Volume 35, Number 6: August 2007
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 2007 ICA Elections Begin September 4

The online polls for the ICA 2007 election will open on Tuesday, September 4 and remain open until Monday, October 15. Members will elect a new President-Elect/Select, board members, and officers for most of the association's Divisions and Interest Groups via an online ballot, which is easy to use, expense-free...
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 Michael B. Salwen, U of Miami, Dies at 53

Michael B. Salwen, professor of Journalism at the University of Miami, died in Miami of after a long battle with cancer on July 17, 2007. He was 53 years old. Salwen was a renowned scholar who wrote six books and more than 70 articles and book chapters. Born in Perth...
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 President's Message

After the annual conference, one of the new president's first activities is to specify the charge for the various ICA committees and special task forces for the year ahead. In this way, the president can put into action some of her or his ambitions for the association. And it's a...
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 The Control Revolution Wins ICA Fellows Book Award

James R. Beniger's 1986 book The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of American Society (Harvard University Press) was selected to receive the 2007 ICA Fellows Book Award. The award recognizes those books that have made a substantial contribution to the scholarship of the communication field, as well as the...
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 ICA Welcomes New Communication History Special Interest Group

The recent ICA conference in San Francisco witnessed the formal creation of a new ICA Interest Group: The Communication History Interest Group. In keeping with the bylaws of ICA, and in response to petitions from scholars around the world, the Communication History Interest Group held its first business meeting in...
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 MyICA Members Only Site: Managing Your ICA Account

We started this article series last issue to better acquaint ICA members with the features and services available to them on the ICA web site. Last month, I covered how to update your contact information, photo, keywords and other important profile details (see "Update Your Profile the Easy Way with...
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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
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.



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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