Cory Ondrejka, former chief technology officer at Linden Lab, joins USC Annenberg as a lecturer and online communities meeting facilitator

USC Annenberg faculty and student researchers will be a major part of the annual conference of the International Communication Association, which runs from June 19–23 in Dresden, Germany. Twenty-five Annenberg faculty members and 22 doctoral and master’s candidates will present papers, chair discussions and serve as respondents during the annual gathering of over 1,800 of the world’s foremost communication academics. The theme of the conference, "Networking Communication Research," has elicited paper submissions from USC Annenberg researchers in subjects as diverse as global telecommunications networks and video games.

Communication professor Jonathan Aronson (pictured) has been named by USC Provost Max Nikias as the new executive director of the Annenberg Center for Communication . "As a researcher, writer, and scholar, Professor Aronson has developed a unique expertise in international communication policy and globalization, which makes him particularly well-suited for this position," said Nikias when...

Documentary film producer Phillip Rodriguez has been named a Senior Fellow of USC Annenberg's Institute for Justice and Journalism . Rodriguez will collaborate with other IJJ fellows on films and other projects exploring criminal justice, issues of race and ethnicity, post-9/11 security and liberty, the U.S.-Mexican border and immigration. Rodriguez is founder of City Projects Productions . He describes his most recent documentary, Los Angeles Now , as an "evocation of Los Angeles at the end of its Anglo Century." More about Rodriguez Institute for Justice and Journalism

USC Annenberg hosted a gathering of more than 300 rhetoricians from around the globe to discuss the history of rhetorical inquiry. The 15th biennial Congress of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric convened at USC from July 13-17, 2005. The program featured a broad range of panel discussions and presentations at USC and the Huntington Library in Pasadena, Calif. Communication professor G. Thomas Goodnight (pictured, top), one of the conference organizers, chaired a panel "Rhetorical Perspectives in Japan." Also, communication professor Stephen O'Leary a paper "Ranters, Levellers, and Diggers as Discourses and/or Movements: Heresy, dissent and the norms of religious rhetoric from the English Reformation to postcolonial America." English professor Lawrence Green (pictured, bottom) is the International President of ISHR and chaired the Global Roundtable discussions that were webcast.