Join us for an event showcasing USC Annenberg PhD student summer research:

• Molly Frizzell, ‘The Biggest Tool that Helps Awaken Her: Pregnancy Resource Centers and the Affective Power of Ultrasound Technology’
  • Drawing on semi-structured qualitative interviews and site visits, this study examines the affective dimension of ultrasound provision at pro-life pregnancy resource centers.
• Stella Lin, ‘Unruly Flows: Desires and Politics of Connectivity in China's Reform Era’
  • Revisiting China’s social transformation from below and from the everyday, Lin shows how a case study of telecommunication infrastructure captures both the state’s anxieties and the public’s desires under economic reforms and opening up in a postwar world with ideological divides.
• Zituo Wang, ‘Side instead of Top or Bottom: Transforming the Gendered Social Norm of Men Who Have Sex with Men’
  • This project examines “side” as a distinct sexual behavior among men who have sex with men (MSM), focusing on how non-penetrative practices challenge and reshape gendered sexual norms traditionally structured around “top” and “bottom” roles. Through survey data, Wang explores how side behaviors both reflect and transform normative expectations within MSM communities, with implications for sexual health communication and the understanding of sexual diversity.

This program is open to all eligible individuals. USC Annenberg operates all of its programs and activities consistent with the University’s Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor.