Welcome to the National Communication Association's Mass Communication Division Homepage  The National Communication Association (NCA) is a scholarly society of over 8,000 educators, practitioners, and students dedicated to the study, criticism, research, teaching, and application of the artistic, humanistic, and scientific principles of communication.
The Mass Communication Division is one of NCA’s largest divisions, consisting of more than 1,200 members. Our Division advances the study and teaching of media, addressing fundamental questions of why people turn to media, the nature of media content in the form of images and codes, the influence of new media as well as a range of potential media influences on individuals and societies. The Division boasts of members who are media experts in a wide range of contexts, from health, to politics, to sports, to science, to the environment, to children, to business/commercial (to name just a few contexts).
All methodologies are respected and welcome. Our Division provides a forum in which scholars and teachers with diverse interests and approaches can come together to contribute to the study of mass and mediated communication. We also sponsor two division awards, one for outstanding teaching contributions and the other for outstanding service activities.
Membership in the Mass Communication Division is open to all those who are members in good standing of the National Communication Association and who are interested in promoting the purpose of the Division. Each year we program dozens of interesting competitive paper and discussion panels focused on Mass Communication issues for NCA’s annual convention.We are dedicated to helping our collective membership become better equipped to investigate and engage with and among mass communication issues. The next annual meeting of NCA will be held November 14-17, 2010 in San Francisco, California. If you are interested in the study of communication, we strongly encourage you to become a member and take part in NCA in general and the Mass Communication Division in particular.
Please feel free to contact the Chair or other Officers of the Division should you have any questions or suggestions. We want to make sure that the division serves its members to the best of its ability.
 Andrew C. Billings
acbilng@clemson.edu
Chair,
Mass Communication Division
National Communication Association
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2010-2011 MCD Call for Officers |
MCD is now accepting nominations for many open officer positions.
Information about open positions and the nomination process can be found on the Call for Nominations.
Elections will be held as the 2010 MCD Business Meeting in San Francisco.
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2010 NCA MCD Business Meeting |
The 2010 MCD Business meeting will be held on:
Monday, November 15
2:00 to 3:15pm
Golden Gate 3
Hilton San Francisco |
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