NCA 2006 Call for Submissions
The Human Communication and Technology Division invites papers, panels, and scholar to scholar (poster) sessions that examine the theory and application of communication
technologies to relationships, communities, classrooms, and other organizational and social contexts. The division has
previously scheduled panels that examined electronic group interaction, laptop computers in classroom, user interface,
virtual communities, teaching and learning with virtual teams, open source politics, information literacy, international
perspectives on communication technologies, theoretical exploration in human communication, and a variety of other topics
that examine the implications of technologically mediated communication systems for personal relationships, policy, and pedagogy.
This year's convention theme challenges HCTD researchers to rethink human communication technologies in mediating action and connection through different “sites.” Over the past decade, human communication technologies have stayed on the forefront in creating virtual as well as physical sites for human interactions that revise and change existing theory and conceptualizations about communication processes in teaching, working, socialization, and building communities. The Division is especially interested in papers, panels, and scholar to scholar (poster) sessions that address the ways in which communication technologies are used in “creating sites ” for networking, regional, national and international coordination, socialization, scholarship and leadership diversity, and human relationships that lead to ultimate social actions. All submissions must be made online through the NCA All-Academic site, which will guide you through the submission process. Submissions will be accepted only in these formats: Word, PDF (Adobe Acrobat), and Rich Text. Do NOT compress files before sending. Audio and visual requests should accompany your submission.
Submission deadline: February 15, 2005
We are only accepting completed papers and panel proposals for competitive evaluation. Papers not accepted for panel presentation may be arranged for scholar to scholar (poster) sessions (Papers with strong visual presentation requirements can also be submitted for scholar to scholar sessions). Papers should aim for no more than 25 pages of text. Authors should prepare a 2 00-250 word abstract that will be submitted as plain text on the submission page. No information identifying the author may appear in the paper. If your paper is accepted, the abstract and author information will be permanently posted on the HCTD web site (http://hctd.org). Panel submissions should propose a detailed agenda including a detailed statement of the panel ’s purpose and, minimally, an abstract of each presentation . Authors are reminded that it is good practice, when submitting abstracts and other information to an online site, to compose in a local editor and cut and paste into the abstract and other fields.
Contact co-planners:
Scott C. D'Urso, Department of Communication Studies,
J. William and Mary Diederich College of Communication, Marquette University,
Milwaukee , WI 53201-1881,
scott.durso@marquette.edu , phone ( 414-288-5477)
Yun Xia, Department of Communication,
Rider University, 2083 Lawrenceville Road,
Lawrenceville, NJ 08648,
yxia@rider.edu, phone (609-895-5489)