Global Communication & Social Change Division

The Division of Global Communication and Social Change announces its top papers and awards winners as follows:

TOP PAPERS
"Cultural Proximity From an Audience Point of View: Why German Students Prefer US-American TV Series"
Daniela Schluetz, U of Music, Drama and Media
Beate Schneider, U of Music and Theater
 
"Disjuncture and Difference From the Banlieue to the Ganba: Global Hip Hop and the Politics of Information"
Fabienne Darling-Wolf, Temple U
 
"Social Networking Sarajevo Roses: Digital Representations of Postconflict Civil Life in (Former) Yugoslavia"
Debbie James, Wayne State U (student)

AWARD WINNERS
Top Dissertation:
Yael Warshel, UC San Diego: "How Do You Convince Children That the 'Army,' 'Terrorists,' and 'Police' Can Live Together Peacefully? A Peace Communication Assessment Model"
 
Best Book
Bella Mody, U of Colorado: "The Geopolitics of Representation in Foreign News: Explaining Darfur"

Robert Huesca, chair
rhuesca@trinity.edu

Political Communication Division

Our program for the upcoming Boston conference includes a variety of exciting and interesting panels, high-density sessions, an interactive poster session and (for the first time) a virtual session on political  advertising. Division members are invited to our Annual Business Meeting  (to be held on Friday, May 27, 4:30-5:45 at the Carlton Room at the  conference hotel). We will honor our award winners and discuss a variety  of division-related issues. The meeting will be followed by our annual  off-site reception (this year we will hold a joint reception with the  Journalism Studies Division), which will be held at The Daily Catch, a  local restaurant some 15 minutes
walking distance away from the  conference hotel. The agenda for the business
meeting and directions to  the reception will be emailed to participants as
the conference  approaches.

Looking forward to seeing you all in Boston, 

Yariv Tsfati, chair
ytsfati@com.haifa.ac.il

Claes de Vreese, vice chair
C.H.deVreese@uva.nl

Popular Communication Division

Gearing Up for Boston
 
Here are some of the delights that await Popular Communication Division members and hangers-on at the forthcoming Boston conference:

• Twenty-one panels plus a conference-long virtual session offering a lip-smacking smorgasbord of topics, including: cultural intermediaries, global media flows, labour and brands in cultural production, audience construction, political satire, religion and media, narratives and representation, digital cultures, gender and identity, power and ordinariness, transnational soap
  operas, nationhood and otherness, global Oprah Winfrey, mediated memory, research methodologies, and football!
• Our fabulous preconference on 'Placing the Aesthetic in Popular Culture,' hosted by Emerson College and cosponsored by the Philosophy of Communication and Visual Studies Divisions.
• A special screening of Sut Jhally’s film The Codes of Gender: Identity and Performance in Pop Culture, cosponsored by the Feminist Studies Division. Sut Jhally will be attending in person to introduce the film and take questions afterwards.
• The Popular Communication Business meeting, where minutes are read, revolutions declared, leaders held to account and chairs arranged in a circle.
• The incomparable Popular Communication Reception, undoubtedly the brightest star in the social firmament that is the ICA conference. Co-hosted this year with the Communication History and Philosophy of Communication Divisions, and overflowing with delicious and occasionally intoxicating beverages, it offers you unmissable opportunities to make friends, influence people, and discuss governmentality in the work of Justin Bieber.

Thanks,
Paul Frosh, chair
msfrosh@mscc.huji.ac.il