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The draft schedule is now published. The full program will be available shortly. Please make conference organizer Ari Kissiloff aware of any issues.

• note: the due date for this call has passed

note: the due date for this call has passed

Great Ideas For Teaching Students (GIFTS) provides an excellent opportunity for faculty members and/or graduate students to share classroom-tested “great ideas” with other educators. With a focus on ways that temporal dynamics affect our communication practices, this year’s conference theme encourages a variety of pedagogical approaches for reflecting on the past, measuring the present, preparing for the future and challenging presumptions about how time is perceived. Submissions may present an activity, assignment, project, game, simulation, etc. for addressing a specific communication theory, concept, skill, or learning objective.

The GIFTS Presentation

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New York State Communication Association
2018 Call for Papers – 76th Annual Conference October 12-14, 2018 | www.nyscanet.org Villa Roma Resort and Conference Center

356 Villa Roma Road, Callicoon, NY 12723

Signs of the <Time>: Urgency, Connection, and Affordances in Communication

Web_2018_NYSCA_Program_Final

Consideration of time as a contextual factor in a communication transaction, rhetoric of time (e.g., busyness, urgency) impacting interpersonal connection, and <time> as a point of political dispute are just a few ways in which the notion of time is explored in the field of communication. While time could be defined as a state, a measurement, or a

New York State Communication Association
2018 Call for Papers – 76th Annual Conference October 12-14, 2018 | www.nyscanet.org Villa Roma Resort and Conference Center

356 Villa Roma Road, Callicoon, NY 12723

Signs of the <Time>: Urgency, Connection, and Affordances in Communication

Program-Draft 1_NYSCA 2018 (pdf)

Consideration of time as a contextual factor in a communication transaction, rhetoric of time (e.g., busyness, urgency) impacting interpersonal connection, and <time> as a point of political dispute are just a few ways in which the notion of time is explored in the field of communication. While time could be defined as a state,

Our online and mail-in registrations are now open for the 76th Annual Conference! Register online by clicking here or download the .pdf file to register by mail here.

Remember: The Early Bird $10 Discount off all tickets will be available only until September 15, 2018 at 11:59pm. 

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Conference

Great Ideas For Teaching Students (GIFTS) provides an excellent opportunity for faculty members and/or graduate students to share classroom-tested “great ideas” with other educators. With a focus on ways that temporal dynamics affect our communication practices, this year’s conference theme encourages a variety of pedagogical approaches for reflecting on the past, measuring the present, preparing for the future and challenging presumptions about how time is perceived. Submissions may present an activity, assignment, project, game, simulation, etc. for addressing a specific communication theory, concept, skill, or learning objective.

The GIFTS Presentation

A GIFTS presentation is a concise depiction of a teaching

A New York State of Mind: Mad Magazine and the Spirit of Our Times

When Mad magazine began life in 1952 as a comic book parodying other comic books, it silently built on a series of regional communication traditions. A comic take on the contemporary scene marked New York periodicals dating back to the 1830s, when William T. Porter’s Spirit of the Times (1831-1861) and The Knickerbocker (1833-1865) carried the regional media scene to a national audience, as did the twentieth century’s two most influential humorous magazines: the New Yorker in the aftermath of World War I and Mad in