Member News & Updates
This article includes new posting with the latest ICA member news, as well as updates on outside conferences and publications. All ICA members are encouraged to submit their latest professional news for inclusion in the Newsletter by emailing cbrady@icahdq.org.
Member News
Klaus Krippendorff
Klaus Krippendorff was awarded the Swedish degree of Doctor of Philosophy Honoris Causa at the Linnaeus University (LNU) in Kalmar. The degree is defined here.
The university's official motivation for its choice reads as follows:
"Professor Klaus Krippendorff has a wide ranging experience from the fields of design, communication and technology. He is a major influence on the development of global design discourses through his work and especially through his well-known book of 2006, The Semantic Turn.
Professor Krippendorff has through his scholarly work also had a direct influence on the development of the field of design and the design educations at LNU. The Semantic Turn is today used in all design programs offered at LNU. His influence has also extended into the field of media and communication sciences, in which his book Content Analysis is a part of the disciplinary canon since the 1980s. A new edition was published in 2004.
Klaus Krippendorff is Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, U.S.A. He has published a wide range of scholarly texts and participated in the highest ranking journals. He is often engaged as a speaker and participates in conferences globally. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Kalmar during a few years thanks to funding from the Craaford Foundation."
The University’s press release for this event can be found by clicking here.
C. Arthur VanLear
Dear Association members,
We are currently involved in conducting a meta-analysis of reciprocity of affect and reciprocal liking. We define reciprocity as the process by which an affective action (positive or negative) by one person “A” elicits a similar affective response by another “B”, or when liking of one person “A” by another person “B” produces a tendency for “A” to like person “B” in return. To qualify for the meta-analysis, there must be an empirical test or measure of a reciprocity effect and sufficient information to translate that measure into an effect size. We particularly welcome copies of unpublished research reports but references to published reports that we may not be aware of are also welcome. If you know of a study that could be included in this meta-analysis, please send it to: reciprocalaffect@hotmail.com . An Electronic copy of the paper or article along with proper APA reference is most useful, but a citation which can yield a copy of the paper is appreciated as well. Any background information or insight about the papers is also appreciated.
C. Arthur VanLear,
Dept of Communication Sciences, U-85
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269
David Weaver & Lars Willnat
Professors David Weaver and Lars Willnat of Indiana University's School of Journalism are the co-editors of The Global Journalist in the 21st Century published by Routledge in May 2012. This book includes surveys of journalists in more than 30 countries in most major areas of the world. Click here for more information.
Member Publications
Robin Mansell
Imagining the Internet: Communication, Innovation, and Governance, by Robin Mansell, Oxford University Press, 320 pages, 978-0-19-969705-2 | Paperback | 12 July 2012, at http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199697052.do#.UBklTUKfOgE
[If you email r.e.mansell@lse.ac.uk, I can send you a 20% discount flyer, good until October].
Publisher's blurb: Critical synthesis of key challenges in the Internet Age; Tackles challenging issues for policy and regulation; Interdisciplinary approach to the paradoxes of life online in the twenty-first century; Theoretical perspectives from social sciences, systems theory, science and technology policy, and media and communications. This book is an impressive survey of our collective and cumulative understanding of the evolution of digital communication systems and the Internet. Whilst the information societies of the twenty-first century will develop ever more sophisticated technologies, the Internet is now a familiar and pervasive part of the world in which we live, work, and communicate. As such it is important to take stock of some fundamental questions - whether, for example, it contributes to progress, social cohesion, democracy, and growth - and at the same time to review the rich and varied theories and perspectives developed by thinkers in a range of disciplines over the last fifty years or more. In this remarkably comprehensive but concise and useful book, Robin Mansell summarizes key debates, and reviews the contributions of major thinkers in communication systems, economics, politics, sociology, psychology, and systems theory - from Norbert Wiener to Brian Arthur and Manuel Castells, and from Gregory Bateson to William Davidow and Sherry Turkle. This is an interdisciplinary and critical analysis of the way we experience the Internet in front of the screen, and of the developments behind the screen, all of which have implications for privacy ,security, intellectual property rights, and the overall governance of the Internet. The author presents fairly the ideas of the celebrants and the sceptics, and reminds us of the continuing need for careful, critical, and informed analysis of the paradoxes and challenges of the Internet, offering her own views on how we might move to greater empowerment, and suggesting policy measures and governance approaches that go beyond those commonly debated. This concise book will be essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the challenges the Internet presents in the twenty-first century, and the debates and research that can inform that understanding. Table of Contents: 1: Introduction 2: Fast Forwarding through the Information Society 3: Social Imaginaries of the Information Society 4: Communication, Complexity, and Paradox 5: Communication Systems in Everyday Life 6: Emergence and Communication Systems 7: Political Firestorms in Communication Policy 8: Conclusion Readership: Academics, researchers, and graduate students across the social sciences, including Communication Studies, Internet Studies, Innovation, Science and Technology Studies, Sociology; policy makers in ICT, media, and internet governance fields
Lynn Schofield Clark
Oxford University Press has published a new book by Lynn Schofield Clark titled, The Parent App: Understanding Families in a Digital Age. The book makes findings from family media studies and family sociology accessible for today's parents. It also highlights findings from Clark's ethnographic study on how parents, tweens and teens negotiate digital and mobile media use in their lives together, and argues that there are still profound differences between families with and without access to digital literacy resources. Clark was also a featured author in the July 27, 2012 New York Times "Room for Debate" on parental use of technology for monitoring children.
Lyombe Eko
I am pleased to announce publication of my book, New Media, Old Regimes: Case Studies in Comparative Communication Law and Policy (Lexington Books): https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739167908. I shall be grateful if you could circulate this information to members of the ICA. The publisher’s description of the book is as follows:
New Media, Old Regimes: Case Studies in Comparative Communication Law and Policy, by Lyombe S. Eko, is a collection of novel theoretical perspectives and case studies which illustrate how different communication law regimes conceptualize and apply universal ideals of human rights and freedom of expression to media controversies in real space and cyberspace. Eko’s investigation includes such controversial communication policy topics as North African regimes’ failed use of telecommunications to suppress the social change of the Arab Spring, the Mohammad cartoon controversy in Denmark and France, French and American policy of development and diffusion of the Minitel and the Internet, American and Russian regulation of internet surveillance, the problem of managing pedopornography in cyberspace and real space, and other current communication policy cases.
This study will aid readers not only to understand different national and cultural perspectives of thorny communication issues, but also show that though freedom of expression is a pluralistic concept, the actions of all political regimes at the national, transnational, and international levels must be held up to the universal standards of freedom of expression set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. New Media, Old Regimes provides essential scholarship on comparative communication law and policy in a world of new media.”
Thanks
Lyombe Eko
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Raka Shome
Announcing a special issue on ASIAN MODERNITIES: CULTURE, POLITICS AND MEDIA guest edited by RAKA SHOME forthcoming in Global Media and Communication (gmc.sagepub.com) volume 8(3) (December 2012). (Available online earlier). Global Media and Communication is an international, peer-reviewed journal that provides a platform for research and debate on the continuously changing global media and communication environment.
Exploring how modernity is experienced, articulated, and struggled over beyond the West, this special issue gathers a group of distinguished scholars who work has focused on modernity and media in Asia. The issue challenges west centric logics and categories of the ‘modern’ that dominate scholarship in communication and media studies. Focusing on diverse issues such as : Is there an 'Asian' modernity? Why theorize 'Asian' modernities? ; the politics of Islamic modernities; mass communication and religion;, “development,” television, and the modern; sexualities, modernities and trans- regional flows; intra-Asian flows, collisions and compressions of the ‘modern, ’-- this issue will appeal to anyone interested in the politics of non western modernities and our geopolitical futures.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Raka Shome, Introduction: Asian Modernities: Culture, politics, and media
William Mazzarella: ‘Reality must improve: The perversity of expertise and the belatedness of Indian development television
Masoud Kamali, Multiple modernities and mass communication in Muslim countries
Audrey Yue, Queer Asian Mobility and Homonational Modernity: Marriage Equality, Indian Students in Australia and Malaysian Transgender Refugees in the Media
Eric Ma, The compressed modernity in South China .
Uwe Matzat
International Journal of Internet Science, Vol 7, Issue 1.
The current issue: Chris Snijders, Uwe Matzat, Ulf-Dietrich Reips: 'Big Data': Big Gaps of Knowledge in the Field of Internet Science (Editorial) Nic Newman, William H. Dutton, Grant Blank: Social Media in the Changing Ecology of News: The Fourth and Fifth Estates in Britain Linda Kaye, Jo Bryce: Putting the "Fun Factor" into Gaming: The Influence of Social Contexts on Experiences of Playing Videogames Christopher R. Wolfe, Christopher R. Fisher, Valerie F. Reyna, Xiangen Hu: Improving Internal Consistency in Conditional Probability Estimation with an Intelligent Tutoring System and Web-Based Tutorials Alison Attrill: Sharing Only Parts of Me: Selective Categorical Self-Disclosure Across Internet Arenas Webdatanet: A Network on Web-based Data Collection, Methodological Challenges, Solutions and Implementation (Supplement)
Find the issue at by clicking here.
Conference Updates
In the 3rd IPRA International Public Relations Congress and Latin American Meeting
International Public Relations Experts will Meet in Peru
Latin American leaders, directors and executives will address on the new trends f public relations and corporate communication
One more time, Lima will be the scenario of the most significant event for public relations and corporate communication in Latin America, with the 3rd IPRA International Public Relations Congress and Latin American Meeting, to take place next 18 - 20 September at the Swissotel.
The event is organized by Universidad de San Martín de Porres, through the School of Communication Sciences, Tourism and Psychology and the International Public Relations Association – IPRA, the most important professional organization of the discipline worldwide.
Renowned experts and specialists will be present in this congress, including: Lisa Malone, Director of Public Affairs of the NASA’s John F. Kennedy Kennedy Space Center; Karen Lilla, Manager of Global External Relations IBM; Alberte González Patiño, VP of Contents Area from the BBVA Group; Deirdre Breakenridge, International Keynote speaker and one of the most successful professionals in the management of social media and public relations 2.0; and Thierry Nicolet, Vice-president of Worldwide Press Relations of Schneider Electric and expert on media management and results management.
It will include, as well, the participation from Leslie Gaines-Ross, Chief Reputation Strategist from Weber Shandwick, international public relations, which, together with APOYO Comunicación Corporativa will participate as strategic communication partners in the event.
The speakers will present the latest guidelines on the strategic management of public relations, together with the top executives from Latin American companies, who will address on the different success cases taking place in the region.
Topics such as Strategic Planning, Social Media, Social Responsibility, Negotiation and Persuasion, Measurement, Reputation, Internal and External Communication, as well as Crisis Management will be addressed in a perfect space for the exchange of experiences and networking.
This event is addressed to CEOs, directors and executives from private, public companies and different organizations from Peru and Latin America, as well as public relations and communication directors and executives; consultants and specialists on corporate communication, social media, community relations, corporate affairs, public affairs, social responsibility and other related topics. It is addressed as well to researchers, professors and academics of the discipline.
For further information, those interested in participating can reach telephone (511) 513-6300 extensions 2091 and 2111, or write to consultas@epu.edu.pe or visit the website: www.congresoipralatam.com
About IPRA: www.ipra.org
International Public Relations Association. Main international organization responsible for the ethical and intellectual direction of the public relations exercise in its different areas. It was founded more than 50 years since ago and has more than 1,100 members from around 100 countries.
About USMP: www.comunicaciones.usmp.edu.pe
The School of Communication Sciences from Universidad de San Martín de Porres is the first institution in Latin America to provide a master’s degree and a PhD degree on Public Relations. According to a study conducted by Ipsos APOYO Opinión y Mercado in 2010, USMP leads the list of centers specialized on Public Relations in the country.
The present year, USMP is proud to celebrate 50 years serving higher education in Peru, promoting academic excellence and contributing to the professionalization of public relations.
IPRA – USMP Alliance
IPRA and USMP have made a strategic alliance for the professionalization of the discipline in Peru and Latin America. Two years ago, Peru was the host of the IPRA 2010 – XIX Public Relations World Congress, event that brought together in the city of Lima several outstanding and expert professionals from the most important organizations in the world.
Last year, IPRA appointed its new Directive Board for the following two years, including Dr. Amybel Sánchez de Walther – Senior Professor and Director of the Research Institute from the School of Communication Sciences – as IPRA representative in South America, creating the new IPRA Latin America Chapter.
Other News of Interest
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