Register for the 2008 NCA Convention Visit the 2008 Convention Web Page  NCA to Offer Expanded AV at Annual Convention in San Diego Presenters and panelists at the 2008 NCA annual convention will have the ability to display his or her work on a screen for all session attendees to see. In response to member requests, NCA has purchased LCD projectors to use in almost all convention sessions.  Read more>>> Free Registration for International Students, Reduced Registration for International Non-Student Members   Approved Executive Committee policy states that NCA will waive the annual convention registration fee for 2007, 2008, and 2009 conventions for international student members. In the approved parallel policy, NCA will reduce the annual convention registration fee by 50% for international non-student members. Read more>>> Podcasting comes to the NCA Convention!   NCA First Vice-President and San Diego program planner, Betsy Bach, has teamed up with Emerson College and the NCA Research Board (RB) to move forward her initiative to expand NCA’s use of new technologies.  Read more>>> NCA and Routledge, Taylor and Francis Launch New Journal The Journal of International and Intercultural Communication publishes scholarship for an international readership on international and intercultural communication from a range of theoretical, conceptual and methodological perspectives. The Journal features leading edge inquiry that cuts across academic boundaries to focus on international, intercultural, as well as indigenous communication issues. A nation-state should not necessarily be synonymous with a single culture as nation-states might be more productively viewed as comprising multiple cultures, nor should a culture be thought of as bounded by national boundaries, as cultures may cross the boundaries of multiple nation-states.   Learn more and see the articles in the first issue>> Listen to the Podcast >>   Founded in 1914, NCA is a non-profit organization of researchers, educators, students, and practitioners, whose academic interests span all forms of human communication. NCA is the oldest and largest national organization serving the academic discipline of Communication. Through its services, scholarly publications, resources, conferences and conventions, NCA works with its members to strengthen the profession and contribute to the greater good of the educational enterprise and society. Research and instruction in the discipline focus on the study of how messages in various media are produced, used, and interpreted within and across different contexts, channels, and cultures.