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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

Reality Bites: The Limits of Truth Appeals and Fact-Checking in Political Discourse

Dana L. Cloud (Ph.D., 1992, University of Iowa) is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Syracuse University. Her research and teaching focus on social movements, critical theory (including Marxist, feminist, anti-racist, and queer), and critical rhetorical studies of media and politics. She is the author of the new book Reality Bites: Rhetoric and the Circulation of Truth Claims in U.S. Political Culture (Ohio State University Press, 2018), in addition to two previous books (We ARE the Union,

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75th Anniversary NYSCA Program (pdf)

Our online and mail-in registrations are now open for the 75th Anniversary Conference!

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• Save $10 off all conference ticket prices by obtaining before September 15, 2017 – 11:59pm  ET.
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Conference

From Plato to Pixels: Honoring the Past. Celebrating the Present. Shaping the Future.

As the great Greek philosopher, Plato, once said, “The beginning is the most important part of the work.” Oral communication laid the foundation of our discipline through the use of the spoken word. The introduction of writing ushered in a new era of communication where people no longer relied just on the spoken word to

The final program for the 74th annual NYSCA conference has been posted.

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nysca_2016-final_program (pdf)