2009 ICA Elections Begin September 8
Michael J. West, ICA Staff
ICA members will begin voting for association-wide and division/interest group officers beginning Tuesday, September 8. As always, the vote will take place using an online-only ballot that is easy to use, expense-free, and green. Since its introduction in 2005, it has generated increasingly high voter turnout. Polls will remain open...
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Tadasu Todd Imahori, Seinan Gakuin U, Dies
Masaki Matsunaga, Waseda U
Tadasu Todd Imahori (Ph.D., 1986, Ohio University), professor of Communication Studies of the Department of Foreign Languages, Seinan Gakuin University, Fukuoka, Japan, passed away on July 17. Having worked at Illinois State University, New School, and San Francisco State University before assuming the position at Seinan Gakuin, Dr. Imahori helped...
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President's Message: Notes for the Coming Year
Barbie Zelizer, U of Pennsylvania
As I address my hopes and plans for the coming year, I recall a statement long ago attributed to French writer Emile Zola, who said that artists were nothing without their gifts, but their gifts were nothing without work. That remark resounds helpfully as we face a year of challenges...
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Spiral of Cynicism Wins ICA Fellows Book Award
Joseph N. Capella and Kathleen Hall Jamieson's 1997 book 1997 book Spiral of Cynicism: The Press and the Public Good (Oxford University Press) was selected to receive the 2009 ICA Fellows Book Award. The award recognizes those books that have made a substantial contribution to the scholarship of the communication ...
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Annie Lang Wins Chaffee Award at 2009 Chicago Conference
Annie Lang, Professor of Telecommunications at Indiana University, was selected to receive the prestigious 2009 Steven H. Chaffee Career Productivity Award. The Award recognizes a scholar, or small group of collaborating scholars, for sustained work on a communication problem over a long period of time. The committee that selects the...
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ICA Honors Top 2009 Posters at "Scholar to Scholar" Session in Chicago
Michael J. West, ICA Staff
Over 130 posters - representing the very best of every Division and Interest Group - were exhibited as part of the Sunday, May 24 plenary poster session of the 2009 ICA Conference in Chicago, Illinois. This year's judges for the Top Poster Awards were ICA Past Presidents Sonia Livingstone (London...
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Cosponsored eSociety Conference in Shanghai
Stacey Connaughton and Patrice M. Buzzanell, Purdue U
We are pleased to announce that the Third Global Communication Forum and the 2009 Chinese Communication Association annual convention will take place October 29 - November 1, 2009, on the Minhang campus of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. Details are listed on the ICA website: http://www.icahdq.org/conferences/othercalls/2009ccac.asp. This cosponsored conference is...
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Intercultural Dialogue: Istanbul 2009
Patrice M. Buzzanell, Purdue U
The National Communication Association, in conjunction with Maltepe University, sponsored a conference on Intercultural Dialogue in Istanbul at the end of July 2009 (see (www.natcom.org/istanbul). NCA officers in attendance (Betsy Bach, Dawn Braithwaite, and Lynn Turner, as President, First Vice President, and Second Vice President) and Patrice Buzzanell, representing ICA...
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Student Column: Advice From Former Ph.D. Candidates
Michele Khoo, Nanyang Technological U and Malte Hinrichsen, U of Amsterdam
Below you find some tips from former PhD candidates, including some hints and tips, advice on preparing your dissertation defense, and references to books and journal articles on completing a PhD project successfully as well as kick-starting your scientific career. Hints and tips Make choices; don't try to study everything...
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