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Margaret McLaughlin

Expert in online culture and communication, including privacy issues and senior citizens’ access to technology
  • Professor of Communication
  • USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
  • Research Scientist, Integrated Media Systems Center
  • Associate, Gender Studies Program
Office: (213) 740-3938
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Expertise

  • virtual culture/ cyberculture
  • computer mediated communication
  • impact of the Internet and electronic communication on human relationships and productivity
  • social convergence resulting from the convergence of computer and communication technologies
  • issues of privacy and access raised by a global, interactive communications network
  • haptic interfaces (touch in immersive virtual environments)

Additional Information

  • Author of Conversation: How Talk Is Organized (1984)
  • Editor of Explaining One’s Self to Others: Reason-Giving in a Social Context (1992)
  • Co-editor of Journal for Computer-Mediated Communication and Network and Netplay: Virtual Groups on the Internet (1998)