Higher Education in the Information Age


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Kathleen Hall Jamieson

Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication
Professor of Communication
University of Pennsylvania

Kathleen Hall Jamieson is Professor of Communication and Dean of The Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of:

    - Dirty Politics: Deception, Distraction and Democracy
    - Packaging the Presidency, which received the Speech Communication Association's Golden Anniversary Book Award
    - Eloquence in an Electronic Age, which received the Winans-Wichelns Book Award
Her most recent book with Joseph Cappella is Spiral of Cynicism: Press and Public Good.

During the 1996 general election, Jamieson served as a commentator -- on the debates for CBS News, on advertising on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and on the discourse of the campaign for NPR.