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Seeing Through the Spin: Equipping Students to be Smart Consumers of Political Information
Kathleen Hall Jamieson is the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication at the Books authored by Jamieson include Packaging the Presidency (Oxford, 1984, 1992, 1996; winner of SCA Golden Anniversary Book Award), Eloquence in an Electronic Age ( Oxford 1988 and 1990; recipient of the SCA Winans-Wichelns Book Award), Dirty Politics (Oxford, 1992 ) and Beyond the Double Bind: Women and Leadership (Oxford, 1995). With Joseph Cappella she wrote Spiral of Cynicism: The Press and the Public Good (Oxford, 1997 winner of APSA Political Communication Division Doris Graber Award) and Echo Chamber: Rush Limbaugh and the Conservative Media Establishment (Oxford, 2008). She and Karlyn Kohrs Campbell co-authored Presidents Creating the Presidency: Deeds Done in Words (University of Chicago Press, 2008). Paul Waldman and Jamieson's The Press Effect (Oxford) appeared in 2003. With Richard Johnston and Michael Hagen, Jamieson wrote The 2000 Election and the Foundations of Party Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2004). Kate Kenski, Bruce Hardy, and Jamieson wrote The Obama Victory (Oxford, 2010), winner of an American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE Award) in government and politics and the ICA outstanding book award. Richard Johnston and Jamieson founded the Annenberg Public Policy Center's National Annenberg Election Study and she and journalist Brooks Jackson created FactCheck.org. Jamieson's videos for high school students on the Constitution earned the American Bar Association's Greeley Award. Jamieson is founder of the new political literacy site, www.FlackCheck.org, which uses parody and humor to debunk false political advertising, poke fun at extreme language, and hold the media accountable for their reporting on political campaigns. Jamieson's video curriculum for high school students on the Constitution, housed on the Annenberg Classroom website, earned the American Bar Association's Greeley Award. Jamieson's work has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Pew Charitable Trusts, among others. She currently serves on the boards of the Russell Sage and WT Grant Foundations. Awards won by Jamieson include the APSA political communication division's Murray Edelman Award. She is a fellow of the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Political and Social Science and the International Communication. Jamieson served on the APSA Council from 2008-2011. Related Links |
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Annenberg School for Communication of the University of Pennsylvania, the founding Director of Penn's Annenberg Public Policy Center and Program Director of the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands. Jamieson earned her Ph.D. in Communication at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and has taught at the University of Maryland, the University of Texas, Austin and the University of Pennsylvania where she served as dean of the Annenberg School from 1989-2003. Jamieson received teaching awards at each of these universities.