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 is currently Distinguished Professor of Media Studies at Pennsylvania State University, and the founder and codirector of its Media Effects Research Laboratory. He has taught at Penn State for 18 years. He received his PhD in communication (with a minor in psychology) from Stanford University in 1995.

Sundar is a former chair (2008-10) of ICA’s Communication and Technology (CAT) Division, and currently a member of the division’s faculty doctoral consortium. He is currently on the editorial board of Communication Yearbook and Journal of Communication, and has previously served as a board member or editorial referee for Human Communication Research, Asian Journal of Communication, Communication Research, Communication Monographs, and Journal of Applied Communication Research, among many others.

Sundar’s research interests lie in the social and psychological effects of online communication, including websites and social media. He is regarded as probably the most published scholar of Internet-related research in the field during the medium’s first decade. He has testified before the U.S. as an expert witness on technology.