Kathleen Hall Jamieson

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Kathleen Hall Jamieson (born November 24, 1946 in Minneapolis ) is an American professor of communication studies and director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania . She is the author or co-author of more than 100 works, her book Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President won the 2019 RR Hawkins Award. Jamieson is the co-founder of factcheck.org.

Professional background

Shortly before successfully completing her Ph.D. program at the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1972 , Jamieson began working as a professor of communications at the University of Maryland . In 1986 she moved to the University of Texas, where she worked for three years.

In 1989 she accepted the position as dean of the Annenberg School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2003 she became director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center and has held this position ever since. In addition to her work as director, she is the program manager at the Annenberg Retreat in Sunnylands.

As part of her work as director of the Annenberg Publicity Policy Center, she met the journalist Brooks Jackson, with whom she started the website factcheck.org.

Jamieson's research covers the areas of political communication, rhetorical theories and criticism, studies of different candidacy communication and the discourse of the presidency. For her teaching work at the universities of Maryland, Texas, and Pennsylvania, she received awards for outstanding merit.

In 2001 Jamieson was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , in 2020 to the National Academy of Sciences , whose Public Welfare Medal she also received in 2020.

Works

Jamieson won twelve political and communication science awards with her works.

Her best-known works include unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation (Random House, 2007), which she wrote together with Brooks Jackson as Vorstein for factcheck.org, Presidents Creating the Presidency ( University of Chicago Press , 2008), which co-authored with Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, or Echo Chamber: Rush Limbaugh and the Conservative Media Establishment ( Oxford University Press , 2008).

In her work Cyberwar , Kathleen Hall Jamieson talks about the influence Russian "trolls" and hackers had on the 2016 presidential election. She discusses possible solutions on social media platforms, news outlets and other media to avoid such influence in the 2020 presidential elections.

Selected Works

  • Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President; What We Don't, Can't, and Do Know (Oxford, 2018) ISBN 978-0190915810
  • The Obama Victory: How Media, Money, and Messages Shaped the 2008 Election coauthored with Kate Kenski and Bruce W. Hardy (Oxford, 2010) ISBN 978-0195399561
  • Presidents Creating the Presidency: Deeds Done in Words coauthored with Karlyn Kohrs Campbell (University of Chicago, 2008) ISBN 9780226092218
  • Echo Chamber: Rush Limbaugh and the Conservative Media Establishment , coauthored with Joseph N. Cappella (Oxford, 2008) ISBN 9780195398601
  • unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation coauthored with Brooks Jackson (Random House, 2007) ISBN 9781400065660
  • Capturing Campaign Dynamics 2000 & 2004: The National Annenberg Election Survey coauthored with Dan Romer, Kate Kenski, Ken Winneg, and Christopher Adasiewicz (University of Pennsylvania, 2006)
  • The 2000 Presidential Election and the Foundations Of Party Politics coauthored with Richard Johnston and Michael Hagen (Cambridge, 2004) ISBN 978-9814338981
  • Capturing Campaign Dynamics: The National Annenberg Election Survey: Design, Method and Data coauthored with Dan Romer, Kate Kenski, Paul Waldman, and Christopher Adasiewicz (Oxford, 2003) ISBN 978-0195165043
  • The Press Effect: Politicians, Journalists and the Stories that Shape the Political World coauthored with Paul Waldman (Oxford, 2003) ISBN 978-0195173291
  • Everything You Think You Know About Politics ... and Why You're Wrong (Basic Books, 2000)
  • Spiral of Cynicism: Press and Public Good coauthored with Joseph N. Cappella (Oxford, 1997) ISBN 978-0195090642
  • Beyond the Double Bind: Women and Leadership (Oxford, 1995) ISBN 978-0195089400
  • Dirty Politics: Deception, Distraction and Democracy (Oxford, 1992) ISBN 978-0195085532
  • Deeds Done in Words: Presidential Rhetoric and The Genres of Governance coauthored with Karlyn Kohrs Campbell (University of Chicago, 1990) ISBN 978-0226092416
  • Presidential Debates: The Challenge of Creating an Informed Electorate coauthored with David Birdsell (Oxford, 1988) ISBN 978-0195066609
  • Eloquence in an Electronic Age (Oxford, 1988)
  • Packaging the Presidency (Oxford, 1984)
  • The Interplay of Influence: Media and Their Publics in News, Advertising and Politics coauthored with Karlyn Kohrs Campbell (Wadsworth, 1983) ISBN 978-0534012670
  • Debating Crime Control coauthored with Hugo Hellman and William Semlak (Marquette Publishing, 1967)

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. a b APS Member History. Retrieved June 12, 2020 .
  2. ^ Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Author at The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. In: The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved June 12, 2020 (American English).
  3. a b Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Ph.D. | Annenberg School for Communication. Retrieved June 12, 2020 .
  4. 2016 Henry Allen Moe Prize. Retrieved June 12, 2020 .
  5. ^ Kathleen Hall Jamieson on the Mueller Report, the Media, and Russia's 'Cyberwar'. In: The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. April 30, 2019, accessed June 12, 2020 (American English).