Volume 38, Number 1: January-February 2010
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 Officer Nominations Must Be Received by 15 February

The ICA office in Washington, DC must receive any and all officer nominations for the association's fall 2010 elections by February 15, 2010. Members may nominate candidates for president-elect select, a student board member, and two positions for board members-at-large - representing the regions of Europe and Oceania & Africa...
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 Travel Grant Applications Due 1 March

Participants from developing/transitional countries and students from U.S. ethnic minority groups, who have been accepted to present papers, can apply for travel grants to the ICA Conference in Singapore between 15 January and 1 March 2010. The travel-grant application is available online at http://www.icahdq.org/membersonly/confgrantappl/fundrequest.asp. Developing/transitional countries are identified annually by...
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 President's Message: Research, Funding, and the Future

Albert Einstein famously said, "If we knew what we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" Who should determine the topics of our academic research and according to which standards should they be assessed? If recent developments in the United Kingdom play out as now suggested, the...
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 "Comparing Journalism: Theory, Methodology, Findings" - International Conference in Eichstaett, Germany, 9-11 July 2010

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Comparing Journalism: Theory, Methodology, Findings Eichstaett (Bavaria), Germany, July 9-11, 2010 Organized by Catholic University Eichstaett-Ingolstadt, Germany, School of Journalism in cooperation with David Weaver and Lars Willnat, Indiana U, School of Journalism and German Communication Association, Fachgruppe "Journalistik und Journalismusforschung" Website and Call for Papers: http://www.journalistik-eichstaett.de/ Contact...
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 "The Communication Discipline in Asia": An ICA Preconference in Tokyo

The International Communication Association (ICA) and the Communication Association of Japan (CAJ) invite you to participate in an ICA Preconference in Tokyo, to be held 19 and 20 June 2010. Given that the ICA conference will be held in Asia, CAJ would like to take the opportunity to celebrate the...
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 12th International Conference on Language and Social Psychology (ICLASP 12), 16-19 June 2010

12th International Conference on Language and Social Psychology (ICLASP 12) 16-19 June 2010 hosted by The University of Queensland, Griffith University and Queensland University of Technology Venue: Griffith University Southbank Campus Brisbane, Australia Registration for the conference will be opening in January at the IALSP Website. This conference brings together...
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 International Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference Comes to Hong Kong

Hosted by Lingnan University, a distinctive liberal arts institution in Hong Kong, and organized by its Department of Cultural Studies and Kwan Fong Cultural Research and Development Programme, the 8th International Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference will be held in Hong Kong 17 - 21 June 2010. The International Crossroads Conferences...
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 Postconference Tours Offer Visitors the Grandeur of Southeast Asia

Following the 2010 conference in Singapore, the International Communication Association is offering two special postconference tours in Southeast Asia. These include a 5-day, 4-night excursion in Bangkok, Thailand, and an extended 9-day, 8-night option that passes through both Bangkok and Angkor Wat, Cambodia. The 5-day tour of Bangkok will take...
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 Student Column: Red Pencil Dilemmas

(This month's column was written by Malte Hinrichsen. "I have been correcting student papers all day," My colleague Johannes replied to my asking why he looked so greenish. I handed him a beer and patted his shoulder. "Framing theory describes the frame of the TV monitor." Thus began one of...
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INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION 2009 - 2010 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Executive Committee
Barbie Zelizer, President, U of Pennsylvania
Francois Cooren, President-Elect, U de Montreal
Larry Gross, President-Elect/Select, U of Southern California
Patrice Buzzanell, Immediate Past President, Purdue U
Sonia Livingstone, Past President, London School of Economics
Ronald E. Rice, (ex-oficio), Finance Chair, U of California - Santa Barbara
Michael L. Haley (ex-oficio), Executive Director

Members-at-Large
Aldo Vasquez Rios, U de San Martin Porres, Peru
Eun-Ju Lee, Seoul National U
Rohan Samarajiva, LIRNEasia
Gianpetro Mazzoleni, U of Milan
Juliet Roper, U of Waikato

Student Members
Michele Khoo, Nanyang Technological U
Malte Hinrichsen, U of Amsterdam

Division Chairs & ICA Vice Presidents
S Shyam Sundar, Communication & Technology, Pennsylvania State U
Stephen McDowell, Communication Law & Policy, Florida State U
Myria Georgiou, Ethnicity and Race in Communication, Leeds U
Diana Rios, Feminist Scholarship, U of Connecticut
Robert Huesca, Global Communication and Social Change, Trinity U
Dave Buller, Health Communication, Klein-Buendel
Robert F. Potter, Information Systems, Indiana U
Kristen Harrison, Instructional & Developmental Communication, U of Illinois
Ling Chen, Intercultural Communication, Hong Kong Baptist U
Walid Afifi, Interpersonal Communication, U of California - Santa Barbara
Maria Elizabeth Grabe, Journalism Studies, Indiana U
Richard Buttny, Language & Social Interaction, Syracuse U
David R. Ewoldsen, Mass Communication, Ohio State U
Dennis Mumby, Organizational Communication, U of North Carolina
Nick Couldry, Philosophy of Communication, Goldsmiths College, London U
Kevin Barnhurst, Political Communication, U of Illinois - Chicago
Cornel Sandvoss, Popular Communication, U of Surrey
Craig Carroll, Public Relations, U of North Carolina
Luc Pauwels, Visual Communication, U of Antwerp

Special Interest Group Chairs
J. Alison Bryant, Children, Adolescents amd the Media, Smartypants.com
David Park, Communication History, Lake Forest College
John Sherry, Game Studies, Michigan State U
Lynn Comella, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, & Transgender Studies, U of Nevada - Las Vegas
Vincent Doyle, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, & Transgender Studies, IE U
Margaret J. Pitt, Intergroup Communication, Old Dominion U

Editorial & Advertising
Michael J. West, ICA, Publications Manager

ICA Newsletter (ISSN0018876X) is published 10 times annually (combining January-February and June-July issues) by the International Communication Association, 1500 21st Street NW, Washington, DC 20036 USA; phone: (01) 202-955-1444; fax: (01) 202-955-1448; email: publications@icahdq.org; website: http://www.icahdq.org. ICA dues include $30 for a subscription to the ICA Newsletter for one year. The Newsletter is available to nonmembers for $30 per year. Direct requests for ad rates and other inquiries to Michael J. West, Editor, at the address listed above. News and advertising deadlines are Jan. 15 for the January-February issue; Feb. 15 for March; Mar. 15 for April; Apr. 15 for May; June 15 for June-July; July 15 for August; August 15 for September; September 15 for October; October 15 for November; Nov. 15 for December.



To Reach ICA Editors

Journal of Communication
Michael J. Cody, Editor
School of Communication
Annenberg School of Communication
3502 Wyatt Way
U of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0281 USA
cody@usc.edu


Human Communication Research
Jim Katz, Editor
Rutgers U
Department of Communication
4 Huntington Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901 USA
jimkatz@scils.rutgers.edu


Communication Theory
Angharad N. Valdivia, Editor
U of Illinois
228 Gregory Hall
801 S. Wright Street
Urbana, IL 61801 USA
valdivia@uiuc.edu


Communication Culture & Critique
Karen Ross, Editor
School of Politics and Communication Studies
U of Liverpool
Roxby Building
Liverpool L69 7ZT UNITED KINGDOM
karen.ross@liverpool.ac.uk


Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
Kevin B. Wright, Editor
U of Oklahoma
610 Elm Avenue, Room 101
Norman, OK 73019 USA
kbwright@ou.edu


Communication Yearbook
Charles T. Salmon, Editor
Michigan State U
College of Communication Arts amd Sciences
287 Comm Arts Building
East Lansing, MI 48824-1212 USA
CY34@msu.edu



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