Larry Gross is the director of USC’s Annenberg School for Communication. Before coming to USC, he spent thirty-five years at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School, where he was deputy dean and Sol Worth Professor of Communication. He is the author of Contested Closets: The Politics and Ethics of Outing and Up From Invisibility: Lesbians, Gay Men and the Media in America and editor or co-editor of Communications Technology and Social Policy; Studying Visual Communication; Image Ethics: The Moral Rights of Subjects in Photography, Film and Television; Image Ethics in the Digital Age; On the Margins of Artworlds; and The Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in Media, Society, and Politics. He also edits the online International Journal of Communication.