Volume 38, Number 10: December 2010

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 Boston 2011: Conference Planning Update

The good news is that our submissions for the Boston Conference are considerably higher than in previous years. The total number of submissions is 3689, which is 31% more than the number submitted for Chicago two years ago. The bad news is that correspondingly, the acceptance rate will also set...
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 Council of Communication Associations Establishes Center for Intercultural Dialogue

A new Center for Intercultural Dialogue has been established by the Council of Communication Associations. The Center is designed to serve members of any of the eight associations that jointly make up the Council (NCA, ICA, AEJMC, ASJMC, BEA, ABC, AJHA, and BCCA) by facilitating connections between Communication scholars interested...
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 President's Message: ICA Conferences, International and Regional

Good news for our association! We received more than 3,700 submissions for Boston, marking a 30% increase in comparison with Chicago, which is huge! The bad news is that, because of this impressive number, we might have to be more selective regarding what papers and panel proposals will ultimately make...
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 2010 Conference Survey Report

Every year, ICA conducts an evaluation survey of attendees to the association's annual conference. This article highlights the primary results of the 2010 survey, which is based on the Singapore conference held this past June. The full report, including qualitative comments, can be found on the ICA website. Despite the...
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 New City Frontier Awaits on the South Boston Waterfront

The International Communication Association arrives in "The Athens of America," Boston, Massachusetts, from 26th May to the 30th for our 61st Annual Conference. The hub of the U.S. region known as New England, Boston is also one of the hubs of academia in the United States-over 50 institutes of...
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 Where Are My Journals?? And Other Frequently Asked Questions

I started working for ICA April of 2001. That month was the first time we offered online registration for our annual conference. In the years since, a seemingly unending array of adjustments, tweaks, and-arguably-improvements to the services we provide have worked their way from concept to fruition, while...
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 Student Column: New Answers to the Dreaded Question - "So, What's Your Ph.D. Research About?"

Many of us have experienced this: You are at a public event or a private party, enjoying the conversation, the food, the drinks, the atmosphere, and suddenly it comes. It's the feared moment; the dreaded question. "So, what's your Ph.D. research about?" You wonder, should I answer? Should I ignore...
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 News of Interest to the Profession


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 Division & Interest Group News


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 Call for Papers


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 Available Positions and Other Advertising


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What's Inside
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION 2010-2011

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

Members-at-Large
Eun-Ju Lee, Seoul National U
R.G. Lentz, McGill U
Rohan Samarajiva, LIRNEasia
Gianpetro Mazzoleni, U of Milan
Juliet Roper, U of Waikato

Student Members
Malte Hinrichsen, U of Amsterdam
Diana Nastasia, U of North Dakota

Division Chairs & ICA Vice Presidents
James E. Katz, Communication & Technology, Rutgers U
Peter J. Humphreys, Communication Law & Policy, U of Manchester
Myria Georgiou, Ethnicity and Race in Communication, London School of Economics 
Diana Rios, Feminist Scholarship, U of Connecticut
Robert Huesca, Global Communication and Social Change, Trinity U
Monique Mitchell Turner, Health Communication, U of Maryland
Robert F. Potter, Information Systems, Indiana U
Rebecca M. Chory, Instructional & Developmental Communication, West Virginia U
Ling Chen, Intercultural Communication, Hong Kong Baptist U
Walid Afifi, Interpersonal Communication, U of California - Santa Barbara
Frank Esser, Journalism Studies, U of Zurich
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
Yariv Tsfati, Political Communication, U of Haifa
Paul Frosh, Popular Communication, Hebrew U of Jerusalem
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
Jefferson D. Pooley, Communication History, Muhlenberg 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
Lisa Sparks, Intergroup Communication, Chapman 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.



NOTICE

Effective 1 July 2010, all ICA journals accept only submissions that are formatted according to the Style Guide of the American Psychological Association, 6th edition (2009).



To Reach ICA Editors

Journal of Communication
Malcolm Parks, Editor-Elect
U of Washington
Department of Communication
Box 353740
Seattle, WA 98195-3740 USA
macp@u.washington.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
John Downing, Editor-Elect
Southern Illinois U - Carbondale
Global Media Research Center
College of Mass Communication
Carbondale, IL 62901 USA
karen.ross@liverpool.ac.uk


Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
Maria Bakardjieva, Editor-Elect
U of Calgary
Faculty of Communication and Culture
2500 University Drive
Calgary, AB T2N1N4 CANADA
bakardji@ucalgary.ca


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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