Welcome to the
Human Communication and Technology Division
New
Year s greetings to all HCTD members! We look forward to a
healthy year in this division; we are clearly linked to the health
of the discipline theme for the 2005 NCA convention. Just
as exercise and diet contribute to the health of individuals, exercise
and diet have contributed to the health of this division.
The membership of HCTD has been exercising both individual and collective
minds. The buff intellects were seen in over 100 papers
and panels submitted to the division. The strength of these submissions
was evident in the programmed sessions that many of you attended
in Chicago. We checked in on most of the sessions (since we had
programmed them, we felt strong ownership) and found most of them
well-attended. You also got to exercise your body as you ran out
to the far reaches of the Hilton to the Stevens meeting rooms, where
most of the HCTD sessions were scheduled. Exercise the mind and
body.
The HCTD diet is balanced, too. Particularly interesting were the
high turnouts for sessions that focused on both the human
communication and the technology aspects of
the division, such as VIRTUAL DIALOGUES: NEGOTIATING AFFILIATION
AND CONTROL and PUTTING FORWARD THE SELF WITH TECHNOLOGY.
Clearly, a balanced diet is appealing to the membership, and we
believe it helps us attract new members. The last programmed session
on Sunday was EXPLORING COMPETENCIES IN VIRTUAL CONTEXTS,
which asked and answered some very important questions about competence,
trust and motives in mediated situations.
We were also extremely gratified to see the huge attendance at the
HCTD business meeting at NCA Friday afternoon. Thanks to SO
MANY of you who came to do the work of the division. We were
pleased to present certificates to the reviewers for 2004 HCTD.
We presented TOP PAPER awards to Jennifer
E. Good, Juliann Cortese, Mihye Seo, and Ioana Sipos and
a Top Student Paper award to Carlos Gustavo Godoy. We elected and
now welcome the new officers, Ulla Bunz and Nanette Hogg, and the
new student representatives, Dan McRoberts and Saman Talib. Thank
all of you for serving the division.
We hope you are all busy exercising getting those papers
and panels ready to submit to NCA no later than February 16. Keep
up the good diet, too, feeding your scholarship with high quality
ingredients. We're sure you've had enough of this health analogy,
so we sign off now with cheers to your health, the health of HCTD,
and the health of the discipline.
----Noemi Marin and Mary Wiemann, co-chairs, HCTD, 2005
The
Winter 2004/2005 edition of the online Newsletter offers a look
at the state of our division, our "Drive for Five" membership drive,
as well as introduce the newest division officers. Just use the
navigation buttons to the left to look over the content. If you
have any questions, please feel free to contact either Scott
D'Urso or
Yun Xia.
If not a member already, please consider joining the Human Communication
and Technology Division. You may select HCTD as a membership affiliation
when you join or renew membership in the National Communication
Association. Logon to http://natcom.org
to renew
your membership. You can also add HCTD to your current affiliations
by going to our division website
and clicking on the “"Click here to join HCTD" now!"”
This additional affiliation is only $5. Please contact either Ulla
Bunz
or Nanette Hogg
for more
membership information.
The Human Communication and Technology Division does
research on the theory, application, and pedagogy of various communication
technologies, including computer-mediated communication systems
and other means of technologically-mediated human communication.
We welcome papers and panels that address the use of "new media"
in interpersonal, group, classroom, organizational, community, mass
communication and other contexts.