Division & Interest Group News
The Interest Group—since the Interest Group has grown to 140 members, we've doubled the sessions from 4 last year to 8 this year. On the other hand with the lower acceptance rate this year and higher number of submissions, no panels were accepted so that more papers could be accepted. See the schedule here: http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/ica/ica13/
Extended Session—this should be of interest to many folks, it is on the state of environmental communication research. See the description below.
Top Paper Awards—congratulate with me our top paper winners this year:
Business meeting—in addition to the usual items, we will be welcoming our newly elected Vice-Chair Merav Katz-Kimchi of Tel Aviv U., and Secretary Janel Schuh of Stanford U. If anyone has an agenda item please send it to me.
Also don't miss IECA's session Challenging Values and Agency in Environmental Communication on Wed, Jun 19 2013; 15:30 - 16:45, in the Hilton Metropole / Board Room 1.
If you have any questions about the Environmental Communication Interest Group, don't hesitate to contact Richard Doherty (Chair, ICA Environmental Communication Interest Group) R.Doherty@leeds.ac.uk
ICA 2013 London ECIG Extended Session
Organizing and Integrating Knowledge about Environmental Communication Friday, 21 June; 13:30 - 16:15 at the Hilton Metropole, Board Room 1
Environmental communication has emerged as an expanding academic field in the last three decades. Over the last twenty years the field has become institutionalized, with the founding of Environmental Communication Interest Groups in NCA, WSCA, ICA, the International Environmental Communication Association, the COMSHER division of AEJMC, and others around the world. It is time to map how knowledge in the field has been organized and integrated to date, as well as define new research areas. This session will bring together six prominent environmental communication scholars with a diversity of views and experiences within the field. The panelists are:
These scholars will address four core topics: knowledge, theories, actors, and future challenges for environmental communication. Knowledge includes methodology, research areas, and major findings in the field. Theories will cover approaches and attempts at finding a common language. Actors will explore the people, institutions and organizations important to the field, including those who focus upon practice, research funding, and dissemination. Discussions on future challenges will delineate areas where further research is needed, and calls for revisions and enhancement of methods and theoretical approaches. This also encompasses the institutional development of the field.
Guiding questions for this session are: How may the field be mapped? Which aspects are central and which are peripheral? How is environmental communication related to other fields of study? Are there any “settled” questions in environmental communication? What are the opportunities, and challenges, for research in environmental communication? How may knowledge best be organized and made accessible for researchers, students, practitioners, and the general public?
In the first half of the session the invited scholars will present their views about the given topics and questions. In the second part, all participants discuss in smaller groups the four core-topics (knowledge, theories, actors, challenges) defined above (30 minutes). Here participants can add their own view on a the topics. The remainder of the session (45 Minutes) is being used to present the outcome of the groups and discuss them.
The session is organized by Bernhard Goodwin, Ludwig-Maximilians-U München (chair), Merav Katz-Kimchi, Tel Aviv U and Erik C. Nisbet, Ohio State U.
REGISTER FOR GAME STUDIES' CO-HOSTED PRECONFERENCE: "THE POWER OF PLAY: MOTIVATIONAL USES AND APPLICATIONS OF DIGITAL GAMES"
In addition to our program of paper and panel sessions during the ICA conference, Game Studies is also part of an exciting pre-conference event. "The Power of Play: Motivational Uses and Applications of Digital Games," will be held 17 June 2013 at the ICA conference hotel and is co-hosted by Game Studies and the Digital Games Temporary Working Group of the European Communication Research and Education Association. The preconference event features competitively-selected research papers, as well as a plenary roundtable research discussion and a game design workshop.
To see the preconference program and find out more about the event, see http://powerofplay.icagames.org. To register (cost is $50 including food, beverages, and refreshments for the day-long event), visit the ICA site at http://icahdq.org.
The preconference is sponsored by the U of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication, Purdue U's Brian Lamb School of Communication, Northwestern U's Department of Communication Studies, Westfälische Wilhelms-U Münster (the U of Münster), Michigan State U's Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media, and the European Research Council.
The preconference was organized by Zeynep Tanes-Ehle (Duquense U), Jan Van Looy (U of Ghent), Rabindra Ratan (Michigan State U), Amy Shirong Lu (Northwestern U), Thorsten Quandt (U of Münster), and Mathias Crawford (Stanford U).
The Language and Social Interaction Division is Cosponsoring (with the Mass Communication Division) Preconference #12, Language and Engagement in Changing Forms of Public Interaction. Monday, 17 June; 8:30 – 17:00. It is co-organized by Karen Tracy, U of Colorado and Mats Ekstrom, U of Gothenburg.
Schedule:
8:30 – 10:45 Coffee availability
8:30 – 8:45 Welcome
8:45 – 10:15 Panel #1
10:15 – 10:35 Coffee break
10:35 – 11:35 Panel #2
11:35 – 12:45 Data session #1
12:45 – 14:00 Lunch (participants are on their own)
14:00 – 15:30 Panel #3
15:30 – 15:50 Afternoon tea
15:50 – 17:00 Data session #2
Description: The aim of this preconference is to bring together scholars studying the discourse and language of political, often mediated interaction. To facilitate this exchange of ideas, the preconference will start with presentations by and discussions with the Ross Priory Broadcast Talk Group (http://ross-priory-broadcast-talk.com), a group of scholars who have been researching these issues for 20 years. Although members of the group have been regular participants at ICA conferences during that time, there has not yet been any specific connection made with the LSI division. The purpose of this preconference is to solidify a topically richer sense of Language and Social Interaction research at ICA and to build stronger links with media divisions of ICA. The preconference will involve two kinds of sessions
1) panel presentations analyzing different facets of language/discourse in media and in political settings, and
2) smaller group discussions (15-20 people) that will involve viewing of selected media discourse segments accompanied by a transcript (i.e., data session).
Three Panel presentations:
Two Data Sessions:
1. Journalist Roundtable Discussion
Chaired by Kathleen Haspel and Kate Dunsmore, Fairleigh Dickinson U
Segments from a journalists' roundtable that is available at the website of Peter Hart, a visible US opinion polling researcher will be played. The discussion issue will include examining how news and public opinion are built from multiple discourses and how the versions of news people eventually get fed by journalists are formed from political positions they take.
2. UK Broadcast News
Chaired by Martin Montgomery, U of Macau, and Joanna Thornborrow, Cardiff U
Segments will be used to explore two questions: (1) In what ways have communicative styles and audience address in broadcast television news changed over the last twenty years, when it comes to the integration of new media technologies, dialogical formats, prosodic expressiveness and informality? and (2) In what ways have styles of news interviewing changed, with respect to conversational modes, hybrid formats and adversarialness.
Contact: Karen Tracy (Karen.Tracy@colorado.edu)
The Language and Social Interaction Division Reception will be held on 20 June 2013; 18:30-20:00, immediately following the division business meeting. The reception will be at the Windsor Castle Pub, 27-29 Crawford Place, London. Please RSVP to Theresa Castor (castor@uwp.edu) as space is limited for the reception.
There is still time to register for the 2013 Doctoral Consortium, which is focused on “Expanding Your Scholarly Comfort Zone.” The event will be Monday, 17 June from 8:30 – 17:00 at the Hilton Metropole London Hotel and will explore issues such as the following:
With all these issues, we will explore when to expand our comfort zone…and when to cling tight to the familiar. Additionally, there will be opportunities for participants to talk about their current research interests with small groups of faculty and students.
The diverse set of faculty mentors who will guide this exploration includes the following: Brenda Allen, U Colorado-Denver; Kevin Barge, Texas A&M U; Boris Brummans, U Montreal; Patrice Buzzanell, Purdue U; Ling Chen, Hong Kong Baptist; Johny Garner, Texas Christian U; Matt Koschmann, U Colorado-Boulder; Shiv Ganesh, Massey U (New Zealand); Anne Nicotera, George Mason U; Linda Putnam, U California-Santa Barbara; Craig Scott, Rutgers U; Keri Stephens, U Texas-Austin; Sarah Tracy, Arizona State U; Paaige Turner, St. Louis U; and Bart van den Hooff, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
The cost is $40.00 USD. This preconference is open to all doctoral students, but targeted toward more advanced students. You will find an option to sign up for the preconference where you register for the main conference at https://www.icahdq.org/shopping/default.asp. Please feel free to contact Craig Scott for more information (crscott@rutgers.edu).