Division & Interest Group News
Children, Adolescents, and the Media Division
Summary of ICA Boston 2011
Chair Allison Bryant shared the exciting news that CAM is now officially a division of ICA...with 290 members in 35 countries on 6 continents! Thank you to all members for making this a reality.
Meryl Alper was awarded the Top Student Paper award for "Representations of non-American foreigners in American children's television." The award of Top Overall Paper was given to Jochen Peter & Patti Valkenburg for "The influence of sexually explicit internet material and peers on stereotypical beliefs about women’s sexual roles." To continue supporting funds for Top Paper Awards, as well as to help offset travel costs for students, please consider donating to the CAM endowment (on the ICA homepage, under "donate to ICA," designate "CAM Endowment."
For ICA 2012 in Phoenix, CAM (and all other divisions) will be given a 3 hour time slot to spend as the division chooses. If you have any ideas for innovative and meaningful ways to make use of this time, please contact Amy Jordan at ajordan@asc.upenn.edu.
Don’t forget, the full call for papers for Phoenix 2012 is now available online at www.icahdq.org. CAM is looking forward to another year of fascinating research and conversations about children, adolescents and media. Solicitations for reviewers, chairs and respondents will be sent via email later this year.
Announcements
Call for book proposals for the Mediated Youth book series edited by Sharon R. Mazzarella (Peter Lang Publishing). Grounded in cultural studies, the books published in this series study the cultures, artifacts, and media of children, tweens, teens, and college-aged youth. Whether studying television, popular music, fashion, sports, toys, the Internet, self-publishing, leisure, clubs, school cultures/activities, film, dance, language, tie-in merchandising, concerts, subcultures, or other forms of popular culture, books in this series endeavor to understand the complex relationship between youth and popular culture, and, whenever possible, include the voices of youth themselves. Contact Sharon Mazzarella at mazzarsr@jmu.edu or (540) 568-5633 for more information.
News from CAM Members
Yael Warshel's dissertation, which previously was awarded ICA's Global Communication and Social Change Top Dissertation award, in addition to the Central New York Peace Studies Consortium Peace Studies Dissertation of the Year Award, has now also been awarded the NCA's International and Intercultural Division's Distinguished Scholarship Award in the Category of the Dissertation. Her dissertation, about Israeli and Palestinian children's reception of Palestinian and Israeli Sesame Street was entitled, How Do You Convince Children that the "Army", "Terrorists" and the "Police" Can Live Together Peacefully?: A Peace Communication Assessment Model.
Assistant Professor Yi-Chun (Yvonnes) Chen of Virginia Tech (Ph.D. Washington State University) is a Co-Principal Investigator of a recently awarded NIH R01 grant ($2.8 million). The project titled "SIPsmartER: A nutrition literacy approach to reducing sugar-sweetened beverages" incorporates health and media literacy as an intervention tool. Chen team with Virginia Tech researchers from Human Nutrition, Foods & Exercise and Health Economics (Jamie Zoellner, PI; Paul Estabrooks, Co-PI) and Applied Microeconomics (Wen You, co-PI). The five-year project starts July 2011.
Sonia Livingstone reports that the EU Kids Online project has now completed its in home, face to face survey of 25,000 children and teenagers, along with their parents, across 25 European countries. Reports of the findings are posted on the website at www.eukidsonline.net. In the coming months, the project will make the dataset publicly accessible for others who would like to analyse the data. The main findings will be presented at a conference to be held at LSE on 22-23 September 2011, and then published in a book by the network: Livingstone, S., Haddon, L., and Gorzig, A. (in press), Children, Risk and Safety Online, Bristol: The Policy Press.
Recent Publications by CAM Members
Dr. John Murray shared news of his recent article on video games and violence. The full citation is Murray, J.P., Biggins, B., Donnerestein, E., Kunkel, D., Menninger, R.W., Rich, M., & Strasburger, V. (2011). A Plea for concern regarding violent video games. Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 86(8), 818-820.
Renee Hobbs published a new book entitled Digital and Media Literacy: Connecting Culture to Classroom (Corwin/Sage, 2011). The book offers a comprehensive look at how mass media, popular culture and digital media are integrated across the secondary curriculum through detailed vignettes of classroom practice. She also wrote a case study of the use of video game production as a means to explore news and current events; full citation: Hobbs, R. (2011). Connecting kids with news in their community. Nieman Reports, 65(2), 48 – 51. Finally, Hobbs and David Cooper Moore published a review of Admongo.gov, the new media literacy game developed by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC): Moore, D. C. & Hobbs, R. (2011). Review of Admongo.gov. Journal of Children and Media, 5(2), 221- 234.
Amy B. Jordan, chair
ajordan@asc.upenn.edu
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Communication Law & Policy/Philosophy of Communication Divisions
Call for Nominations for the 2012 C. Edwin Baker Award for the Advancement of Scholarship on Media, Markets and Democracy
At the Boston conference in May 2011, the Philosophy of Communication and the Communication Law and Policy Divisions of the International Communication Association awarded the first annual C. Edwin Baker Award for the Advancement of Scholarship on Media, Markets and Democracy to Professor James Curran of Goldsmiths, University of London, in recognition of his long-term scholarship in this area. There was a very strong field of candidate The award was launched to honor Professor Baker’s enormous contribution to communication scholarship. We are now seeking nominations for the 2012 award.
This annual Divisional Award (prize value US$500) is run by the two Divisions. Nominees will have either (1) opened up new theoretical and/or methodological territory in research on any aspect of the interrelations between media, markets and democracy; or (2) made other important contributions to the advancement of scholarship on these inter-relations; or (3) engaged in activism that advanced scholarship on these inter-relations. The awards committee will favor research comprising multiple projects and publications over time, but single works and/or activities highly influential in the field may also qualify someone for nomination. The award is open to ICA members and anyone else whose research can be shown to have a connection with the work of the ICA and its various divisions. All nominators must submit electronically by 11:00 pm EST, January 31 to the current chair of the Baker Award selection committee (for the 2012 award: Peter.Humphreys, peter.humphreys@manchester.ac.uk): (1) letter(s) of nomination, maximum two pages each, which (a) specify the relevant body of work and/or other contributions made; (b) address the work’s and/or activity’s contributions to scholarship of media, markets and democracy (if research, including theoretical and methodological assessments of that work); and (c) make a case for its influence and impact on the advancement of such scholarship;(2) representative examples of the work cited; and (3) a CV.
The selection committee for the 2012 award comprises the Chairs of the Philosophy of Communication and Communication Law and Policy divisions (ex officio), Dr Nancy Baker who assisted in establishing the award, Professors Dan Hallin, David Hesmondhalgh, Monroe Price, and last year’s recipient of the award, Professor James Curran.
We very much hope that relevant members will consider nominating themselves or others for this important new award.
Peter Humphreys, Chair, Communication Law and Policy Division
peter.humphreys@manchester.ac.uk
Laurie Ouellette, Chair, Philosophy of Communication Division
ouell031@umn.edu
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Ethnicity and Race in Communication (ERIC) Division
Hello ERIC members,
Its time again to start work on next year's conference in Phoenix, AZ. ERIC’s 2012 Call for Papers is now available on the Division’s website at http://www.icahdq.org/divisions/eric/index.html. There are several important changes in submission procedures for next year, so please read the CFP carefully before you submit your work.
A few other matters that need your attention -
1. RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP. Please renew your membership at http://www.icahdq.org and remember to select ERIC among your ICA divisional
affiliations. The larger our membership, the more panels we can program next year so please encourage new folks to join. First-time members should follow instructions at
http://www.icahdq.org/membership/memtypeflow.asp.
2. VOLUNTEER TO REVIEW FOR 2012 CONFERENCE. Your service as reviewer for ERIC is absolutely essential to ensuring a rich and dynamic program for next year’s conference. Please follow the link on your member page (after you have renewed your ERIC membership) to add yourself to the reviewer pool. We need you! To reach us with questions about reviewing, please contact ERIC chair, Roopali Mukherjee (roopalimukherjee@gmail.com).
3. NEW WEBSITE, BLOG, AND LISTSERVE: Check out ERIC’s brand spanking new website and blog at: http://www.icahdq.org/divisions/eric/index.html. Find announcements and calls, links to blogs on ethnicity and race, and the latest news from ERIC. The Division is also pleased to announce its new listserve geared to keeping everyone informed about conferences, opportunities, research, and contacts related to ethnicity and race in communication. Please join the listserve by sending a blank email to: ERIC-subscribe@yahoogroups.com. Please invite others to join the group! Follow the instructions you receive to be added to the group.
To make sure you’re not a spammer, the site will ask why you’re interested in
joining – just give us your name and school affiliation. If you have questions or suggestions to enhance our online profile, please contact ERIC secretaries, Aymar Jean Christian (ajean@asc.upenn.edu) and/or Khadijah White (kwhite@asc.upenn.edu).
That's all for now -
Roopali Mukherjee, chair
roopalimukherjee@gmail.com
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Organizational Communication Division
As noted at the OCD business meeting in Boston, a task force of Ted Zorn (chair), Janet Fulk, Boris Brummans, and Hassan Abu Bakar are reviewing the division’s by-laws to update them and make them consistent with current practice. Please have a look at the current by-laws and send any suggestions to tzorn@waikato.ac.nz:
http://www.icahdq.org/divisions/orgcomm/Mission%20and%20Bylaws/MissionandBylaws.htm.
We are already busy planning for an engaging conference in Phoenix next year. Two new initiatives will expand opportunities for engaged participation by OCD members and prospective members.
First, we will use the extended session, which is scheduled for all divisions, as a "Research Escalator" session. This session will provide an opportunity for less experienced researchers to pair up with experienced scholars to discuss and get feedback on a paper-in-progress, with the goal of making the paper ready for submission to a conference or journal. Those interested in the Research Escalator session should submit an extended abstract (500-600 words) of their paper; if accepted, participants are expected to send the full paper to the scholar assigned to their paper two months before the convention. Anyone can submit an abstract for the Research Escalator session. However, we especially encourage advanced doctoral students, junior faculty, and people inexperienced in publishing in ICA journals or in English. For more details on the Research Escalator session, see the OCD website: www.icahdq.org/divisions/orgcomm/News/News/ConferenceUpdates.htm. Debashish Munshi, University of Waikato (munshi@waikato.ac.nz) and Heather Zoller, University of Cincinnati (zollerhm@ucmail.uc.edu) are organizing and co-chairing the session.
Second, Waveland Press has generously agreed to sponsor a US$500 prize for the top interactive display presentation (i.e., poster presentation) submitted to the OCD. The presentations will be judged on creativity, visual impact, coherence, and clarity; details will be posted soon on the division website. Please consider indicating a willingness or preference to present as an interactive display.
Janet Fulk, chair
fulk@usc.edu
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Public Relations Division
Dear ICA Public Relations Division members,
Greetings! We have some new information we would like to share with you. First of all, this fall, elections will be held for the Division new Secretary. Candidates Erich Sommerfeldt, Towson University, USA; Friederike Schultz, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands; and Kelly Page Werder, University of South Florida, USA, have been nominated. Remember to express your preference.
Following the discussion we had during the business meeting in Boston, from next conference, the Public Relations Division will introduce a discussant in each paper sessions. Jennifer Bartlett, Vice Chair, will identify potential discussants according to the theme of the paper session.
We will also hold a panel on theoretical debates on public relations. In this respect, we encourage the submission of research papers and panel proposals that focus on key issues for public relations and with an emphasis on theory development. The latter includes studies that further a greater understanding of the theoretical basis for effective communication, but also submissions that focus on the role of public relations in society. We encourage submissions addressing the variety of organizational forms and international contexts. Submissions can use a range of theoretical approaches, including for instance social scientific, historical, rhetorical, critical, and philosophical theory. Both quantitative and qualitative methods are considered appropriate.
We are also seeking proposals for a session on international research collaboration. This will be the Chair’s panel that was proposed during the business meeting in Boston. Members are thus invited to submit proposals around emergent international research collaborations for which they seek international partners. These submissions should be in the form of an extended abstract (2,500 to 3,000 words). These proposals will form a session to promote cross national research collaborations amongst public relations scholars around the world. International research proposals should provide a strong overview of the research project aims, methods, and existing collaborations with an emphasis on the contribution to public relations theory and opportunity for international collaboration.
We remind that papers submitted to the Public Relations Division should be completed manuscripts and fully developed panel proposals. Those reflecting the conference theme will also receive special consideration. Authors should submit online at the ICA website (see www.icahdq.org then follow the links for the 2012 Conference and online submissions).
We would like also to underline that the Public Relations Division grants three prestigious awards - thanks to the generous donors - two are yearly based and one every second year. These are:
Paper submitted to ICA Public Relations Division will be reviewed and the top manuscripts will be selected by division reviewers from a short list of outstanding papers. For the J. E. Grunig & L. A. Grunig Award for Outstanding Thesis and Dissertation Awards, members should send directly their application to the award chair. For additional information and award submission requirements, please also contact the awards chair, Bey-Ling Sha, Ph.D., APR, Email: bsha@mail.sdsu.edu. The deadline is March 1, 2012, by 11 p.m.
Last by not least, a new book on Communication and Corporate Social Responsibility edited by three authors, two of which are our members, is out on Wiley-Blackwell. The Handbook of Communication and Corporate Social Responsibility addresses the highly fashionable management concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Research among public relations practitioners has also demonstrated how most of them believe CSR is central to their work. Still, the research on CSR communication is still in its infancy. The journal articles are scattered and have not built towards a critical mass where they have an impact on for instance mainstream textbooks. The literature is arguably theoretically underdeveloped and empirically underexplored. Furthermore, much of the research takes place in different academic silos.
With this in mind, the editors Oyvind Ihlen, Jennifer L. Bartlett, and Steve May have put together a collection of 28 chapters from top scholars in public relations, organizational communication, reputation management, marketing, and management to address key issues of the field. The book takes stock of existing recommendations and demonstrates how the communication disciplines can enrich our understanding of CSR communication and how such insight influences the way organizations should be managed.
The book represents the definitive research collection for CSR communication offering cross-disciplinary and international perspectives. The key audiences are scholars, advanced practitioners, and students at the MA level and upper level BA in management, public relations, marketing, and organizational communication.
The Public Relations Division represents a dynamic area of communication studies and is actively involved in developing international research, fostering the standing of our journal publications, and supporting members from existing and emerging world regions. To continue with this work, we encourage our existing members to engage more colleagues to join the Public Relations division to strengthen and diversify what we offer.
Juan-Carlos Molleda, Chair
jmolleda@jou.ufl.edu
Jennifer Bartlett, Vice-Chair
j.bartlett@qut.edu.au
Chiara Valentini, Secretary
chv@asb.dk