Mass Communication Division

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The Mass Communication Division is one of the largest divisions of NCA. Its members are engaged in research on and teaching of a wide range of topics relating to traditional and new media content, form, structures, effects, and processes using various methodologies (e.g., quantitative, qualitative, critical/interpretative). Members represent various strands of traditional mass communication theory, political economy, and critical/cultural studies. They also study (mass) media history, regulation, and industry. They represent the diversity in intellectual and scholarly traditions that make up the rich disciplinary history of the field of communication. Our mission is to provide a forum in which scholars and teachers with diverse interests and approaches can come together to contribute to the study of communication media in ways that draw from the strengths of the established traditions in order to address emerging issues relating to both traditional and new media.

2024 Interest Group Leadership

Chair: Matt Lapierre, University of Arizona
Vice Chair: Colin Kearney, Hampton University
Vice Chair-Elect: Cassandra Alexopulos, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Immediate Past Chair: Veronica Hefner, Saint Mary’s College of California
Secretary: Sofia Rhea, University of California, Davis
Secretary-Elect: Christopher Josy, University of Missouri
Publications & Web Editor: Rocky Dailey, South Dakota State University
Graduate Student Representative: Muhammad Rasul, University of California, Davis
Ad-Hoc Appointment - Group Parliamentarian: Shane Tilton, Ohio Northern University
Graduate Student Representative-Elect: Nancy Molina-Rogers, University of California - Santa Barbara
IDEA Representative: Sumana Chattopadhyay, Marquette University

2024 Research Committee

Committee Chair: David Stamps, Bentley University
First Vice Chair: Laramie Taylor, University of California-Davis
Second Vice Chair: Debora D. Pérez Torres, California State University, San Bernardino
Second Vice Chair-Elect: Benjamin K. Smith, California State University-East Bay

Nominations Committee

Committee Chair: Benjamin K. Smith, California State University-East Bay
Vice Chair: Brandon Miller, University of Massachusetts Boston
Vice Chair-Elect: Leah Dajches

2024 NCA Positions

Legsilative Assembly
- Matt Lapierre, University of Arizona
- Valerie Kretz, St. Norbert College
- Veronica Hefner, Saint Mary’s College of California
Nominating Committee
- Q. McElroy, Brenau University