USC Annenberg doctoral students will be in Dallas, Texas this weekend for the annual National Communication Association conference. Over 20 current students (as well as faculty and alums) will present their work at the annual gathering of communication scholars:
Thursday, November 16
Marcia Allison (ABD), Three-Parent Babies, Nuclear (DNA) War and Multiple Personae: Identification as Argument in the Mitochondrial Donation Debate
Professor Andrea Hollingshead, Bei Yan (ABD), Kristen Steves (Fifth Year), Ignacio Cruz (Third Year), & Sonia Jawaid Shaikh (ABD), Assessing Group Communication in Transactive Memory Systems: Results from a Comprehensive Review of Empirical Research
Raffi Sarkissian (ABD), Critical Discourse and Affect in the It Gets Better Project
TJ Billard (Third Year), "It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's a Transgender Superhero!": Transgender Characters in Marvel, DC, and Image Comics
Nathan Walter (ABD), Christiana Robbins (Fourth Year), Professor Sheila Murphy, & Professor Sandra Ball-Rokeach, The Weight of Networks: The Role of Social Ties and Ethnic Media in Mitigating Obesity and Hypertension among Latinas
Friday, November 17
Jeeyun Baik (Second Year), LGBT Representation on Webtoons: Parasocial Contact Hypothesis, Familiarity and Interaction
Professor Patricia Riley, Professor Thomas Hollihan, Christina Hagen (ABD), Stefanie Demetriades (ABD), & Ruthie Kelly (Fourth Year), The Evolution of ISIS Arguments as Socio-material Narratives
Professor Andrea Hollingshead, Sonia Jawaid Shaikh (ABD), & Professor Michael Cody, Bounded Rationality: The Legacy and Relevance of Herbert Simon's Concept for Communication Scholarship
Wei Wang (ABD), From Political Resistance to Personal Resistance: Youth Culture, Media, and the Redefining of Cui Jian's Rock Music in the 2010s
Lik Sam Chan (ABD), Ambivalence in networked intimacy: Observations from gay men using mobile dating apps
Stefanie Demetriades (ABD), The "Boy in the Ambulance" and Cosmopolitan Dimensions of Virality
Chi Zhang (ABD), Ethnic communication ecology and the boundaries of political engagement among first-generation Chinese Americans
Saturday, November 18
TJ Billard (Third Year) & Nathan Walter (ABD), Rethinking the Framing Paradigm: An Experimental Case Study of the 2016 Orlando Shooting
Nathan Walter (ABD), Stefanie Demetriades (ABD), & Professor Sheila Murphy, Can Vicarious Self-Affirmation Reduce E-Cigarette Use? The Case Study of College-Age Users
Jillian Kwong (Third Year), Taking One For The Team: Using Self-Affirmation to Impact Vaccine Intention
Briana Ellerbe (Second Year), Tumble High and Drop it Low: The Black Female Body in Collegiate Gymnastics
Brooklyne Gipson (Second Year), Black Women Are From the Future: #BlackGirlMagic As Aggregator of the Black Radical Imagination
Jingyi Sun (Second Year), Selective Exposure on Facebook: Interaction Effects Between Motives and Emotion Arousal
Ignacio Cruz (Third Year), Getting the Most Out of Your Network: Developing Social Capital through Involvement and Leadership in Meetings
Sunday, November 19
Bei Yan (ABD) & Professor Andrea Hollingshead, The Opportunities and Challenges of Communication Technology for Group Communication Scholarship
Marina Litvinsky (Fourth Year), Art, Space and Resistance: How Activists are Taking Back Boyle Heights