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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

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