| Boston Conference Registrations Surpass All Previous Records!
The Boston conference figures are in. Attendance this year shattered the record held by 2005 New York conference. Indeed, the total number of registrations greatly surpassed New York's 2,306 registrations. Of ICA's current membership of 4,357, 2,507 registrants attended the 5-day conference. ICA proved once again to be a very...
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Valkenburg Wins 2011 "Dutch Nobel Prize"
The Dutch National Science Foundation (NWO) has awarded the 2011 Spinoza Prize, also known as "The Dutch Nobel Prize," to Patti Valkenburg, Professor at Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), U of Amsterdam, and director of the school's Center for Research on Children, Adolescents, and the Media (CCAM). The award...
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President's Message: A Successful Conference
By all standard measures the Boston conference was a resounding success. Following a record-breaking number of submissions - which led (happily or sadly, depending on your perspective) to a record rejection rate - we broke previous records for registrations, with an ultimate total of 2,507 folks. Of course, in addition to those...
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Phoenix 2011 Conference Update
After our very successful 2011 conference, preparations for our 2012 conference in Phoenix are now in full swing. Along with our Executive Director Michael Haley, I visited Phoenix in March to get a sense of the location and the opportunities and challenges' the site presents. The conference will be held...
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ICA Board of Directors Adopts Policy Regarding Political Engagement
At its annual meeting in Boston on 26 May, the ICA board of directors adopted a new policy on political engagement (see below). ICA has periodically received requests from organizations or individuals to take positions on a variety of issues. These have ranged from stances on the recent "Arab Spring"...
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New Communication Director Position Approved
At its May 2011 annual board meeting, the ICA board of directors approved the new staff position of communication director. A task force was appointed in 2009 by then-President Barbie Zelizer to address ICA's need to "clearly communicate its mission and contributions to diverse publics within and across disciplines." She...
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New Editor Named for Communication Theory, Communication Yearbook
The ICA Publications Committee has chosen Thomas Hanitzsch to be the new editor of ICA's journal Communication Theory. His 3-year term as editor of CT will begin with the journal's Volume 22 (2012). Hanitzsch is currently Professor of Communication at the University of Munich's Institute of Communication Studies and Media...
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Journal of Communication: Submission Call for Special Issue on "Social Media and Political Change"
The "Arab Spring" as well as recent events in other parts of the world have demonstrated that new communication technologies, such as mobile phones and the internet, are simultaneously new tools for social movement organizing and new tools for surveillance by authoritarian regimes. Though communication theory necessarily transcends particular technologies,...
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Six New Scholars Selected as ICA Fellows
Cindy Gallois, chair of the ICA Fellows Nominating Committee, announced on 28 May in Boston the selection of six new scholars as Fellows of the International Communication Association. Fellow status in ICA is primarily a recognition of distinguished scholarly contributions to the broad field of communication. The primary consideration for...
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Marvin Wins Fellows Book Award
Carolyn Marvin, U of Pennsylvania, was selected to receive the 2011 ICA Fellows Book Award for her 1990 book When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking About Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century (Oxford U Press).
The award recognizes those books that have made a substantial contribution to the scholarship...
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Ball-Rokeach Wins 2011 Fisher Mentorship Award
Sandra Ball-Rokeach, Professor at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School of Communication, was selected to receive the prestigious 2011 B. Aubrey Fisher Mentorship Award. The Award recognizes outstanding scholars, teachers, and advisors who serve as role models in those capacities and who have had a major impact on the...
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2011 ICA Research Awards Presented in Boston
The International Communication Association presented its nine prestigious research awards to 12 communication scholars at its annual awards ceremony in Boston on Saturday, 28 May. Ted Zorn (U of Waikato) chaired the ICA Research Awards Committee, which selected the winners. The 2011 honorees included: Jennings Bryant, Steven H. Chaffee...
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Top 2011 Posters Honored in Boston
A record-breaking 207 posters - representing the very best of every Division and Interest Group - were exhibited as part of the Sunday, 29 May Plenary Interactive Poster Session of the 2011 ICA Conference in Boston. This year's judges for the Top Poster Awards were ICA Past Presidents Barbie Zelizer...
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Student Column: Leadership Changes
Student members of the International Communication Association who participated in the 2011 Annual Conference in Boston had numerous activities to choose from. To mention just a few, the master classes brought students together with established scholars in communication studies, and the graduate student reception at the trendy Lucky's Lounge gave...
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