Feminist Scholarship Division

Dear ICA Feminist Scholarship Division Members,

I hope you all had a productive summer and have fond memories of the convention of 2009.

I want to take a moment to thank Vicki Mayer (Tulane), who finished her term as division chair and now has the role of "immediate past head." She worked very hard and has been a dedicated FSD officer, moving the FSD agenda mightily forward. She and other past heads have made themselves available for consultation to the division chair, and I truly appreciate this. Historical memory is important for continuity, strengthening, improving FSD’s direction within ICA and its connections with other like-minded organizations.

Diana Rios (UConn) glad to serve
As you may realize, I finished two years as vice chair/program chair (research paper competition) and now take on chair of FSD. This will be an exciting and challenging time, given the economic global context and changes that push ICA forward. I am glad to serve.

Welcome Radhika Gajjala (Bowling Green)
Our new vice chair/program chair is Radhika Gajjala from Bowling Green State University. I know she will do a fantastic job this year. She will be issuing a call for papers soon. Her email is radhika[at]cyberdiva.org

Renew Your FSD Membership
Regarding our budget, there is rollover, but it remains vital for you to please renew your FSD membership and to renew your membership in divisions that FSD works closely with.
These divisions include:
-Ethnicity and Race in Communication,
-Philosophy of Communication,
-Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender

You will hear more from us at FSD. Meanwhile, have an excellent start to your research/teaching/social action year.

Sincerely,

Diana I. Rios
diana.rios@uconn.edu

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Political Communication Division

We are starting to prepare for the Singapore conference. Thank you to those members who accepted our invitation to serve as reviewers.  You will be receiving your review assignments around 10 November and will be requested to complete the reviews by 8 December. Our division will be cosponsoring a preconference on "Fair Use and Academic Freedom." Details will be available in the coming months.

With best regards,

Yariv Tsfati, Vice-Chair
ytsfati@com.haifa.ac.il

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Game Studies Interest Group

Greetings, ICA Game Interest Group members! Here is the annual call for papers for next year's ICA in Singapore, 22-26 June 2010. Please submit and share this CFP with your colleagues at your institution, on your mailing lists, etc. The group is growing steadily and is nearing division status (which gives us more clout and session slots at ICA), so spread the word, and the CFP.

When you sign in, please volunteer to review! More volunteers means fewer papers to review for all of us.

One final note: ICA President-Elect Cooren is especially supportive of cross-division theme panels this year. If you would like to propose one, say so in your panel proposal, and include which divisions you are suggesting. Having the members of the other division already in your proposal is important.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions.

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2010 ICA Games Interest Group CFP
Submissions are made through the ICA portal at icahdq.org under "Paper Submission Site."

Deadline for submission: 6 November 2009  (Friday, 11:00 pm EST (23:00 hours))

The study of video games and the game experience offers opportunities for the study of human communication that involve multidisciplinary approaches merging the disciplines of communication studies with cultural studies, arts and visual design, cognitive sciences, computer sciences, engineering, social sciences, education, health sciences, and information design.

The interest group welcomes papers, panels, and poster presentations on topics involving the social and psychological uses and impacts of video games, the cultural affordances, uses and meanings of games, games as training or instructional media, comparative media analyses involving games, human-computer interaction in games, design research in the context of games, and game players' motivations and emotional and psychophysiological experiences while playing games. This list is far from exhaustive and is provided only as an indication of the scope of inquiry welcomed by the interest group. We encourage the submission of papers and proposals using a wide array of theoretical and methodological approaches. Full papers, fully developed panel proposals, and poster-only proposals will be considered for review. Alternative formats and ideas can be suggested via e-mail with the Vice-Chair.

Accepted papers may be scheduled in traditional contributed research panels, in high density panels, or in the Interactive Paper Plenary Session. Poster-only proposals, which should be restricted to works-in-progress or late-breaking results, will be considered only for the Interactive Paper session, and must be accompanied by short papers (5–10 pages) describing the research, the form of the presentation, and indicating any results not available at the time of submission that will likely be included in the final Interactive Display. Actual poster presentations should be just that—posters—not a series of PowerPoint printouts. Panel proposals should include a 400-word rationale for the panel, a 150-word abstract of each participant's contribution, a description of each panelist's qualifications regarding the proposed topic, and complete contact information for each panelist. Suggestions for cosponsored panels with other ICA divisions are also welcomed.

Each panelist must be willing to register for the conference if the panel is accepted.
Student submissions must be clearly identified, with the understanding that student authors are the primary creators of the work, and are the sole author or first author of multiple-authored paper.

Dmitri Williams, Vice Chair
dcwillia@usc.edu