The ICA Virtual Conference will feature keynote addresses by three eminent global communication scholars: Lance Bennett, Ruddick C. Lawrence Professor of Communication and Professor of Political Science at the U of Washington; Hans Henrik Holm, Jean Monnet Professor and Professor in World Politics at the Danish School of Media and Journalism; and Sonia Livingstone, Professor of Social Psychology and Head of the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics. Each month we will feature one of the keynotes in the Newsletter.

Professor Hans Henrik Holm, "Reporting Global Change: Too Much America.”

The coverage of the USA from the outside has in cross-cultural studies highlighted the connection between the coverage of the creation/reinforcement of stereotypes. This keynote will look at the ongoing American election process seen from outside the US and discuss the counter factual notion that too much reporting can be detrimental to an informed democratic debate outside the US.

Hans-Henrik Holm is Jean Monnet Professor and Head of Department at the Danish School of Media and Journalism. He is head of the Mundus Journalism consortium, a joint global degree involving five European universities and three global partner universities. He is regular guest professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at the U of California—Berkeley.

The author of more than 15 books and 60 articles, Professor Holm's most recent books include Changes in Journalism - A Perspective of Forty Years (in Danish) (Ajour 2011) and Fragile States, Violence and the Failure of Intervention (Polity Press 2012).

The full address will be available on ICA's Virtual Conference from 14 May 2012- 8 June 2012. ICA extends a special thanks to Wiley Blackwell for sponsoring the 2012 Virtual Conference. Phoenix attendees automatically receive free access to the Virtual Conference with registration. For those who are unable to attend in Phoenix, register for the Virtual Conference online at http://www.icahdq.org/conf/confreg.asp.