Francois Cooren (BS 1985, U de Lille 1; MA 1991, U Paris 7; Ph.D. 1996, U de Montreal), Professor in the Department of Communication at U de Montreal, has been elected President-Elect/Select in the International Communication Association's 2008 online balloting. By winning this election, Cooren automatically becomes a member of the ICA Executive Committee. He also becomes the program chair for the 2010 conference in Singapore, and at the close of that conference becomes ICA president. He will then be a member of the association's Board of Directors for 3 additional years following his presidency.
Cooren joined ICA as a doctoral candidate in 1993, and won the association's Young Scholar Award in 2002, as well as the 1996 Charles Redding Award of ICA's Organizational Communication Division. He has served as chair of the Language & Social Interaction Division, and is currently the outgoing editor of the ICA journal Communication Theory. He is on the editorial boards of three communication journals and a reviewer for four.
The platform on which Cooren sought the seat of President-Elect/Select stressed a three-prong approach. First, Cooren proposed to reinforce the international character of our association, and in particular to extend collaborative links to South and East Asian as well as East-European and Latin American countries. Second, he proposed to reinforce the circulation of knowledge at the international level, including a task force whose agenda would be to reflect on possible ways to increase the accessibility and visibility of work that is traditionally underrepresented in our journals. Thirdly, Cooren expressed a desire to increase ICA's international visibility, primarily by networking as much as possible with key representatives of various professional and academic organizations in different countries.
Other association-wide balloting awarded a 3-year term as Board Member at Large (East Asia) to Eun-Ju Lee, Seoul National U, while Rohan Samarajiva, LIRNEasia, was elected Board Member at Large (West Asia). Malte Hinrichsen, U of Amsterdam, was elected to a 2-year-term as Student Board Member. A proposed bylaw change, which will tighten the requirements for creating a new ICA Interest Group, passed.
In addition, 21 Divisions and Interest Groups offered 25 offices for election. Results for these elections are listed below.
COMMUNICATION AND TECHNOLOGY
Secretary: James A. Danowski (U of Illinois - Chicago)
COMMUNICATION LAW AND POLICY
Vice-Chair: Peter Humphries (U of Manchester)
Secretary: Becky Lentz (McGill U)
ETHNICITY & RACE IN COMMUNICATION
Vice-Chair: Roopali Mukherjee (City U of New York, Queens)
Secretary: Jillian M. Baez (U of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign)
FEMINIST SCHOLARSHIP
Vice-Chair: Radhika Gajjala (Bowling Green State U)
GLOBAL COMMUNICATION & SOCIAL CHANGE
Vice-Chair: Antonio La Pastina (Texas A&M U)
HEALTH COMMUNICATION
Secretary: Jeff Niederdeppe (Cornell U)
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Vice-Chair: Elly Konijn (U of Amsterdam)
INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION
Vice-Chair: Steve Mortenson (U of Delaware)
INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION
Vice-Chair: John Caughlin (U of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign)
JOURNALISM STUDIES
Secretary: Thorsten Quandt (Free U Berlin)
LANGUAGE & SOCIAL INTERACTION
Vice-Chair: Evelyn Y. Ho (U of San Francisco)
MASS COMMUNICATION
Vice-Chair: David Tewksbury (U of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign)
Secretary: Francesca Dillman Carpenter (U of North Carolina - Chapel Hill)
ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION
Secretary: Shiv Ganesh (U of Waikato - Hamilton)
PHILOSOPHY OF COMMUNICATION
Vice-Chair: Laurie Ouellette (U of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
POPULAR COMMUNICATION
Graduate Student Representative: Jonathan Corpus Ong (U of Cambridge)
PUBLIC RELATIONS
Vice-Chair: Juan-Carlos Molleda (U of Florida)
CHILDREN, ADOLESCENTS AND THE MEDIA
Vice-Chair: J. Alison Bryant (Nickelodeon, MTV Networks)
Secretary: Ariel Chernin (Children's Hospital Boston)
COMMUNICATION HISTORY
Secretary: Stijn Rejinders (U of Amsterdam)
GAME STUDIES
Vice Chair: Dmitri Williams (U of Southern California)
GAY, LESBIAN, BISEXUAL & TRANSGENDER
Co-Chair: Vincent Doyle (Macalester College)
INTERGROUP COMMUNICATION
Vice-Chair: Lisa Sparks (Chapman U)
