As the moderator for the #NCA22 Game Studies Top Papers session as I am reminded of the wisdom of one of my mentors Raymond Puchot, who stated that moderators must: “be able to cheer the work of the scholars, provide a clear summary of the individual papers & the connective elements between the various presentations, …
The last few months leading up to the National Communication Association’s 2020 Annual Conference was marked by the continuous denunciations of the journalistic organizations and platforms that perform the role of maintaining an informed public. Rhetorical attacks came from the bully pulpits and were invoked by those that followed political leaders’ ideological whims. Researchers in …
My opening remarks from the 2020 National Communication Association Game Studies Interest Division’s Virtual Preconference.
This post is the third in a series for my tenure file. The focus of this post is about the value of my professional service to the larger academic community.
I wanted to provide a rationale for writing “Winning Through Deception: A Pedagogical Case Study on Using Social Deception Games to Teach Small Group Communication Theory” for SAGE Open.
My view of communication scholarship is that it is the “study the information exchanges and interactions patterns between members of a given community and/or society.”
A preview of my conference schedule for the next couple of months as it relates to game studies.
Communication at Play was a beautiful theme for the National Communication Association 2018 annual conference (NCA2018). I thought the event as a whole was an excellent opportunity for scholars from various locations, academic backgrounds, and research practices to come together and celebrate what defines our discipline. This post is a brief overview of my experiences …
The National Communication Association’s 2018 Legislative Assembly kicked off the 2018 Annual Conference with 123 delegates willing to discuss the issues of the membership and run the business needs of the association. Ronald Jackson started the meeting on time. National Office After a brief instruction of the delegates in attendance, the first report came from …
The following post represents the proposed by-laws for the new Game Studies interest divisions in the National Communication Association. I drafted this language to be reviewed by the membership of the division before NCA2014.