A Guide to Publishing in Scholarly Communication Journals

This popular guide is aimed at facilitating the publication process for potential contributors. ICA recently completely revised and updated the Guide. To order, please call Routledge at (800) 634-7064 or (561) 361-6000 ext 6418 for international callers; email orders@taylorandfrancis.com, or go to their website at www.routledge.com.

Communication in the Public Interest Series 

Communication has never been more important than in our current cultural moment. From the growing monopolization of global media, to human rights issues and health campaigns, communicating in a time of war, and issues of free speech and society, communication has real political and ethical imperatives in our world. This constitutes a vital opportunity to reach a wider audience with accessible forms of communication scholarship.  More...

 Communication Yearbook

CY 35 is a forum for the exchange of interdisciplinary and internationally diverse scholarship relating to communication in its many forms. Specifically, we are seeking state-of-the-discipline literature reviews and essays that advance knowledge and understanding of communication systems, processes, and impacts. Submitted manuscripts should provide a rigorous assessment of the status, critical issues and needed directions of a theory or body of research; offer new theory; and/or expand the boundaries of the discipline. In all cases, submissions should be comprehensive and thoughtful in their synthesis and analysis, and situate a body of scholarship within a larger intellectual context.  More...

The idea behind this project is to create the premiere and absolutely essential reference source in the field of Communication. Communication is a relatively young discipline and this unique and definitive reference work would serve the discipline by making a body of knowledge and expertise available to a wide audience, encompassing those in the field and those whose interests touch it. A multivolume reference work of this kind would represent the field in it entirety in one place and would serve as a statement by the community of what it has achieved. ICA, as the leading research arm of the discipline, is ideally situated to make this definitive statement in the interests of the field and their members.  More...

 Handbooks of Communication

The International Communication Association and Routledge are copublishing a series of scholarly handbooks that represent the interests of ICA members and help to further the association’s goals of promoting theory and research in the communication discipline.  More...

Theme Sessions Series

ICA and Hampton Press have contracted to publish some papers from the annual conference theme sessions in a short edited book of approximately six chapters. These chapters would be written in an engaging style so that members of other disciplines would be interested in reading this series. As such, these collections are not conference proceedings but are a unique set of essays that capture insights and agendas of our top scholars. The series begins with the 2007 conference in San Francisco, and the hope is that there would be sufficient interest on our parts and that of readers and the publisher to continue this initiative and develop a series.  More...