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Call: Remote learning instructor-student interactions or instructor immediacy panel at CSCA 2022

Call for Short Abstracts

Seeking panelists for submission for Communication Education Interest Group on remote learning instructor-student interactions or instructor immediacy
Central States Communication Association (CSCA) 2022 Annual Conference
Theme: Re-Connect
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
March 30 – April 3, 2022
CSCA 2022: https://www.csca-net.org/aws/CSCA/pt/sp/convention_overview

Initial submission deadline: Monday October 4, 2021

From Aimee Miller-Ott, aeott@ilstu.edu

We are seeking participants for a panel we want to submit to the Central States Communication Association for their 2022 conference. We conducted a study on students’ perceptions of college instructors’ immediacy behaviors through Zoom instruction. We are looking to create a panel that focuses either on immediacy in classroom contexts (in person or online) OR on instruction in Zoom classrooms, not necessarily on immediacy. We will develop the panel topic focus once we see what kind of submissions we receive.

If you have projects that focus on either topic (immediacy in the classroom or Zoom instructor) and are interested in possibly joining the panel, please email me with the title of your project and a short couple sentence description of the project.… read more. “Call: Remote learning instructor-student interactions or instructor immediacy panel at CSCA 2022”

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Amazon’s tech pipeline: Robots, telepresence at the kitchen table and flying drones – welcome to the experiment

[There’s been a lot of press coverage of Amazon’s new Astro robot this week, with a mix of reactions. This story from CNET provides valuable context regarding Amazon’s approach to developing innovative (and often presence-evoking) technology. For more about Astro see Amazon News and the Amazon Science blog. For a mostly negative view about Astro’s potential see a widely cited story in Vice. Here are excerpts from two other technology writers:

“Astro is a magnificent feat of science and engineering. But is it actually something you would want in your home? A successful product is one that either addresses an unsolved problem or solves an existing problem so well that customers will choose it over their existing solutions. It should be about doing something better or cheaper (or both) than the alternatives. When looked at from this perspective, Astro looks like a half-baked solution to unsolved problems or an expensive solution to problems that have already been addressed in more efficient and affordable ways.… read more. “Amazon’s tech pipeline: Robots, telepresence at the kitchen table and flying drones – welcome to the experiment”

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