A surge in competitive paper submissions has created the need for additional media scholars and graduate students affiliated with NCA to review competitive paper submissions for the Mass Communication Division. If this is you, and you have not already signed up to volunteer and review papers, I urge you to become a competitive paper reviewer for the 2011 National Communication Association annual meeting. If you are interested in becoming a reviewer, please email David M. Rhea of Governors State University at d-rhea@govst.edu. Your participation is helpful to keep the number of papers scholars review down to a minimum.

In your email, please specify your preferences for (1) methods you would like to review (qualitative, quantitative, both) and (2) topics you would like to review (Advertising/Consumer Culture, Children/Adolescents/Youth, Critical/Cultural Studies, Feminism/Women's Studies, Film/Cinema, Health, History, International/Intercultural, Journalism/News [including Framing], Masculinity Studies, Media Effects, Music/Music Video, New Technology [e.g., Blogs, Internet, Social Networking], Political Communication, Pop Culture, Race, Rhetoric, Sexuality, Sports, Stereotyping, Telecommunications Law/Policy/Business [e.g., digital conversion], Television Content, and other topics not mentioned).

In your email, please also include whether you would be willing to serve as a panel chair or respondent at the conference. If you agree to serve as a panel chair or respondent, it is your responsibility to check the 2011 NCA schedule to see if you are listed as a panel chair or respondent. You must make arrangements to attend the 2011 NCA Convention if you are selected as a panel chair or respondent.

Thank you for your participation and service.

David M. Rhea
Research Committee Vice-Chair
Governors State University