• 2012 Elections Begin 1 September
• President's Message: Meeting the Challenges of an International Organization
• ICA Newsletter Goes Mobile
• Membership Article
• Member News & Updates
• Division & Interest Group News
• Calls for Papers
• Available Positions & Other Advertising

On 1 September, ICA members will begin voting for association-wide and Division/Interest Group officers. As in years past, the vote will take place using an online-only ballot that is easy to use, expense free, and green. This form of balloting has generated increasingly high voter turnout since its introduction in the 2005 ICA elections.

Polls will remain open until 12 October.

To access the ballot from the ICA website (http://www.icahdq.org), members will need their ICA login name and password. Members, please make sure that ICA has your correct e-mail address so that the association can send you an announcement of the election and a link to the ballot. The ICA website allows you to personally verify, correct, and/or update the information.

The association-wide elections include the 1-year term for President-Elect-Select. Candidates for the position are Michael Slater (Ohio State U) and Peter Vorderer (U of Mannheim).

Members will also have the chance to elect the Board Member-at-Large for the Americas (non-U.S.) for a 3-year term. Candidates for this position are Boris Brummans (U de Montréal) and Sonia Virginia Moreira (INTERCOM - Brazilian Society of Interdisciplinary Studies in Communication).

The last of the association-wide ballots is for a 2-year term as Student Board Member: Anne Kaun (Södertörn U) and Sada Reed (U of Minnesota).

Divisional candidates, along with statements for the presidential candidates, will appear in the September issue of the Newsletter. All other statements will appear on the ICA home page.

From the UN (United Nations) to MSF (Médecins Sans Frontières),  APRU (Association of  Pacific Rim Universities) to ECA (Escola de Comunicação e Artes) and ICA (International Communication Association), international organizations face several challenges. Besides the ubiquitous, confusing alphabet soup of acronyms, issues of language, cultural diversity, legitimacy, transparency, inclusion, responsiveness, and accessibility are increasingly complex and need continual attention. Last year in my presidential candidate statement I wrote, "my goals center upon enhancing both our global connectivity and sense of scholarly community that together form the core of ICA." Our legitimacy as the premier academic international communication organization is well established, but to maintain our value to our members and  uphold our commitment to advance the scholarly study of human communication by supporting excellence in academic research worldwide, we must continue to expand our horizons, reach out and  provide needed services to our diverse membership, and be responsive to technological developments and  the global changes in the relationships among  academic institutions and society at large.  In my Newsletter columns I will try to keep you informed about ICA’s latest initiatives, successes, disappointments (hopefully not many), and new challenges. I hope that each of these columns starts a conversation among us and that you will email me with suggestions and comments. I look forward to our interactions.

Our highly successful conference in Phoenix, with participants from over 60 countries, was just the beginning of new efforts to enhance and foster our sense of community, encourage participation in ICA activities, provide professional development opportunities, facilitate new ways of sharing ideas and research results, and to debate the issues of the day. Along with many other ICA Board Members, besides going to panels, I spent a great deal of time at the Phoenix conference in meetings and informal conversations getting a sense of our accomplishments, needs, and what our members see as our greatest opportunities and biggest challenges. It was gratifying to learn of the progress we have made as an international organization and very informative in terms of where we need to go from here. In light of all we learned, I have been working with the ICA staff, members of the executive committee and ICA Board, and dozens of ICA members to meet our goals, continue the initiatives started by my predecessors, and create new opportunities.

For example, this summer (I know it is winter for those in the Southern Hemisphere, but having just experienced three weeks in NYC with  temperatures over 100°F/38°C, it is definitely summer for me) I am convening  three ad hoc committees to address several ongoing challenges. These committees are building upon the excellent work begun last year.

1. Awards: Over the last several years there has been concern that some ICA awards receive very few (if any) nominations, that descriptions of some awards are unclear and American-centric, that some awards are no longer supported by the people who originally sponsored them, and that there is regional imbalance in both nominations and recipients. To follow up on a task force report (chaired by Jake Harwood (U of Arizona)) presented at the Board Meeting in Phoenix, I have appointed an ad hoc committee, chaired by Ellen Wartella (Northwestern U), to develop a new call for awards that reflects the suggestions of the task force. We hope to have many of the recommendations in place to initiate a new call for awards early in the new year for the 2013 London conference.
   
2. Publications:  Under the guidance of our new chair of the Publications Committee, Frank Esser (U of Zurich), and based on feedback from ICA journal editors and our membership, we are working with the editors of all our journals to a) provide better information for scholars interested in how to get published in ICA, b) increase international representation on our editorial boards and in our publications, and c) facilitate greater involvement by ICA members across divisions in the journal reviewing process.
   
   Given that new technologies, new methodologies, transforming evaluation metrics, and other changes in international publishing have important implications for ICA publishing practices I am also putting together a special task force to address questions related to incorporating digital possibilities  into  our journals and the possible need for new publishing formats and processes that complement our traditional ways of publication. The recommendations of this task force will then be reviewed by the ICA Board and relevant standing committees for further action.
   
3. Enhancing global connectivity and our sense of community: Building upon our commitment to support regional conferences and partnerships that expand ICA's global presence we are working with scholars in four regions to develop proposals for 2013-2014 regional conferences in China, Brazil, Poland, and Australia.
   
   ICA will also continue to present special panels at related international conferences including IAMCR in Durbin, South Africa (July, 2012) and ECREA in Istanbul, Turkey, (October, 2012).
   
   Our Student Affairs committee and Internationalization Committee are also busy developing several proposals to increase our global connectivity including possible preconferences at the London conference next June.
   
   Working closely with JP Gutierrez, our Communication Director, our promotion of ICA members’ scholarship in the international media has begun to pay dividends. Blogs, newspaper articles, and several websites have recently carried accounts of communication studies related to children’s exposure  to background television stimuli (presented at ICA Phoenix)  and women’s sport-viewing habits (published in ICA journal Communication, Culture, & Critique). This initiative will continue to develop throughout the year and more information will be provided directly by JP. 

This is only a small sample of the things ICA is doing.  Each of these initiatives requires the commitment and dedication of many people. As I begin this year as President I want to express my appreciation for the continued support and collective wisdom of our executive committee, Larry Gross (U of Southern California), Barbie Zelizer (U of Pennsylvania), Francois Cooren (U of Montreal), and Francois Heinderyckx (U Libre de Bruxelles), the amazing ICA staff, the many ICA members who are willing to serve and chair committees, and of course, our executive director Michael Haley, who makes it all work together. Most of all thanks to all our members whose work represents the very best in our discipline, whose teaching and mentorship continue our tradition of excellence, and whose service assures a vibrant future for ICA.

At ICA we are constantly digging into the data we receive from surveys, web metrics, and social media to see how we can better our operations and services to the membership. Recently we’ve been noticing an upswing in visits to our site from mobile devices.

The total number of visits is still a very small portion of our total traffic, but we can’t ignore that more people are searching for quick information or reading the newsletter from a mobile device. Out of all the devices that access our content, iPads and iPhones are the leaders; they make up 83% of our mobile traffic. Even more, iPads make up 50% of this total traffic.

So we are making our first foray into a mobile or platform optimized option for users of the newsletter. Using the Wordpress platform, we have duplicated the newsletter to an iPad version that is swipeable (is that a word?) and have procured the URL: www.icanewsletter.com.

The new site allows iPad users to read in a device friendly version over the normal PDF version. With easy to navigate swiping and using the menu button to select the month of newsletter you’d like to read. The platform also allows for comments and easy sharing on your social media of choice. And you don’t have to be on an iPad to enjoy the social portion, the site works fine on a computer or other tablet device. The PDF newsletter will continue to live on in its normal platform for the foreseeable future.

This is a small first step in optimizing our website to fit the needs of a changing and mobile membership. Look for our site to be web optimized in the near future. And if you are reading this article on an iPad on the new platform, well this just got meta. As always, let us know if you have any suggestions or feedback!

Here at the ICA offices, we constantly look for opportunities to improve your membership experience. We hope our efforts help make your decision to renew an easy one! These are a few examples.

The latest push at the Phoenix conference combined multi-media efforts to enhance communications between conference attendees. Conference registrants witnessed the unveiling of a pronounced Twitter presence coming from various interest groups, divisions and from the conference organizers. The new conference mobile app was also, by all accounts, a huge hit. Features like instant access to session descriptions, Twitter, Google Maps, and more made the app a worthwhile venture.

Communication Director John Paul Gutierrez is doing an outstanding job connecting ICA scholars and our latest research with both traditional and new media outlets and is our latest effort in promoting ICA members’ interests.

We continue to foster organizational growth through regional conferences such as the forthcoming "Trends in International and Latin American Communication Research," cosponsored by ICA and our member colleagues at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Registration to that event is now open. Look for the big sidebar ad on the website to access.

We have expanded several features on our website:

• a new and more versatile "Find a colleague" section with multilevel search capabilities
• social networking opportunities like blogging, personal friend groups, forums
• video archives of special events, plenary sessions, keynote addresses, professional workshops, papers, and panels from our very successful Phoenix conference and  its accompanying virtual conference
• ICA’s Facebook and LinkedIn groups, Twitter feeds and the various member social groups
• ICA Community "groups," communication links. Leaders can communicate with their groups easily via email through our website utility. 

The first of October marks the beginning of a new membership year. Your membership dues invoice is now online. Why not get a head start and renew your membership now so that you don't have to rush later?

Start your renewal process here:
http://www.icahdq.org/cgi-shl/Dues.exe?Run:RENEW

As you renew, we ask that you consider donating to one or more of the many ICA funds listed on your renewal form. Two new funds have been added. The Communication and Technology Division has established the Frederick Williams Prize for Contributions to the Study of Communication Technology honoring the former ICA President and founding dean of the Annenberg School for Communication. The Student Travel Aid Resource (STAR) Fund has also been established by the Organizational Communication Division to assist rising organizational communication scholars with conference expenses. Both sections ask that you consider adding them to your list of contributions this year.

Finally, we ask you to consider saving resources by opting OUT of receiving hard copies of journals you do not often use. Remember, they are all available to you online. Journal selection is the final step of the renewal process.

Our goal is to make this association your MOST VALUABLE professional asset. We value your ideas and your membership and hope that you will take just a few more minutes to renew and explore our website to learn about our new initiatives. 

Thank you for being an ICA member! Best wishes for the coming year.

This article includes new posting with the latest ICA member news, as well as updates on outside conferences and publications. All ICA members are encouraged to submit their latest professional news for inclusion in the Newsletter by emailing cbrady@icahdq.org.

Member News

Routledge is pleased to welcome Amy Jordan on board as the new coeditor of Journal of Children and Media with immediate effect. Amy will work closely alongside Founding Editor Dafna Lemish, who has recently been appointed as Interim Dean of the College of Mass Communication and Media Arts at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA.

Amy is based at the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania and has been a leader in the field for many years. She brings with her expertise in a variety of areas, particularly policy, health, and survey research. In addition to her strengths in quantitative methods, she also has an understanding in respect to all methodologies, interdisciplinary studies and international research. Amy has been on the editorial board of the journal from its inception in 2007, and has previously acted as guest editor on a special issue on policy.

To mark the occasion, we are pleased to offer free online access until 31st August 2012 to three recent articles that Amy has published in the journal:

Children's Media Policy: International Perspectives
Amy B. Jordan
(http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17482798.2011.533478)

The Role of Television Access in the Viewing Time of US Adolescents
Amy Jordan, Amy Bleakley, Jennifer Manganello, Michael Hennessy, Robin Steven & Martin Fishbein
(http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17482798.2010.510004)

Burgers and Basketball: Race and Stereotypes in Food and Beverage Advertising Aimed at Children in the US
Joelle Sano Gilmore & Amy Jordan
(http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17482798.2012.673498)

Please join us in welcoming Amy into her new role – we hope that her participation can help Journal of Children and Media to continue to develop as an invaluable arena for both scholars and students! We would also like to take the opportunity to congratulate Dafna as she undertakes this exciting new phase in her career.

Best wishes,

Katharine Brown
Senior Market Development Executive, Routledge
Katharine.Brown@tandf.co.uk

Dear Colleagues,
ECREA is pleased to inform you that the first draft of the ECREA 2012 Istanbul conference programme has been now released.

You can download the conference programme and the table view of the programme from the conference website at http://www.ecrea2012istanbul.eu

With just less than 100 days to go, we would also like to remind you of another important deadline: it is now less than a month left for the discounted early bird registration, in place until 15 August 2012.

There are now 170 Sections panels, 3 Networks panels, 7 Temporary Working Groups (TWGs) panels, 3 plenary sessions, and 27 business meetings scheduled to take place at the conference. The special panels will include sessions organized by IAMCR, ICA, ALAIC, ACS, IFCA and the Turkish Communication Research Association (ILAD) in collaboration with Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University and local organisations.

The four confirmed keynote speakers are: Donatella Della Porta, Douglas Kellner, Clemencia Rodriguez and Daya Thussu.

A stream is also dedicated to screenings of short films, features, and documentaries.

To register, find accommodation or search for any other information about the conference, Istanbul and Turkey, please visit the ECREA ECC
2012 website: http://www.ecrea2012istanbul.eu/

There will also be three preconferences:
- Experiencing Digital Games: Use, Effects and Culture of Gaming
- Communicating Climate Change III - The Audience Perspective
- Imposing Freedoms: The role of copyright, privacy and censorship governance in the re/definition of rights in digital media

For more information on preconferences, please visit:
http://www.ecrea2012istanbul.eu/pre-conference.html

Special events on or off the main conference site will be grounded in top-level scholarly work and memorable events and occasions within and around the conference.

We are looking forward to seeing you in Istanbul!

On behalf of the
ECREA 2012 Istanbul - International Organizing Committee (IOC)

Salvatore Scifo
General Coordinator, ECREA 2012 Istanbul

HEIST: Who Stole The American Dream?

DVD Available for Pre-Order

There are only two kinds of power in America: organized money and organized people. “Heist: Who Stole the American Dream?” is the groundbreaking feature documentary about the roots of the American economic crisis, and the continuing assault on working and middle class people in the United States. "Heist" unflinchingly reveals the crumbling structure of the U.S. economy - the result of four decades of deregulation, massive job outsourcing, and tax policies favoring megacorporations and wealthy elites, implemented by both Republican and Democratic parties.

After detailing how the economy has been derailed, "Heist" offers a robust Take Action section with real world solutions and up-to-the-minute footage from the current Occupy Wall Street movement - an essential primer for everyday Americans to participate in the restoration of economic fairness and our democracy.

“‘Heist’...comes out swinging... [It] has the virtue of taking the long view of a crisis that recent films like “Inside Job” and “Too Big to Fail” have only sketchily explored.” Stephen Holden, New York Times

Take action at www.Heist-TheMovie.com and join the Heist Reimagine America Campaign!

For more information email infoheistmovie@gmail.com

Environmental Communication Interest Group

The Environmental Communication Interest Group had a fantastic first year and is moving forward to introduce by-laws and hold elections for vice-chair and secretary in 2012. According to current membership records, the group has around 150 members, up from 80 a year ago. The group has expanded its web site and formed a discussion list (Forum) on the ICA main site. With a successful preconference (that we hope generates a guest-edited journal issue) and extended session in Phoenix, the group wants to provide a pre-conference and extended session again for the London conference, in fact proposals are already in the works. If you have not already, please join the Environmental Communication Interest Group and enjoy a diverse set of people, ideas, and research on all manner of environmental communication. If you are already a member, remember to vote on the by-laws and our first elected officers this fall.

Instructional and Developmental Communication

Division The Instructional and Developmental Communication Division of ICA would like to welcome the first three graduate students to be competitively selected to participate in the Junior Officer Shadowing Program. QuingHua Yang (Columbia U), Jan Lauren Boyles (American U), and Michelle Epstein Garland (U of Tennessee) will be working with the IDD officer team throughout the year to learn more about ICA, IDD, and conference planning for London 2013. Congratulations!

Organizational Communication Division

Please be sure to vote in the forthcoming ICA officer elections. Our division will be electing a secretary as well as voting on a number of changes to bylaws. We have worked hard to ensure that the bylaws reflect our current, preferred practices, and we need a two-thirds majority to approve changes. Your vote counts! Also, as you renew your association membership (reminders will come from ICA over the next couple months), you will notice a new option for Organizational Communication Division Members called the Student Travel Aid Resource (STAR) Fund. With our conferences held in many parts of the world, the financial challenge for students wishing to attend our annual meeting is often immense. Yet, it is these students who represent the future of our field and who often benefit the most from conference attendance. The STAR Fund will help us address this need. All the money donated to the STAR fund goes directly to student travel awards to assist these division members in attending doctoral consortia, division panels/preconferences, and the various other scholarly and social events at our annual meeting. Please consider adding any amount you can—whether it is $5 or $500—to STAR to support our student members. For more information on the fund or to find out how you can give even if you’ve already renewed, please contact division vice-chair Craig Scott (crscott@rutgers.edu).

What is Radio?
Exploring the Past, Present, and Future of Radio
University of Oregon in Portland, Oregon
April 25-27, 2013

What is radio these days? How are digital technologies changing radio? How are the Internet and other new media changing the radio industry’s model of production, distribution and consumption? What is the future of radio?

Radio content is now produced and distributed using a wide range of digital technologies. Change is everywhere. But even with these alterations, radio remains as significant as ever.The conference will feature a unique coalescing of radio professionals, media scholars and students, government and community officials, as well as interested community groups and the public. The event will feature keynote speakers, roundtables, paper presentations, and screenings, in an attempt to answer questions about the changing nature of radio.

Presentations/papers may include the following topics (as well as others):

• How is radio defined today?
• What is radio in a digital world?
• What is the significance of radio in a global context?
• What are the changing practices of the radio business?
• What is the state of competition in the radio industry?
• How does the Internet function as a radio distribution outlet?
• What new economic models are emerging for the radio industry?
• What legacy radio programming and practices seem likely to survive?
• What is the future of public radio?
• What policies or regulations are appropriate for radio today?
•  How is radio content changing as a result of convergence?
• How are radio audiences changing?
• What can radio history teach us about the future of radio?
• What is the difference between radio and audio?
• What is radio art?

Conference organizers: Michael Huntsberger, Peter Laufer, Janet Wasko

Send 100-150 word abstracts of papers or presentations by November 1, 2012, to: Janet Wasko, School of Journalism & Communication, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97405, USA
jwasko@uoregon.edu

Call for Papers: Opportunity for fast peer-reviewed publication! 

Studies in Communication Sciences (SComS) is an international journal which is jointly edited by the Faculty of Communication Sciences of the University of Lugano (USI) and the Swiss Association of Communication an Media Studies (SGKM). The journal is published twice a year. Each issue contains approximately 250 pages and includes a general as well as a special section that focuses on a particular topic prepared with the assistance of a guest editor. The forthcoming special section features “International and Comparative Research in Organizational Communication and Public Relations.” In addition, SComS invites submissions from all other areas* of communication for its general section.

Note: Submit your manuscript for review no later than 15 August 2012 to have it considered  for fast publication in the SComS fall issue!

SComS publishes full papers (up to 7000 words, longer articles may be considered if warranted) and short communications (up to 3000 words) in the form of focal articles, position papers, event reports, etc. Reviews of books or comments on papers may be commissioned.

Authors are invited to submit original papers that are not under consideration for publication elsewhere. All submissions are thoroughly double-blind peer-reviewed for originality, soundness, significance, and relevance.

Submit your article now at http://ees.elsevier.com/scoms/.

Executive Editors
Prof. Dr. Annegret Hannawa
Prof. Dr. Stephan Russ-Mohl 
Prof. Dr. Diana Ingenhoff
Prof. Dr. Philippe Viallon

Editorial Secretary
Alessandra Filippi

Editorial Coordinator
Philipp Bachmann

*Studies in Communication Sciences is an international journal that publishes original articles of high quality in all areas of communication, e.g. linguistics, semiotics, rhetoric, media, interpersonal communication, mass communication, corporate and institutional communication, management of communication, information and communication technology, formal models of communication, communication in educational environment, intercultural communication, sociology and psychology of communication. As a general forum for communication scholarship, the Journal is especially interested in research whose significance crosses disciplinary and subfield boundaries.

SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY
Department of Communication
Assistant Professor - Global Communication

Applications are invited for this tenure track assistant professorship to begin in fall 2013. See the full job ad at http://www.scu.edu/hr/careers/faculty.cfm?id=3467 for instructions on how to apply. Deadline: September 15.

LEHIGH UNIVERSITY
Department of Journalism & Communication

LEHIGH UNIVERSITY: DIGITAL MEDIA. The Department of Journalism & Communication invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position dedicated to research and teaching on how digital and mobile media are transforming community and social life, in arenas such as politics, culture, migration, health, environment or others. An ability to teach visual aspects of journalism, such as videography, photography, and/or design, is preferred. The candidate should also have relevant professional experience. A Ph.D. is required by appointment start date.

The candidate will be expected to teach two courses per semester, advise students, participate in departmental and college service, and conduct an active research program. Salary and benefits are highly competitive. The department has served a small undergraduate program of superior quality since 1927. It has six full-time and five part-time faculty. With major programs in journalism and journalism/science and environmental writing, it enrolls about 150 majors and minors. http://www.lehigh.edu/journalism The department is also active in numerous interdisciplinary initiatives in global studies, environment, health, American Studies and more.

Lehigh University ranks 38 among national universities in the 2012 U.S. News & World Report ratings and is in the most competitive category in both Peterson’s Guide and Barron’s Profile of American Colleges. Lehigh is located on a scenic, 1,600-acre campus in historic Bethlehem in eastern Pennsylvania, adjacent to Allentown and Easton, and about one and one-half hours from New York and Philadelphia. The Lehigh Valley is an attractive place to live and work with reasonable cost of living, easy commuting, good schools, and abundant cultural activities.

Applicants should apply at Academic Jobs Online: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/1608. The site will have instructions for the easy upload of all materials by candidates and references. Required materials are cover letter, vita, statements on research and teaching, and three letters of reference. Review of applications will begin September 1 and continue until the position is filled. Deadline for applications is November 1. The chair and faculty will be available to discuss the position at the August AEJMC conference in Chicago. Inquiries can be addressed to Professor Jack Lule, Department Chair and Search Committee Chair, Department of Journalism & Communication: jack.lule@lehigh.edu.

The College of Arts and Sciences at Lehigh University is committed to increasing the diversity of the college community and curriculum. Candidates who can contribute to that goal are encouraged to apply and to identify their strengths or experiences in this area. Lehigh University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and Lehigh offers excellent benefits including domestic partner benefits. Please also see Lehigh Work/Life Balance for Faculty: http://www.lehigh.edu/~inprv/work_life_balance.html

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, EASTBAY
Communication Department
Assistant Professor, Advertising and Public Relations

California State University, Eastbay Communication Department invites applications for a TENURE TRACK, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR POSITION IN ADVERTISING AND PUBLIC RELATIONS.  Successful candidate will have:  Ph.D. in Communication, Mass Communication or related field emphasizing Advertising/PR as well as extensive professional experience in an interactive AD/PR Agency that encompassed traditional and digital media platforms;  Scholarly achievements beyond dissertation;  Primary responsibility for Department’s Advertising/PR curriculum, The Pioneer Advertising Agency, and advising the Public Relations Student Society of America;  Ability to collaborate with faculty and staff in The Pioneer Newspaper, Pioneer Web TV, Pioneer Web Radio and Internet Portal.  Requirements include:  Ability to teach Advertising/PR across print, graphical and electronic/digital media, as well as other Communication courses;  Demonstrated ability to teach, advise and mentor students from diverse educational and cultural backgrounds and conducting research  on issues  pertaining  to  women, gender, populations of color and/or other disenfranchised groups. Review of applications begins October 1, 2012. Submit:  letter of application; current vita; copies of major publications; and three letters of recommendation to: Dr. Gale Young, Chair, Communication Department, California State University, East Bay, 25800 Carlos Bee Blvd., Hayward, CA 94542. Phone: (510) 885-3292, Fax: (510) 885-4099. For more information, visit http://www.csueastbay.edu. CSUEB is an EOE.

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
Annenberg School for Communication
 Tenured or Tenure Track Position in Digital Media

The Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania is seeking to fill up to three tenured or tenure track faculty positions (open rank) in the area of digital media to begin fall semester 2013. Preference will be given to scholars whose innovative research and teaching falls in one of the following three areas.

• Theory-driven use of archival, depth observational, and/or field methods to understand digital media, including but not limited to topics such as cultural production, location-aware and other social media, virtual reality, digital design, technoculture, gaming, transnational flows, surveillance, and/or intellectual property.
• The use of communication theories and quantitative methods to illuminate the social, cultural, political, economic and/or psychological uses, effects, and policy implications of evolving digital technologies.
• The application and development of communication theories using “web science” approaches and/or the analysis of “big data” generated through various online or mobile information and communication technologies. Specific research methods could include social network analysis, web and mobile analytics, data aggregation and analysis, computational social science, computer facilitated content analysis, behavioral prediction, data visualization, and/or related modes of inquiry.

Applicants must hold a Ph.D. (in Communication or a related discipline) and have a strong record of teaching and research. Responsibilities include conducting a program of research and publication, teaching at the graduate and undergraduate levels including supervising doctoral dissertations, and contributing service to the school and university.

The Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania is a graduate school of communication theory and research, with 18 full-time faculty and approximately 80 doctoral students representing a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds and interests. The faculty also has primary responsibility for an undergraduate communication major within the School of Arts and Sciences.

Submit letter of interest, curriculum vitae, three names of references, and up to three articles, chapters or other research to Professor Michael X. Delli Carpini, Dean, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, 3620 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6220 via . To receive full consideration, applications should be received by September 15, 2012.

The University of Pennsylvania is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Minorities, females, individuals with disabilities, and veterans are encouraged to apply.