Disciplinary Activities
NCA strives to publicize the discipline's scholarship through press releases and regular contacts with policy makers. When appropriate, NCA offers scholarship to support the development of governmental policy. Where proposed laws are of interest or potential concern, the National Office staff notifies members so that they can make their opinions known to their representatives on Capitol Hill.
NCA's sponsors an annual convention, which is the leading outlet for the discipline's scholarship. NCA's summer conferences bring together scholars working in an emerging area of interest to exchange ideas. The annual convention consists of short courses, preconferences, seminars, G.I.F.T.S.(Great Ideas for Teaching Students), and scholar to scholar.
NCA publishes 10 academic journals:
- Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies
- Communication Education
- Communication Monographs
- Communication Teacher
- Critical Studies in Media Communication
- Journal of Applied Communication Research
- Journal of International and Intercultural Communication
- Quarterly Journal of Speech
- The Review of Communication
- Text and Performance Quarterly
NCA also publishes an online magazine, Communication Currents. The site is designed to translate current communication scholarship published in scholarly journals of the National Communication Association. Working from recently-published journal articles, Communication Currents makes scholarship available in a form understandable and usable for broad audiences, including communication experts working with lay audiences, instructors and students, the press, and other interested members of the public. Essays in Communication Currents highlight the relevance of communication scholarship; demonstrates the way in which communication impacts our world; and demonstrates the leadership of NCA in the study of communication.
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