Division and Interest Group News
Scholars thinking about becoming a member of the Communication and Technology (CAT) division, current members, other ICA members, and researchers considering submitting papers to CAT for the 2014 Seattle meetings may find it helpful to examine a semantic network analysis of the 2013 London ICA conference CAT paper and session titles and abstracts. These results may light up new thoughts for you. We extracted noun/modifier terms using the scientometric VOSviewer software to identify clusters. Varying Different colors represent them. See the graph for frequencies of 5+ at http://bit.ly/14FMQet, 7+ at http://bit.ly/14FMQet, and 10+ at http://bit.ly/145rzrk. These show different granularities. Zoom your browser's view to aid your navigation and contemplation. If you have questions or comments email CAT Vice Chair and 2014 program planner James Danowski (U of Illinois at Chicago) at jdanowski@gmail.com.
1. Call for Papers
The Communication History Division's Call for Papers will be available on the paper submission site.
In short, we welcome papers, panels and poster presentations on topics that relate to three broad areas of historical inquiry: the history of communication (including media history), the history of the field of communication, and the history of the idea of communication. Please remember that 'history' is linked to numerous methodological and theoretical approaches to scholarship, and we would encourage you to think broadly about 'history'.
We accept full individual papers for sessions and interactive poster presentation, and proposals for Panel sessions.
Please note that this year, in addition to scheduling conventional panel, paper and poster sessions, the Division also intends to offer two different formats:
a. a high density session, where 8 to 12 presenters will be asked to outline their paper in just 3 to 4 minutes, with these introductions being followed by small group or one-to-one discussions with members of the audience; and
b. an extended session, in which the presenters and the audience come together in small groups to use the papers as a resource for multiple, overlapping conversations around the topics and themes involved, leading to an attempt to synthesise the ideas that emerge.
2. Top Papers and Travel Awards
Top Faculty and Student papers will receive recognition awards at the group's business meeting. To be eligible, student authors must indicate their status. Papers jointly authored by Faculty and students are not eligible for the Student award.
The Division will also offer one or more student travel awards based on ranking and financial need. In order to be considered for any award, the recipient must be a member of the Division.
3. Please volunteer to review for CHD
The Communication History Group is very grateful to all who serve as reviewers for the annual conference. We encourage all faculty members and research students to volunteer to review submissions in order to gain early access to the latest research in the field. We will do our best to match the three or four papers you are asked to review to your own research interests.
Please remember to volunteer for this on the ICA conference website, or e-mail Philip Lodge (Edinburgh Napier U) directly (philip.lodge@virginmedia.com).
4. Deadlines
The site opens for submissions on 3 September and closes on 4 November 2013.
As you already know, we had a very successful conference in London. ERIC was allotted a large number of panels and an interactive poster session. It was wonderful to see all of you who attended the conference and catch up. Once again, congratulations to our 2013 top paper award winners Alex Balch and Ekaterina Balabanova; Sallie Hughes and Elena Sabogal; Debra Merskin; Kate Zambon; Saif Shahin; and, Gretta Moody. Susan Harewood (U of Washington - Bothell) was the first recipient of our new award category Emerging Scholar in ERIC, sponsored by the Deptartment of Media Studies at Stockholm U.
Please visit our website for business meeting minutes and information in general: http://ericdivision.wordpress.com/.
Your contribution is very important to ERIC so please send your news, blog entries and announcements to our division co-secretaries Alfred Martin alfredmartin@austin.utexas.edu and Florencia Enghel florencia.enghel@kau.se.
And, just as the dust from the last conference has settled, preparations are already under way for Seattle 2014. We are working on a number of joint preconference and theme session proposals and we hope to maintain a prominent ERIC presence in Seattle in May 2014. You will find the Call for Papers for the Seattle 2014 ICA Annual Conference on the ICA website. As ERIC, we are looking forward to receiving your excellent paper submissions, panel proposals and making Seattle a success.
Your service to the division as paper and panel reviewers is extremely crucial to us. So, please remember to volunteer to act as reviewers for 2014!
Robert (Ted) Gutsche, Jr. was awarded the 2013 Gene Burd Urban Journalism Research Prize through the Journalism Studies Division of ICA and the Urban Communication Foundation for his dissertation on news coverage of black diaspora in the Upper Midwest.
Agnes Lando and co-authors were awarded the 2013 Gerbner Conference Award at the 2013 George Gerbner Conference on Communication, Conflict and Aggression, which took place in Budapest, Hungary, in June, for their paper "Retesting Cultivation Theory on the Origins, Causes and Predictors of Aggression: The Case of Pre and Post Genocide Rwanda".
Adina Schneeweis earned, for the second time in three years, a University Faculty Research Fellowship to support research in her native Romania. Dr. Schneeweis traveled to the Transylvanian region to conduct ethnographic work with the Roma, an at-risk population, and to study the communication practices of non-governmental organizations that advocate the rights of the Roma.
Lynn Schofield Clark published the book The Parent App: Understanding Families in a Digital Age (Oxford U Press, 2013), where she compares tech & media family practices across the economic spectrum in order to question the way in which the topic of families and digital media has been framed largely in relation to unexamined experiences of white privilege.
Our division has selected the junior officer team for 2013-2014. Please congratulate Michelle Garland (U of Tennessee) who was selected as the junior chair; Marjorie Buckner (U of Kentucky) who was selected as the junior vice-chair; Morgan Summers (Michigan State U) who was selected as the junior secretary; and Patrick MacDonald (West Virginia U) who was selected as the junior website and social media coordinator. Our junior officers will shadow our officer team during the next year to learn more about the division, ICA, and conference planning.