• Sites Maintained
• Communication Associations
• Communication Indexes/Research Resources
• Political Communication Resources

Sites Maintained

• Service Learning in Persuasion: NCA convention, 2002
• Faculty Roles & Rewards in Service Learning: NCCC Workshop
• The Critical Servant: online version of a QJS article

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Communication Associations

• American Communication Association: a variety of services, including links for writing tools, communication studies, and communication law.
• Communication Institute for Online Scholarship (CIOS): this organization provides numerous services to communication scholars, including hotlines (email listservs), online databases of bibliographies and syllabi, an online index to communication journals that you can search from any campus computer, a full-text search engine of hundreds of communication-related sites, and much, much more.
• National Communication Association: online versions of the convention program and of Spectra, the association's newsletter; general information about the association
• Southern States Communication Association: the regional communication association; many of our students submit papers to the Undergraduate Honors Conference held every spring.

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Communication Indexes/Research Resources
The associations above have indexes; here are some more.

• Communication studies, cultural studies, media studies infobase by Mick Underwood: An excellent site that not only provides links to various other communication sites, but also provides essays on key topics in communication. Basically, on on-line encyclopedia of communication and culture. Check it out!
• Communication Concept Explorer: Gives you lists of related topics to broaden your searches--great for students writing research papers! (part of CIOS)
• Daniel Chandler's Media and Communication Studies Site: Another great resource for all topics related to communication
• Theoryhead.com: Home of New Media Studies, theory trading cards, and more stuff related to media and cultural studies.
• University of Iowa Links to Communication Studies Resources: Another collection of links for communication scholar
• Near Field Communication: Yet another list of communication-related links; thanks to students in Ms. Doherty's class in Cleary Mtn School District, Virginia, for pointing this one out!
• Writing On and With the Internet: From the Purdue Online Writing Workshop, explains how to use the web for research, including how to cite using both MLA and APA formats.
• Evaluating Information on the World Wide Web: a library's page that offers criteria for evaluating online documents
• Scout Report: In their own words, the Scout Report is "is a weekly publication offering a selection of new and newly discovered Internet resources of interest to researchers and educators."

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Political Communication Resources

• Politics.com: features political news, discussion boards and polls, links to other sites. Mostly a news site, however.
• C-SPAN: features relatively "unfiltered" political content, including video of events, speeches, advertisements
• Project Vote Smart: crucial site for informed voters, with tons of data about individual candidates and elected officials, searchable by zip code
• Political Communication Lab: research on political communication, from Stanford University
• Presidential Rhetoric: a great clearinghouse for everything that comes out of the president's mouth: audio, video, and text fieles, research, more.
• Iowa Electronic Market/Political: an intriguing site that treats candidates as commodities to be traded, has been very accurate in predicting winners
• FactCheck.org - Annenberg Political Fact Check: a non-partisan site that looks at deceptive claims and statements in political speeches and ads

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Last Updated: March 19, 2012