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The Virtual Conference is Now Open
The Virtual Conference, open May 14th to June 8th, is now live! All Phoenix registrants, and Virtual Conference registrants, have automatic, full access to all Virtual Conference content, including: 44 academic papers, keynotes, workshops, and all live-stream sessions during the Phoenix conference. Sign in Now
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2011 Conference Theme Book - Communication @ the Center
Edited by Steve Jones, U of Illinios at Chicago
This work draws on scholarship that in theoretical and practical terms focuses on the centrality of communication as a scholarly pursuit, as an intellectual enterprise and as a pervasive element of everyday life. The authors of the chapters herein examine the history and present contours of the field, bringing new insight and clarity into the role communication plays in academia and scholarship. They engage in research that foregrounds communication not only teleologically but also ontologically. The chapters in this volume engage social, political, environmental and other issues with theoretical sophistication and methodological innovation. In so doing the authors have focused on critical challenges and issues that communication is ideally positioned to examine, critique and illuminate. The work represented in Communication @ the Center serves as a thought-provoking guide to the past, present and future of the field of communication. View the Table of Contents, and buy the Themebook now!
Download Conference Papers
All conference attendees can sign on the Paper Download site to access papers from the Phoenix Conference. The site requires a password which was emailed to all registrants on May 10.
ICA Mobile Program App is Now Available
New this year, get the conference program on your phone! Download the Guidebook App in your app store, and search for us under International Communication Association 2012. For more information and a video demo of the app, click here.
Other News of Interest
Read our latest Newsletter
Special highlights from the April issue of Newsletter include: features on master classes, extended sessions, preconferences, and excursions; a report on ICA's regional conference in Lille, France, and ICA Communication Director JP Gutierrez discusses the role of Twitter at the Phoenix conference.
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15 Preconferences Offered in Phoenix
Learn more about preconference options before you register.
UC-ICA Cosponsored Conference: Submission Deadline Extended to 1 June 2012
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
Journal of Communication, Vol. 62 Issue. 2 Now Live!
Read abstracts from the original articles in the Journal of Communication, published April 2012.
Framing the Egyptian Uprising in Arabic Language Newspapers and Social Media, Naila Hamdy and Ehab H. Gomaa
Safety Valve or Pressure Cooker? Blogs in Chinese Political Life, Jonathan Hassid
Clicks, Cabs, and Coffee Houses: Social Media and Oppositional Movements in Egypt, 2004–2011, Merlyna Lim
Internet Use and Democratic Demands: A Multinational, Multilevel Model of Internet Use and Citizen Attitudes About Democracy, Erik C. Nisbet, Elizabeth Stoycheff, Katy E. Pearce
Affective News and Networked Publics: The Rhythms of News Storytelling on #Egypt, Zizi Papacharissi and Maria de Fatima Oliveira
Networked Authoritarianism and Social Media in Azerbaijan, Katy E. Pearce and Sarah Kendzior
The Social Media Basis of Youth Protest Behavior: The Case of Chile, Sebastián Valenzuela, Arturo Arriagada, Andrés Scherman
Social Media and the Activist Toolkit: User Agreements, Corporate Interests, and the Information Infrastructure of Modern Social Movements, William Lafi Youmans and Jillian C. York
A Field Experiment on the Internet's Effect in an African Election: Savvier Citizens, Disaffected Voters, or Both?, Catie Snow Bailard
Networks of Networks: Changing Patterns in Country Bandwidth and Centrality in Global Information Infrastructure, 2002–2010, Hyunjin Seo and Stuart J. Thorson
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:
Health Communication Online Masters Program at the U of Illinois (Applications due by May 2012)
Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI) AHRC Research Studentship in Digital Media or Media History (Applications due by 15 May 2012)
3rd International Summer School: Political Communication and Electoral Behaviour (Applications due 27 May)
Health Communication Online Course: "Anytime, Anywhere Learning" (23 May- 6 June 2012)
PhD Course "Cybersemiotics and Transdisciplinarity: Applications in linguistics, communication, semiotics, and art-technology analysis" (29 June 2012)
Graduate Student Conference: "InfoSocial: Where Information and the Social Sciences Collide" (Conference 12-13 October 2012)
Postgrad Research at Dublin City U (Deadline 21 October 2012)
Crosslands Scholarship at Royal Holloway, U of London
Graduate Teaching Assistantship at the U of Leicester
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International Communication Association's mission is to advance the scholarly study of human communication by encouraging and facilitating excellence in academic research worldwide.
ICA membership include subscriptions to any of our journals. Full-text online access to ALL previously published ICA journals are available to members. To see other membership benefits, visit our membership benefits page.
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