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The conference begins!

The conference begins today! A few final tips:
 
On-site registration/conference check in begin at 1pm Friday and the first panel starts at 2:15pm.
 
Presenters: Please bring a laptop or a tablet with HDMI adapter. We have cables and a limited amount of loaner machines, but it is really best if you have your own device.
 
We have open bar (with ID) reception Friday and Saturday nights before dinner, bring some small bills for tips.
 
If you play an instrument, bring it! We have an open jam/sing along on Saturday night.
 
The most recent PDF version of the conference schedule will
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Call for Papers – 2019 Conference

note: the due date for this call has passed

New York State Communication Association
2019 Call for Papers – 77th Annual Conference October 18-20, 2019 |www.nyscanet.org Villa Roma Resort and Conference Center
356 Villa Roma Road, Callicoon, NY 12723

“Theory vs. Practice: Bridging the Gap”

Spaghetti and Meatballs. Salad and Ranch Dressing. Laurel and Hardy.
Laurel and Yanni.

Pen and Paper.

Theory and Practice.

That last one is no more a polar opposite than the others, so why do we see it portrayed this way so often in academic and business circles? Often these terms are more about “things that

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Final Program for the 76th Conference Posted

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

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Draft Program for 76th Annual Conference Posted

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,

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G.I.F.T.S Call for Panelists

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

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76th Conference Friday Night Keynote Speaker: Dr. Judith Yaross Lee, Ohio University

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

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