The Department of Communication Research of the University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication and its partner associations opened Day 1 of the two-day 7th National Communication Research Conference (NCRC) online on Friday (Nov. 12).
This year’s theme, “Breaking Through Outbreaks and Breakdowns: Re-searching Communication and Media in the Pandemic,” probes into the effects of the COVID-19 outbreak on people, groups, communities, institutions, practices, and behaviors.
It tackles the various breakdowns that the pandemic is causing in the norms, patterns, models, standards, and routines of communication and media research and practice.
It also highlights the breakthroughs, realizations, discoveries, the steps forward, and the looking beyond which are helping open new possibilities for communication and media research.
The Philippines Communication Society (PCS), Philippine Association of Communication Educators (PACE), and Philippine Association for Communication and Media Research, Inc. (PACMRI) are the partner organizations for this event.
The conference is open to everyone, including those who are not presenting a paper. With more than 500 participants, the NCRC also held today the first of three paper competitions, the Undergraduate Paper competition, which is participated in by students from four universities: University of the Philippines Diliman, Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Philippine Normal University, and De La Salle – College of St. Benilde Antipolo Campus.
The plenary speakers for Day 1 were Prof. Jace Cabañes, PhD of De La Salle University; Associate Prof. Lia Uy-Tioco, PhD of California State University San Marcos Mason University; and Associate Prof. Edson Tandoc, PhD of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
PACE also hosted one parallel session on communication education.
NCRC 2021 is a venue for students, faculty, and media professionals across the country to share and disseminate their studies in the field of communication and media. First organized by the Department of Communication Research in 2012, the NCRC is the geographic expansion of the Communication Research Student Conference which the Department began in 2008. (UP Comm. Res. Dept.) – jlo
