Highlights of ICA 2007 in San Francisco, Part II
Nico Carpentier, Theme Chair
The theme of the upcoming conference in San Francisco, Creating Communication: Content, Control and Critique, deals with the tension between new opportunities and new limits of our present-day communications environment. Many are observing with excitement the emergence of new opportunities for the public to create content -through file sharing, message...
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President's Message
Ronald E. Rice, ICA President
Somehow I got assigned to create a faculty bulletin board, with photos of each faculty member along with answers to several questions students had asked. Someone had started on it about two years before, but there were photos and quotes from only about a third of the faculty. This seemed...
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Making Communication Studies Matter
Brenda Dervin, Ohio State U
The purpose of ICA2007 Preconference #3 is to establish a dialogue about dialogue across field and research-practice divides between those who focus on conducting and applying studies of users/audiences of media, library, information, and communication systems. The preconference is designed as a working symposium. All participants will be involved in...
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ICA Organizational Communication Division Doctoral Preconference May 24, 2007
Dennis K. Mumby, U of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
I would like to personally invite doctoral students to this year's Organizational Communication Division doctoral preconference. It promises to be an exciting daylong workshop that gives graduate students who are close to dissertation stage the opportunity to interact with some of the best and most innovative scholars in the field...
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Preconference: Digital Storytelling - Critical Accounts of a Californian Export
Knut Lundby, U of Oslo
Digital Storytelling is evolving as a participatory media practice around the globe. Individuals in a variety of institutional settings tell short, self-representational stories with standard digital equipment. These personal narratives are usually made with self-sourced images and told with the own voice. Although there are many forms of digital storytelling...
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Call for Nominations for the Herbert S. Dordick Dissertation Award
S. Shyam Sundar, Penn State U
The Communication and Technology (CAT) division of the International Communication Association (ICA) invites nominations for the Herbert S. Dordick Dissertation Award for the most outstanding dissertation in communication and technology completed during the past two years. The award will be presented at the Business Meeting of the CAT division during...
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Directions in Mediated Communication, New Technologies, and Language and Social Interaction Research
Michelle Scollo, Rutgers U
The Language and Social Interaction Division will be sponsoring a preconference
for the 2007 ICA Conference in San Francisco on Thursday, May 24, 9 AM to 5 PM entitled, Directions in Mediated Communication, New Technologies, and Language and Social Interaction Research. The preconference will focus on emerging areas of research...
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Complete the Crossword and WIN a Free Conference Registration!
A contest for readers of the ICA Newsletter.
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Communication, Culture & Critique - Early Thoughts of a Fledgling Editor
Karen J. Ross, Coventry U
First of all, let me thank those colleagues who put my name forward as a potential editor for our wonderful new journal, and then to those colleagues who voted me into the post. This journal has been a long time coming and now that it is arrived, at least on...
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Around San Francisco: Fisherman's Wharf and North Beach
Michael J. West, ICA Staff
The northeast corner of the San Francisco Peninsula (facing Oakland and the Bay) is occupied by two of the city's most popular and vivacious neighborhoods: Fisherman's Wharf, which is the center of both fishing and tourism in San Francisco; and North Beach, the "Little Italy" district, which is also the...
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Integrating Behavior Change and Message Effects Theories in Cancer Prevention, Treatment, and Care
Three classes of theories about message effects in cancer control are presented in a special supplement to Volume 56 of the Journal of Communication, edited by Joseph N. Cappella and Barbara K. Rimer. This special issue, published in August, is available online to ICA members through the Blackwell Publishing website...
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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...
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Student Column
Qi Wang, Villanova University & Rebecca Hains, Salem State College With guest star columnists Bing Han, University of Maryland & Irina Gendelma, University of Washington
This is Part Two of a guest column written by Bing Han and Irina Gendelman, 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...
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