Volume 35, Number 9: November 2007
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 Barbie Zelizer Elected ICA President-Elect/Select

Barbie Zelizer (BA 1976, Hebrew U of Jerusalem; MA 1981, Hebrew U of Jerusalem; Ph.D. 1990, U of Pennsylvania), Raymond Williams Professor of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School of Communication, was elected the International Communication Association's president-elect/select in ICA's 2007 online balloting. Upon election, Zelizer became a...
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 Jan. 31 is Nomination Deadline for Fellows, Fisher, Research Awards

Nominations for the five association-wide research awards, the Aubrey Fisher Mentorship Award, the Fellows Book Award, and ICA Fellows must be received at ICA headquarters in Washington, D.C., by January 31. Details on the selection processes for the various awards and fellowships, as well as contact information for submission of...
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 President's Message: What's in a Name? The Politics of the Comma, Among Other Things

Juliet may have believed that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but her family did not agree. While, in our field, matters of semantics and grammar are not fought over with such hostility as that between the Capulets and Montagues, they do, it seems, raise strong...
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 New Special Interest Group - Children, Adolescents, and the Media - at ICA!

In September 2007, ICA approved the establishment of a new Interest Group: Children, Adolescents, and the Media (CAM). In that month, we presented a petition on behalf of 46 active ICA members who argued that a group of scholars in children and media exists within ICA but has long been...
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 Media, Communication, and Humanity: Media@LSE Fifth Anniversary Conference

In celebration of our Department's fifth anniversary year, we invite critical thinking about how the media and communications environment is implicated in shaping our perceptions of the human condition and thus, increasingly, mediating human values, actions and social relations. We welcome proposals for papers offering theoretical insight and/or empirical work...
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 ICA Members Given Choice on Journals: Which to Receive?

Members Should Select By November 30 To indicate your selections, direct your browser to http://www.icahdq.org/cgi-shl/twserver.exe/run:memjournals. Click edit to make your changes. Whether it be a lack of shelf space, the fact that you may only use one of them, or wanting to have our association be a greener, more Earth-friendly organization, ICA members have often expressed a desire to choose which ICA journals they receive. Currently all three printed ICA journals: the Journal of Communication, Human Communication Research and Communication Theory are sent to all members....
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 Student Column: Call for Agenda Items for Midyear Board Meeting

The ICA Board of Directors meets twice a year to discuss and vote upon issues pertinent to the organization and its members. This winter, we will again represent student concerns at the mid-year meeting of the ICA Board of Directors. The ICA Student Affairs Committee recently suggested two items that...
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 Available Positions & Other Advertising


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What's Inside
International Communication Association 2007-2008 Board of Directors

Executive Committee
Sonia Livingstone, President, London School of Economics
Ronald E. Rice, Immediate Past President, U of California - Santa Barbara
Patrice Buzzanell, President-Elect, Purdue U
Barbie Zelizer, President-Elect/Select, U of Pennsylvania
Jon Nussbaum, Past President, Pennsylvania State U
Wolf Donsbach (ex-oficio), Finance Chair, Technical U Dresden
Michael L. Haley (ex-oficio), Executive Director

Members-at-Large
Sherry Ferguson, U of Ottowa
Yu-li-Liu, National Chengchi U
Elena E. Pernia, U of the Philippines, Dilman
Gianpetro Mazzoleni, U of Milan
Juliet Roper, U of Waikato

Student Members
Rebecca Hains, Temple U
Mikaela Marlow, U of California - Santa Barbara

Division Chairs & ICA Vice Presidents
Paul Bolls, Information Systems, U of Missouri - Columbia
Pamela Kalbfleish, Interpersonal Communication, U of North Dakota
Robin Nabi, Mass Communication, U of California – Santa Barbara
Cynthia Stohl, Organizational Communication, U of California - Santa Barbara
Jim Neuliep, Intercultural Communication, St. Norbert College
Oliver Boyd-Barrett, Global Communication and Social Change, Bowling Green State U
Patricia Moy, Political Communication, U of Washington
Amy Nathanson, Instructional & Developmental Communication, Ohio State U
Douglas Storey, Health Communication, Johns Hopkins U
Ingrid Volkmer, Philosophy of Communication, U of Melbourne
Jan A.G.M. Van Dijk, Communication & Technology, U of Twente
Lynn Schofield Clark, Popular Communication, U of Denver
Betteke van Ruler, Public Relations, U of Amsterdam
Vicki Mayer, Feminist Scholarship, Tulane U
Sharon Strover, Communication Law & Policy, U of Texas - Austin
Mark Aakhus, Language & Social Interaction - Rutgers U
Marion G. Mueller, Visual Communication, Jacobs U - Bremen
John Newhagen, Journalism Studies, U of Maryland

Special Interest Group Chairs
David J. Phillips, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, & Transgender Studies, U of Texas - Austin
Bernadette Watson, Intergroup Communication, U of Queensland
Kumarini Silva, Ethnicity and Race in Communication, Northeastern U
John Sherry, Game Studies, Michigan State U
David Park, History of Communication, Lake Forest College

Editorial & Advertising
Michael J. West, ICA, Publications Manager

ICA Newsletter (ISSN0018876X) is published 10 times annually (combining January-February and June-July issues) by the International Communication Association, 1500 21st Street NW, Washington, DC 20036 USA; phone: (01) 202-955-1444; fax: (01) 202-955-1448; email: publications@icahdq.org; website: http://www.icahdq.org. ICA dues include $30 for a subscription to the ICA Newsletter for one year. The Newsletter is available to nonmembers for $30 per year. Direct requests for ad rates and other inquiries to Michael J. West, Editor, at the address listed above. News and advertising deadlines are Jan. 15 for the January-February issue; Feb. 15 for March; Mar. 15 for April; Apr. 15 for May; June 15 for June-July; July 15 for August; August 15 for September; September 15 for October; October 15 for November; Nov. 15 for December.



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To Reach ICA Editors

Journal of Communication
Michael Pfau, Editor
Department of Communication
U of Oklahoma
101 Burton Hall
Norman, OK 73019 USA
joc@ou.edu


Human Communication Research
Jake Harwood, Editor
Department of Communication
U of Arizona
211 Communication Building
Tucson, AZ 85721 USA
jharwood@u.arizona.edu


Communication Theory
Francois Cooren, Editor
Department of Communication
U de Montreal
CP 6128 Succursale Centre-Ville
Montreal, Quebec H3C 3J7 CANADA
communicationtheory@umontreal.ca


Communication Culture & Critique
Karen Ross, Editor
Coventry U
School of Art and Design
Priory Street
Coventry CV1 5FB UNITED KINGDOM
k.ross@coventry.ac.uk

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
Susan Herring, Editor
School of Library and Information Science
U of Indiana
Bloomington, IN 47405 USA
jcmc@steel.ucs.indiana.edu


Communication Yearbook
Christina S. Beck, Editor
Ohio U
School of Communication Studies
210 Lasher Hall
Athens, OH 45701 USA
BECK@ohio.edu



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