• Chicago Conference Second Largest in ICA History!
• James E. Katz Selected as Editor of Human Communication Research
• President's Message: 2009 Conference Highlights
• Board Approves Budget, Selects 2013 Conference Locale
• 2009 ICA Conference Attendees by Country
• Annual ICA Research Awards Presented in Chicago
• Brant R. Burleson Wins 2009 Fisher Mentorship Award
• Five New ICA Fellows Named in Chicago
• Student Column: Farewell, Mikaela Marlow; Welcome, Malte Hinrichsen
• News of Interest to the Profession
• Division & Interest Group News
• Call for Papers
• Available Positions & Other Advertising

The Chicago conference figures are in. Attendance this year fell 50 short of surpassing the record-holding 2005 New York conference. Still, ICA members proved once again to be a very active group- ICA currently has 4,250 members, and a grand total of 2,197 registrants attended the 5-day conference. More than 50 percent of our membership came to Chicago!

Regionally, the United States had the most registrants with 1,531, followed by Europe with 420. East Asian registrants totaled 101, non-U.S. Americas 67, Africa and Oceania 42, and West Asia numbered 37.

This year, conference organizers moved towards creating a greener event by implementing several new options designed to make a less negative ecological impact. Almost half of the conference attendees opted to take a USB flash drive instead of a printed program. (The flash drive included all the abstracts of presented papers, making it an appealing option.) As a result half of the previous number of programs were printed. Those that were printed were on sustainable stock, and, according to the statement on the back cover, "1,005,550 BTUs of energy were not consumed, 131 lbs. net greenhouse gases prevented."A reminder to all registrants: The papers will be available online only through July. Not surprisingly, the Communication and Technology Division had the highest percentage of members in attendance who opted for the flash drives (52 percent). Mass Communication followed at 38 percent. Political Communication, Journalism Studies, and Health Communication division members numbered just over 100 each, or 37, 36, and 34 percent respectively.

Our green conference tote bags, made of recycled materials, also seemed to be well-received. The bags were designed to double as grocery bags after the conference. A task force has been created by the current administration to offer recommendations on how to further the greening of ICA and its conferences.

We would like to know what you thought. The annual conference survey is now online and open to all who attended. Survey data will be compiled by President Elect Francois Cooren, who will then take its suggestions into consideration as he plans for next year's conference in Singapore.

The survey results will be posted on the ICA conference web site, and analysis of those results will appear in the ICA Newsletter. The survey will remain online until July 31. Click this link if you would like to take it now: http://www.icahdq.org/cgi-shl/TWServer.exe?Run:CONFSURV09

One final note: our autumn membership drive will soon begin. Renewal reminders will go out at the beginning of August to allow members a 60-day period in which to renew their memberships.

James E. Katz has been selected as the new editor of Human Communication Research.

Katz is Professor of Communication, Chair of the Department of Communication, and the Center for Mobile Communication Studies at Rutgers University. He received his Ph.D. from Rutgers in 1974, and joined the university as a faculty member in 1997.

A life member of ICA, Katz currently serves as vice-chair of the Association's Communication and Technology (CAT) Division. He serves on the editorial boards for Communication Studies Journal; Info; Information, Communication & Society; and Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. He has also previously served on the boards for The Information Society; Internet Research Journal: Technology, Policy, & Applications; Information Technology & People; and Society.

Katz's scholarly interests lie in the social impact of new communication technologies, especially Internet and cell phones. He holds two telecommunication patents. Katz has also written or cowritten nine books (most recently, 2006's Magic in the Air: Mobile Communication and the Transformation of Social Life (MIT Press)) and edited or coedited 10. He has also authored over 50 refereed journal articles. Katz frequently appears in print and broadcast news as an expert on new media technology in society. In 2009, he was awarded the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Twentieth Century Communications History.

Katz will begin accepting paper submissions for Human Communication Research in July. Her official editorship will begin January 1, 2010 and will continue until December 31, 2012.

Authors should submit their manuscripts through ICA's electronic submission process at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/hcr. The manuscript document should provide complete contact information (address, telephone, fax, and e-mail) and brief biographical summaries (full name, highest earned academic degree, institution granting that degree, and present academic or professional title) on the title page for each author. Manuscripts must conform to the specifications of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th edition, and authors should verify that the reference list is complete and in appropriate form. Additional guidelines for manuscript preparation may be found in recent issues of the journal. Human Communication Research staff will process manuscripts in a prompt and professional fashion. In order to expedite reviews and ensure quality in the review process, some manuscripts will be forwarded to an associate editor who will serve as the action editor.

While the Chicago conference is still a fresh memory for many, I'd like to capture some of its energy and share conference highlights with those who were and were not there.

As the conference was closing down, one of our Division/Interest Group heads - who will remain anonymous unless s/he chooses to claim authorship - remarked that this conference experience was unlike any other to date: Driven by a theme that tried to facilitate conversation among members of dissimilar Divisions and Interest Groups, it introduced multiple opportunities to come together with individuals from across the association and in so doing changed the energy level in the conference venue. ICA became, at least for the 5 days of our Chicago experience, a frenzied, robust, intellectually stimulating, and interpersonally engaged setting, transforming generally like-minded members of a formal group into raucous and energized individuals with a point to prove.

I take this comment (offered here with some paraphrasing) as a compliment of the highest order, for it suggests that the conference theme of "Keywords in Communication" and the various programming initiatives it engendered - cross-unit sessions, themed panels, programming on shared terms of relevance, even neighborhood tours - succeeded in connecting ICA members with each other in singular and unusual ways. I have heard multiple similar sentiments in the weeks since the conference closed - that it underscored novel points of intellectual crossover, suggested innovative paths for scholarly endeavor, fomented new and unpredictable associations among members.

Not only was the quality of sessions among the highest and most invigorating in memory, but attendance was over the top. Despite some last-minute cancellations due to the onset of the swine flu, ICA 2009 was the second largest conference in the association's history with 2,197 members in attendance, making it a close second to our 2005 conference in New York City. We awarded a total of $36,195 in support for ICA members, giving $10,400 in travel grants to B/C Students, $7,350 to B/C Faculty, $6,200 to A Students, $400 to A Faculty, and conference waivers of $11,845.

The conference bustled with excitement and enthusiasm across all of its multiple features. We enrolled 12 preconferences, two more than in preceding years; while all of them filled impressively, three booked to capacity. Our various off-site tours - including our innovative neighborhood tours to historical and cultural sites of interest in Chicago - booked in nine different venues across the 5-day conference and offered ICA members multiple ways to explore the terrific city of Chicago. Our opening plenary - on "Keywords in Regulation: How the FCC and Others See Regulation in the Digital Age," with FCC Acting Commissioner Michael Copps, Robin Mansell, Joseph Torres, and Georgette Wang - and our first-ever closing plenary - on "Communication and Shock Resistance: The Role of Narrative in Meeting the Current Crises," with Canadian author, journalist, and activist Naomi Klein - filled to standing room capacity and generated enthusiastic response across association members. Our first-ever closing reception offered a large gathering of ICA members the elegant combination of jazz music, delicious food, and wine to celebrate together the conference's completion.

Particularly relevant were the various programming initiatives associated with the conference theme. Using "Keywords in Communication" as a guide to thinking about the central terms of relevance that shape what we value as a field, ICA 2009 combined theme panels, cross-unit sessions (which brought together individuals from at least four divisions and interest groups addressing a keyword of shared relevance), and theme programming within the various divisions and interest groups to create an energized association-wide address to the fundamental questions of why we have come to value the intellectual parameters we've set in place and what this means to us as a field moving forward. Drawing from these parameters, theme chair Stuart Allan has already activated an impressive lineup of scholars for the ICA theme book. Titled Rethinking Communication: Keywords in Communication Research, the volume will bring together scholarly addresses to a variety of central terms discussed at the conference.

ICA 2009 also experimented successfully with a number of initiatives that are propelling the association into its next generation. We maintained a 48% acceptance rate and programmed 509 sessions - including paper, panel, poster, reception, meeting, and roundtable discussions -- while end-loading more and more higher-ranked programming onto Monday, the last day of the conference, in an attempt to keep the conference vital from beginning to end. Given the extremely high attendance at events like the Closing Reception and the Closing Plenary, it looks like we've accomplished our aim of convincing ICA members to stay with the conference through its unfolding.

We followed on Immediate Past President Patrice Buzzanell's initiative to program miniplenaries but this time populated them with keyword initiatives - on communication, the message, the city, and the public sphere - and introduced a professional element that foregrounded panels on funding for junior scholars' research and on seeking alternative modes of academic work within plenary settings. The sessions' high attendance seems to reflect a latent need in our membership for programming of this sort.

We separated our business meeting from our awards ceremony and presidential address so as to further accommodate multiple interests in the association, and Patrice Buzzanell enacted her final act as ICA President on the latter, delivering her account of "Resilience: Talking, Resisting, and Imagining New Normalcies Into Being." I thank her for a year filled with energy, good will, and thoughtful initiatives and connections moving forward. As part of our greening initiative, we programmed a panel on greening ICA, shaped in conjunction with a task force on the same topic, provided a recyclable conference bag with no handouts, and offered for the first time a flash-drive program with abstracts in lieu of a printed program. Almost half of the conference's registrants made the flash drive their preference.

When I articulated my platform for taking on the helm of ICA, I shared two goals I hope to address as ICA President: One is to make ICA's members more visible to each other. I am gratified that the resounding success of the Chicago conference sets us firmly and energetically on the path to making internal visibility more of a reality than it has been till now. My second goal is to make ICA's members more public to the world beyond ICA. We now stand at 4,253 members, 36% of whom are non-U.S. in a year of a conference held in the United States, promising that we will rise to 40% non-U.S. membership next year when we meet in Singapore. These data suggest that ICA has a real role to play in the global public sphere. I will be working on that initiative and related actions in the coming months, and I will share with you in my coming columns the ways in which I hope to make those initiatives a reality.

In the meantime, let me say once again how grateful I am to all of ICA's members for willingly and good-naturedly experimenting with the programming initiatives that made ICA 2009 such a remarkable experience, to all of the ICA reviewers who gave their time to make the program the best it could be, and to the various division and interest group chairs who seamlessly accommodated the contingencies of implementation. I thank the ICA Executive Committee - Patrice Buzzanell, Sonia Livingstone, Ron Rice, Jon Nussbaum, and Francois Cooren for offering assistance along the way. Thanks to my theme chair, Stuart Allan, for keeping an eye on the keywords initiative within the burgeoning conference submissions; to programming assistant Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt for assiduously programming glitches while suggesting many programming charms; to the local organizing committee - cochairs James Ettema and Kevin Barnhurst and committee members Pablo Boczkowski, Eszter Hargittai, Steve Jones, John Nerone, David Park, and Andrew Rojecki for supporting international engagement through innovative local initiatives; to this year's generous sponsors - Wiley-Blackwell, Northwestern University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Southern California, Sage Publications, Routledge-Taylor and Francis Group, Peter Lang Publishing, University of Central Florida and Polity Publishing, who in a year of dwindling returns nonetheless positioned ICA at the top of their priorities; and finally, to the terrific Michael Haley and his team at ICA headquarters - Sam Luna, Deandra Harris, Mike West, and Tina Ziegler -- without whom this association would function as only a fraction of its ever-expanding self. Congrats to us all for a conference well done!

The ICA Board of Directors meeting was held Thursday May 21, 2009 at the annual conference in Chicago. Highlights of the meeting are below. The full minutes are on the ICA website in the "Members Only" section.

• The budget for 2009-2010 fiscal year was approved. The ICA budget is available to members on the ICA website. The budget reflects the decision to have a deficit for the coming year in order to keep costs very low for members attending the Singapore conference.
• The board approved the election slate for the upcoming fall election. The candidates for President-Elect-Select: Larry Gross, U of Southern California, USA, and Karen Ross, U of Liverpool, UK; Candidates for Member-at-Large representing the Americas (except the USA): Becky Lentz, McGill U, Canada, and Evan Potter, U of Ottawa, Canada; Candidates for Student Representative: Yea-wen Chen, U of New Mexico, and Diana Nastasia, U of North Dakota. The election will be held in September, 2008.
• The board also approved the election of five new Fellows: Robert Craig, Youchi Ito, Michael Roloff, Dave Seibold, and Barbie Zelizer. They received their Fellows certificate at the ICA annual member meeting on Saturday, May 23.
• The board approved the Publication Committee recommendation of the appointment of James Katz as editor of Human Communication Research.
• ICA President Elect Barbie Zelizer presented her committee appointments for the coming year. The list is available on the ICA website.
• London was selected for the 2013 conference. The dates will be June 18-23. There was a recommendation that a panel be held at a future conference on site selection criteria and issues.

Click the link below to view or download a PDF file containing the numbers of attendees by country at the 2009 ICA Conference in Chicago. The file also includes the attendee numbers for the past 10 years, as well as 10-year averages per country, the country's percentages of the total conference attendance in the past 10 years, and the 5-year averages per country.

http://www.icahdq.org/images/Newsletter/Attendance2009.pdf

The International Communication Association presented seven prestigious research awards to 12 communication scholars at its annual business meeting in Montreal on Saturday, May 23. Nurit Guttman (Tel Aviv U) chaired the ICA Research Awards Committee, which selected the winners. The 2009 honorees included:

• Tarleton Gillespie, Outstanding Book Award
• Boris H.J.M. Brummans, Linda L. Putnam, Barbara Gray, Ralph Hanke, Roy J. Lewicki, and Carolyn Wiethoff, Outstanding Article Award
• Steven R. Corman, Applied/Public Policy Research Award
• Jochen Peter, Young Scholar Award
• Rohan Samarajiva, Communication as Agent of Change Award
• Arvind Singhal, Communication Research as Collaborative Practice
• S. Elizabeth Bird, Communication as Open Field Award

The 2009 Outstanding Book Award-for a book published in the past 2 years and distinguished by its importance to the disciplines represented in ICA for the problem it addresses, and for its quality of writing and argument, and quality of evidence-went to Tarleton Gillespie, Assistant Professor of Communication at Cornell U, publication Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture (MIT Press, 2007). "Gillespie convincingly shows that the current debate over digital rights has been largely one sided," said the Outstanding Book Award Subcommittee of the ICA Research Awards Committee, "with the corporations that stand to profit gaining increasing control over the law and increasing sophistication in 'wiring shut' the technology by incorporating hard-wired schemes to limit copying. As one nominator stated, 'Thanks to his exceptionally thorough research, his fluency with the traditions of legal, technological and media scholarship, and his lively prose style, Gillespie has created a model of digital-era communication analysis.'"

Boris H.J.M. Brummans (U de Montreal), Linda Putnam (U of California - Santa Barbara), Barbara Gray (Pennsylvania State U), Ralph Hanke (Bowling Green State U), Roy J. Lewicki (Ohio State U), and Carolyn Wiethoff (Indiana U) were selected to receive the 2009 Outstanding Article Award for their paper "Making Sense of Intractable Multiparty Conflict: A Study of Framing in Four Environmental Disputes" (Communication Monographs, 75(1)). The Award honors an article published in a refereed journal during the previous 2 years. "'Making Sense of Intractable Multiparty conflict' used a mixed-method approach to investigate the use of framing repertoires in disputes," said the Outstanding Article Award Subcommittee of the ICA Research Awards Committee. "This high quality research represents what one nominator called 'a model of engaged scholarship' in that researchers were concerned with creating findings that could have wide applicability in dispute resolution. Our committee observed that the scholarship was particularly strong in argument development, in the elegant way it integrated qualitative and quantitative methods, and in the ways it attended not only to the behavioral aspects of human conflict but also to the affective. We believe the article takes its place among the classic work in our field, leading the way in showing how conflict at both interpersonal and group levels might be studied with respect to communication."

The Applied/Public Policy Research Award, which recognizes a scholar or group of researchers who have produced a systematic body of research in communication studying a particular applied or policy problem for the betterment of society during the previous 2 years, went to Steven R. Corman, Professor of Communication at Arizona State U. "Corman and his group of interdisciplinary collaborators have conducted impressive research since 2005 that applies knowledge of human communication in an effort to counter ideological support for terrorism," said the Outstanding Applied/Public Policy Award Subcommittee of the ICA Awards Committee. "Their recent book, entitled Weapons of Mass Persuasion: Strategic Communication to Combat Violent Extremism, offers analysis and policy recommendations that have been praised as valuable scholarship by leaders at the U.S. Department of State and in the U.S. military. Corman's research employs diverse aspects of communication theory and research to address a significant social issue, and thus reflects the highest traditions of this award."

For the Young Scholar Award, given for a body of work following receipt of the Ph.D. that contributes to the field of communication and shows promise for continued development, based on the work's conceptual foundations and argumentative clarity, its rigor, and the recipient's productivity, the Awards Committee selected Jochen Peter, Associate Professor in the Amsterdam School of Communications Research, ASCoR, at the U of Amsterdam. "Dr Jochen Peter is one of the most talented young communication scholars worldwide," wrote Claes de Vreese, chair of the Young Scholar Award Subcommittee of the ICA Research Awards Committee. "his resumé counts 41 peer-reviewed articles most of which have appeared in top-cited communication and psychology journals. The quality of Jochen Peter's publications has been recognized by no fewer than 17 awards. In 2005, he received the prestigious and highly competitive VENI-grant for talented young academics from the Dutch Science foundation. This grant has enabled him to develop his own research line and has resulted in 27 published articles in the past four years."

Arvind Singhal, Professor of Communication at Ohio State University, was selected as the winner of the 2009 "Communication Research as Collaborative Practice" (CRCP) Award, which recognizes research that has a demonstrable impact on practice outside the academy, with clear benefits to the community. Professor Singhal has amassed a distinguished record of collaborative scholarship over the past decades… [that] has been admirably collaborative in several ways," said the CRCP subcommittee of the ICA Research Awards Committee in selecting Singhal. "He has worked sedulously as a co-author on many research reports; he has been developing a theoretical stance to this research which requires collaborative efforts not only between members of research teams but between a research team and local communities. Further, this stance has not just been asserted in general, but applied in the methodology of several research projects. The latter engages people in their home communities and asks what their sense of things are, and for Singhal and his collaborators this focuses on issues of health, among various other social issues."

The winner of the "Communication Research as an Agent of Change" (CRAC) Award, recognizes research that has a demonstrable impact on practice outside the academy, with clear benefits to the community, was Rohan Samarajiva, executive director of LIRNEasia. "Dr. Rohan Samarajiva has coedited a volume, ICT Infrastructure in Emerging Asia: Policy and Regulatory Roadblocks, that exemplifies the intention of this award, i.e., to show ways in which significant engagement with research can influence communication change," said the CRAC subcommittee of the ICA Research Awards Committee in selecting Samarajiva. "This work highlights a very important but often under researched region focusing on five Asian countries: Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Nepal and Sri Lanka. A central thread underpinning all the viewpoints provided in the book is that technology by itself cannot improve access to ICTs; policy and regulatory reform is critical. In providing data that challenges the vested and frequently dysfunctional interests which have underpinned past and present governance structures this important research becomes in itself a significant marker of ways to work towards policy and regulatory reform."

S. Elizabeth Bird, Chair and Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of South Florida, was selected to receive the 2009 "Communication Research as Open Field" (CROF) Award. The Award recognizes researchers who have made important contributions to the field of communication from outside the discipline. " Elizabeth Bird was chosen to receive the Communication Research as an Open Field Award for 2009," said the CROF subcommittee of the ICA Research Awards Committee, "because the committee appreciates the extent to which her work bridging anthropology and communication has not only brought the two disciplines together, but also had an impact within each discipline. Her oeuvre is strong and rich. Each book takes a significant step forward intellectually, and each has influenced the research approaches and programs of others. Finally, we believe she is deserving of the award because the quality of her work has increased the standing of qualitative research within communication."

ICA solicits nominations for these awards through the Newsletter each spring and makes the presentations at the annual conference. The awards competition, now in its tenth year, draws numerous nominations in all categories each year.

Brant R. Burleson, Professor of Communication at Purdue University, was selected to receive the prestigious 2009 B. Aubrey Fisher Mentorship Award. The Award recognizes outstanding scholars, teachers, and advisors who serve as role models in those capacities and who have had a major impact on the field of communication, by virtue both of their own accomplishments and those of their former students.

“Brant Burleson is clearly an outstanding mentor to his students as he guides them through graduate school and helps them to establish themselves as researchers, teachers, and influential members of the discipline of Communication,” said Sandi Smith, Chair of the Fisher Mentorship Award Committee. “His former students are successful faculty members at fine institutions such as Purdue University, UNC-Chapel Hill, UC-Davis, University of Minnesota, University of Kansas, University of Delaware, Michigan State University, and Louisiana State University.
 
“He has also furthered the interests of graduate students across the discipline through his work on their behalf in our professional associations,” Smith added. “Brant R. Burleson richly deserves the B. Aubrey Fisher Mentor Award in honor of his service to graduate students.”

Burleson is a Professor of Communication and an Affiliate Professor of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University, where he conducts research examining supportive forms of communication (such as comforting) and their effects on varied forms of well-being, focusing on how people both produce and process supportive messages. He is a fellow of the International Communication Association.
 
Dr. Burleson was presented with the Award on May 23, 2009 during ICA’s 59th Annual International Conference in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Five new members to were added to the ranks of ICA Fellows at the Association’s annual awards presentation in Chiacgo on Saturday, May 23, 2009. Fellow status in ICA is primarily a recognition of distinguished scholarly contributions to the broad field of communication. The primary consideration for nomination to Fellow status is a documented record of scholarly achievement. Secondary consideration is given to such criteria as service to the International Communication Association and socially or professionally significant service to other publics such as business, government, education, etc.

The 2009 ICA Fellows are:

Robert T. Craig, Professor of Communication, University of Colorado at Boulder

Robert Craig’s teaching and research have addressed topics in communication theory and philosophy, discourse analysis, and argumentation. His article, “Communication Theory as a Field” (1999) received both the International Communication Association’s Best Article Award and the National Communication Association’s Golden Anniversary Monograph Award in 2000. Theorizing Communication: Readings Across Traditions (with Heidi L. Muller) was published by Sage in 2007. Current projects include discourse analytic studies of metadiscourse and a book manuscript on communication theory forthcoming with Blackwell Publishing. Craig’s professional activities have included conference presentations and invited lectures, participation on the editorial boards of scholarly journals and book series, and service to academic institutions and professional organizations. He was founding editor of Communication Theory, a journal of the International Communication Association (ICA) that began publication in 1991. He was president of the International Communication Association for 2003-2004 and program chair for ICA’s 2003 annual conference. He currently serves as Series Editor for the ICA Handbook Series, and as an advisory editor for the International Encyclopedia of Communication. He also edits <meta>discourses | theory <for> communication, an independent scholarly website on communication theory <http://www.colorado.edu/communication/meta-discourses>.

Youichi Ito, Professor of Communication, Akita International University; Emeritus Professor, Keio University

Youichi Ito received his M.S. from School of Public Communication at Boston University and M.A. from Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.  Currently the ICA board member-at-large for East Asia, he also served as a board member-at-large from 1997 through 2000 and on the board of the International Council of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) from 1988 through 1996.  He served as Vice-President of the Political Communication Section of the same association from 1992 through 2000 and also as Vice-President of the Research Committee on Political Communication of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) from 1998 through 2002.  He served as President of the Japan Association of Information and Communication Research from 2004 through 2008. He was the founding Editor of the Keio Communication Review from 1980 through 1996.

Michael Roloff, Professor of Communication Studies, Northwestern University

Michael Roloff's research and teaching interests are in the general area of interpersonal influence. He has published articles and offers courses focused on persuasion, interpersonal compliance-gaining, conflict management, organizational change and bargaining and negotiation. His current research is focused on conflict avoidance and serial arguing in intimate relationships, the interpretation and construction of persuasive messages, and the effects of planning and alternatives on negotiation processes. He has co-edited four research volumes: (1) Persuasion: New Directions in Theory and Research, (2) Social Cognition and Communication, (3) Interpersonal Processes, and (4) Communication and Negotiation. He wrote Interpersonal Communication: The Social Exchange Approach. He completed a term as the editor of Communication Yearbook and is currently coeditor of Communication Research. He was corecipient of the Woolbert Award for Outstanding Contribution to Communication Research from the Speech Communication Association and of a publication award from the Social Cognition and Communication Division of the National Communication Association. Roloff has received several teaching awards from groups at Northwestern including the Associated Student Government, the Mortar Board, and the Alumni Association. Roloff is a life member of ICA.

Dave Seibold, Professor of Communication, Director of Graduate Program in Management Practice, University of California-Santa Barbara

Dave Seibold has published more than 100 research papers, and delivered more than 200 conference papers and scholarly presentations, in four areas that represent his continuing research interests: communication and interpersonal influence (persuasion, compliance-gaining, motivation), group communication (structuration of decision making, argument and influence processes, facilitation of meetings, problem-solving techniques), organizational communication (participation structures and processes, temporality in workgroups, communication technologies, innovation and organizational change, management and strategic communication), and applied communication (bridging theory and practice, organizational development, evaluation of health communication programs). Recipient of more than a dozen “top paper” awards at conferences, his published research has been recognized by the National Communication Association with Golden Anniversary Monograph Awards in 1976, 1981, and 1986, and the Charles Woolbert Research Award in 1989 for research that has stood the test of time. In 2004 he was named a Distinguished Scholar by the National Communication Association, its highest award for a lifetime of scholarly achievement. He has been a distinguished visiting professor, has lectured at more than two dozen universities worldwide, and has received several teaching honors including campus teaching excellence and professional society teaching awards.

Barbie Zelizer, Professor of Communication, Raymond Williams Chair of Communication, Director of the Scholars Program in Culture and Communication - Annenberg School of Communication, Universtiy of Pennsylvania

A former journalist, Zelizer's work focuses on the cultural dimensions of journalism, with a specific interest in journalistic authority, collective memory, and journalistic images in times of crisis and war. She also works on the impact of disciplinary knowledge on academic inquiry. She is coeditor and founder of the journal Journalism: Theory, Practice, and Criticism (Sage). Zelizer has lectured widely both internationally and nationally, and her essays on the media have appeared in The Nation, Newshour with Jim Lehrer, Newsday, and other publications. She has been both a Guggenheim Fellow, a Research Fellow at the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center, and a Fellow at Harvard University's Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. Zelizer is the current president of the International Communication Association.

For this issue, we are pleased to welcome our newest Student Board Representative, Malte Hinrichsen. At the same time, we bid a fond farewell to Mikaela L. Marlow, who has completed her 2-year term as on the board. One of Mikaela's major contributions during her tenure was the development of a manual that will provide incoming representatives with information and pointers to better serve the graduate student members of ICA. Mikaela is now an Assistant Professor at the University of Idaho, with research interests in theoretical and applied intergroup communication among diverse language, ethnic, and cultural collectives. We wish her all the best and look forward to her continued contributions to ICA as a member.

At the recent ICA conference in Chicago, Illinois, the three of us were glad to have the opportunity to meet and discuss with ICA's immediate past president, Patrice M. Buzzanell, some of the issues that will in the future concern graduate students' interest at ICA. We also managed to meet students from different cultural backgrounds and gain a better understanding of some of the issues affecting them.

We would also like to express our sincere thanks to the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological U, Singapore, for sponsoring the Graduate Student Reception at the conference. It was attended by over 200 graduate students who socialized with faculty members and other students while enjoying the drinks and food provided.

As we begin another year at ICA, we'd like to remind you that your opinions are important. We would like to hear from you about ideas, thoughts, and concerns that are relevant to graduate students' interest at ICA. You can contact either Michele (Michele_khoo@pmail.ntu.edu.sg) or Malte (M.C.Hinrichsen@uva.nl).

Finally, below is a short introduction from our new student board representative, Malte Hinrichsen.

Dear all,

I was born and raised in Germany and studied in Hanover, Los Angeles, Grenoble, and Amsterdam Communication Science. Now I am working on a PhD in Amsterdam on how religious attitudes and behavior are affected by religious issues in news coverage and how that in turn affects attitudes towards European integration. I am very happy to have been elected your graduate student representative! Please mail us if you have any ideas or suggestions on how to improve the situation of graduate students at the ICA.

Best,
Malte

ICA Past President Sonia Livingstone, London School of Economics, has just published Children and the Internet: Great Expectations, Challenging Realities (Polity). The book addresses the questions Is the internet really transforming children and young people’s lives? Is the so-called ‘digital generation’ genuinely benefiting from exciting new opportunities? And, worryingly, facing new risks? It deliberately avoids a techno-celebratory approach and, instead, interprets children’s everyday practices of internet use in relation to the complex and changing historical and cultural conditions of childhood in late modernity. Drawing on current theories of identity, development, education and participation, this book includes a refreshingly critical account of the challenging realities undermining the great expectations held out for the internet - from governments, teachers, parents and children themselves. It concludes with a forward-looking framework for policy and regulation designed to advance children’s rights to expression, connection and play online as well as offline.

Journalism Studies

Dear Journalism Studies Division members,

We will be electing a new VICE CHAIR for the division this fall. It is now the time to call for nominations:

If you would like to nominate a person, please send the name and a 250 word statement in her/his support to us by Monday, July 20. To do so, please e-mail Frank Esser.

Self-nominations are also welcomed.  Self-nominees should send a 250-word personal statement by the same deadline.

The online-election will take place in September and October with the results released by the end of October.  Term of office begins at the conclusion of the conference in Singapore next year. 

Thank you in advance for your consideration of this important service opportunity to our division.

Frank Esser, Vice Chair
f.esser@ipmz.uzh.ch

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Political Communication

Overall, we have had a very successful, large and diverse conference. Our division directly sponsored 30 paper sessions and panels (not counting one business meeting and one roof-top reception), and co-sponsored an additional 15 sessions. Co sponsors included 16 ICA divisions. We also co-sponsored a pre-conference on media ethics.

The top faculty paper was "When citizens meet experts: Effects of issue experts' mental models on citizens' opinion as textual network" by Young Min Baek and  Joseph N. Cappella of the U. of Pennsylvania.

Our top student papers were:  "Calibrating Social Movement Rhetorical Theory: The Politics of Loving-Kindness amidst the Exigencies in Burma" by Craig Pinkerton, Ohio U; "The Role of Anger and Information in Deliberation" by Nuri Kim, Stanford U; and "Communication and Foreign Policy Opinions: Attention to News, Policy Framing, and Willingness to Engage" by Teresa Myers, Ohio State U.

The full planners' report is available through the division's website.

This is an opportunity to thank all of the division members who gave their time to their conference as presenters, respondents, and other duties. In particular I'd like to thank the reviewers for their hard work, my assistant Mary Katsman who helped me managing the review process and my predecessors Patricia Moy and Kevin Barnhurst for their help and advice. Special thanks to Kevin for hosting our divisional reception at his lovely place.

I look forward to working on the 2009 conference in Singapore. The call for papers will be circulated in several weeks.

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

Congratulations to the division for a successful convention in Chicago. Those who missed the reception are of course welcome to get in touch and stop by for a drink when passing through Chicago next time. Thanks go out to Yariv Tsfati for an excellent job of supervising the review of submissions, planning the sessions, and managing the travel and best paper awards for students and faculty.

In response to a query from Barbie Zelizer about multiple language submission to the ICA conventions, Political Communication division members responded to an email message sent through the ICA website.

The responses, compiled into a report, are now posted at the division page of the ICA website: http://www.icahdq.org/ Log onto the Members Only section and click on the Political Communication Division link.

Thanks so much for your input, which ICA has included in division feedback to develop future policies for multiple language submission.

Kevin Barnhurst, Chair
kgbcomm@uic.edu

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Children, Adolescents, and the Media

“Yes we CAM!” was our mantra at this year’s ICA, as we broke our 200 member mark at the conference after only one year.  We had another packed room for our business meeting, where we handed out 4 paper awards and continued our vibrant discussions about the future of this group.  Congrats to our top paper winners this year:

• "Infant and Preschool Exposure to Television: Relations with Cognitive Outcomes at Age Four in a Low-Risk Sample"
  Alexis Lauricella, Rachel Barr, Elizabeth Zack, and Sandra L. Calvert, Georgetown U
• "The Role of Media Literacy in Changing Adolescents’ Responses to Alcohol Advertising"
  Yi-Chun Chen, Virginia Tech U
• "How Children Mediate Connections between Home and Community: The Case of Latinos in South Los Angeles"
  Vikki Sara Katz, U of Southern California
• "Kid Tested, Parent Approved: Parental Determination of Appropriate Television Content for Their Children"
  Rebecca Ortiz Langford, Syracuse U
• "New Spaces of Immigrant Youth Expression on the Web"
  Henry Mainsah, U of Oslo
• "Is the Web Making Rural Children Less Rural? A Study of the Internet’s Impact on Nonurban Youth"
  Robert Andrew Dunn, U of Alabama

Please see our page on the ICA website for the rest of the meeting minutes.  Also, if you have not already checked on your membership page on the ICA site, please do so to make sure that CAM is checked as one of your divisions/interest groups. Finally, if anyone has ideas for a preconference for the 2010 Singapore conference, please remember that they are due into Francois Cooren by September. 

We also now have a Facebook page (just search for “ICA CAM”), so please join us there to continue our networking throughout the year.

If anyone has any suggestions for the group, next year’s conference, or anything else CAM-related, please feel free to contact Alison Bryant (alison.bryant@nick.com).

Alison Bryant, Chair
alison.bryant@nick.com

CALLS FOR PAPERS/ABSTRACTS

October 1, 2009. Call for submissions. The Journal of Social and Personal Relationships is planning a special issue on personal relationships in late life. By "late life" we mean 65 years and older. The special issue is planned for the February 2011 issue of the journal (i.e., volume 28 #1). The deadline for submissions is 1 October 2009. Pearl Dykstra (Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute) will be the guest editor. Manuscript submission will occur through the JSPR section of the Manuscript Central system. Authors should indicate that this manuscript is a candidate for the special issue on relationships in late life edited by Pearl Dykstra. Authors can begin the submission process at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jspr. Address inquiries about potential submissions to the guest editor, Pearl Dykstra, via e-mail at: dykstra@nidi.nl.

Call for Manuscripts: Mass Communication and Society. "The Facebook Election: New Media and the 2008 Presidential Campaign" Special Symposium. Tom Johnson & Dave Perlmutter, Guest Editors. Some political observers dubbed the 2008 presidential campaign as the Facebook election. Barack Obama, in particular, employed Online Social-Interactive Media  (OSIM) such as blogs, Twitter, Flickr, Digg, YouTube, MySpace and Facebook to run a grassroots style campaign. Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul similarly campaigned using OSIM technology in their organizing efforts. The Obama campaign was keenly aware that voters, particularly the young, are not simply consumers of information, but conduits of information as well. They often replaced the professional filter of traditional media with a social one. OSIMs allowed candidates to do electronically what previously had to be done through shoe leather and phone banks: contact volunteers and donors, and schedule and promote events. OSIMs changed the way candidates campaigned, how the media covered the election and how voters received information.  In this special issue of Mass Communication & Society, we seek theoretically driven and empirically grounded manuscripts on the role of OSIMs in the 2008 election campaign. This special issue will appear at the end of 2010. Submitted papers should follow the standard submission procedures outlined in the inside back cover of the journal. Authors should specify in their submission letter that they wish their submission to be considered for the 2008 Campaign New Media Symposium and must be received by January 12, 2010.

tripleC - Cognition, Communication, Co-operation: Journal for a Sustainable Information Society. tripleC provides a forum to discuss the challenges humanity is facing today. It promotes contributions within an emerging science of the information age with a special interest in critical studies following the highest standards of peer review. It is the journal?s mission to encourage uncommon sense, fresh perspectives and unconventional ideas, and connect leading thinkers and young scholars in inspiring reflections. Papers should reflect on how the presented findings contribute to the illumination of conditions that foster or hinder the advancement of a global sustainable and participatory information society.
For more information, and online submission, see: http://triplec.at.

Call for Manuscripts:  American Journal of Media Psychology (AJMP). The American Journal of Media Psychology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes theoretical and empirical papers that advance an understanding of media effects and processes on individuals in society. AJMP seeks submissions that have a psychological focus, which means the level of analysis should focus on individuals and their interaction with or relationship to mass media content and institutions. All theoretical and methodological perspectives are welcomed.  For instructions on submitting a manuscript, please visit: http://www.marquettejournals.org/mediapsychology. Questions about this call for manuscripts can be directed to Dr. Michael Elasmar, Editor, American Journal of Media Psychology at elasmar@bu.edu.

The Communication Review solicits papers in the interdisciplinary field of
media studies. We particularly encourage historical work, feminist work, and visual work, and invite submissions from those employing critical theoretical and empirical approaches to a range of topics under the general rubric of communication and media studies research. The Communication Review also functions as a review of current work in the field.  Towards this end, the editors are always open to proposals for special issues that interrogate and examine current controversies in the field.  We also welcome non-traditionally constructed articles which critically examine and review current sub-fields of and controversies within communication and media studies; we offer an expedited review process for timely statements. Please direct your papers, suggestions for special issues and queries to Tatiana Omeltchenko, Managing Editor, at to3y@virginia.edu. For more information about the journal and submission guidelines, pleasesee the journal’s website at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/10714421.html.

 
Chinese Journal of Communication (CJoC)
Launching in 2008, Chinese Journal of Communication (CJoC) is a new venture of scholarly publication aimed at elevating Chinese communication studies along theoretical, empirical, and methodological dimensions. The new refereed journal will be an important international platform for students and scholars in Chinese communication studies to exchange ideas and research results. Interdisciplinary in scope, it will examine subjects in all Chinese societies in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau, Singapore, and the global Chinese diaspora. The CJoC welcomes research articles using social scientific or humanistic approaches on such topics as mass communication, journalism studies, telecommunications, rhetoric, cultural studies, media effects, new communication technologies, organizational communication, interpersonal communication, advertising and PR, political communication, communications law and policy, and so on. Articles employing historical and comparative analysis focused on traditional Chinese culture as well as contemporary processes such as globalization, deregulation, and democratization are also welcome. Published by Routledge, CJoC is institutionally based at the Communication Research Centre, the School of Journalism and Communication, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. For more information and submission instructions, please visit http://www.informaworld.com/cjoc.

Journal of Children and Media is an interdisciplinary and multimethod peer-reviewed publication that provides a space for discusion by scholars and professionals from around the world and across theoretical and empirical traditions who are engaged in the study of media in the lives of children. Submissions: Submissions should be delivered as an email attachment to Dafna Lemish, Editor at: lemish@post.tau.ac.il. Manuscripts must conform to the American Psychological Association (APA) style with a maximum length of 8,000 words, including notes and references. The manuscript should be accompanied by an abstract of up to 150 words, biographical information for each author of up to 75 words each, and up to 10 keywords. For further information please visit: http://www.informaworld.com/jocam. 

International Journal of Strategic Communication is issuing a call for papers for its fourth and subsequent issues. The journal provides a forum for multidisciplinary and multi-paradigmatic research about the role of communication, broadly defined, in achieving the goals of a wide range of communicative entities for-profit organizations, non-profit organizations, social movements, political parties or politicians, governments, government agencies, personalities. For communication to be strategic is has to be purposeful and planned. The aim of the journal is to bring diverse approaches together with the purpose of developing an international, coherent and holistic approach to the field. Scholars in a broad range of communication specialities addressing strategic communication by organizations are invited submit articles. Articles are blind-reviewed by three members of the editorial board, which consists of 34 scholars from 15 countries representing a broad array of theoretical and methodological perspectives.Submissions are electronic via the journal's website at ijosc@lamar.colostate.edu. Manuscripts should be no longer than 30 word-processed pages and adhere to the APA Publications Manual. For more information, contact editors Derina Holtzhausen, University of South Florida, dholtzha@cas.usf.edu or Kirk Hallahan, Colorado State University, kirk.hallahan@colostate.edu.

Feminist Media Studies. Authors in North America, Latin America, and the Caribbean: submit to Lisa McLaughlin, Editor; e-mail: mclauglm@muohio.edu. Authors in Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australasia: submit to Cynthia Carter, Editor; e-mail: cartercl@cardiff.ac.uk.

Education Review of Business Communication. Mss. info: http://www.senatehall.com/business_communication/index.html.

 
Journal of Communication Studies, National Council of Development Communication. Soliciting research papers, abstracts. E-mail: Shveta Sharma, communication@jcs@yahoo.com.

 
Hampton Book Series: Communication, Globalization, and Cultural Identity. Jan Servaes, Hampton Book Series Editor, c/o School of Journalism and Communication, University of Queensland, Brisbane QLD 4072, Australia. Phone: +61 (7) 3365 6115 or 3088. Fax: +61 (7) 3365 1377. Email: j.servaes@uq.edu.au.

Manuscripts. Subject Matters: A Journal of Communications and the Self. E-mail: subjectmatters@londonmet.ac.uk.

Submissions. Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (JMEWS). Info: Marcia C. Inhorn, Director of the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, U of Michigan, and Mary N. Layoun, Chair of Comparative Literature, U of Wisconsin, Editors. Web: http://iupjournals.org/jmews/.

Communication Review. The Communication Review solicits papers in the interdisciplinary field of media studies. We are interested in papers discussing any aspect of media: media history, globalization of media, media institutions, media analysis, media criticism, media policy, media economics. We also invite essays about the nature of media studies as an emergent, interdisciplinary field. Please direct papers to Andrea L. Press and Bruce A. Williams, Editors, Media Studies Program, University of Virginia. Email: alp5n@virginia.edu, baw5n@b.mail.virginia.edu. For more information about the journal and submission guidelines, please see the journal's website at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/10714421.asp.

Call for Manuscripts - The Journal of Native Aging & Health publishes articels that address Native aging, health, and related issues. All theoretical and methodological approaches are welcome. Original research and studies should apply existing theory and research to Native Americans, Alaskan, Hawaiian, Islanders and First Nations Peoples, or should illuminate how knowledge informs and reforms exiting theories and research on Native populations, aging, and health. No material identifying the author(s) should appear in the body of the paper. The paper must not have appeared in any other published form. Each submission should include a separate cover page with the name of the author(s); present academic title or other current position; academic department and university (if appropriate); and complete address, telephone number, and e-mail address (if available). The submission also must include a single-paragraph abstract of no more than 120 words on a separate page. Manuscripts, abstracts, references, figures, and tables must conform to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (2001, Fifth Edition) guidelines. Contributors are encouraged to be familiar with the Manual's guidelines for avoiding bias in language used to express ideas int he manuscript. By submitting to JNAH, authors warrant that they will not submit their manuscript to any other publication without first withdrawing the manuscript from consideration by JNAH, that the work is original, and that appropriate credit has been given to other contributors in the project. Reports of the original research and papers may not exceed 25 pages (including references, tables, figures, and appendixes). Copies of submissions will not be returned to the author(s). Send four paper copies of complete papers to Pamela J. Kalbfleish, Editor, Journal of Native Aging & Health, School of Communication, University of North Dakota, 202A O'Kelly Hall, Grand Forks, ND 58202. Along with your paper copies, include a disk with your submission in Word document format or attach an electronic copy of your manuscript to an e-mail sent to the editorial office. Questions may be directed to the editorial office via e-mail at yearbook@und.nodak.edu, telephone 701-777-2673, or fax 701-777-3955. Ordering Information: To order a copy of the Journal, contact: Dr. Pamela J. Kalbfleisch, Editor, Journal of Native Aging & Health, School of Communication, University of North Dakota, Box 7169, 202A O'Kelly Hall, Grand Forks, ND 58202. $25.00 a copy / $40.00 year subscription.

 
Journal of Marketing and Communication Management. The Managing Editors, JMCM, Department of Marketing and Communication Management, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0001, South Africa. Info: http://www.jmcm.co.za. E-mail: Professor C H van Heerden, nheerden@hakuna.up.ac.za, or Professor Anske Grobler, anske@postino.up.ac.za. 

 
Submissions. Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception. Info: http://www.participations.org/.

 
Essays. Bad Subjects: Iraq War Culture Review Essays. Email: Joe Lockard, Joe.Lockard@asu.edu. Info: http://bad.eserver.org.

Proposals. Alternatives Within the Mainstream II: Queer Theatre in Britain. Info: Dimple Godiwala-McGowan, Senior Lecturer, York St. John College (U of Leeds). E-mail: DimpleGodiwala@aol.com. 

 
Deadline extended. Papers. Journal of Middle East Media (JMEM), Center for International Media Education (CIME) at Georgia State U and the Arab-U.S. Association for Communication Educators (AUSACE). Mohammed el-Naway, Senior Editor, Department of Communication, One Park Place South, 10th Floor, Georgia State U, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, USA. E-mail: jouman@langate.gsu.edu.

 
New Journal - Communication for Development and Social Change. A new journal, Communication for Development and Social Change, is seeking papers that will present empirical research, theory, and practice-oriented approaches on subjects relevant to development communication and social change. Authors may submit inquiries and manuscripts electronically to Jan Servaes, Department of Journalism and Communication, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, at j.sarvaes@uq.edu.au.

 

CONFERENCES

CALL FOR PAPERS GLOBAL VILLAGE – ARE WE THERE YET? 2009 Annual Conference of the Global Communication Association
www.globalcomassociation.com Bangalore, India November 26-27, 2009. 
Communication researchers, scholars, and graduates are invited to submit paper and panel proposals for inclusion in the 2009 Global Communication Association (GCA) Conference. Please submit a brief abstract (about 400 words) of the papers, including your complete contact information and affiliation, to Dr. R Kushal Kumar, Manipal University, (kushal.kumar@manipalu.com) no later than August 15, 2009. Panel proposals should be submitted to Dr. Yahya R. Kamalipour, Purdue University Calumet (ykamalip@purude.edu). Proposals must include theme, abstract, title of each paper, a brief description of each paper (200 words), complete contact information, and email address of each presenter.

“EU Kids Online: European research on cultural, contextual and risk issues regarding children and the internet.” An international one-day conference for researchers, policy makers, industry, educators, NGOs and government to address the policy issues and research findings about children and the internet. Thursday June 11th 2009, London School of Economics and Political Science, London. Researchers are invited to submit empirical papers about children’s experience of the internet on these topics:

• Social networks, online identities and e-participation
• Learning, creativity, and media literacy
• Mobility, computer games, and other emerging platforms
• Parental and peer mediation
• Risks, victims and perpetrators
• Regulation, empowerment and protection

Registration now open at http://www.eukidsonline.net. No conference fee; lunch and evening reception provided.

Call for Submissions: 2010 Central States Communication Association Conference. Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza, Cincinnati, OH. April 14-18, 2010.
"Communication and Civic Engagement: Challenge, Engage, and Change."

The Media Studies Interest Group invites submissions of competitive papers and thematic panels on all aspects of media studies, including mass communication, media technology, media and culture, and other studies of media and mass communication for the 2010 CSCA Convention. In addition, we are soliciting original video submissions for screening at the convention as well as original and innovative ideas for special sessions. Submissions for all categories must be complete by October 2, 2009. (Please note: submission of original media is a longer process that must be initiated by contacting Danielle Stern (daniellemstern@gmail.com) by September 25, 2009.) Contact Media Studies Interest Group Planner Danielle Stern at daniellemstern@gmail.com.

OTHER OPPORTUNITIES

Each year the OCIS Division sponsors a Junior Faculty Workshop just prior to the Academy of Management Annual Meeting.  The purpose of the Workshop is to explore strategies and helpful practices for developing successful academic careers.  The Workshop involves senior faculty mentors and up to 25 junior faculty.  This is an invitation to untenured faculty to sign up for the 2009 event. The 2009 Workshop will be held on Friday evening (August 7th) and all day Saturday (August 8th) in Chicago, IL. The senior faculty participating in the 2009 Junior Faculty Workshop are: Claudia Loebbecke, University of Cologne; Peter Monge, University of Southern California; Wanda Orlikowski, Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
Dan Robey, Georgia State University; Bob Zmud, University of Oklahoma. This year’s topics include publication quality and quantity, tenure and promotion, and developing and fostering professional relationships.  There is still an opportunity to shape the agenda, and I would welcome any suggestions from those who plan on registering to attend. Preregistration for the Workshop is required.  To register, go to the Academy of Management website at https://secure.aomonline.org/PDWReg.   You will notice a $50 fee for the Workshop.  The purpose of the fee is to cover the cost of a group dinner on Friday.  If you would like to attend the Workshop, but will not be able to attend the Friday dinner, then do not attempt to register using the Academy website.  Instead, send me an e-mail expressing your interest in attending and we will handle it outside the system. If you have any questions about the Workshop or suggestions about topics you would like to see covered, please send me an e-mail at kstewart@rhsmith.umd.edu.

Sexuality Studies: A book series by Temple University Press. The coeditors of Sexuality Studies-Janice Irvine and Regina Kunzel-are currently soliciting book manuscripts. The series features work in sexuality studies, in its social, cultural, and political dimensions, and in both historical and contemporary formations. The editors seek books that will appeal to a broad, cross-disciplinary audience of both academic and nonacademic readers. Submissions to Sexuality Studies are welcome through Janet Francendese, Editor in Chief, Temple University Press (janet.francendese@temple.edu). Information on how to submit manuscripts can be found at: http://www.temple.edu/tempress/submissions.html. Initial inquiries about proposals can also be sent to: Janice Irvine, University of Massachusetts, Department of Sociology. irvine@soc.umass.edu; or, Regina Kunzel, University of Minnesota, Departments of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies and History rkunzel@williams.edu.

The IABC Research Foundation is offering a grant for US $50,000 for Research on Communication Department Structure and Best Practices. Proposal guidelines can be found on the Research Foundation website http://www.iabc.com/rf/. The IABC Research Foundation serves as the non-profit research and development arm of IABC (International Association of Business Communicators). The Foundation is dedicated to contributing new findings, knowledge and understanding to the communication profession, and to helping organizations and communicators maximize organizational success. Through the generosity of donors, corporate sponsors and volunteers, the Foundation delivers original communication research and tools not available in the commercial marketplace.

 
The Canadian Journal of Communication (CJC) is a quarterly peer-reviewed journal committed to publishing outstanding scholarship in communications, media and cultural studies, journalism, and information studies. CJC is looking for theoretically innovative and methodologically challenging original manuscripts, in English or French, for immediate peer-review. To submit an article for peer-review go to the CJC website http://www.cjc-online.ca and click on the "submit" button. Articles for peer-review should be approximately 6,000 to 8,000 words in length. In addition to the traditional peer-reviewed article the CJC will develop innovative forms and formats for discussions of current practices including: media reviews, research overviews of current projects, and polemical commentaries. These submissions are shorter in length and may be either more descriptive or experimental in tone. Please direct ideas and inquiries to editor@cjconline.ca. For information on book reviews please contact our book review editor, Leslie Regan Shade, at review_editor@cjconline.ca. Info on CJC: Kim Sawchuk, Editor, CJC, editor@cjc-online.ca.

 
Visiting doctoral fellowships. The Media Management and Transformation Center (MMTC) at Jonkoping International Business School, Jonkoping University, Sweden, in the field of media business and media economics for advanced doctoral students. Dr. Cinzia dal Zotto, Research Manager, Media Management and Transformation Center, Jonkoping International Business School, P.O. Box 1026, SE-551 11 Jonkoping, SWEDEN. Info: http://www.jibs.se/mmtc. Email for more information: cinzia.dalzotto@ihh.hj.se.

NCI Fellowship in Health Communication and Informatics
The Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch (HCIRB) is accepting Cancer Research Training Award (CRTA) applicants for a Paid Fellowship Opportunity. HCIRB contributes to the reduction in death and suffering due to cancer by supporting research and development of a seamless health communication and informatics infrastructure. Through internal and extramural programs, the Branch supports basic and translational research across the cancer continuum. This CRTA fellowship offers outstanding training opportunities in health communication. The CRTA fellow will be a welcomed member of a team of passionate scientists, psychologists, and health communication researchers. Appropriate to the fellow’s interests, participation and leadership opportunities are offered in Information Technology projects, marketing and dissemination, health trends survey design and analysis, peer-reviewed journal articles, and travel to national meetings and conferences.

Master or bachelor level degree, preferably in health communication, health informatics, public health, or related field; strong organizational, planning, problem solving, and project management skills; excellent interpersonal skills; ability to work independently and creatively. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or resident aliens; be available 40 hours per week, for a six-month minimum. Some flexibility in work hours is allowed. The fellowship is renewable for up to two years and is based on demonstrated progress by mutual agreement among the fellow and supervisor.

For more details including how to apply: http://dccps.nci.nih.gov/brp/about/docs/HCIRBCRTAFellowship.pdf

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - LOS ANGELES
Department of Communication Studies
Mass Media Institutional/Policy Research

The UCLA Department of Communication Studies has an opening for a faculty appointment in the area of mass media institutional and policy research.  Ph.D. in communication required.  Exceptionally qualified candidates with a strong record of scholarship and teaching in the communication discipline may be considered for a tenured appointment.  The position is subject to budgetary approval.  Review of applications will begin on August 1, 2009.

Please submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae, representative publications, and three letters of recommendation to:

Chair, Search Committee
Department of Communication Studies
2303 Rolfe Hall
University of California, Los Angeles
Box 951538
Los Angeles, CA  90095-1538
Job #: 0755-0809-01

UCLA is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.  The Department has a strong commitment to the achievement of excellence and diversity among its faculty and staff.

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THE MEDIA PANEL
Postdoctoral Research Fellow

A postdoctoral research fellow is being sought for a private media research company in Austin, Texas with clients including major U.S. television networks. We are looking for a researcher with experience in psychophysiology and biometric measurement. We currently use a variety of research methods including, but not limited to, heart rate analysis, electrodermal activity, eyetracking, facial coding, and self-report measures, and will be moving into more advanced neuroscience measures in the future. Experience with biometric measurement, a focus on quantitative research, and academic English skills in written and oral communication are preferred.

Applicants must have a Ph.D. in communication, marketing, or psychology (or related field). Upcoming doctoral graduates will also be considered. Individuals interested in this position should send 1) your curriculum vitae and 2) the names of 2-3 professional/academic references to Dr. Duane Varan or Dr. Amy Rask at jobs@themediapanel.com with “Postdoctoral Fellow” in the subject line.

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