Communication Law and Policy and Philosophy of Communication Divisions

The Communication Law and Policy and Philosophy of Communication Divisions of the International Communication Association are very pleased to announce that the 2012 C. Edwin Baker Award for the Advancement of Scholarship on Media, Markets and Democracy has been awarded to Professor Robert W. McChesney, Gutgsell Endowed Professor, Department of Communication, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in recognition of his major scholarship in this area.

The Baker Award was established in 2010 through an endowed fund created from the estate of Professor C Edwin Baker (1947-2009), who was the Nicholas F. Gallichio Professor of Law and Communication at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and is intended to honor the enormous contribution made by Professor Baker to communications scholarship.

The Divisions gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Professor Baker's sister Dr Nancy Baker in facilitating this annual award. The annual prize is US$500.

The selection committee was composed of Professors James Curran, Dan Hallin, David Hesmondhalgh, and Monroe Price, and the Chairs of the Philosophy of Communication and Communication Law and Policy Divisions (ex officio), and Dr Nancy Baker. Peter Humphreys, Chair, Communication Law and Policy Division Laurie Ouellette, Chair, Philosophy of Communication Division

Updates from Ethniticity and Race in Communication

ERIC is pleased to invite all members to a number of important events organized and hosted by the Division at the 2012 conference in Phoenix :

ICA PRECONFERENCE – Borders, Migration, Community: Arizona and Beyond: Frontera, Migracion, Communidad, Arizona y mas alla

Thursday, May 24, 2012, 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM
Walter Cronkite School, ASU Downtown Phoenix, Cronkite Theater

Cosponsored by ERIC and five other ICA divisions, this daylong preconference features an international roster of scholars, artists, radical filmmakers, and includes field trips (via chartered bus) in which ERIC members will visit local border activist organizations in the Phoenix area. $100 registration fee (includes lunch). Our poster announcing the preconference is now available for download on ERIC's website, http://www.icahdq.org/divisions/eric/index.html. Please help us spread the word by printing, posting, and sharing the announcement across your networks. The poster is printable on US 8.5x11 (letter) and European A4 (letter) sizes. Color copies will be better than B&W.

ERIC Extended Session: Battleground Arizona  

Friday, May 25, 2012, 10:30 AM – 1:15 PM
Phoenix Sheraton Downtown, Encanto B

ERIC’s extended session at the 2012 conference will feature an international panel of ethnicity and race scholars from across the U.S./Mexico border in a timely discussion of ongoing struggles over citizenship, marginality, and community against the ravages of ethno-racial repression playing out in Arizona. Our flyer announcing the extended session is now available for download on ERIC's website, http://www.icahdq.org/divisions/eric/index.html. You are invited to print, post, and share it across your networks. The flyer is printable on US 8.5x11 (letter) and European A4 (letter) sizes. Color copies will be better than B&W

ICA Theme Extended Session: Precious Knowledge

Wednesday, May 27, 2012, 10:30 AM - 1:15 PM
Phoenix Sheraton Downtown, Cave Creek

ERIC will screen a new documentary, PRECIOUS KNOWLEDGE (Ari Palos and Eren McGinnis 2011, 75 min), which follows students enrolled at Tucson High School as they mobilize against new state legislation that seeks to ban Ethnic Studies in Arizona high schools. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the filmmakers and several of the Tucson High School students featured in the film. Our flyer announcing the screening will soon be available for download on ERIC's website.

ERIC Online Discussion: Statement on the Immigration Climate in Arizona/ Declaracion Sobre el Clima Entorno a la Immigracion en Arizona 

 ERIC will host an online web forum on a statement, drafted by members on behalf of the Division, expressing concern over the immigration climate in Arizona, and crucially, ICA's 2012 conference location in Phoenix, Arizona. We will post the statement on ERIC's website in the near future, and propose an open online web forum, inviting members to respond, think aloud, and discuss our responsibilities as scholars of ethnicity and race against ongoing assaults on community, civic responsibility, and citizenship in Arizona and beyond. ERIC members who have decided to boycott the Phoenix conference in conscientious objection are particularly invited to speak up once the web forum opens. We look forward to your leadership in directing the work of the Division as we attempt to intervene in these difficult struggles.

We hope you are as excited by these upcoming events/discussions as we are, and we look forward to your participation in Phoenix – and online.

Roopali Mukherjee
 ERIC Chair

Political Communication Division

The Department of Social & Political Studies of the University of Milan organizes the 3rd edition of the International Summer School of "Political Communication and Electoral Behaviour" (16-20 July 2012), cosponsored by our Division. Confirmed lecturers will be Shanto Iyengar, Barbara Pfetsch, Stephen Coleman, Patricia Moy, Kees Brants, Jacques Tomassen, Russell Dalton, Marco Maraffi, Oddbjoern Knutsen. The opening lecture will be given by Denis McQuail.

The School is open to 30 Master, PhD, and junior researchers from the fields of political communication, sociology of communication, media studies, political science, political sociology, political psychology and cousin fields. Participants will receive 6 ECTS. Deadline for application: 28 April 2012. More information at the School’s website: www.dssp.unimi.it/summerschool/polcomm  

Contact: Prof. Gianpietro Mazzoleni
Dipartimento di Studi Sociali e Politici
Università degli Studi di Milano
Via Conservatorio, 7
20122 Milano (Italy)
gianpietro.mazzoleni@unimi.it