Volume 37, Number 2: March 2009
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 Highlights of Chicago: Plenaries and Miniplenaries

Now that the program for Chicago has been released, I'd like to draw your attention to the scheduled plenaries and mini-plenaries. I'm very excited with what has come together as a terrific line-up of speakers and topics, and I hope you'll find issues of relevance among them. Many of the...
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 ICA and JCR

In just the first 7 weeks of 2009, the findings from 30 different articles that recently appeared in the Journal of Consumer Research (JCR) have been reported on in mainstream media outlets in 27 different countries. In the U.S. these have included newspapers and magazines such as the New York
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 President's Message: 2009 Updates

As all of you know, the program for the ICA 2009 conference in Chicago is now online (http://www.icahdq.org/conferences/2009/confprg.asp)! Barbie Zelizer, our President Elect and conference planner, along with our division/interest group planners and local arrangement coordinators, have done an absolutely outstanding job with the plenary sessions, conference theme events, and...
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 The Role of ICA in Nurturing the Field of Information and Communication Technologies for Development

In recent years there has been growing interest expressed in incorporating information and communication technologies (ICTs) in order to further key development goals in the domains of health, education, livelihoods, and gender empowerment (United Nations, 2005). Looking ahead to the 2009 ICA conference theme of Keywords in Communication, I consider...
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 Museums in Chicago's Grant Park Feature Art, Science

Our monthly series of articles investigating the sites and activities of Chicago continues by picking up very near-across the street, in fact-Millennium Park, the focus of the installment in the January/February issue of the Newsletter. Millennium Park is situated in the northwest corner of the much larger Grant...
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 ICA Continues to Grow As We Approach Conference

The 59th Annual ICA conference is getting closer and not surprisingly, membership increases each day it does. ICA has 3527 members as of this printing. The two largest member type segments are Regulars with 1946 members and Students with 1162. Other membership type totals are listed below in Table A....
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 Student Column: Simple Tips for Publishing: A Brief Overview

(Adapted from Bourne, P.E. (2005) Ten simple rules for getting published . PLoS Computational Biology, 1(5), 341-342.) Most graduate students are aware that they will need to learn the process of publishing, in order to achieve long-term career stability. Generally, papers submitted to academic journals have a higher chance of
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International Communication Association 2008 - 2009 Board of Directors

Executive Committee
Patrice Buzzanell, President, Purdue U
Sonia Livingstone, Immediate Past President, London School of Economics
Barbie Zelizer, President-Elect, U of Pennsylvania
Francois Cooren, President-Elect Select, U de Montreal
Ronald E. Rice, Past President, U of California - Santa Barbara
Jon Nussbaum (ex-oficio), Finance Chair, Pennsylvania State U
Michael L. Haley (ex-oficio), Executive Director

Members-at-Large
Aldo Vasquez Rios, U de San Martin Porres, Peru
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
Mikaela Marlow, U of California - Santa Barbara
Michele Khoo, Nanyang Technological U

Division Chairs & ICA Vice Presidents
S Shyam Sundar, Communication & Technology, Pennsylvania State U
Stephen McDowell, Communication Law & Policy, Florida State U
Kumarini Silva, Ethnicity and Race in Communication, Northeastern U
Vicki Mayer, Feminist Scholarship, Tulane U
Oliver Boyd-Barrett, Global Communication and Social Change, Bowling Green State U
Dave Buller, Health Communication, Klein-Buendel
Paul Bolls, Information Systems, U of Missouri - Columbia
Kristen Harrison, Instructional & Developmental Communication, U of Illinois
Jim Neuliep, Intercultural Communication, St. Norbert College
Pamela Kalbfleish, Interpersonal Communication, U of North Dakota
Maria Elizabeth Grabe, Journalism Studies, Indiana U
Mark Aakhus, Language & Social Interaction, Rutgers U
Robin Nabi, Mass Communication, U of California - Santa Barbara
Dennis Mumby, Organizational Communication, U of North Carolina
Ingrid Volkmer, Philosophy of Communication, U of Melbourne
Kevin Barnhurst, Political Communication, U of Illinois - Chicago
Cornel Sandvoss, Popular Communication, U of Surrey
Craig Carroll, Public Relations, U of North Carolina
Marion G. Mueller, Visual Communication, Jacobs U - Bremen

Special Interest Group Chairs
Patti M. Valkenburg, Children, Adolescents amd the Media, U of Amsterdam
David Park, Communication History, Lake Forest College
John Sherry, Game Studies, Michigan State U
Lynn Comella, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, & Transgender Studies, U of Nevada - Las Vegas
David J. Phillips, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, & Transgender Studies, U of Texas - Austin
Bernadette Watson, Intergroup Communication, U of Queensland

Editorial & Advertising
Michael J. West, ICA, Publications Manager

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To Reach ICA Editors

Journal of Communication
Michael J. Cody, Editor
School of Communication
Annenberg School of Communication
3502 Wyatt Way
U of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0281 USA
cody@usc.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
Angharad N. Valdivia, Editor
U of Illinois
228 Gregory Hall
801 S. Wright Street
Urbana, IL 61801 USA
valdivia@uiuc.edu


Communication Culture & Critique
Karen Ross, Editor
School of Politics and Communication Studies
U of Liverpool
Roxby Building
Liverpool L69 7ZT UNITED KINGDOM
karen.ross@liverpool.ac.uk

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
Kevin B. Wright, Editor
U of Oklahoma
610 Elm Avenue, Room 101
Norman, OK 73019 USA
kbwright@ou.edu


Communication Yearbook
Charles T. Salmon, Editor
Michigan State U
College of Communication Arts amd Sciences
287 Comm Arts Building
East Lansing, MI 48824-1212 USA
CY34@msu.edu

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