As I've said before in these pages, one of my goals as president was to reinstate a content editor for the ICA Newsletter - various people have undertaken this role in the past, with much success, but this has lapsed in recent years. So, to add some intellectual and communication-related content of one kind or another, I'm very pleased that Mohan Dutta has agreed to undertake this role for the coming three years, now that he has completed his term on the publication committee.
Mohan and I have discussed various possibilities in terms of content, and he'll be inviting individual submissions and series of short pieces to enrich the newsletter. These might include conference reports from international conferences around the world, analyses of key communication policy issues (e.g. privacy in social networking, or advertising and obesity, or content regulation on the internet) and updates on controversies in our field (from open access publishing to the future of mass media, the state of play in the qualitative/quantitative divide, or perhaps the growth of world English - 'globish,' it's now being called!).
Well, I won't prejudge the possibilities here, as I hope members will send many good suggestions to Mohan. And I look forward to the outcome in August.
