Checking in with USC Annenberg doctoral students

From the March issue of the COMM.raderie newsletter:

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Lori Kido Lopez accepted a job as Assistant Professor in Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. LeeAnn Sangalang, along with Ryan Hurley (North Carolina State University) and Julius Riles (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), had a paper accepted for publication in Health Communication. The title is "Online cancer news: Trends regarding article types, specific cancers and the cancer continuum." Neta Kligler-Vilenchik presented her work on participatory politics in fan communities at a meeting of the MacArthur Network on Youth & Participatory Politics. Erin Kamler presented a paper and material from her forthcoming musical "Survive" at the University of South Florida's Violence, Memory and Human Rights conference. In March she will participate in a composer's residency at New Dramatists in New York with her musical "Runway Sixty-Nine."

Kevin Driscoll presented "When Dream Machines Come True: Re-reading Ted Nelson's Speculative Non-Fiction" at the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association Conference in Albuquerque, NM. Meryl Alper will present a research project with the International Central Institute for Youth and Educational Television at the UNESCO-sponsored Prix Jeunesse, in June in Munich. She is also co-organizing a workshop on interaction design for children with special needs at the International Conference on Interactional Design for Children. This conference is in Bremen in June. Congratulations to Shawna Kelly and Joyee Chaterjee for defending their dissertations! 

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