Division & Interest Group News
Feminist Scholarship Division
Dear FSD community:
Greetings from your incoming Program Chair and Vice Chair elect. Just a quick note to say that I am delighted to have the opportunity to serve the Feminist Studies Division, which I have been affiliated with since early Graduate School days. I look forward to working with you and to continue the fine work of our past FSD Chairs who have stimulated new interest and enthusiasm in our division. I will be attending the Boston ICA Division and look forward to reconnecting with friends and colleagues and meeting those of you whom I don’t yet know. Good luck with your second half of term and I very much look forward to our future work together.
Sincerely,
Paula Gardner
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Instructional and Developmental Communication Division
Dr. Tim Sellnow and Dr. Brandi Frisby, both of the University of Kentucky, have developed a brief online questionnaire about the Instructional and Developmental Communication Division (IDD) of the International Communication Association (ICA). The goal of this research is to assess IDD members’ views of the division and their perceptions of the direction in which the division needs to move in the future. Results of this research will be compiled and presented at the division’s business meeting at the ICA conference this May in Boston. Everyone’s participation is appreciated.
If you are interested in participating in the study, please click on the following link:
https://uky.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_0fBTMaGoyqO1ld2
Best,
Rebecca M. Chory, Chair
Rebecca.Chory@mail.wvu.edu
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Intercultural Communication Division
The Division welcomes Hee Sun Park, Michigan State University, who is the Division Vice-Chair Elect and will assume office after the division business meeting at the Boston Conference. Steve Mortenson, the Vic-Chair will take over as the Division Chairship then.
The Annual Conference in Boston features 11 competitive paper sessions, including one interaction poster session, and 1 virtual session with 7 papers, in addition to one panel. The ICD Top-4 Papers Session is scheduled on Sun, May 29 (3:00pm - 4:15pm) in Westin Waterfront Hotel, the room is Revere. Top paper session is followed by the Division Business Meeting (4:30pm - 5:45pm). Division Reception (6:00pm - 7:00pm) will then follow the business meeting, all at the same venue. We hope to see many of you and your friends at these and other ICD sessions. This year Intercultural Communication Division is able to award six small travel grants to student papers to be presented at the 2011 annual conference in Boston. Also, the Division will co-sponsor (with the Interpersonal Communication division, the Health Communication Division, and Routledge) a preconference - "2nd Biannual Methodology Workshop: Analysis of Longitudinal Dyadic Data" (on Thur., May 26, 2011).
Meina Liu will receive the Scholarly Work Award for her 2009 article, "The Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Effects of Anger on Negotiation Strategies: A Cross-Cultural Investigation." Human Communication Research. 35 (1), 148-169. The PhD Dissertation Award will go to Kelly McKay-Semmler, for her dissertation in 2010, "Cross-Cultural Adaptation of Hispanic Youth: A Study of Communication Patterns, Functional Fitness, and Psychological Health," done at the
University of Oklahoma. Congratulations to Meina and Kelly.
We are happy to have the service of committee members, among them accomplished scholars and past Division chairs: Stella Ting-Toomey, Robert Shuter, Jim Neuliep, John Oetzel, Yang Soo Kim, and Young Y. Kim. Many thanks for your hard work and dedication.
Thanks.
Ling Chen, Chair
chling@hkbu.edu.hk
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Language and Social Interaction Division
The Language and Social Interaction (LSI) Division is proud to sponsor 10 panels, a poster session, and a very special virtual session featuring eight different conversation analysis (CA) papers. These CA papers were chosen in part because they can usefully use the virtual format to present not only a written paper but also limited audio and video clips as well! Log in starting May 23rd to read/hear/see the papers and log on again Saturday 9-10:15 to interact with authors live in Boston!
Are you wondering where our Top Papers are? Since LSI accepts extended abstracts, we have a second round of top paper award competition. Top abstracts were invited to submit full papers for consideration for the top paper award. Keep your eyes and ears open for the announcement of winners in early May!
Evelyn Y. Ho, Vice-Chair
eyho@usfca.edu
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Organizational Communication Division
The Organizational Communication Division will hold a preconference for doctoral students at the Boston convention called "Developing a Meaningful Career in Organizational Communication Studies." The preconference is intended for doctoral students nearing completion of their coursework, or who have completed coursework and are writing their dissertations. The goals of the workshop include assisting participants in identifying alternative meaningful career paths, creating and nurturing professional networks, and developing career plans for the next 7 years. Topics to be addressed include First Year Job Expectations, Creating Your Professional Identity, Finding and Working with Mentors and Collaborators, Making Teaching and Service Work for You, Setting Work Schedules and “Having a Life,” Working Across Disciplines, Navigating the University Landscape: Discussion, Managing Journal Submissions, Revisions, and Publications, Ways to Get Involved in Reviewing and Editorial Boards, and Finding a Fit in Professional Associations.
Faculty for the preconference include Janet Fulk, Shiv Ganesh, Loril Gossett, Michele Jackson, Guowei Jian, Joann Keyton Pat Parker, Keri Stephens, Dennis Mumby, Bart van den Hooff, and Ted Zorn. Register for the preconference through the ICA conference registration site:
http://www.icahdq.org/conferences/2011/confreg.asp. For more informaton about the preconference plans, contact Ted Zorn (tzorn@waikato.ac.nz.)
Thanks,
Ted Zorn, Chair
tzorn@waikato.ac.nz
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Intergroup Communication Interest Group
Members of the ICA Intergroup Communication Interest Group (ICIG):
A few updates and reminders from the Intergroup Communication Interest Group of ICA.
First, thank you for voting in the ICA election. As a result of your participation we were able to update our bylaws to the following:
Article 3 Officers
Section 1 Officers: Chair and Vice-Chair
Officers of the Interest Group consist of a Chair and Vice-Chair. The Vice-Chair will be elected biannually, for a term of four years, of which two years will be as Vice-Chair and then two years as Chair. Nonmembers of ICIG may not be nominated for or hold office.
Section 2 Chair and Vice-Chair Responsibilities
-2 years as vice-chair: responsible for co-organizing and implementing the division's conference program; this includes developing the call for papers, recruiting paper reviewers, managing the review process (using the online All Academic paper submission website), creating the program sessions, and ensuring that the sessions and panels are implemented smoothly at the conference.
-2 years as chair: responsible for writing a bi-annual column about the division, maintaining and updating the interest group website, attending legislative council at ICA (or find a substitute representative), preparing an annual report and agenda for the business meeting, leading the business meeting, organizing top paper and student top paper awards, managing finances, and supervising the elections.
-1 year as chair ex officio: Working with the ICA representative for the International Association of Language and Social Psychology to coordinate and/ or promote the IALSP panel.
Second, I want to thank paper reviewers for your continued commitment to review paper submissions. We had a record number of submissions for the 2011 conference and it was pleasing to see both the quality and diversity of the papers, as well as an increasing number of countries reflected in the submissions in terms of both authors and content. We are also trialing virtual papers for the first time. Many thanks to all of you who submitted your interesting and innovative research papers to our interest group. I am pleased to report that the top student paper was by Garrett Broad and Carmen Gonzalez, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at University of Southern California (USC) (garrettmbroad@gmail.com), and the top paper was by Tenzin Dorjee, California State University, Fullerton (tdoorjee@fullerton.edu), Howard Giles, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Valerie Barker, San Diego State University.
On behalf of the Intergroup Communication Interest Group, we very much look forward to seeing these presentations and many more very exciting papers at the annual ICA meeting to be held in Boston, May 26-30, 2010. We also hope you will make time in your schedule to attend our business meeting!
All the best,
Lisa Sparks, Chair
sparks@chapman.edu
Liz Jones, Vice-Chair
l.jones@griffith.edu.au