Division & Interest Group News
Children, Adolescents and the Media Division
Oxford University Press has published a new book by CAM member 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.
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The EU Kids Online network, funded by the EC Safer Internet Programme, is pleased to announce that its new book is just published. This includes findings, analysis and conclusions from our major 25 country survey of children aged 9-16 years old and their parents across Europe. The full citation is: Livingstone, S., Haddon, L., and Görzig, A. (Eds.) (2012) Children, Risk and Safety Online: Research and policy challenges in comparative perspective. Bristol: The Policy Press. Please see www.eukidsonline.net for contents, chapter abstracts and purchase information.
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All ECREA members may be interested to learn that a new Temporary Working Group (TWG), on Children, Youth and Media, has been approved. The management team includes Sonia Livingstone (LSE, London, United Kingdom), Brian O'Neill (Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland) and Cristina (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal). The purpose is to bring together European researchers interested in any and all topics related to children, youth and media. Please go to the ECREA website to join the TWG (it’s free). We’ll have the first meeting in Istanbul to discuss aims, initiatives and working practices to sustain our new collaboration. If you are interested, but you can’t come to Istanbul, please email Sonia at s.livingstone@lse.ac.uk
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Routledge is pleased to welcome Amy Jordan on board as the new co-editor of Journal of Children and Media with immediate effect. Amy will work closely alongside Founding Editor Dafna Lemish, who has recently been appointed as Interim Dean of the College of Mass Communication and Media Arts at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA.
Amy is based at the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania and has been a leader in the field for many years. She brings with her expertise in a variety of areas, particularly policy, health, and survey research. In addition to her strengths in quantitative methods, she also has an understanding in respect to all methodologies, interdisciplinary studies and international research. Amy has been on the editorial board of the journal from its inception in 2007, and has previously acted as guest editor on a special issue on policy.
To mark the occasion, we are pleased to offer free online access until 31st August 2012 to three recent articles that Amy has published in the journal:
Children's Media Policy: International perspectives, Amy B. Jordan
(http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17482798.2011.533478)
The Role of Television Access in the Viewing Time of US Adolescents, Amy Jordan, Amy Bleakley, Jennifer Manganello, Michael Hennessy, Robin Steven & Martin Fishbein
(http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17482798.2010.510004)
Burgers and Basketball: Race and Stereotypes in Food and Beverage Advertising Aimed at Children in the US, Joelle Sano Gilmore & Amy Jordan
(http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17482798.2012.673498)
Please join us in welcoming Amy into her new role – we hope that her participation can help Journal of Children and Media to continue to develop as an invaluable arena for both scholars and students! We would also like to take the opportunity to congratulate Dafna as she undertakes this exciting new phase in her career.
For more information about Journal of Children and Media, please visit: www.tandfonline.com/rchm
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YOUTH 2.0: CONNECTING, SHARING AND EMPOWERING?
Affordances, Uses and Risks of Social Media
March 20th – 22nd 2013, Antwerp, Belgium
Learn more about the conference here: https://www.icahdq.org/conf/other/Youth2.0.asp
Communication History Interest Group
Following on from Phoenix, Jeff Pooley has now assumed the role of immediate past Chair, and Philip Lodge and Rick Popp have become Chair and Vice-Chair respectively. CHIG would not now be on threshold of full Divisional status without the foresight and hard work of Jeff and Dave Park, and the Group’s appreciation of their achievement was placed on record at our Phoenix business meeting. You can see the minutes of the meeting at by clicking here. Deb Lubkin, who provided these minutes, is doing a great job as Secretary, but her term ends after the London Conference next June, so we have an upcoming election. We are lucky to have two outstanding candidates, so please be sure to vote.
Preparations for London are already well in hand and we have a ground-breaking preconference proposal that would bring together the key associations in our field in what promises to be a significant event. Don’t miss it! And please remember to sign up as a reviewer when submitting your paper(s) and proposals for 2013. Thank you!
Organizational Communication Division
As you make your plans to attend the 2013 ICA convention in London, don’t forget that we’ll be holding our bi-annual doctoral consortium the day before the main conference begins. Those of you who have been associated with this event know that it can be a wonderful opportunity for doctoral students to network with other faculty/students and to learn even more about key issues relevant to our field. So, if you are a doctoral student (especially one who will be done with coursework by that time) we hope you’ll apply to the event. Faculty members, please encourage your students to join us in London for the consortium. Details about the event and the faculty participants will be available in the fall. Contact Division vice-chair Craig Scott at crscott@rutgers.edu for more details.
Popular Communication Division
Elections for Popular Communication Secretary
This year's elections for Popular Communication Secretary involve five outstanding candidates. Popular Communication members are encouraged to read each candidate's personal statement closely and to participate in the vote now. Visit ICA's homepage to login and vote now.
Visual Communication Studies Division
Jana Holsanova, vice-chair of Visual Communication Studies Division, is a guest editor for the current special issue of Visual Communication (August 2012, 11:3, Sage), focusing on novel methods and tools for the analysis of visual communication and multimodality.
The issue comprises a set of six papers and a book review and brings together international researchers from Germany, Sweden, Denmark, United States, and Singapore representing various disciplines: communication and media studies, social semiotics, cognitive science, educational psychology, health studies and visual communication.
The papers cover and integrate a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches to visual communication and multimodality and use an interdisciplinary framework and triangulation of methods. The methods include content analysis, social semiotic analysis, eye tracking measurements – in combination with think aloud protocols and retrospective interviews –, as well as iconology and psychophysiological real time measurements. The respective approaches are exemplified through detailed analyses of a variety of materials, including press photography, art, multimodal health education materials, Power Point presentations, Internet advertisements and TV media discussions.
"The latest Visual Communication special issue on 'Methodologies for Multimodal Research' opens up the field to an exciting range of methods and technologies and demonstrates the power of visual research across a wide range of contexts including health, news, and online advertising" said Carey Jewitt, editor Visual Communication, Sage. http://vcj.sagepub.com/content/current