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Reviewer Comments and Scores Now Available
If you submitted a paper for the 2012 Annual Conference, your reviews are now available on the Paper Management System." Once logged on click "Edit a Proposal or Access Reviews. Contact: conference@icahdq.org with any questions.
Accepting submissions for Communication Yearbook 37 through 15 February 2012
Human Communication Research Seeks Editor
Other News of Interest
Read our latest Newsletter
Special highlights from the January-February issue of Newsletter include: features on extended sessions, preconferences, and excursions; information on 2012 Officer Nominations, and how to apply for a travel grant; and President Larry Gross' discussion of "A Broader Vision of Career Paths."
15 Preconferences Offered in Phoenix
Learn more about preconference options before you register.
UC-ICA Cosponsored Conference Accepting Submissions
The conference "Designing and Building Research Network Maps: Trends in International and Latin American Communication Research" will take place in Santiago, Chile from 18-20 October 2012.
Read the call for papers in English or in Spanish
Communication Theory, Vol. 22 Issue. 1 Now Live!
Read abstracts from the original articles in Communication Theory, published February 2012.
Finding Birds of a Feather: Multiple Memberships and Diversity Without Divisiveness in Communication Research, Mel Stanfill
“Thinking Dirty”: Digging Up Three Founding “Matriarchs” of Communication Studies, Aimee-Marie Dorsten
Reframing the Past as a Cosmopolitan Memory: Obituaries in the Israeli Daily Haaretz, Dalia Gavriely-Nuri and Einat Lachover
Dialogue, Activism, and Democratic Social Change, Shiv Ganesh and Heather M. Zoller
The Case for Cablinasian: Multiracial Naming From Plessy to Tiger Woods, LeiLani Nishime
Student/Fellowship Opportunities
ICA aims to connect scholars with opportunities that will advance individual academic pursuits and the study of communication. Current opportunities for studentships, fellowships, and funding are listed below:
U of Reading Research Studentships - Arts & Humanities/AHRC Doctoral Studentships (Deadline 10 February 2012)
Applications to the Doctoral Program on Information and Knowledge Society at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute of the Open University of Catalonia in Barcelona(Applications due 12 February 2012)
AHRC-funded PhD Studentships with the The School of Film and Television Studies (Deadline 17 February 2012)
MA Applications Now Accepted: College of Charleston; California State u- Los Angeles (1 March 2012 and 1 April 2012)
National Ethics in Action Student Video Competition (1 March 2012)
Pop Culture Field Study at San Diego's Comic-Con International (1 March 2012)
New Round of Newton International Fellowships Open (Deadline 16 April 2012)
The Performative Possibilities of New Media Roundtable
Postgrad Research at Dublin City U (Deadline 21 October 2012)
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