USC Annenberg faculty and doctoral student researchers will be a major part of the annual Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication Convention Aug. 6-9 in Chicago. Annenberg researchers will speak or present papers on such topics as: the impacts of internet use, the value of current news journalism, and the image of the war correspondent in popular culture.

In addition to the academic activities, faculty, friends, and Chicago-area alumni will be present for the annual ¡Fiesta Annenberg! reception, celebrating the recent appointment of School of Journalism director Geneva Overholser and other new faculty members. The event takes place Friday, August 7.

Communication professor Larry Gross will also be awarded the Leroy F. Aarons Award, given to outstanding journalists within the Gay and Lesbian community.

USC Annenberg faculty or doctoral candidates will moderate sessions, be panelists or present papers at AEJMC, including:

 

	Journalism professor Félix Gutiérrez will moderate the panel "Lessons from the Past and Fodder for the Future:  Forty Years After Kerner and Lionel C. Barrow's Vision of an Inclusive AEJMC."
	Journalism director Geneva Overholser will be a panelist for the session "Ethics and the Business of Journalism: A Discussion of Urgent Importance."
	Journalism professor Larry Pryor will be a discussant during the research presentation section for "Communication Technology: Politics and Persuasion." Pryor will also be the moderator and preside over the refereed paper research session "The Internet and Social Communication."
	Journalism professor Joe Saltzman will moderate and preside over the panel "The Image of the War Correspondent in Popular Culture."
	Journalism professor Philip Seib will be a panelist during the discussion "Advocacy Journalism or Public Relations?  (Re)Defining the Values of News."
	Communication doctoral student Jae Eun Chung will present her paper "Is the Internet a Lonely medium?: Taking Uses and gratification approach." This paper examines social impacts of the Internet use and whether the Internet is a medium that enhances interpersonal relationships or a medium that isolates and dissocializes its users.