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Communication scholars talk shop: journals, careers, and new research.
Communication Matters: The NCA Podcast is the in-house show of the National Communication Association, hosted by the association's executive director. Its episodes stay close to the working life of the field: getting an article into a journal, reviewing as mentorship, PhD careers outside the academy, and African scholarship the discipline has overlooked.
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Communication Matters: The NCA Podcast is the house podcast of the National Communication Association, organized at the association's National Office in Washington, D.C. The executive director hosts. Shari Miles-Cohen leads several episodes from that post, and in one she introduces herself as newly appointed, coming from the human rights team at the American Psychological Association with a PhD in personality psychology from Howard University. Trevor Parry-Giles, also introduced as executive director, hosts 'Journal Reviewing as Mentorship.' The sign-off describes the series as a way to expand the reach of NCA members' scholarship. In practice, many of the conversations are about how that scholarship gets made and published. In 'Tips for Getting Published in an Academic Journal,' communication professor Karin Vosby-Anderson takes common questions from would-be authors. The advice gets specific: prepare the manuscript to the target journal's own style manual, or the submission looks as if that journal was an afterthought. If the instructions for authors seem out of step with recent issues, the suggestion is to write to the editor. 'Journal Reviewing as Mentorship' first explains anonymous peer review, and the accept, revise or reject outcomes, for anyone new to the process. Then it brings in four guests: Tevika Chawla, incoming chair of NCA's Publications Council; Mary Stuckey, a past editor of the Quarterly Journal of Speech; and veteran reviewers Denise M. Bostorf and Rebecca DeSouza. Graduate education is a subject the show has come back to. 'Alt-Ac Careers' refers back to earlier episodes on the communication PhD during the COVID-19 pandemic and on the book The New PhD, then turns to work outside the faculty track. One participant, who has chaired many searches for DEI roles, urges PhD holders to translate a CV into evidence of project management and curriculum building, and points to user experience and to learning and development as places to look. The discipline's blind spots get airtime too. An episode on two special issues of NCA's Review of Communication centers on how little attention African scholars have received, with talk ranging across intercultural communication, what development means on the continent, and health communication. At one point the conversation notes that two special issues barely scratch the surface of the continent's diversity. 'Connections Between Communication and Psychology' sets the host's psychology background beside guest Diane Forbes Berthoud, and the talk gets to conflict management: what unmet needs sit under a meeting where voices were raised. Campus news gets its own episode too. 'Expanding Educational Opportunities Beyond the Classroom' covers an endowment gift to St. Cloud State's Department of Communication Studies, with almost all of the money going directly to students. The register is collegial and explanatory, and processes insiders take for granted, such as peer review, get explained for newcomers. Someone with a first manuscript should start with the publishing episode, and a PhD weighing jobs beyond the academy should start with 'Alt-Ac Careers.' Episodes close with NCA's mission statement and credits for producer Chelsea Bowes, with content development support from Wendy Fernando and Grace Hebert.
Made for: Suits a listener in or around communication studies who wants guidance from the people who edit and review the field's journals. That could be a graduate student with a first manuscript, a scholar who has been asked to review, or a PhD weighing work outside the academy.
What sets it apart: It comes from inside the discipline's own scholarly association. The host is NCA's executive director, and the peer review discussion includes a Publications Council chair and a past journal editor, so its advice on publishing and careers is specific in a way only insiders can manage.
Communication Matters: The NCA Podcast is the podcast of the National Communication Association. Recorded from our National Office in Washington, DC, and hosted by NCA Executive Director Trevor Parry-Giles, the podcast discusses emerging scholarship, established theory, and new applications, all exploring just how much Communication Matters—in our classrooms, in our communities, and in our world.
Raised voices become questions about unmet needs, if you want more than a civility lecture.
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An endowment conversation finds its weight in one first-generation student's path from uncertain registration to broader academic opportunity.
A department endowment turns into a grounded story about educational access when Judy remembers arriving at St. Cloud State as a first-generation student in 1968, so unsure of registration that she figured on a 40-to-50-hour class week.
A useful conversation about translating communication PhD training into careers beyond or alongside the academy.
Communication Matters: The NCA Podcast returns to NCA's ongoing look at the communication PhD, The New PhD, and the realities of preparing students for ALT-AC paths beyond or alongside the academy.
A practical episode on journal fit, author instructions, copyediting, and the signals a manuscript sends.
Academic publishing feels more navigable when the focus shifts from publish-or-perish anxiety to the signals a manuscript sends before it ever reaches reviewers.
A focused conversation on what communication studies miss when African scholarship sits at the margins.
Communication Matters turns to two new special issues of Review of Communication to consider a long-running gap in the field: the limited attention given to scholarship by African scholars, from African perspectives, and about Africa. Dr.
A grounded discussion of how psychological perspective and reflective communication can help de-escalate difficult workplace conversations.
Connections Between Communication and Psychology considers how a psychological perspective can make difficult organizational conversations less reactive and more humane. Dr. Shari Miles-Cohen and Dr.
Communication Matters: The NCA Podcast focuses on Judy C.
Alt-Ac Careers on Communication Matters: The NCA Podcast asks how communication PhDs can use their training outside the professoriate.
Communication Matters: The NCA Podcast episode on Tips for Getting Published in an Academic Journal follows Dr.
African scholarship has a lot to offer Western researchers, but the episode says Western researchers have not always paid sufficient attention to African scholars, which is why Communication Matters spotlights two special issues of NCA's Review of Communication.
Diane Forbes Berthoud says most people live with '85 to 90 percent' of life unconscious, and she uses that iceberg metaphor to link communication and psychology.
This episode discusses journal reviewing as mentorship and related issues in journal editing, featuring experts in communication studies.
An interview with the authors of 'The New PhD' discussing how to reform doctoral programs to better prepare graduates for diverse careers.
This episode introduces the NCA podcast and features candidates for second vice president discussing their visions for the association.
This episode features a panel discussion analyzing the 2020 vice presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Mike Pence, part of a series on communicating during a presidential election year.
Host Trevor Parry-Giles interviews current and past editors of NCA journals about their experiences and advice for aspiring journal editors.
Host Trevor Parry-Giles introduces a special issue of Review of Communication on the film Black Panther, interviewing co-editors about the scholarly articles.
Host Trevor Parry-Giles interviews Dr.
The episode discusses how colleges and universities have dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic and looks forward to future implications, featuring three university administrators.