Volume 39, Number 1: January-February 2011

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 Officer Nominations Due 28 February

Any member who wishes to submit a nomination for the offices in ICA's fall 2011 elections must do so by 28 February 2011, the deadline for receipt of all nominations. Members may nominate candidates for president-elect select, a student board member, and a board member-at-large. The member-at-large elected this year...
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 Brant R. Burleson, 1952-2010

Brant Burleson, Professor of Communication and Affiliate Professor of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University, passed on 10 December 2010 after battling cancer. He was preceded in death by his father, Robert Bruce Burleson and is survived by his wife Erina MacGeorge and children Jesalyn and Carson all of West Lafayette...
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 President's Message: News About the 2012 ICA Regional Conferences

As I am writing these lines, the midyear board meeting is taking place electronically-an opportunity for all the Division and Interest Group representatives to react to the numerous proposals made by the ICA taskforces and committees this year. These working groups have generated many interesting ideas since last August...
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 Travel Grant Applications for Accepted Paper Submitters Due 1 March

Participants from developing/transitional countries and students from U.S. ethnic minority groups who have been accepted to present papers, can apply for travel grants to the ICA Conference in Boston between 15 January and 1 March 2011. The travel-grant application is available online at http://www.icahdq.org/cgi-shl/TWServer.exe?Run:MEMONLY:/membersonly/confgrantappl/fundrequest.asp. Developing/transitional countries are identified annually by...
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 Announcing a New Washington DC Summer Fellowship Program

The Annenberg Schools for Communication at the Universities of Pennsylvania and Southern California, and the Departments of Communication at the Universities of Illinois and Michigan are pleased to announce a new collaborative summer fellowship program, designed to provide Ph.D. students in Communication and Media Studies with hands on experience in...
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 Post-Rorty Pragmatism: The New Wave of Pragmatism in Communication Research (An ICA Preconference)

"Post-Rorty Pragmatism: The New Wave of Pragmatism in Communication Research" International Communication Association Preconference, 26 May 2011 Sponsored by the Communication History Interest Group Cosponsored by the Philosophy of Communication Division Organizers: Chris Russill - Carleton U, Canada Robert Craig - U of Colorado, Boulder, USA Klaus Bruhn Jensen - U of Copenhagen,...
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 Communication History Preconference: "Mediating War and Technology"

This year's ICA conference will feature a preconference sponsored by the Communication History Interest Group. This preconference, entitled "Mediating War and Technology," brings together communication and history scholars in an exchange of ideas concerning war, technology, media, and history. War and technology are established themes in the fields of history...
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 "Seamlessly Mobile?" ICA Preconference

Seamlessly Mobile? Mobile Communication @ a Crossroads 2011 International Communication Association (ICA) Workshop Wednesday, 25 May 13:00 - 19:00, and Thursday, 26 May 9:00 - 17:00 This preconference will courteously be hosted by the Microsoft New England Research & Development Center. Limit: 60 Faculty & 15 Students Mobile phones are becoming increasingly...
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 CAT Division Invites Nominations for Dordick Dissertation Award

The Communication and Technology (CAT) division of the International Communication Association (ICA) invites nominations for the Herbert S. Dordick Dissertation Award. This award honors the memory of Prof. Dordick by recognizing annually the most outstanding dissertation on communication and technology produced in the preceding year. The award will be presented...
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 Great Architecture, Shopping Keep Back Bay a Vital Boston Neighborhood

Our monthly series of articles investigating the sites and activities of Boston, the site of the 2011 ICA Conference, began in the December issue of the ICA Newsletter with the South Boston Waterfront. While that neighborhood is the actual location of the Conference and has an exciting new environment of...
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 Student Column: New Activities for Students at ICA's 2011 Conference

Several new activities designed specifically for ICA student members are being developed for the association's 2011 conference. Two of the most exciting of these are a political communication preconference with submissions exclusively from graduate students, and an inceptive series of master classes that will bring together graduate students with established...
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 News of Interest to the Profession


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 Division & Interest Group News


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 Call for Papers


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 Available Positions & Other Advertising


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What's Inside
To Reach ICA Editors

Journal of Communication
Malcolm Parks, Editor
U of Washington
Department of Communication
Box 353740
Seattle, WA 98195-3740 USA
macp@u.washington.edu


Human Communication Research
Jim Katz, Editor
Rutgers U
Department of Communication
4 Huntington Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901 USA
jimkatz@scils.rutgers.edu


Communication Theory
Thomas Hanitzsch, Editor
U of Munich
Institute of Communication Studies and Media Research
Schellingstr. 3, 80799
Munich
GERMANY
hanitzsch@ifkw.lmu.de


Communication, Culture, & Critique
John Downing, Editor
Southern Illinois U - Carbondale
Global Media Research Center
College of Mass Communication
Carbondale, IL 62901 USA
jdowning@siu.edu


Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
Maria Bakardjieva, Editor
U of Calgary
Faculty of Communication and Culture
2500 University Drive
Calgary, AB T2N1N4 CANADA
bakardji@ucalgary.ca


Communication Yearbook
Elisia Cohen, Editor
U of Kentucky
Department of Communication
231 Grehan Building
Lexington, KY 40506-0042 USA
commyear@uky.edu



To Reach ICA Editors

Journal of Communication
Malcolm Parks, Editor
U of Washington
Department of Communication
Box 353740
Seattle, WA 98195-3740 USA
macp@u.washington.edu


Human Communication Research
Jim Katz, Editor
Rutgers U
Department of Communication
4 Huntington Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901 USA
jimkatz@scils.rutgers.edu


Communication Theory
Thomas Hanitzsch, Editor
U of Munich
Institute of Communication Studies and Media Research
Schellingstr. 3, 80799
Munich
GERMANY
hanitzsch@ifkw.lmu.de


Communication, Culture, & Critique
John Downing, Editor
Southern Illinois U - Carbondale
Global Media Research Center
College of Mass Communication
Carbondale, IL 62901 USA
jdowning@siu.edu


Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
Maria Bakardjieva, Editor
U of Calgary
Faculty of Communication and Culture
2500 University Drive
Calgary, AB T2N1N4 CANADA
bakardji@ucalgary.ca


Communication Yearbook
Elisia Cohen, Editor
U of Kentucky
Department of Communication
231 Grehan Building
Lexington, KY 40506-0042 USA
commyear@uky.edu



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