Ethnicity and Race in Communication

Counting Down for London!
ERIC is pleased to invite all members to a great line-up of sessions organized and hosted by the Division at the 2013 conference in London. We have 14 sessions and an interactive poster session this year on topics ranging from mediated spaces and digital intimacy to a discussion of neoliberal discourse. Our panel cosponsors include the divisions Popular Communication; Philosophy, Theory and Critique; and, Communication and Technology.

In addition to a great program, ERIC will be cohosting an offsite reception party, our best ever we warn you, co-sponsored by Stockholm U (Department of Media Studies); Taylor and Francis; and, U of Surrey (Media, Culture and Society Programme). Our cohosts are the Popular Communication division and the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Interest Group.

The Boat Party, on the River Thames, will take place:
Wednesday, 19 June 2013, 19:00, Westminster Pier, Victoria Embankment, City of Westminster, SW1A 2JH  

Members and friends are welcome aboard the MS Erasmus, sailing from Westminster Pier to the Thames Barrier and back.

Here are some highlights from the ERIC sessions:

ERIC Roundtable: Race and Ethnicity in Communication: Two Sides of the Same Coin or Separate Concepts for Scholarly Discussion?
Cosponsored by Philosophy, Theory, and Critique

Scheduled Time: Tue Jun 18 2013, 15:00 to 16:15  Building/Room: Hilton Metropole, Hilton Meeting Rooms 9 & 10

One of ERIC’s roundtables at the 2013 conference will feature an international panel of ethnicity and race scholars from around the world to addresses the timely question of whether ethnicity and race actually deal with the same issues, concepts, theories--even have the same foundation in our scholarly work in communications. The race and ethnicity division has the responsibility to explicate these concepts as they form the core of the group’s scholarship as laid out in the mission statement.
The roundtable, which is of interest not only to ERIC scholars and but to media and communication research in general, will attempt to flesh out the relationship between these concepts as they apply to the field of communications for scholarship in the current era.

ERIC wishes to see many of you there for a lively discussion.

Ethnicity and Race in Communication Business Meeting
Scheduled Time: Tue Jun 18 2013, 16:30 to 17:45  Building/Room: Hilton Metropole, Hilton Meeting Rooms 9 & 10

Please come join us during our business meeting where we discuss division matters, report outcomes and hand out well-deserved awards to our best-paper winners.
We hope you are as excited by the largest ICA conference ever as we are, and we look forward to seeing you all in London.

Organizational Communication

Please be sure to join us for the “big 3” events of the Top Papers in Organizational Communication, the Division’s Business Meeting, and the Division reception on Thursday afternoon of the convention, in the Hilton Metropole, Palace B. The Top Papers panel starts at 3:30pm and will be followed immediately by the business meeting, which will in turn be followed by the reception.

Note that we have two “high-density sessions” scheduled for this year’s convention. This format was a big hit last year with presenters and participants. The two high density panels are “Networks and Connections in Organizational Communication” and “Organizing the Social: Social Media Use in Organizations.”  Along with the 5 papers in the Interactive Poster Session, the presenters are eligible for the Waveland Press sponsored award for best interactive display.  So, if you are one of the presenters, we encourage you to think creatively about how to present your paper. Last year's winner Keri Stephens (U Texas), did a  quick survey of the audience during her brief opening presentation to help the group better understand how communication overload differs from information overload.  Keri said, in planning her presentation, “The key thing is that the poster should be directly linked to the initial summary.” We encourage our presenters to think about how they can be both interactive and creative.