SoC faculty that participated in the NCA 108th Annual Convention: Honoring PLACE: People, Liberation, Advocacy, Community, and Environment

This year a number of our faculty members participated in the National Communication Association’s 108th Annual Convention: Honoring PLACE: People, Liberation, Advocacy, Community, and Environment. This year’s convention took place in New Orleans, Louisiana. Below we have listed the SoC faculty members and their participation in the convention. 

Corey Anton: 

Role: Presenter – A Roundtable Discussion of Surfing the Anthropocene: Digital Affect and the Big Tension

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Valerie Peterson: 

Role: Presenter – A Roundtable Discussion of Surfing the Anthropocene: Digital Affect and the Big Tension

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Richard D. Besel:

Role: Chair and Respondent – Mediating Environmental Communication

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Carl Brown:

Role: Presenter – Communication Centers Section Business Meeting

Role: Chair – Communication Centers Section Paper Session

Dr. Carl Brown Top-Ranked Panel Award

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Anthony Spencer

Role: Presenter – COVID-19 and Government Trust: A Spiral of Silence Analysis in South America

Role: Presenter – Pandemic migration: The role of media to and from Latin America

Photo of Dr. Anthony Spencer (right) and Dr. Paola Albarrán from Telemundo Television (left)

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Adrienne Wallace 

Role: Presenter – Media Mastery: Redefining Media Literacy in the Digital Age

Role: Presenter – SPARK A ‘Diversity First’ IDEA: An Approach to Equitable PR Campaigns

Role: Presenter – Mitigating Harm: To PLACE PR Ethics at the Center of AI and IoT Strategy

Won Teaching Idea Award