Division & Interest Group News
ERIC Division
Dear ERIC members:
Thank you for making our 2011 conference a success! I’d especially like to thank Myria Georgiou for her leadership as (outgoing) Chair of the Division. Many thanks as well to those who served as manuscript reviewers and panel chairs.
We were excited to receive a very high number of submissions this year. Due to a dip in membership, the division was allotted only thirteen program slots and our acceptance rate was around 38 percent. Apologies to all whose work we could not include this year. We hope you will submit again next year.
The larger our membership, the more panels we can program next year. So please renew your membership at http://www.icahdq.org by August 1, 2011! And encourage new folks to join!
A few additional items of business:
1) NEW OFFICERS: The Division announced its new Executive Committee at the
Boston conference. The new team includes past Chair, Myria Georgiou (London
School of Economics), Vice Chair, Miyase Christensen (Karlstad University),
Leilani Nishime (University of Washington), Taj Robeson Frazier (USC-
Annenberg), and our wonderful new cosecretaries, Khadijah White and Aymar
Jean Christian (both from the University of Pennsylvania). I will serve as
ERIC’s Chair.
2) NEW LISTSERVE and WEBSITE: ERIC’s new co-secretaries, Khadijah White and Aymar Jean Christian have begun work to increase the division’s online presence. We’ve set up a listserve to keep everyone informed about conferences, opportunities, research, and contacts related to ethnicity and race in communication. Please join the ERIC listserve by sending a blank e-mail to this address:
ERIC-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Follow the instructions you receive to be added to the group. To make sure
you’re not a spammer, the site will ask why you’re interested in joining –
just give us your name and school affiliation. Please contact Khadijah if you
have any questions at kwhite@asc.upenn.edu and please invite others to join
the group!
3) 2012 PRECONFERENCE: ERIC is working with Feminist Studies, Philosophy of Communication, Popular Communication, Global Communication and the GLBT
Interest Group to plan pre-conference events for the 2012/Phoenix conference that address issues of immigration, borders, race and ethnicity, policing and other issues pertinent to Arizona’s anti-immigration legislation. Additional details on plans for the preconference will be posted on the ERIC listserve. I hope you will offer your ideas and suggestions, and will participate in the preconference.
That’s all for now –
Roopali Mukherjee, Chair
roopalimukherjee@gmail.com
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Health Communication Division
The Health Communication division of ICA is calling for candidates to run for
the position of Vice Chair. The winning candidate will assume his/her role as
Vice Chair immediately after the annual meeting of the Health Communication
Division during ICA in Phoenix and will assume program planning for the 2013
ICA conference in London, UK. Preferred candidates should be at the rank of
Associate Professor or higher.
This role of Vice Chair involves a 5 year commitment, the responsibilities of
which are broken down as follows:
We are looking for an energetic and involved member of the division to take
over this important role. If you are willing to have your name forwarded as a
nominee for Vice Chair of the Health Communication Division, please send an
email to Kathryn Greene at klgreene@rutgers.edu or to Sandi Smith at
smiths@msu.edu. Candidates must submit a 300 word statement BY JULY 25, 2011, to accompany the nomination.
Monique Mitchell Turner, Chair
mmturner@umd.edu
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Mass Communication Division
Hello.
This fall, elections will be held for division officers for the International Communication Association. The Mass Communication Division will need to elect
a new division Secretary. Nominations and self-nominations are welcome for candidates. We discussed this briefly at the division business meeting at the conference, but we need to make sure everyone has a chance to enter a nomination.
The Secretary in the Mass Communication Division has a term of two years. The
Secretary is responsible for taking notes at division meetings and distributing them to the membership. This means, essentially, that the person in this office ensures that he or she attends the ICA conference and the business meeting for the term of office. The first such meeting will be the one held at the May 2012 conference in Phoenix, Arizona. The second will be in London on June 15-19, 2013.
A nomination consists of the nominee’s contact information (post and email address) and a short professional biographical/candidate statement (no more than 300 words). If you are nominating someone other than yourself, please send along a simple statement from the candidate that she/he is willing to stand for the election. You can send all of that information to me. The deadline for doing so is July 20, 2011.
The association will hold elections online in the early fall and the newly elected Secretary will take office at the annual conference in May. If you have any questions, please let me know.
David Tewksbury, Chair
tewksbur@illinois.edu
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Political Communication Division
Dear colleagues,
Overall, we have had a very successful, large and diverse conference. Our division directly sponsored 30 paper sessions and panels (not counting one business meeting and one crowded reception at a local bar), an online session on advertising effects and a graduate students’ preconference.
The top faculty paper was "The Online Flow of Environmental Advocacy Clips From The Daily Show and The Colbert Report " by Geoffrey Baym of the U. of North Carolina, Greensboro and Chirag Shah of Rutgers U.
Our top student papers were: "Augmenting or Ameliorating the Knowledge Gap? A Panel Analysis of the Effects of Political TV Exposure on Campaign Learning " by Susana Dilliplane, U of Pennsylvania; "Effects of the Obama Presidential Campaign on White Racial Prejudice " by Seth K. Goldman, U of Pennsylvania; and “Brandishing Broomsticks and Dumping Dow: Rhetoric of Alternative Media Texts Related to Bhopal Gas Tragedy Activism" by Rahul Mukherjee, U of California, Santa Barbara.
The full planners' report will be available available through the division's website.
Several issues were discussed at our division’s business meeting. First, the division decided to turn our Best Political Communication Article of the Year Award into a cash award and dedicate it to the memory of Keith R. Sanders and Lynda Lee Kaid. Sanders and Kaid were both distinguished and highly prolific scholars, mentors and academic administrators, whose work had a lasting impact on the field of political communication research. Both Sanders and Kaid spearheaded the founding of the Political Communication Division of ICA in 1973. Members who wish to contribute to the Award Fund will be able to do so through the ICA website in the coming weeks.
Second, Patricia Moy, Chair of the ICA-APSA Joint Publications Committee, reported to the membership on the current terms of our contract for our co-sponsored journal Political Communication and the numerous conversations she had with the publisher, Taylor & Francis, last year. This started a discussion regarding whether or not the division should renew this contract which we see as grossly unfair. The resolution that had passed was that as chair, I will contact the publisher and express our strong dissatisfaction with the terms of our contract. I have already written Taylor & Francis. I will update the Joint Publications Committee and our membership when we hear back from them.
The 2010 Political Communication Article of the Year Award was also announced at our annual business meeting. The winning article for 2010 was: Rojas, H. (2010). “Corrective” actions in the public sphere: How perceptions of media and media effects shape political behavior. International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 22, 343-363. Many special thanks to the Article of the Year Award Committee: María José Canel (Spain), Clarissa David (The Philippines), William Eveland (Chair, USA), and David Weaver (USA).
Finally, our division will be electing a new Vice Chair and secretary in ICA elections in the coming fall. Please send nominations and self-nominations to the nominations committee (Chair: Hernando Rojas, U of Madison, Wisconsin USA; Erik Albæk, U of Southern Denmark, DENMARK; Lilach Nir, Hebrew U, ISRAEL; Marko Skoric, Nanyang Technical U, SINGAPORE) at pcnominate@gmail.com by Friday, July 8.
This is an opportunity to thank all of the division members who gave their time to their conference as reviewers, presenters, respondents, and other duties. Special thanks to the Graduate Student Preconference Committee: Kevin Barnhurst, Geoffrey Baym, Claes de Vreese, Patricia Moy, Jim Shanahan, and Tamir Sheafer. I am also indebted to our Vice-Chair and Program Planner, Claes de Vreese (who have had extra loads of work overseeing the review process and putting the program together in this record-breaking submission year), our Newsletter Editor and Webmaster Talia Stroud, and all our committee chairs and members, whose work year-round is essential in order to keep our division strong.
We look forward to working on the 2012 conference in Phoenix. The call for papers will be circulated in several weeks.
Yariv Tsfati, Chair
ytsfati@com.haifa.ac.il
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Communication History Interest Group
Dear Communication History Interest Group Members,
Greetings! I have a few things to share with you all, but first let me thank everyone for an outstanding conference in Boston. The Communication History Interest Group benefits, as always, from enthusiastic support from its great members. We had consistently high quality in our record number of sessions--and two very successful preconferences.
A few announcements:
1. VICE-CHAIR ELECTION
The election for a CHIG vice-chair will be held in early fall. The vice-chair
will hold the position for two years and then automatically become chair for
the two years after that. It is a 4-year job. Please let me know if you are
interested in running for vice-chair. A statement (under 300 words) will be
required by mid-July. Contact me (pooley@muhlenberg.edu) for details.
2. MINUTES
Thanks to Deb Lubken, the CHIG secretary, for compiling the minutes from our
Business Meeting in Boston:
http://communicationhistory.org/minutes/Minutes-2011.pdf
3. TOP PAPER AWARDS
Congratulations to the 2011 recipients of the CHIG top paper awards!
4. PRECONFERENCE IDEAS FOR PHOENIX
The deadline for preconference proposals to be sent to (ICA President Elect)
Cynthia Stohl, is September 1. If you have an idea for a preconference, please let me know. Preconferences have been an important component of our group's visibility in our fledgling years.
That is all for now. I will be in touch later in the summer, lining up reviewers for paper submissions for the Pheonix conference.
Thank you,
Jeff Pooley, Chair
pooley@muhlenberg.edu