of Bellisario involvement as well as participation from international film makers, is next week: Nov 10-16! www.psu.edu/news/bellisa...
Penn State faculty, student and alumni films to screen at Centre Film Festival | Penn State University
Two films from a Penn State faculty member will be making their Pennsylvania premieres during the seventh annual Centre Film Festival, scheduled Nov. 10-16. In addition, the festival will include 14 f...
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November 6, 2025 at 6:59 PM
The Centre Film Festival, with Artistic Director Pearl Gluck and lots of Bellisario involvement as well as participation from international film makers, is next week: Nov 10-16! www.psu.edu/news/bellisa...
A profile of faculty @corybarker.bsky.social! www.psu.edu/news/bellisa...
Bellisario professor makes industry connections at Media Educators Conference | Penn State University
Penn State faculty member Cory Barker, an assistant teaching professor in the Department of Film Production and Media Studies, made the most of a three-day conference in Los Angeles.
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November 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
A profile of faculty @corybarker.bsky.social! www.psu.edu/news/bellisa...
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I had a tremendous time at NYU Steinhardt Department of Media, Culture, and Communication giving the keynote address for the Neil Postman Graduate Conference last week.
The student presentations were impressive! 🔥
What a beautifully generative space this was. 💛💙
I will be back! 😊
The student presentations were impressive! 🔥
What a beautifully generative space this was. 💛💙
I will be back! 😊
November 1, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I had a tremendous time at NYU Steinhardt Department of Media, Culture, and Communication giving the keynote address for the Neil Postman Graduate Conference last week.
The student presentations were impressive! 🔥
What a beautifully generative space this was. 💛💙
I will be back! 😊
The student presentations were impressive! 🔥
What a beautifully generative space this was. 💛💙
I will be back! 😊
Read about alum @christenbuckley.bsky.social, now at Temple! www.linkedin.com/pulse/depart...
The Department of Advertising and Public Relations Welcomes Three New Faculty Members
By Renee Golan and Kelsea Clarke The Department of Advertising and Public Relations has recently welcomed three new faculty members: Prof. Kevin Kowalick, Dr.
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October 31, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Read about alum @christenbuckley.bsky.social, now at Temple! www.linkedin.com/pulse/depart...
The Donald P. Bellisario Professor of Media Studies @olivermb.bsky.social joins coauthors Art Raney, Sophie Janicke-Bowles, and Katherine R. Dale for "Inspiring the Nones?: Exploring Self-Transcendent Media Use and Outcomes Among the Religiously Unaffiliated." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Inspiring the Nones?: Exploring Self-Transcendent Media Use and Outcomes Among the Religiously Unaffiliated
More than one in four U.S. adults now claim no religious affiliation, representing a 460% increase in religious “nones” since 1972. However, despite a recent spate of studies on self-transcendent m...
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October 30, 2025 at 12:08 PM
The Donald P. Bellisario Professor of Media Studies @olivermb.bsky.social joins coauthors Art Raney, Sophie Janicke-Bowles, and Katherine R. Dale for "Inspiring the Nones?: Exploring Self-Transcendent Media Use and Outcomes Among the Religiously Unaffiliated." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Faculty Russell Frank on the Trumpian "Compact." www.statecollege.com/articles/opi...
We Had to Destroy the Universities to Save Them
"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’” – Ronald Reagan Skim most any document
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October 29, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Faculty Russell Frank on the Trumpian "Compact." www.statecollege.com/articles/opi...
Congratulations to PhD student Jiayun Ye who passed her Qualifying Exam this week! With advisor @matthewpmcallister.bsky.social and committee members Stephanie Madden and Sara Liao.
October 23, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Congratulations to PhD student Jiayun Ye who passed her Qualifying Exam this week! With advisor @matthewpmcallister.bsky.social and committee members Stephanie Madden and Sara Liao.
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My recent article on the Pentagon's press policy for @theconversation.com has been translated into Greek.
October 23, 2025 at 11:00 AM
My recent article on the Pentagon's press policy for @theconversation.com has been translated into Greek.
Alum Erin Whiteside authors "How Sports Media Undermines Women’s Potential in an Age of Empowerment: A Field of Contradictions," in the new edited book Sport, Media, and Discrimination. www.routledge.com/Sport-Media-...
Sport, Media and Discrimination
Sport, Media and Discrimination provides critical, inter-disciplinary and international perspectives on how sports media constructs and reinforces discrimination in contemporary societies.
The book ar...
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October 22, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Alum Erin Whiteside authors "How Sports Media Undermines Women’s Potential in an Age of Empowerment: A Field of Contradictions," in the new edited book Sport, Media, and Discrimination. www.routledge.com/Sport-Media-...
PhD alum Jeeyun Oh and Hyunjin Kang are among the coauthors of "Understanding the dimensions and violation of privacy in human–algorithm interaction: A self-determination theory perspective," in New Media & Society. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Understanding the dimensions and violation of privacy in human–algorithm interaction: A self-determination theory perspective - Jeeyun Oh, Hyunjin Kang, Eunjoo Jin, Tingting Yang, Nazira Banu, Shuer Z...
This study qualitatively investigates user responses to privacy invasion by social media algorithms and identifies the fundamental needs that drive the feelings...
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October 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
PhD alum Jeeyun Oh and Hyunjin Kang are among the coauthors of "Understanding the dimensions and violation of privacy in human–algorithm interaction: A self-determination theory perspective," in New Media & Society. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A keynote from PhD alum @wunpini.bsky.social!
This week, I will be giving my first ever conference keynote at New York University. 🙈 😊
I am nervous and excited and looking forward to the conversation this generates.
Ti chama! 🙏🏿
I am nervous and excited and looking forward to the conversation this generates.
Ti chama! 🙏🏿
October 20, 2025 at 2:21 PM
A keynote from PhD alum @wunpini.bsky.social!
A summary of research from PhD alum Chris Chen, PhD candidate Eunchae Jang, and Evan Pugh University Professor Shyam Sundar on perceptions of racial bias in AI training. www.psu.edu/news/bellisa...
Most users cannot identify AI bias, even in training data | Penn State University
When recognizing faces and emotions, artificial intelligence (AI) can be biased, like classifying white people as happier than people from other racial backgrounds. This happens because the data used ...
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October 20, 2025 at 2:20 PM
A summary of research from PhD alum Chris Chen, PhD candidate Eunchae Jang, and Evan Pugh University Professor Shyam Sundar on perceptions of racial bias in AI training. www.psu.edu/news/bellisa...
PhD alum @jenniferhoewe.bsky.social joins Diane Jackson in coauthoring "Predictors of partisan news selection and political misinformation sharing," in NCA's Communication Monographs. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Predictors of partisan news selection and political misinformation sharing
This research investigates the effect of partisan news consumers’ experience of (in)coherence on their consumptive and sharing tendencies for political news stories that contain misinformation. Two...
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October 17, 2025 at 3:32 PM
PhD alum @jenniferhoewe.bsky.social joins Diane Jackson in coauthoring "Predictors of partisan news selection and political misinformation sharing," in NCA's Communication Monographs. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
From John and Ann Curley Professor of First Amendment Studies @amykristinsanders.bsky.social: "New Pentagon policy is an unprecedented attempt to undermine press freedom."
New piece from me @theconversation.com. The Pentagon Press Corps has served uninterrupted since WWII...until now. All through Vietnam, the Gulf Wars, Afghanistan and other conflicts. We are not at war. The only active conflict is the one the Trump Administration has with the U.S. Constitution.
New Pentagon policy is an unprecedented attempt to undermine press freedom
Free press advocates warn that limiting how journalists cover the Defense Department hampers the stability and freedom that democracies enjoy.
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October 17, 2025 at 2:09 AM
From John and Ann Curley Professor of First Amendment Studies @amykristinsanders.bsky.social: "New Pentagon policy is an unprecedented attempt to undermine press freedom."
Congratulations to PhD alum Yong Tang on his new book, "Freedom of Information Law in China: From Imperial Court Dairies to Open Government Information Regulations." link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Freedom of Information Law in China
This book acknowledges the accomplishments of China in government transparency and explains the limitations of such authoritarian transparency
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October 17, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Congratulations to PhD alum Yong Tang on his new book, "Freedom of Information Law in China: From Imperial Court Dairies to Open Government Information Regulations." link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
PhD alum Alyssa Appelman and Kirstie Hettinga join Olga Morales as coauthors of “'Real Effort' and 'Real Skill': Editors Emphasize Their Contributions in a Changing Field." www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
“Real Effort” and “Real Skill”: Editors Emphasize Their Contributions in a Changing Field
This study looks at how editors perceive the field of editing and how they think the field is viewed by the public. The researchers conducted semi-structured qualitative interviews with 15 editors ...
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October 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
PhD alum Alyssa Appelman and Kirstie Hettinga join Olga Morales as coauthors of “'Real Effort' and 'Real Skill': Editors Emphasize Their Contributions in a Changing Field." www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
The John and Ann Curley Professor of First Amendment Studies @amykristinsanders.bsky.social will be part of a panel on "Challenges from Courts and to the Rule of Law," at the symposium "The Fourth Estate in a Time of Crisis," at UConn. events.uconn.edu/law-school/e...
The Fourth Estate in a Time of Crisis
Connecticut Law Review’s annual symposium. Keynote Speaker: David Folkenflik, NPR News, Media Correspondent
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October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The John and Ann Curley Professor of First Amendment Studies @amykristinsanders.bsky.social will be part of a panel on "Challenges from Courts and to the Rule of Law," at the symposium "The Fourth Estate in a Time of Crisis," at UConn. events.uconn.edu/law-school/e...