Margaret McLaughlin, University of Southern California

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Communication and Journalism Professor Los Angeles, California mmclaugh@usc.edu Office: (213) 740-3938

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Margaret L. McLaughlin is Professor of Communication and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Research at the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, University of Southern California, where since 1996 she has been an affiliated faculty member of the Integrated Media Systems Center, es...

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Bio/Research

Margaret L. McLaughlin is Professor of Communication and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Research at the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, University of Southern California, where since 1996 she has been an affiliated faculty member of the Integrated Media Systems Center, established as a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center. She has more than fifteen years of experience in research on multimodal information systems.

She was founder of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, co-editor of the AAAI/MIT Press volume Networks and NetPlay: Virtual Groups on the Internet, and is Co-Director of the Annenberg Program on Online Communities research initiative. With collaborators from the Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, she is currently leading a study funded by the Annenberg Trust of a mobile videosharing network for young adult cancer survivors,

lifecommunity.usc.edu, which focuses on social diffusion of survivorship information among former childhood cancer patients from the low-income, non-English speaking populations who constitute the bulk of the patients in Los Angeles’ largest pediatric emergency and critical care hospital.


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