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Melissa Brough

Doctoral candidate, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California

Melissa Brough is a Doctoral Candidate at the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism at the University of Southern California, and a 2010-2011 Fulbright grantee to Colombia. She works in the fields of communication for social change, participatory media and civic engagement, visual and new media cultures, and social movements. She is currently working on her dissertation on youth movements, political participation and digital media use in Colombia. She was a 2010 Digital Media and Learning Research Associate and has collaborated with youth and community media projects including Mobile Voices (www.vozmob.net), FilmAid International (www.filmaid.org), Listen Up! (www.listenup.org) and the Chiapas Media Project (www.chiapasmediaproject.org). She received her B.A. in Development Studies and Modern Culture & Media from Brown University.

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