Over 40 USC Annenberg doctoral students (as well as Comm School faculty and alums, who are noted here when collaborating with current students) presented their work at the International Communication Association conference in late May. The annual gathering of communication scholars was held this year in Prague.
Thomas J. Billard (ABD), The Influence of Pornography Viewing on Attitudes toward Transgender People among Men Who are Attracted to Transgender Women
Thomas J. Billard, Setting the Transgender Agenda: Intermedia Agenda-Setting in the Digital News Environment
Lik Sam Chan (PhD 2018), Liberating or Disciplining? A Technofeminist Analysis of the Use of Dating Apps among Women in Urban China
Lik Sam Chan, Performing Chinese Masculinities on Dating Apps: Interpretations, Self-Presentations, and Interactions
Frances (Franny) Corry (Third Year), Measuring Social Media Time through Expectancy Violations Theory: Chronemic Expectancy Violations on Facebook
Ignacio Cruz (Fourth Year) & Jillian Kwong (Fourth Year), Everybody’s a Critic: Exploring Centrality and Social Influence on Yelp
Nathaniel (Ming) Curran (Third Year), Financial Literacy as Human Capital: Self-Responsibility in the Age of Neoliberal Governmentality
Jenna Gibson & Nathaniel (Ming) Curran, Conflict and Responsibility: A Content Analysis of American Media Organizations’ Framing of the Korean Peninsula in 2016
Caitlin Joy Dobson (Second Year), Backlash against Globalization: Implications of Globalization and Its Impact on Gender-Based Violence and Gang Rape within the Context of India
Aram A. Sinnreich (PhD 2007), Michelle C. Forelle (ABD), & Patricia A. Aufderheide, Copyright Givers and Takers: Mutuality, Altruism and Instrumentalism in Open Licensing
Traci Gillig (ABD), Thomas W. Valente, & Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati, Communal Coping with Individual Identity? Social Support, LGBTQ Identity, and Depressive Symptoms in Latino/a Teens
Traci Gillig & Leila Bighash (PhD 2018), Does Gender Matter? Exploring Friendship Patterns of LGBTQ Youth in a Gender-Neutral Environment
Christina Hagen (ABD), Leila Bighash, Professor Andrea B. Hollingshead, Sonia Jawaid Shaikh (ABD), & Kristen Steves Alexander (Sixth Year), Why are You Watching Us? Decisions about Video Surveillance in Organizations
Hye Min Kim (Third Year), News Influence Perception on Social Media: Exploring the Predictors and Outcomes of Presumed Media Influence
Hye Min Kim, Paul Robert Appleby, John L. Christensen, & Professor Lynn Carol Miller, Parental Rejection and Shame: The Mediating Role of Emotional Bonding in Romantic Relationship Among YMSM
Yeon Kyoung Joo, Hyun Tae (Calvin) Kim (Fourth Year), & Hailey Hyun-kyung Oh, A “Soft” Digital Divide? Modeling the Effects of Political Communication on Political Self-Expression(s) in the Digital Space
James Lee (ABD), Design Choices in the Independent Creative Production of Webcomics
Lauren Levitt (ABD), Divergent Fan Forums and Political Consciousness Raising
Aimei Yang, Adam J. Saffer, & Yiqi (Iona) Li (Third Year), Doing Business in a Politically Polarized Society: An Expectation Violation Theory Approach to CSR-Based Challenge Crises
Professor Patricia Riley, Yiqi (Iona) Li, Jingyi Sun (Third Year), Kristen Guth (PhD 2017), & Sierra Bray (Second Year), Startups in Entertainment: Exporting More Than Movies
Eric Gordon & Rogelio Alejandro Lopez (ABD), The Practice of Civic Tech: Tensions in the Adoption and Use of Technologies in Community-Based Organizations
Anna Loup (Third Year), In Defense of the “Helminthiasis”: A Technofeminist Reading of the 1988 Internet Worm
Anna Loup & Thomas J. Billard (ABD), A Content Analytic Study of Media Indexing in the Context of Transgender Rights
Kate Miltner (ABD), “Think Like a Computer:" An Ethnographic Study of Designers-in-Training at a “New Collar” Coding School
Rachel Elizabeth Moran (ABD) & Matthew N. Bui (Fourth Year), Race, Ethnicity, and Communications Policy: Centering Communities of Color and Their Concerns
Deborah Neffa Creech (ABD), Marina Litvinsky (ABD), Evelyn Moreno, Briana Ellerbe (Third Year), & Professor Sandra J. Ball-Rokeach, Communication Networks, Worry, and Belonging among Newer and More Established Residents in a Gentrifying Neighborhood
Tyler Quick (Second Year), Fantasized, yet Depoliticized: Visions of Gay Italy in Call Me by Your Name
Tyler Quick, Public Homoeroticism and Mimetic Desire on Instagram
Paromita Sengupta (Fourth Year), Dying for a Good Laugh: Gallows Humor in the Age of Black Lives Matter
Paromita Sengupta, “Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution”: The Use of Ridicule in the #HokKolorob Movement
Lauren Sowa (Third Year), TV’s Female Detectives: Investigating the Representation of Women in the 2013–2014 Crime Drama Season
Lee Shaker, Paul Falzone, Paul Sparks (Second Year), & Ruth Kugumikiriza, From the Studio to the Street: Cultivating Democratic Norms in Uganda
Jingyi Sun (Third Year), China’s Traditional Media Organizations’ Adoption of WeChat Public Platform: Citation Network, Exploitation and Exploration
Jingyi Sun, Micro-Finance Crowdfunding for Developing Countries: Values as Information Public Goods
Yao Sun (ABD) & Ann Majchrzak, Knowledge Integration in Crowdsourcing for Innovation: The Temporal Effects of Different Types of Knowledge Contribution
Nathan Walter (PhD 2018) & Jonathan Cohen, The Effects of Cognitive and Metacognitive Input in Narrative Persuasion
Nathan Walter & Professor Sheila Murphy, On Debunking Misinformation: A Meta-Analytic Approach
Nathan Walter, Professor Sandra J. Ball-Rokeach, Yu Xu (ABD), & Garrett Manuel Broad (PhD 2013), Communication Ecologies: Analyzing Adoption of False Beliefs in an Information-Rich Environment
Liyuan (Leah) Wang (Third Year), Ashley Brown, Stephen J. Read, & Professor Lynn Carol Miller, Who You are Can Predict What You Choose to Say on a Virtual Date
Grace Yuehan Wang (Fourth Year) & Professor Dmitri Williams, What Affects Entrepreneurs' Social Support Needs?
Yunwen Wang (Second Year) & William Bart Collins, An Examination of Mobile Fitness Applications on Features and Adoption: A Reasoned Action Approach
Sarah Myers West (PhD 2018), A Cultural History of Public Key Cryptography
Sarah Myers West & Professor Mike Ananny, The Emergence of Journalistic Security: A History of Risk in Early-Internet Reporting Cultures
Yu Xu (ABD), Yao Sun (ABD), Larry Zhiming Xu (ABD), Professor Peter Monge, Professor Janet Fulk, & Alessandro Lomi, Networks within Crowds: Investigating the Formation of Multidimensional and Multilevel Networks in Online Crowdsourcing
Yu Xu , Yao Sun, & Ignacio Cruz (Fourth Year), Finding the Path to Success: An Examination of Expertise, Exploration and Exploitation, and Creativity Performance in a Crowdsourcing Platform
Yusi Aveva Xu (ABD), Let’s Grab That Red Pocket: The Reinvention of an Ancient Chinese Tradition in Digital Times
Yusi Aveva Xu, Lik Sam Chan (PhD 2018), & Professor Margaret L. McLaughlin, Exploring the Relationship between Familism and the Intent to Practice Safe Sex among Chinese Women Living in the USA: An Integrative Model of Behavioral Prediction Approach
Larry Zhiming Xu (ABD), Matthew Sargent, Yu Xu (ABD), Jingyi Sun (Third Year), Yiqi (Iona) Li (Third Year), Professor Peter Monge, & Professor Janet Fulk, Simple Tags, Profound Influences: Explicating Social Tagging as Multilevel Expertise in a Crowdsourcing Design Community
Bei Yan (PhD 2018), Professor Lian Jian, Ruqin Ren (ABD), Professor Janet Fulk, Emily Sidnam (Fourth Year), & Professor Peter Monge, What Makes the Crowd Wise? The Effect of Crowd Structures on the Wisdom of Crowds in Collective Evaluation Tasks
Sulafa S. Zidani (Third Year), Not Arabi nor Ajnabi: How Laughing with the West Created a New Form of Arabic Humor