Communication (PhD)

Driving down Highway 62 on the way to Joshua Tree National Park, Francisco, one of the 20 high school students on the bus, noticed something different about the landscape. If he ever moved here, he told the group, he’d open up his own roadside taco stand, like the ones near his home in South Los Angeles. That way, he’d give people a taste of where he’s from.

During spring and early...

Andrea Alarcon (Fourth Year)

With Nancy Baym and Lana Swartz (PhD 2015), “Sonic Publics / Convening Technologies: Blockchain and the Music Industry,” International Journal of Communication With Jeeyun Sophia Baik (Fourth Year) and Do Own Donna Kim (Fourth Year), presented ""Everyone deserves a smartphone?" Understanding the media's legitimation of mobile technology use by Syrian refugees...

USC Annenberg doctoral students will be in Washington, D.C. this weekend for the International Communication Association conference. Over 40 current students (as well as faculty and alumni) will present their work at the annual gathering of communication scholars.

A full conference program can be found...

Traci Gillig will be earning her Ph.D. in communication from USC Annenberg at Friday’s commencement, but she won’t have long to celebrate. She’s already been hired as an assistant professor of communication at Washington State University.

Soledad Altrudi (Third Year), Frances Corry (Third Year), MC Forelle (ABD), & Andrea Alarcon (Third Year) presented their joint paper on Sociotechnical Imaginaries at the Critical Mediations conference.

Jeeyun (Sophia) Baik (Third Year)

Presented her paper, “When People Speak Out Unpopular Opinions: Network Centrality,...

The issue of federal “net neutrality” — requiring internet providers to allow high-speed access to all content, rather than favoring their own content — remains one of the most hotly debated questions in the world of communications policy. But what about those communities that are still struggling to gain access to the internet at all?

Ignacio Cruz, a Ph.D. candidate in communications. Photo by: Olivia Mowry With another holiday season upon us, lots of eager fingers will be unwrapping the latest mass-market technological marvel: a smart speaker system. The number of homes in the United States with an Amazon Echo ,...