Environmental Communication Call:

The Environmental Communication Interest Group invites submissions that illuminate all aspects of communication related to nature and the natural world. The group aims to advance research on the interplay of the environment with any level of communication (such as interpersonal, group, intergroup, organizational, mass, or global) and in any setting (education/instruction, leisure/gaming, economic, legal, and so forth). Research on health, risk, and science communication issues related to the environment are especially germane. Topics might include environmental rhetoric and discourse, visual and textual representations of the natural environment in popular culture or journalism, political communication about environmental issues, public participation or interaction in ecological decision making, environmental campaigns and green marketing, scientific sense-making about nature, and the impact of communication technologies and communication about environmental technologies, among others. The group welcomes work from any perspective (including critical, cultural, ethnic/minority, feminist) employing any research method motivated by sound research questions on environmental communication - philosophical/theoretical, historical, and applied research and conceptual, performative, or empirical presentations.

The group will accept full papers (maximum 10,000 words plus tables, charts, and references in minimum 12-point type) and panel proposals. Include panelists' names and background, abstracts of papers, and a justification that explains the importance of the topic and its interest to ICA members. Follow the length guidelines on the ICA panel submission template. The group will consider panel proposals that employ novel formats to expand participation, mentor junior scholars, promote graduate student research projects, and advance similar aims. To encourage an international perspective, panel proposals that include presenters from different countries receive priority. Submit paper and panel proposals online at the conference submission website and follow the ICA submission guidelines. Please indicate if your paper can be in an interactive (display/poster) or virtual (distance/asynchronous) session. Read carefully the ICA rules for preparing your submission, especially for removing from papers any information identifying authors.

Top faculty and student papers will receive recognition awards at the group's business meeting. To be eligible, student authors should indicate their status.

Richard J. Doherty

University of Illinois at Chicago Communications Department

Chicago, IL 60607 USA

Phone: 312-413-2122

E-mail: rdoherty@uic.edu