This summer, four Annenberg doctoral students are in Washington, D.C., participating in the COMPASS Summer Fellowship Program, which is designed to provide Ph.D. students in Communications and Media Studies with hands-on experience in the development and implementation of communication policy. COMPASS fellows intern for two months in D.C. at government offices or agencies, think tanks,...

The oldest park in the city of Los Angeles will soon be getting a new look.

Pershing Square Renew was conceived in 2013 as a collaboration between city government, the LA community, and business leaders to revitalize and reimagine the park that sits in the center of Downtown LA. The international design competition was announced in the...

Name: Yomna Elsayed Year: Third Hometown: Cairo, Egypt Undergraduate/Graduate Institution(s): American University in Cairo (BSc and MSc) Research Area: Cultural Resistance, Political Humor, and Social movements. Conference presentations:

Poster session. (April, 2016) Online Revolution Songs: On the Affective Side of Social Movements. Eighth Annual Annenberg Graduate Fellowship...

Every year, the National Science Foundation (NSF) supports graduate students engaged in research in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics with the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship . This year, USC Annenberg doctoral student Ignacio...

Matthew Bui, Ignacio Cruz, and Yuehan (Grace) Wang (all First Year) presented at the International Network for Social Network Analysis Sunbelt Conference in Newport Beach.

Matthew Bui and Emily Sidnam (both First Year) have been accepted to an ICA preconference with a paper co-authored with Ellen Helsper of LSE.

Josh Clark (ABD) and Christina Hagen (Third Year) presented...

The word “hacker” might conjure up images of a keyboard criminal shutting down websites, raiding bank accounts, exposing diplomatic secrets, and stealing identities. But current writing from several Annenberg scholars reveals hacking and making to largely be creative, communal acts in which technology is used productively, rather than destructively.

The...

1959. The Cold War. In Cuba, Castro came to power. In Moscow, then-Vice President Nixon debated Soviet Premier Khrushchev in the "Kitchen Debate."

And that same year in China, African-American activist and writer W.E.B. DuBois met with Chairman Mao.

Six years later, African-American civil rights leader Robert F. Williams would move to China after leaving the U.S. as a political...

Name: Wei Wang

Year: ABD

Hometown: Xuancheng, Anhui, China

Undergraduate/Graduate Institutions: Peking University; Columbia University

Research Areas: political economy of communication; rural China studies

Dissertation Topic: communication and agrarian change in rural China

Book Chapters:

Hong, Yu, & Wang, Wei. (2015) "Embracing...