More than 50 USC Annenberg professors and students will participate in the National Communication Association’s 96th Annual Convention starting this weekend in San Francisco. The event, “Building Bridges,” takes place Nov. 14-17.

Participants will attend specialized sessions, present papers, and participate in discussions. Many Annenberg professors and students are presenting their work and chairing sessions at NCA this year, including (but not limited to):

Communication professor Sandra Ball-Rokeach will attend the session “Building Bridges across Ethnic Boundaries: Reflections on Interethnic Communication and Community Building” on Nov. 15 from 12:30-1:45 p.m. at the Hilton San Francisco/Lombard. She will be a presenter on her individual submission “Building New Media Bridges across Ethnicity en route to Increased Civic Engagement.”

Communication professor Michael Cody will attend the session “Working on Bridging the Digital Divides” on Nov. 16 from 8- 9:15 a.m. in Parc 55 Hotel/Davidson.
He will chair the session, which is part of the unit “Partnership for Progress on the Digital Divide.”

Communication professor emeritus Walter Fisher will present at the session “NCA Distinguished Scholar Business Meeting and Reception” on Nov. 16 from 3:30 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
It is located at the Hilton San Francisco/Golden Gate 6.

Communication professor Janet Fulk will attend the session “20 Years Later: The Legacy of Fulk and Steinfield’s ‘Organizations and Communication Technology’” on Nov. 16 from 9:30-10:45 a.m. at the Hilton San Francisco/Continental 2. It is part of the unit Organizational Communication Division, and Fulk will serve as a respondent.

She will also serve as a respondent in the session “Approaches to Study New Forms of Virtual Research Environments” on Nov. 15 from 3:30-4:45 p.m. at the Hilton San Francisco/Union Square 8, as part of the unit Organizational Communication Division.

Communication professor G. Thomas Goodnight will attend the session “Between Past and Future Lifeworlds: Habermas, the Public and Democratic Discourse” on Nov. 17 from 9:30-10:45 a.m. at the Hilton San Francisco/Van Ness. He will present on his individual submission “Cascading Legitimation Crises: A Habermasian Read of the Global Housing Bubble” as part of the unit Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division.

He will also attend the session “Bridging Semiotics in the History of Rhetoric and Political Economy in Britain: Eighteenth Century Norms, Twentieth Century Signals” on Nov. 14 from 9:30-10:45 a.m. at Parc 55 Hotel/Mission II. He will present on his individual submission “Imitating Moderation: Mimesis in Hayek’s Political Economy” in the unit American Society for the History of Rhetoric.

He will also attend the session “Building Bridges Between Public Relations and the Public Sphere” as a presenter on Nov. 15 from 2-3:15 p.m. at the Hilton San Francisco/Golden Gate 7.

Additionally, Goodnight will attend the session “Building Bridges: Ingenium and the Invention of New Networks, Genres and Counterfactuals” on Nov. 15 from 8-9:15 a.m. at Parc 55 Hotel/Mason. He will be presenting on his individual submission “Ingenium and the Network Imaginary.”

Goodnight will also present at the session “Economics, Communication and Society Roundtable Panel” on Nov. 14 at 12:30-3:15 p.m at SFSU Downtown/Room 609 as a part of the unit Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division.

Additionally, he will attend the session “The Politics of Rhetorical Tropes” on Nov. 15 from 9:30-10:45 a.m. at the Hilton San Francisco/Mason A. He will be a respondent in the session, which is part of the unit Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division.

Goodnight will also chair the session “Visual Rhetoric in the United States and Eurasia: The Interplay of History, Memory and Place” on Nov. 16 from 8-9:15 a.m. at the Hilton San Francisco/Union Square 4 as part of the unit Visual Communication Division.

Communication Professor Andrea Hollingshead will chair the session “A Behind the Scenes Guide to Studying Group Communication by Experts in the Field” on Nov. 16 from 9:30-10:45 a.m. at the Hilton San Francisco/Union Square 13 as part of the unit Group Communication Division.

Communication professor Margaret McLaughlin will present at the session “Working on Bridging the Digital Divides” on Nov. 16 from 8-9:15 a.m. at the Parc 55 Hotel/Davidson. She will present on her individual submission “SpeechLinks: Medical Interpretation Technology for Low Income Spanish Language Patients and Families” as part of the unit Partnership for Progress on the Digital Divide.

Communication professor Peter Monge will serve as a respondent in the session “Approaches to Study New Forms of Virtual Research Environments” on Nov. 15 from 3:30-4:45p.m. at the Hilton San Francisco/Union Square 8 as part of the unit Organizational Communication Division.

Monge will also present at the seminar SEM01: Moving into Grant-Funded Social Science Research” on Nov. 13 from 8-11 a.m. at the Hilton San Francisco/Union Square 1.

Communication professor Stephen O’Leary will participate in the session “Breaking Bridges and Building Networks: Explorations of Rhetorical Agency in Chaotic Textual Ecologies” as the chair and a respondent. It will take place on Nov. 17 from 8-9:15 a.m. at the Hilton San Francisco/Van Ness as part of the unit Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division.

Communication professor Michael Parks will participate in the session “Building Bridges across Ethnic Boundaries: Reflections on Interethnic Communication and Community Building” on Nov. 15 from 12:30-1:45 p.m. at the Hilton San Francisco/Lombard. He will be presenting on his individual submission “Building New Media Bridges across Ethnicity en route to Increased Civic Engagement” as part of the unit Peace and Conflict Communication Division.

Director of the Global Communication master’s degree program Patricia Riley will attend the session “Bridging Journalism’s Past with its Future: Changes and Continuity” on Nov. 14 at 8-9:15 a.m. at the Hilton San Francisco/Golden Gate 3. She will present on her individual submission “The Christian Science Monitor & Change: Keeping the Values of a Print Daily in a Web-First World” as a part of the unit Mass Communication Division.

She will also present at the session “Corporate Personhood and Free Speech: Developing Communicative Conceptions of Corporations and Their Action” on Nov. 14 from 9:30-10:45 a.m. at the Hilton San Francisco/ Golden Gate 4.

Communication professor Paolo Sigismondi will attend the session “The Global Economy and Intercultural Communication: Poverty, Profitability, and Consumerism” on Nov. 17 from 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. at the Hilton San Francisco/Union Square 3. He will be presenting on his individual submission “The digital glocalization of entertainment: Building bridges of profits across media landscapes and cultures?” as a part of the unit International and Intercultural Communication Division.

Communication professor Christopher Smith will present at the session “Economics, Communication and Society Roundtable Panel” on Nov. 14 from 12:30-3:15 p.m. at SFSU Downtown/Room 609 as part of the unit Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division.

Communication professor Gordon Stables will present in the session “Building Organizational Bridges: Debate Governance and Assessment” on Nov. 14 from 12:30-1:45 p.m. at the Hilton San Francisco/Mason A as a part of the unit Cross Examination Debate Association.

He will also chair the session “The Digital Transition and Intercollegiate Debate (Part 1)” on Nov. 15 from 12:30-1:45 p.m. at the Hilton San Francisco/Golden Gate 9 as a part of the unit Cross Examination Debate Association.

Additionally, Stables will chair the session “The Digital Transition and Intercollegiate Debate (Part 2)” on Nov. 15 from 2.-3:15 p.m. at the Hilton San Francisco/Golden Gate 8 as part of the unit Cross Examination Debate Association.

Communication professor Dmitri Williams will participate in the session “Top Four Papers in Mass Communication” on Nov. 15 from 3:30-4:45 p.m. at the Hilton San Francisco/Golden Gate 3 as a non-presenter on his individual submission “Virtual Masculinity: A Three-Dimensional Content Analysis of Male Video Game Characters.”

Associated faculty, adjunct faculty, and doctoral students presenting include Zheng An, Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati , Patrick Belanger, Beth Boser, Garrett Broad, Dayna Chatman, Christopher Chavez, Nien Tsu (Nancy) Chen, Jae Eun Chung, Kevin Driscoll, Laurel Felt, Carmen Gonzales, Jessica Janine Gould, Sandy Green, Shoko Hayashi Barnes, Young Ji Kim, Lori Kido Lopez, Li Lu, William McClain, Ritesh Mehta, Jingbo Meng, Meghan Moran, Evelyn Moreno, Yujung Nam, Allison Noyes, Katherine Ognyanova, Poong Oh, Paula Woodley, Joe Phua, Steven Rafferty, Rabindra Ratan, Courtney Schultz Pade, Jaclyn Lee Selby, Francesca Smith, Laurance Paul Strait, Nikki Usher, Ray Vichot, and Matthew Weber.

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