Second Communication Research Student Conference (CRSC)

2nd CRSC Poster by Chary Silva

“Ka-CommRes Ako!” went Sir Fernando Paragas’s urge and the audience’s “battlecry” in the Second Communication Research Student Conference (CRSC) held recently on this Saturday at the College of Mass Communication, UP Diliman.

CRSC 08 Paper-- For sale at P75 only at the CommRes Department is a CD-compilation of these papers. Please call Ms. Viring at 920-68-66 for reservations.

Because we’re coming from a field who believes that the utilization of numbers can reduce much of the Philippines’ problems to dust, I’m going to present it just like that in this entry about the 2nd CRSC, from a student secretariat’s POV:

There were three venues on the second Communication Research Student Conference, mainly organized by a secretariat of twenty-four students of Communication Research 175 (Fundamentals of Communication and Management by Dr. Aleli Agoncillo-Quirante), with the moral and active support of twelve professors/administration heads, among with an uncounted number of  secretary heads.

Twenty-three parallel session papers, and three main plenary session studies were presented– these involved very close to 100 students from two schools (UP Diliman and FEU), and ten advisers who made sure the student papers were given justice in the presentations they gave to the soft headcount of 888 attendees from eleven universities of the Philippines (UPD, UPM, UPLB, ADMU, AUF, CSB, DLSU, FEU, UA&P, UE, UST).

Some accumulated hundreds of hours in preparation became the cumulation of an eight-hour whole-day event as one of College of Mass Communication’s continued contribution to the local student academe, and communication studies inspiration as well as to the overall UP community recognition in its year-wide 100th anniversary celebration.

CRSC 08: A draped white blanket becomes the make-shift "LCD screen" in the cool and very blue TV station of UP CMC's Media Center

B1 / 201 in UP CMC's Film Department sufficed for an intimate paper presentations for the CRSC 08

The CMC Auditorium witnessed a fullhouse in its presentations on marketing and ICT, the more popular topics among today's youth scholars

I wanted to post more numbers on our use of resources like paper and ink spools, desktops and laptops hours use, ID cases, printed certificates, etc, but I don’t have them ^^; Here’s some fun trivia instead:

• Student presented papers they’ve previously produced as sophomores/juniors/undergrads. 
• Most presenters are undergraduate students, though there were a few who were already graduates (fresh grads!) and still presented their theses in this conference.
• It’s the first time we had presenters from another school—FEU! The CRSC aimed to encourage other schools to send in their student studies/papers. Research dissemination/presentation gives you a different sort of “high”, too! They’re not just geek work nor do they end up as scratch paper for professors–students could get priceless recognition from the hardwork behind it, too, if coupled with the extra effort in packaging, editing, and presenting the study.
• It works pala if the event required by professors (HAHA!) and is scheduled on a Saturday :D We had more attendees! More attendees mean we have more people/ larger captive audience which we can inspire (and who can inspire each other!)

P.S. A CD-compilation of the papers presented in this conference is for sale at P75 at the UP CommRes Department. Please call Ms. Viring (920-68-66) for details and reservations.