ICA 2008 Conference - Communicating for Social Impact
Montreal, Canada, May 22-26, 2008
Call for chapter abstracts (closed on May 1, 2008)
ICA 2008 conference [theme] book: Communicating for Social Impact
Edited by Lynn M. Harter and Mohan Dutta
WHO is invited to submit?
All 2008 ICA conference participants are invited to submit. A clear preference is given to the participants of the ICA 2008 Montreal conference who are part of the Theme Sessions or Opening Plenary and Miniplenaries. As an exception, proposals from other ICA 2008 conference participants may be included if these proposals are relevant to the theme of the conference/book. Participation in the ICA 2008 Montreal conference is a condition to be included in the theme book.
WHAT are we seeking?
The book will include twelve 4000-word chapters. It will be a standard edited volume focused on the conference theme. This call is aimed at establishing the interest of the (theme) conference participants in contributing to this book. For this reason, we call for chapter abstracts, although full (4000 word) chapters are also acceptable. The deadline for submitting abstracts is May 1, 2008. The actual selection of the abstracts and chapters will take place soon after the May conference.
In order to be accepted, chapter proposals must relate to the conference theme, as captured by its title: Communicating for Social Impact. In recent years, many ICA members have questioned the ways in which scholars-practitioners communicatively address contemporary social, political, and economic challenges. In whatever form these challenges take, the core processes involve our use of disciplinary knowledge to engage with the social worlds of others, raise awareness about lived inequities, and enlarge citizens' potentialities to name their worlds in order to change them. We hope this volume will acknowledge and inspire diverse ways of making communication theory-praxis answerable to life, and encourage scholars to participate in salient struggles of our time.
We invite chapter proposals that illustrate how scholarly efforts can give rise to broader dialogues, movements, and social change. We hope to highlight the efforts of scholars-practitioners who are utilizing their talents to understand, create, encourage, amplify, and/or evaluate productive and sustainable systemic response to natural disasters, health and environmental crises, human rights violations, unintended inequities in work-life policies, and other concerns that lessen the quality of life for particular groups and nations. In short, we seek chapter proposals that reflect and enlarge ICA's continuing commitments to conduct and publicize scholarly initiatives that address significant challenges to the quality of people's lives at present and in the future. We interpret scholarship broadly to include research, teaching, creative activities, and service endeavors that draw on theoretical/disciplinary sensibilities in the service of social change. As the original call of the conference theme provides the broader context of this book call, we encourage submitters to revisit the original call for conference submissions at http://www.icahdq.org/conferences/2008/2008CFP.pdf.
WHO will publish it?
The book will be published by Hampton Press.
WHEN is the deadline for submissions?
Proposals need to be sent to the editors (by regular mail or email) by May 1, 2008. These proposals should include a 300-word chapter abstract, and a clear committal to send in the completed 4000-word chapter no later than August 1, 2007. Proposals and completed chapters need to be formatted according to APA style, 5th edition.
TO WHOM should it be sent?
Chapter proposals (and queries) can be sent by e-mail to both editors:
Lynn M. Harter, Ph.D.
harter@ohio.edu
Associate Professor
School of Communication Studies
Ohio University
Athens, OH, USA 45701
740-593-4830
Mohan Dutta, Ph.D.
mdutta@purdue.edu
Associate Professor
Department of Communication
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN, USA 47907-2098
