Global Communication and Social Change
The Division programmed 11 competitive paper sessions, one poster session, and five panel sessions at the May 2009 conference in Chicago. Scholars presented 59 papers at the competitive sessions, including three top papers: Weaving Webs of Faith: Examining Internet Use and Religious Communication Among Chinese Protestant by Pauline Hope Cheong, Arizona State U, and Jessie Poon, State U at Buffalo; The African Philosophy Debate and a Communicative Action Narrative for Development by Thomas L. Jacobson and Lingling Pan, Temple U; and The Silent Community: Organizing Zones in the Digital Divide by Shiv Ganesh and Kirsty Frances Barber, U of Waikato, New Zealand. The top student paper was Savage Deregulation in Thailand: Expanding Hallin & Mancini's European Model by Lauren Kogen, U of Pennsylvania. Also at the Chicago conference, the Division presented its first top dissertation award to Sunitha Chitrapu, U Indiana, for her dissertation, Linguisitic Diversity and Changing Technology in India’s Regional Film Markets. Finally, the division held its annual dinner at a community radio station, WRTE, Radio Arte in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood. Dinner participants learned of WRTE's mission and activities and received a tour of the facilities.
Robert Huesca, Chair
rhuesca@trinity.edu
Popular Communication
Special issue of Popular Communication on "Digital Convergence in Latin America."
The Popular Communication Division is most pleased to announce the latest special issue of the Division's journal Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture on "Digital Convergence in the Critical Fields of Culture, Communication, and Regulation in Latin America".
The Division thanks our guest editor, Rosalia Winocur (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico) for brining together an outstanding collection of articles on the phenomenon of convergence on the Latin American continent. The issues features articles by Nestor García Canclini, Jesus Martín Barbero, Jose Cabrera Paz, Ana María Ochoa and Carolina Botero, Raul Trejo Delarbre, and our Rosalia Winocur.
This special issue is an important milestone in our efforts to represent our diverse membership and the global nature of popular communication by internationalising the Division and its publications. With the help of the journal's publishers (Routledge) we have been able to translate five of the six articles from Spanish, thereby overcoming the linguistic barrier that often impedes the wider discussion and examination of Latin American experiences of and with digital convergence.
Guest Editor's Introduction
"New Intersections for Thinking About Digital Convergence in the Critical Fields of Culture, Communication, and Regulation in Latin America"
Rosalía Winocur
Translator's Introduction
Margaret Schwartz
"Techno-Cultural Convergence: Wanting to Say Everything, Wanting to Watch Everything"
Jose Cabrera Paz
"How Digital Convergence is Changing Cultural Theory"
Nestor García Canclini
"Digital Convergence in Cultural Communication"
Jesus Martin Barbero
"Notes on Practices of Musical Exchange in Colombia"
Ana María Ochoa and Carolina Botero
"Digital Television: Options and Decisions in Latin America"
Raul Trejo Delarbre
"Digital Convergence as the Symbolic Medium of New Practices and Meanings in Young People's Lives"
Rosalia Winocur
Access to the journal is free to all Division members via the ICA website. Please log on to http://www.icahdq.org/login.asp and select "Publisher Discounts," then click on "Popular Communication." If you are not a member of Popular Communication yet, please join us by visiting MyICA (http://www.icahdq.org/myica/index.asp) and selecting "Add/Change My Sections." Annual Division membership is $8 and includes a free online subscription to Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture.
Cornel Sandvoss, Chair
C.Sadvoss@surrey.ac.uk
Political Communication
We announced four prizes for best papers to the following:
1. Top faculty paper:
Young Min Baek & Joseph N. Cappella, U. of Pennsylvania:
"When citizens meet experts: Effects of issue experts' mental models on
citizens' opinion as textual network"
2. Top student papers:
Craig Pinkerton, Ohio U.: "Calibrating Social Movement Rhetorical Theory:
The Politics of Loving-Kindness amidst the Exigencies in Burma"
Nuri Kim, Stanford U.: "The Role of Anger and Information in Deliberation"
Teresa Myers, Ohio State U.: "Communication and Foreign Policy Opinions:
Attention to News, Policy Framing, and Willingness to Engage"
Kevin Barnhurst, Chair
kgbcomm@uic.edu
