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 on language and social interaction in and through mass media, mediated communication, and new communication technologies as well as their influence on face-to-face interaction. The preconference will highlight directions for language and social interaction research in these emerging areas, old and new methods and theories for such work, as well as data-based examples of research being conducted on these topics.
Featured speakers include Mark Aakhus, Donal Carbaugh, Miriam Greenfeld, Tamar Katriel, Kris M. Markman, Saila Poutiainen, Robert E. Sanders, Michelle Scollo, Crispin Thurlow, and a keynote address by James E. Katz entitled, "Linking Micro and Macro Social Interaction." Please see the ICA website for more information on the preconference, including titles of speakers' talks (http://www.icahdq.org/conferences/2007/preconfinfo07.asp), or email the preconference organizer, Michelle Scollo, Rutgers University, at mscollo@rci.rutgers.edu.
