ICA Newsletter, October 2012

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 London Conference Update

Preparations for the London conference are now entering into a crucial phase. The submission system is accepting your proposals through the end of October. Make sure you read the call for proposals and the instructions very carefully to ensure your proposal will be considered (http://www.icahdq.org/conf/2013/2013CFP.pdf). After just over two weeks...
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 President's Message: Truthiness, Plagiarism, and Professional Standards

With all the current talk about "truthiness" (thank you Steven Colbert), the "post-truth campaign" (a la Paul Krugman), "medium lies" (most recently enumerated by The Guardian's Bob Garfield), and the ubiquity of "Bullshit" (that great little book by the eminent philosopher Harry Frankfurt), I can't help but recall my infamous Congressman...
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 Conversations: Betrayal or Translation? Filling the Gap Between Francophone and Anglophone Scholars

Some progress has been made regarding the participation of Francophone scholars in ICA events for the past five years, but we still have a long way to go before we can really talk of a presence of the French-speaking world in our association. As I am writing these lines, we...
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 Communication Theory Special Issue

CALL FOR PAPERS: Communication Theory special issue on Questioning geocultural boundaries of communication theories: De-Westernization, cosmopolitalism and globalization | Guest editors: Silvio Waisbord and Claudia Mellado; Submission deadline: April 1, 2013 | Although Western perspectives have been dominant in the study of communication, scholars have called for the emancipation of non-Western theories...
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 Student Column: Five Conference Submission Tips for Student Members

In last month's newsletter, ICA Conference & Membership Coordinator Emily Karsnak, with an eye toward the upcoming November 1 deadline for London 2013, highlighted some easy submission tips. In my first column as student board member, I want to extend that conversation to the context of our student members. Submitting...
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 Member News & Updates


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 Division & Interest Group News


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 Calls for Papers


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 Available Positions & Other Advertising


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ICA Leadership

Executive Committee
Cynthia Stohl, President, U of California-Santa Barbara
Francois Heinderyckx, President-Elect, U Libre de Bruxelles
Larry Gross, Immediate Past President, U of Southern California
Francois Cooren, Past President, U de Montreal
Barbie Zelizer, (ex-officio), Finance Chair, U of Pennsylvania
Michael L. Haley (ex-officio), Executive Director

Members-at-Large
Terry Flew, Queensland U of Technology
R.G. Lentz, McGill U
Jiro Takai, Nagoya U
Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, Cardiff U
Jonathan Cohen, U of Haifa

Student Members
Sojung Claire Kim, U of Pennsylvania
Rahul Mitra, Purdue U

Division Chairs & ICA Vice Presidents
Amy B. Jordan, Children, Adolescents, and the Media, U of Pennsylvania
Kwan Min Lee, Communication & Technology, U of Southern California
Laura Stein, Communication Law & Policy, U of Texas - Austin
Roopali Mukherjee, Ethnicity and Race in Communication, CUNY - Queens College
Radhika Gajjala, Feminist Scholarship, Bowling Green State U
Antonio La Pastina, Global Communication and Social Change, Texas A&M U
Mohan Jyoti Dutta, Health Communication, Purdue
Elly A. Konijn, Information Systems, VU Amsterdam
Brandi N. Frisby, Instructional & Developmental Communication, U of Kentucky
Steve T. Mortenson, Intercultural Communication, U of Delaware
John P. Caughlin, Interpersonal Communication, U of Illinois
Stephanie Craft, Journalism Studies, U of Missouri
Evelyn Y. Ho, Language & Social Interaction, U of San Francisco
David Tewksbury, Mass Communication, U of Illinois
Ted Zorn, Organizational Communication, Massy U
Laurie Ouellette, Philosophy of Communication, U of Minnesota
Claes H. De Vreese, Political Communication, U of Amsterdam
Jonathan Alan Gray, Popular Communication, U of Wisconsin – Madison
Juan-Carlos Molleda, Public Relations, U of Florida
Michael Griffin, Visual Communication Studies, Macalester College

Interest Group Chairs
Philip Lodge, Communication History, Edinburgh Napier U
Richard J. Doherty, Environmental Communication, U of Illinois
Dmitri Williams, Game Studies, U of Southern California
Vincent Doyle, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, & Transgender Studies, IE U
Adrienne Shaw, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, & Transgender Studies, Temple U
Liz Jones, Intergroup Communication, Chapman U

Editorial & Advertising
Colleen Brady, ICA, Conference & Membership Coordinator
Michael J. West, ICA, Publications Manager

ICA Newsletter is published 10 times annually (combining January-February and June-July issues) by the International Communication Association.



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