Introduction: Hope or despair? (original) (raw)

2016, International Communication Gazette

The invited response to the top papers from the Communication and the Future interest division at the National Communication Association 2016 Annual Conference.

It is always an honor to be given an opportunity to respond to the top papers of the Communication and the Future interest division. This year is no expectation. I try to follow the wisdom that Raymond Puchot set regarding the role of the respondent, which is being able to praise the work of the scholars, providing a clear summary of the individual papers & the connective elements between the various presentations, focusing on the questions left unanswered by the research, and challenging the scholars to go beyond what was stated in the written and spoken word related to their given research. It is a charge that I attend to fulfill given the nature of this work and the scholars that are before you today. The level of scholarship, analysis, and academic rigor shown by the scholars is a tribute to work that was put in developing the particular problematics worthy of this division. The research questions and hypotheses addressed by the scholars pushed the division further as those questions and hypotheses used innovative applications of research instruments, quality meta-analyses of the problematics, and solid conceptualization of the realm of the known and the problematics of study. We should praise these scholars for the work they have done for this conference.

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