More than two dozen members of the USC Annenberg School faculty will present papers, chair discussions, and serve as respondents at the 2004 annual conference of the International Communication Association, held May 27-31 at the New Orleans Sheraton Hotel. This years conference is titled Communication in the Public Interest. USC Annenberg professors Margaret McLaughlin and Peter Monge are past presidents of the ICA.

Communication professor Sandra Ball-Rokeach chairs Geo-ethnicity: A Challenge for Media Theory & Communication Research, a panel exploring research papers from the Metamorphosis project. She will present a paper she co-authored titled Floating Signifiers of Urban Community in Los Angeles in two sessions of (Un)Covering the Public Interest? The Role of Mediating Institutions and will chair the Mass Communication Division Keynote Panel. More

Assistant communication professor Sarah Banet-Weiser participates in a panel addressing the need for a renewed focus on gay and lesbian identity in visual popular culture, Straight Eye on the Queer Guy: Domestications of Sexual Difference. She will also present a paper on the mainstream embrace of girl power on Nickelodeon, Girls Rule!: Gender, Feminism, and Nickelodeon in a panel exploring Third Wave Feminism in television trends. More

Associate communication professor Francois Bar participates in a communication and technology panel session of Media Meets Technology: The Co-Evolution of Communication, Artifacts, and Users. He will also present his paper on wireless networking, A Magic Bullet? Development Applications of Wireless Networking. More

Assistant journalism professor Craig Carroll chairs a mass communication paper session titled More Evidence for Media Priming and Third Person Effects. He also co-chairs a public relations panel titled Impact of Press Coverage on the Monetary Value of Companies with visiting journalism scholar Sabine Einwiller.
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Communication professor Janet Fulk presents a paper on collective action and social influence in a panel on information use in organizations. Fulk co-authored the paper Individual Contribution and Retrieval of Information from the Organizational Information Commons: The Impact of Social Influence and Intranet Competency. She is also a respondent in a panel on the theory and research of group communication. More

Assistant communication professor Hernan Galperin chairs a panel on Globalization and Imperialism and presents with Francois Bar in a panel on wireless networking. More




USC Annenberg School of Communication director and communication professor Larry Gross chairs Narrative, Storytelling, and Visual Media in Grassroots Advocacy, a panel on community-based approaches to local environmental improvements and their use of media and Straight Eye on the Queer Guy: Domestications of Sexual Difference, a panel on the apparent rising of gay society as well as its containment by dominant society. Gross also participates in The State of Media Studies Theory and the Public Interest. More

Assistant communication professor Kwan Min Lee chairs Interfaces and User Responses, a panel that explores the relationships between computers and humans. Lee also presents his paper Can a Robot Be Perceived as a Developing Creature? More


Communication professor Lynn Miller participates in a panel on the discourse of HIV-AIDS prevention and education, and presents her paper Which Change Begets Which?: Modeling Risky Behavior Change as the Result of an HIV Prevention Intervention. More


Communication professor Peter Monge presents his co-authored paper, The Role of Enforced Structural Holes in Independent Radio Promotion at a panel exploring organizational communication in networks and organizing processes. He also presents a paper he co-authored on Individual Contribution and Retrieval of Information from the Organizational Information Commons: The Impact of Social Influence and Intranet Competency. More

Associate professor of communication Patricia Riley is a respondent for a paper session titled Generative Functions of Communication in Organizations. More




Communication professor Peter Vorderer participates is a respondent for a panel session on the quality of television programs in the new millennium, and chairs a panel on the Shifting Attitudes and Behaviors in Mass Communication. More


Visiting scholar Ren Weber participates in a panel session titled Quality of Entertainment Products: Is it Possible to Measure it? More