Division & Interest Group News
New Book
The First Handbook of Media Psychology:
The Oxford Handbook of Media Psychology's anticipated print date is December, 2012. Here is the link to the book, now available for pre-order on Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/handbookmediapsy
New Book
Liliana Castañeda Rossmann (California State U, San Marcos) has just published a book about girls in gangs:
http://www.hamptonpress.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=978-1-61289-097-5
ICA London Preconference
Title: Language and Engagement in Changing Forms of Public Interaction
When: Monday, June 17, 2013, 8:30-17:00
Where: Conference Hotel in London
Sponsored by: Language and Social Interaction and Mass Communication
The aim of this preconference is to bring together scholars studying the discourse and language of political, often mediated interaction. To facilitate this exchange of ideas, the preconference will start with presentations by and discussions with the Ross Priory Broadcast Talk Group (http://ross-priory-broadcast-talk.com), a group of scholars who have been researching these issues for 20 years. Although members of the group have been regular participants at ICA conferences during that time, there has not yet been any specific connection made with the LSI division. The purposes of this preconference are to solidify a topically richer sense of Language and Social Interaction research at ICA and to build stronger links with media divisions of ICA.
The preconference is designed for 30-40 participants and will involve two kinds of sessions (1) panel presentations analyzing different facets of language/discourse in media and in political settings, and (2) smaller group discussions (15-20 people) that will involve viewing of selected media discourse segments accompanied by a transcript (i.e., data session). Panels will include a two-part panel exploring “Media Discourse and Changing Forms of Public Interaction,” and a third panel, titled “The Discourse of Public life” with four presenters.
For more information contact Karen Tracy at karen.tracy@colorado.edu.
The Environmental Communication Interest Group (ECIG) has had busy second year. We had our first election for vice chair, secretary and a vote to adopt by-laws, which passed. If you haven't yet, please congratulate Merav Katz-Kimchi as our new vice-chair and Janel Shuh as our first secretary. They will both begin their duties at the end of the London conference. We have doubled our membership from about 80 last year to currently over 160. For ICA 2013 in London, the ECIG received 80 total submissions (almost double the number from last year) including 7 panel proposals, an extended session, and 72 papers. Also the International Environmental Communication Association as an institutional member received one panel session. I look forward to continuing my service to the group over the next few years to provide quality membership experiences for all. If anyone has suggestions, for the group, please feel free to ICA or me.
Hurry to Submit Abstracts for ICA Game Studies Preconference with ECREA Digital Games TWG
Now that all of the submissions are in for the 2013 annual conference’s paper competition (Game Studies received 100 total submissions, a 25% increase from last year), we want to remind those interested in research and scholarship related to games that there is still just enough time to submit to the preconference “The Power of Play: Motivational Uses and Applications of Digital Games,” which Game Studies is cosponsoring with the Digital Games Temporary Working Group of the European Communication Research and Education Association.
The preconference event, which will be held 17 June before the ICA conference begins, will feature research selected from extended abstracts submitted and reviewed in a competition that is conducted completed separately from the Game Studies program at the main ICA conference. Anyone interested in presenting a paper at the pre-conference is invited to submit an extended abstract of 1000-1500 words in APA 6th style to the pre-conference organization committee before 23:59 EST, 1 December 2012. The abstracts will be subject to a double blind peer review process, so all identifying author information should be removed from the abstract. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by 1 February 2013.
To submit, please e-mail a PDF version of your extended abstract as an attachment to icaprecon2013@digital-games.eu. When submitting the abstract, please also include a separate cover page including your title, name, department/organization, address and e-mail. Workshop proposals are also welcome. See icagames.org for more information.