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