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 member of the Executive Committee. She will be program chair for the 2009 conference in Chicago and become president at the close of that conference. The position of president-elect/select is actually the beginning of a six-year involvement in ICA governance as a member of the Board of Directors.
A member of ICA since she was a graduate student, Zelizer has served as Chair of the Popular Communication Division, and as an active member of the Journalism Studies, Mass Communication, and Philosophy of Communication Divisions. She has served as chair of the ICA Awards Committee and Best Book Award Subcommittee, and as a member of the Research Committee, Nominations Committee, Publications Committee, and the Young Scholar Award Subcommittee. She has also served on the editorial boards of three ICA journals and 13 other international publications.
In presenting her goals for the association, Zelizer said she wanted to "to facilitate the development of platforms where we can speak forcefully, broadly and authoritatively about communication in all of its relevant arenas." ICA, she said, must take "two quantum steps forward," making its members more familiar to one another and more visible to the public. To do this, Zelizer articulated goals of greater cross-divisional conversation and collaboration; increased internationalism, by considering more varied committee composition, travel grants, membership fees, and conference selection; and enhanced communication to the general public about who ICA is and what it does, primarily through links with news services and organizations such as the UN and the Erasmus Mundus Foundation.
In the other association-wide balloting, Aldo Vasquez Rios, U de San Martin de Porres, was elected to a 3-year term as Board Member-at-Large (Americas). Michele Khoo, Nanyang Technological U, was elected to a 2-year term as Student Board Member. The Two proposed bylaw changes, elimination of Article VIII of the Bylaws and the amended procedure for election of fellows, both passed.
Twelve ICA Division and Interest Groups also had officer positions elected, and the results for these elections are listed below.
Division 4 - Organizational Communication
Vice Chair: Janet Fulk (U of Southern California)
Division 5 - Intercultural Communication
Vice Chair: Ling Chen (Hong Kong Baptist U)
Secretary: Leeva Chung (U of San Diego)
Division 6 - Political Communication
Vice Chair: Yariv Tsfati (Haifa U)
Secretary: Andrew Rojecki (Northwestern U)
Division 7 - Instructional & Developmental Communication
Vice Chair: Moniek Buijzen (U of Amsterdam)
Secretary: Laramie Taylor (U of California - Davis)
Division 8 - Health Communication
Vice Chair: Dale Brashers (U of Illinois)
Division 10 - Communication and Technology
Vice Chair: James Katz (Rutgers U)
Division 11 - Popular Communication
Vice Chair: Paul Frosh (Hebrew U)
Secretary: Katalin Lustyik (Ithaca College)
Webmaster: Jason Shim (Journal for Religious Pluralism and Society)
Division 13 - Feminist Scholarship
Secretary: Nancy Worthington (Quinnipiac U)
Division 14 - Communication Law and Policy
Vice Chair: Patricia Aufderheide (American U)
Division 16 - Visual Communication
Vice Chair: Luc Pauwels (U of Antwerp)
Secretary: Mary Bock (U of Pennsylvania)
Division 17 - Journalism Studies
Vice Chair: Frank Esser (U of Zurich)
Division 18 - Global Communication & Social Change
Vice Chair: Robert Huesca (Trinity U)
Secretary: Veena Raman (U of California)
Interest Group 22 - Game Studies
Secretary: Rene Weber (U of California - Santa Barbara)
