Volume 41, Number 5 : July - August 2013

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 The London Momentum

The 63rd Annual Conference of ICA lived up to expectations. In spite of being the conference of all records, held in a venue that was not necessarily proportioned for the magnitude of the event, all went remarkably well. We owe this success to the professionalism of the staff of ICA...
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 ICA Annual Board Meeting Highlights

The ICA Board of Directors held its annual meeting during the London conference. It has been a very busy year for ICA, the board, and the various committees. The Publications Committee has become a crucial committee that monitors all aspects of the ICA publication program. The board approved three recommendations...
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 Looking Forward: Changes in Store for ICA's Seattle Conference

Although Seattle may not be the bustling metropolis that London is, it nonetheless has its own unique attributes that render it an equally superb location for a conference like ours: Nestled in Puget Sound, a picturesque inlet in the United States' Pacific Northwest region with views of Mount Rainier to...
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 Parameswaran to Serve as Editor of Communication, Culture & Critique

Radhika Parameswaran has been appointed as the next editor of the International Communication's journal Communication, Culture & Critique. She was selected by the ICA Publication Committee, with the Board of Directors approving the selection at the London Board meeting on 17 June. CCC Volume 7, whose first issue will publish...
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 Sundar to Serve as Editor of Journal of Computer Mediated Communication

At the ICA Board meeting in London on 17 June, the ICA Board of Directors approved the Publication Committee's selection of Shyam Sundar to be the new editor of ICA's Journal of Computer Mediated Communication. Sundar will begin his 3-year term as editor of JCMC will with volume 19, which...
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 Divisional Status for Communication History

At its meeting in London on 17 June 2013, the ICA Board approved the motion that recognised Communication History as a Division of the Association. The Communication History Interest Group was founded in 2008, and its membership has been growing so that we were able to meet the criterion for...
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 Five New Scholars Selected as ICA Fellows

The International Communication Association recently named five new Fellows at its 2013 Annual Conference in London, UK. The 2013 Fellows include: Francois Cooren, U of Montreal; James Curran, Goldsmiths College, U of London; Cees J. Hamelink, U of Amsterdam, Free U of Amsterdam, U of Aruba; Karen Tracy, U of...
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 Taylor Receives Fellows Book Award

James R. Taylor & Elizabeth J. Van Every, U of Montreal, received the 2013 Fellows Book Award for their 1999 book The Emergent Organization: Communication as Its Site and Surface.This book has been highly influential within the field of organizational communication and beyond. The central perspective of the work...
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 Seibold Receives 2013 Fisher Mentorship Award

David Seibold, U of California - Santa Barbara, was selected to receive the prominent B. Aubrey Fisher Mentorship Award at ICA's 63rd Annual Conference in London. The Award recognizes outstanding scholars, teachers, and advisors who serve as role models in those capacities and who have had a major impact on...
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 2013 ICA Research Awards Presented in London

The International Communication Association presented seven prestigious research awards to nine communication scholars at its annual awards ceremony in London on Wednesday, 19 June 2013. Gail Fairhurst (U of Cincinnati) chaired the ICA Research Awards Committee, which selected the winners. The 2013 honorees included: Joseph B. Walther, Steven H. Chaffee...
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 Top Posters Recognized in London

The Plenary Interactive Poster Session at the 2013 ICA Conference in London hosted an assortment of 118 posters that represented the best research from each Division and Interest Group. This year's judges for the Top Poster Awards were ICA Past Presidents: Barbie Zelizer (U of Pennsylvania), Larry Gross (U of...
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 Membership Update: London Conference Largest in ICA History!

Now that the post-conference dust has settled, the final numbers are in. London's attendance easily topped Boston's short-lived record by more than 300 registrations! Over 2800 attendees sold out the conference hotel and several overflow hotels. This year's conference was one of many "firsts": Over 900 members registered during the...
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 Student Column: 2013 Challenging Communication Research, A Conference of Superlatives

Even before this year's conference actually took off, all ICA members were assured that this was going to be an event of superlatives: a record number of submissions, a record number of presented papers, a record number of delegates, a record number of pre- and post-conferences. The unprecedented number of...
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 Member News & Updates


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 Division and Interest Group News


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 Calls for Papers


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 Available Positions and Other Advertising


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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
John Courtright, Editor
U of Delaware
Department of Communication
237 Pearson Hall
Newark, DE 19716 USA
johnc@udel.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



ICA Leadership

Executive Committee
Francois Heinderyckx, President, U Libre de Bruxelles
Peter Vorderer, President-Elect, U of Mannheim
Cynthia Stohl, Immediate Past President, U of California-Santa Barbara
Larry Gross, Past President, U of Southern California
Francois Cooren, (ex-officio), Finance Chair, U de Montreal
Michael L. Haley (ex-officio), Executive Director

Members-at-Large
Terry Flew, Queensland U of Technology
Sonia Virginia Moreira, Rio de Janeiro State U
Jiro Takai, Nagoya U
Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, Cardiff U
Jonathan Cohen, U of Haifa

Student Members
Rahul Mitra, Purdue U
Anne Kaun, Sodertorn U

Division Chairs
Erica L. Scharrer, Children, Adolescents, and the Media, U of Massachusetts – Amherst
Philip Lodge, Communication History, Edinburgh Napier U
Laura Stein, Communication Law & Policy, U of Texas - Austin
Kwan Min Lee, Communication & Technology, U of Southern California
Miyase Christensen, Ethnicity and Race in Communication, Stockholm U
Paula Gardner, Feminist Scholarship, OCAD U
Rashmi Luthra, Global Communication and Social Change, U of Michigan – Dearborn
Mohan Jyoti Dutta, Health Communication, National U of Singapore
Prabu David, Information Systems, Washington State U
Brandi N. Frisby, Instructional & Developmental Communication, U of Kentucky
Hee Sun Park, Intercultural Communication, Korea U
Timothy Levine, Interpersonal Communication, Michigan State U
Stephanie Craft, Journalism Studies, U of Missouri
Theresa Castor, Language & Social Interaction, U of Wisconsin - Parkside
Rene Weber, Mass Communication, U of California – Santa Barbara
Ted Zorn, Organizational Communication, Massy U
Amit Pinchevski, Philosophy, Theory, and Critique, Hebrew U
Claes H. De Vreese, Political Communication, U of Amsterdam
Jonathan Alan Gray, Popular Communication, U of Wisconsin – Madison
Jennifer Bartlett, Public Relations, Queensland U of Technology
Jana Holsanova, Visual Communication Studies, Lund U

Interest Group Chairs
Richard J. Doherty, Environmental Communication, U of Illinois
James Ivory, Game Studies, Virginia Tech
Vincent Doyle, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, & Transgender Studies, IE U
Adrienne Shaw, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, & Transgender Studies, Temple U
Liz Jones, Intergroup Communication, Chapman U

Editorial & Advertising
Colleen Brady, ICA, Member Services Associate
Michael J. West, ICA, Publications Manager
Jennifer Le, ICA, Executive Assistant

ICA Newsletter is published 10 times annually (combining January-February and June-July issues) by the International Communication Association.



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