Children, Adolescents, and the Media (CAM)
Dear members of CAM,
We are very much looking forward to seeing you all again next month in Chicago!
This year we will experience our first real CAM conference program. Never before has there been an ICA conference with so many panels entirely devoted to children, adolescents, and the media! We hope that this will be the first of many fruitful and inspiring future meetings.
Our CAM businesss meeting will be held on Sat, May 23 - 3:00pm - 4:15pm, Building/Room: Chicago Marriott / Michigan State. We hope to see you all there!
You are also warmly invited to the first CAM reception, which will be a joint reception with the mass comm. division. The CAM part of this reception is sponsored by Routledge, the publisher of Journal of Children and the Media (editor: Dafna Lemish). The reception will be held on Sunday, May 24 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm Place: Chicago Marriott, Chicago Ballroom E. There will be drink tickets available for our members.
We would like to sincerely thank everyone who served as a reviewer for the Chicago conference, and to those who volunteered to chair sessions. We deeply appreciate your help! For all presenters: you may upload revised conference papers to the ICA website (www.icahdq.org) until April 30. Beginning May 4, you may download final versions of papers.
CAM now counts 161 members. We heard from some colleagues who encountered technical problems while trying to become a member of CAM. If you have the same problem, please contact Sam Luna. We only need another 39 members to become a division!
Thanks again for you support and see you soon!
Patti Valkenburg, Chair
p.m.valkenburg@uva.nl
Moniek Buijzen, Vice Chair
m.a.buijzen@uva.nl
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Mass Communication
As the conference draws near, we have a few events we hope you can plan to attend. The Mass Communication Business Meeting will be held on Sunday evening (4:30 pm in Ballroom E). We’ll be discussing (at least) 2 important pieces of business – Division bylaws and the inauguration of a Division article award – so we hope you can attend! We’ll also be announcing the winner of the Kyoon Hur Dissertation Award as we’re in the final stages of wrapping up that competition. I would like to thank Dave Roskos-Ewoldsen for chairing the award committee this year, and the reviewers who gave so generously of their time: Laura Arpan, Helena Bilandzic, Jan van den Bulck, Rick Busselle, Jonathan Cohen, Wolfgang Donsbach, Chip Eveland, Julia Fox, Walter Gantz, Sri Kalyanaraman, Christoph Klimmt, Marina Krcmar, Dana Mastro, Dan McDonald, Mary Beth Oliver, Rob Potter, Jennifer Robinson, Erica Scharrer, Glenn Sparks, and Sabine Trepte.
Also, we hope that you can attend our joint MCD-CAM reception immediately following the business meeting. It will be a great opportunity to mingle with members of the newest ICA interest group.
We wish you safe travels to the conference, and we look forward to seeing you there!
Robin Nabi, Chair
nabi@comm.ucsb.edu
