| February 28 Deadline for 2007 ICA Officer Nominations
Any member who wishes to submit a nomination for the offices in ICA's fall 2007 elections must do so by February 28, 2007, the deadline for receipt of all nominations. Members may nominate candidates for president-elect select, a student board member, and a board member-at-large. The member-at-large elected this year... More. . .
Highlights of ICA 2007 in San Francisco: The Plenary Sessions
Speakers for the major plenary panels and sessions for the upcoming conference in San Francisco have all been invited and have accepted. I'm delighted with the line-up of great speakers and discussion topics, as these really bring to life the conference theme of Creating Communication: Content, Control, and Critique. In... More. . .
President's Message
ICA continues to improve on many fronts, due to involved members, a professional and innovative staff managed by Michael Haley, an active Board of Directors, and an experienced Executive Committee. I'd like to highlight just one of those areas this month: the ICA journals. With the 2006 contractual relationship with... More. . .
Travel Grants Available for Accepted Paper Submitters
Participants from developing/transitional countries and students from U.S. ethnic minority groups, who have been accepted to present papers, can apply for travel grants to the ICA Conference in San Francisco between January 15 and March 1, 2007. The travel-grant application is available online at http://www.icahdq.org/cgi-shl/TWServer.exe?Run:MEMONLY:/membersonly/confgrantappl/fundrequest.asp. Developing/transitional countries are identified annually More. . .
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Preconference: Methodologies of Comparative Research in the Global Sphere
Media and communication studies are in the process of transformation: Transnational communication infrastructures, satellites and the Internet in particular, deliver new content "flows" that challenge conventional concepts of "the media." Increasingly fragmented supra- and subnational audiences require a reorientation of communication research that-while retaining what was useful about older... More. . .
Around San Francisco: Chinatown
In the December Newsletter we began exploring San Francisco, California the site of the 2007 ICA Conference. San Francisco is one of the most distinctive and cosmopolitan cities in the United States, known for its lively mix of finance, art, culture, and politics. December's article discussed Union Square-the heart... More. . .
Call for Papers: Special Issue of Communication Theory
This special issue will be coedited by Brian G. Southwell and Marco C. Yzer, both of the U of Minnesota's School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Half a century ago, Katz and Lazarsfeld presaged the trajectory of late-20th-century mass communication research and its move away from an assumption that media... More. . .
Student Column
Bing Han and Irina Gendelma are student affairs committee members who proposed writing a column about how advisors and professors identify important factors that predict graduate students' success in academia. For this purpose, Bing and Irina designed a survey and sent it to 52 graduate programs in communication. They received... More. . .
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