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Digestion
By Brenna Ruiz-Gordon--11/23/08 Lots left to see and listen to today. Definitely going to miss the warm weather, but...
Some more numbers
By Efe Sevin -- 11/23/2008 These numbers are my rough, made-up estimations for the life of NCA Press Team during the last few days. The numbers and categories mentioned are fictional. Any resemblance to reality is purely coincidental....
Before We Depart...
By Anuj Gurung -- 11/23/2008 I am uploading videos and blogging in the hotel lobby. These few minutes of 'unstressful' work has allowed me moments of contemplation. In the last few days, I blogged, reported stories, videographed, helped the production team set up equipments.
Some Numbers
By Efe Sevin -- 11/23/2008 Greetings again from San Diego! On my last day working with the website, I just wanted to give you some number:Our team is composed of....
Emerging Racial Categories/ Concepts
By Anuj Gurung -- 11/23/2008 The panel that gathered in Edward B was very diverse, for a change. There were African Americans, Indian American, as well as Iranian American panelists. And this diverse group had gathered to discuss racial agendas.
Fights and Forgiveness - Inside Relationship Maintenance
By Heather Martyn -- 11/23/08 First meeting, fireworks fly, next thing you know you have fallen in love and are in a relationship. Then problems begin, arguments start and regardless of the type of relationship you are in, maintenance and communication must occur in order to...
A pleasant surprise
By Will Wemer -- 11/23/08 Karen Deardorf changed my life. During my four years at Ohio University, she was a teacher some of the time, and a surrogate mom all of the time. I remember her office on the second floor of Trisolini House, where we laughed, cried, made fun of each other, and enjoyed life.
Definitely Unconventional
By Brenna Ruiz-Gordon--11/22/08 There is way to much going on at the convention today. One could easily get lost in between panels, sessions, courses, protest demonstrations, and very peculiar student research projects...
An intellectual Saturday morning
By Will Wemer -- 11/22/08 It was a very foggy walk to the Hyatt this morning, and it was challenging trying to keep tabs on the Ohio State/Michigan score (Buckeyes won 42-7). But after attending two morning sessions and visiting...
NCA exhibit
By Anuj Gurung -- 11/22/2008 On our way from one panel to another, Will and I ran into a lobby exhibit. The exhibit consisted of several different research topics. The presenters were graduate students as well as faculty from different universities.
What A Day !!
By - Nada Farhat -- 11/22/08 7:00 a.m. the alarm rings and it's time to get up and do what my team members and I came to do in San Diego, cover the NCA convention from A-Z. I began my day by attending and speaking to various speakers....
Communication? Human Interaction?
By - Efe Sevin -- 11/22/08 We couldn't welcome the new day with a bright sun...and actually I am happy about it. Ever since I have checked in to the hotel, I haven't turned off my computer and right now I am working on a PC, a Mac and an iPhone....
Career Advice From Senior Faculty to New and Future Faculty: An Unconventional Program on Academic Careers
By Anuj Gurung -- 11/21/2008 Imagine a TV game show. Envision a very entertaining host and incredibly funny contestants. That seemed to be the mood when I entered Edward C to cover 'Career Advice From Senior Faculty to New and Future Faculty.'
PR Top Papers Interview
By Heather Martyn -- 11/21/08 Nonpublics, active publics, aware publics - all of these stakeholders are important for the public relations professional to acknowledge when problem-solving for any organization. Hoping....
Live from the Caroll C. Arnold Lecture Part II
By Brenna Ruiz-Gordon--11/21/08 We are now at the second and final part of the lecture. The audience has been enchanted by Professor Philipsen's unconventional way of lecturing. He is indeed a master of rhetoric...
Family Communication Top Student Paper Interview
By Heather Martyn -- 11/21/08 Childhood is a supposed to be a wonderful time of life filled with laughter and dreams, however, incidents often occur that affect children and their...
2008 Carroll Arnold Lecture: Philipsen captivating
By Will Wemer -- 11/21/08 I'm blogging from inside the Manchester Ballroom, where Gerry Philipsen has the audience captivated. As a scholar, I have read numerous papers of Philipsen's, and was very impressed with his grasp of the complexity of culture as it pertains to communication.
Live from the Caroll C. Arnold Lecture
By Brenna Ruiz-Gordon-- 11/21/08 The room is Manchester Ballroom is huge and everyone on the press team is busy getting interviews and setting up the audio-visual equipment to film the distinguished lecture...
Social Networking is Here to Say
By Will Wemer -- 11/21/08 I just left a fascinating breakout session with the Human Communication and Technology Division where some of the leading scholars in social networking spoke on the role of the Ombuds office in the spike in social networking website-related disciplinary cases in higher education, and the role of online learning communities in the creation of online interaction spaces.
Inside-Out
I'm at the graduate school reception behind the Emerson desk, and I find it fascinating to be working for NCA and speaking to up and coming students when I myself was in their shoes not long ago.
From Sarah Palin to SNL: NCA tackles the digital presidency
By Abbey Niezgoda -- 11/21/08 I sit in a crowd full of people energized and ready to talk about the race Barack Obama just won. The NCA roundtable election discussion made up of scholars and commentators quickly became a playground for discussion...
Speeding things up!
By Brenna Ruiz-Gordon--11/21/08 Today is our second day here in San Diego and things are heating up inside and outside the Manchester Hyatt Hotel. While the sun warms the streets of downtown San Diego, thousands of active panelists and lecturers warm up the conference center with incredibly interesting thoughts, ideas, and projects...
Elevator Talk...
By - Efe Sevin -- 11/21/08 So the elevator talk is real... I never took this concept seriously, "you have to tell who you are and what you are doing in less than 30 seconds...
Good Morning San Diego!
By Heather Martyn -- 11/21/2008 Today is the first official day of panels for the NCA Conference. Last night the press team met and decided which panels each of us would cover today. Starting at 8 am I will be covering panels that will include: Issues in Globalization,
The Host
It's nice to be in San Diego this weekend, so on behalf of the NCA Press staff, thank you all very much for giving us the reason to be here. I look forward to getting to know as many of you as possible these next three days through interviews and on our NCA-TV Program. Every day I will be sitting down and speaking with the men and women who have made this year's "unconventional" convention possible...
San Diego Impressions
By Nada Farhat - 11/20/2008 Looking out from my hotel window I can see a beautiful view of the sun as it sinks down into the Pacific Ocean. Only a few hours ago, I was bundled up in layers of clothing to keep warm from the brutal Boston weather...
Day one, a feeler
Today was basically a ramp-up to the full on conventional proceedings tomorrow, and I am really excited for what's to come
First day among the scholars
By Anuj Gurung - 11/20/2008 The intimate panels and scattered gatherings. The NCA has finally kicked off. If one has perused the program booklet of the NCA, one can understand the scope of this convention.
Rolling to Record with My Sunglasses On
By Abbey Niezgoda -- 11/20/08 We made it. The first of its kind NCA Press team has arrived, and we are ready to begin the journey. When I stepped in to the convention, loaded down with equipment, I tried to take it all in before trying to capture it all on camera...
Sunshine, Communication, and Flip Cameras...We are here NCA!
By Heather Martyn -- 11/20/08 After waking up at 3:30 am, east coast time, to another freezing Boston morning, I boarded a plane and flew across the United States in hopes of not only meeting some of the nation's greatest and most intellectual minds in the field of
Warm weather and nice people
-By Brenna Ruiz-Gordon--11/20/08 The minute we got off the plane we felt the difference, a few thousand miles away our friends carry on in the bone-crushing cold of Boston while we walk around in open toe shoes and feel the sun actually warm our very pale faces. We are so lucky!...
My name is Konstantina and I am an Early Bird
- By Konstantina Georgaki -- 11/20/08 If you see young, hungry- looking, armed and ready attendees coming up to you in duos the next three days, don't run, don't hide, it's the NCA Press Team and we just want to interview you! That has been our game plan of the day. Sneaking into sessions and getting people' s stories...
The Magnitude of NCA
By Will Wemer -- 11/20/08 I knew that NCA was a big deal. When professors spoke of hundreds upon hundreds of communication enthusiasts descending on one city during a long weekend in November, I thought I was accurately imagining the image in my head.
Greetings from New York JFK Airport
By - Efe Sevin & Will Wemer -- 11/20/08 And after a tough preparation period in Boston, we set sail for San Diego. I and Will took our early morning flight and right now we are waiting for our San Diego flight in JFK. I lost my boarding pass 5
Final Count Down to San Diego
By - Konstantina Georgaki-- 11/19/08 7.5 hours till we trade the East Coast for the West....As I am preparing my suitcase, I can't help thinking how it is going to feel to be at a convention, not as an attendee, leisurely sitting through an entire thought provoking session, but as part of press team that aspires to be omnipresent and thus practically not allowed to take a seat or to catch a breath...Not that I am complaining, far from it...
Time to Go!
By - Efe Sevin -- 11/18/08 Thanks God, the weather in Boston is freezing, otherwise I wouldn't be able to stay inside, in front of the computer for hours and hours. With less than 48 hours remaining for my flight...
I am a Communication Professional
By - Rob Rykowski -- 11/18/08 Over the summer, shortly after graduating with a BS in Communication Studies, I presented a paper at a communication conference in Salamanca, Spain. Surrounded by academics and professionals alike, I was overwhelmed by the sheer feelings of accomplishment and pride I was...
NCA here I come!
By - Heather Martyn -- 11/18/08 As an undergraduate my professors always talked about the NCA convention and encouraged us to submit papers. Now as I look at my empty suitcase I realize that I will finally be part of the NCA conference, although in a different capacity. I am going to be able to meet and interview some of the greatest minds in the field of communications and learn from their academic papers...
Making My Way to NCA in a Multimedia World
By - Abbey Niezgoda -- 11/18/08 It's almost here. As I pack my bags for the 2008 NCA convention, a mix of questions come to mind, and only this weekend will bring the answers....
In search of the global citizen
By - Brenna Ruiz-Gordon -- 11/18/08 Aside from the great opportunity to observe an participate in the largest Communication event in the US, my trip to the 94th NCA unCONVENTIONal convention will serve as subject of research for my Global Communications final project...
To the NCA...
By - Anuj Gurung -- 11/18/08 While I was an undergraduate student, I heard a lot about the NCA convention. I heard stories of the incredible scholars, brilliant papers and great environment...
Preparation for San Diego: A Time for Reflection
By - Will Wemer -- 11/17/08 As I begin to pack my bags (and video equipment) in preparation for my trek to the West Coast, I have been very nostalgic about my past five years as a scholar in communication academia. I am always in awe of how diverse members of the discipline are: in educational background, in political ideology, and in research interests. Yet despite these differences, there is a real sense of unity and family among communication scholars, and a genuine buy-in to the commitment to serve the greater good...