http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2015/04/02/the-importance-of-being-sigd-scholarly-interest-groups-and-their-role-at-scms/ Responses to Media and Culture Fri, 12 Feb 2016 19:35:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.5 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2015/04/02/the-importance-of-being-sigd-scholarly-interest-groups-and-their-role-at-scms/comment-page-1/#comment-441278 Thu, 02 Apr 2015 16:22:38 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=25975#comment-441278 I like my SCMS SIGs, particularly those that maintain conversation over the year, but I am conflicted about how they are deployed at the conference. On the one hand, you could focus your panel attendance on a particular SIG and have more discussion across panels. But doing so excludes panels that belong to other SIGs or no SIG at all. And as a member of two different SIGs, I often have to choose between SIG meetings occurring at the same time, which is extremely frustrating. The SCMS conference seems to be on its way to becoming MLA, at which point it will be entirely useless. Maybe what we need are regional SCMS groups – NESCMS, SWSCMS, etc.

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