Ethnicity & Race in Communication Division
Myria Georgiou, Chair of Ethnicity and Race in Communication Division (ERIC), has just taken a teaching post at the London School of Economics (LSE). There is also a change of guard in the Ethnicity and Race in Communication Division. We welcome our new Vice-Chair, Roopali Mukherjee (City U of New York), and our new advisory board, consisting of Myria Georgiou (Chair), Roopali Mukherjee (Vice-Chair), Kumarini Silva (outgoing Chair, Northeastern U), Miyase Christensen (Kalrstad U, Sweden) and R.Haridranath (U of Melbourne, Australia).
Myria Georgiou, Chair
M.A.Georgiou@lse.ac.uk
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Political Communication Division
Our division is starting to prepare for the 2010 conference and the divisional Call for Papers and List of Keywords are available through our website: http://www.politicalcommunication.org/upcoming.html . A volunteer recruitment survey will go online in August. Please consider volunteering to serve as reviewers even if you are not planning to travel to Singapore, and help us keep ICA and the Political Communication Division strong.
Looking forward to a smooth review process,
Yariv Tsfati, Vice Chair
ytsfati@com.haifa.ac.il
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Intergroup Communication Interest Group
The Intergroup Communication Interest Group wishes to invite scholars interested in the intersections of language, social identity, culture, stereotypes, social psychology (and much more!) to join our interest group as we strive to reach divisional status by Singapore 2010! All ICA members are welcome to join as we push disciplinary boundaries to better understand how social identity, social difference, and social comparison are reflected through language. Intergroup research informs many contexts: communication between members of co-cultures, cultures, nationalities, genders, generations, as well as groups belonging in the workplace and health contexts. Intergroup communication informs mass, organizational, intercultural, political, socio-cognitive, and interactive aspects of communication. We focus on the cognitions and motivations that underpin communication between groups and examine how language serves as a marker of intergroup encounters.
The Intergroup Communication Interest Group also wishes to announce its affiliation with the International Association of Language and Social Psychology (IALSP). IALSP will be hosting an ICA pre-conference, the 12th International Conference on Language and Social Psychology (ICLASP12), in Brisbane, Australia June 16-20th, 2010. We invite ICA members to consider joining us for ICLASP12 and becoming an IALSP member. The Intergroup Interest Group has a long-standing relationship with IALSP and would like to promote even more cross-disciplinary relationships such as those demonstrated in our spotlight panels at the ICA Chicago 2009 conference (The International Association of Language and Social Psychology (IALSP) Presents Common Ground Keynotes and Keywords With ICA; Identity and Language as Keywords in Communication Across and Between Groups: Roundtable Discussion Following IALSP).
