USC Annenberg was well represented at the 2006 National Communication Association Conference in San Antonio, Texas. Communication professor Larry Gross (pictured) chaired a session entitled "Private Acts, Public Spaces, & Media Spectacle: Disciplining 'High-Risk' Behaviors." Communication professor Thomas Goodnight chaired two sessions: "Locating Culture in Public Diplomacy: The Challenge of International Communication" and "Religion, Authority and Rhetorical Culture: Norms of Religious Discourse in Controversy." Communication professor Patricia Riley chaired a session entitled, "The Art of Demotivation: Fiction or Nonfiction?" and communication professor Daniel Durbin chaired a special session called "Sites for Connection and Connectedness: Sports Communities, Cultural Identity, and Home Places."

Additional faculty members participating in the conference were: Jennifer Bevan, Julie Carver, Walter Fisher, Andrea Hollingshead, Peter Monge, Stephen O'Leary and Stacy Smith.

Graduate and doctoral students participating in the conference included: Amelia Arsenault, Omri Ceren, Marcia Dawkins, Melissa Franke, Jeffrey Hall, Craig Hayden, John Marshall Kephart, Jade Miller, Meghan Moran, Lauren Movius, Carrie Anne Platt, Shawn Powers, Stephen Robertson, Lu Tang and Don Waisanen.
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