Health Communication Division

The 100th issue of Health Communication has now come out and is available for single-issue sales! Order forms will be available at the Routledge/Taylor and Francis booth at NCA. The link to their journal website is: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/

Also, there will be a "celebration" in honor of the 100th issue of Health Communication at the Routledge/Taylor and Francis booth at NCA at 3:30 on Monday, 15 November. Order forms will be available for single-issue sales of the 100th issue at a 50% discount.

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Political Communication Division

Dear colleagues,

Two hundred and eighty two (!) paper and panel proposals were submitted to our division for the Boston 2011 conference. This figure represents a remarkable 47% increase over the Singapore conference (192 submissions) and a 20% increase over the Chicago 2009 conference. I'd like to thank all reviewers for the time and effort they volunteered to the division; most of them received a slightly higher work load due to the increase in submissions.  This is to remind reviewers that the deadline for completed reviews is DECEMBER 6. I would also like to thank our program planner, Claes de Vreese, for his hard work on managing the review process and to wish him the best of luck in the difficult challenge of processing the reviews and building the program. I am sure he will create a great program.

Submissions deadline for our division's graduate students' preconference is December 31 2010. This preconference will take place at Boston University on May 26, 2011, just prior to the Annual ICA Conference.  Submission deadline to the conference "Political Communication in the Era of New Technologies" (organized by the Polish Communication Association and the Institute of Political Science at the University of Warsaw) is December 15. The full call for papers and details for both events could be found on our website:

http://www.politicalcommunication.org/announcements.html

Best wishes for a happy holiday season,

Yariv Tsfati, Chair
ytsfati@com.haifa.ac.il

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Children, Adolescents, and the Media Interest Group

We are looking forward to catching up with the CAM community in Boston in May.  If you have any announcements or news you’d like to share before then, please send them to Susannah Stern (susannahstern@sandiego.edu) by Jan. 15th, 2011 for inclusion in a spring CAM e-newsletter.

The results from our recent election are in! The new vice chair will be Erica Scharrer (U of Massachusetts, Amherst). Erica will begin her term at the end of the Boston conference.

This year at ICA we will hold our 4th CAM meeting. Please look for the scheduled time and place when the program becomes available and be sure to attend. Encourage your friends and colleagues to come, too, to learn more about involvement in CAM and how we can build our community. With sufficient and sustained membership, we can ensure our Division status.

In addition, at this year’s conference, CAM will be holding a preconference entitled, “Media, child health, and wellbeing: Setting the research agenda.” For more information, consult the online conference program.

Finally, as a reminder, last year we started a CAM division endowment fund, in order to create a sustainable fund for the future of the division.  The endowment will provide funding for student travel, dissertation, and top paper awards, with a focus on supporting our younger scholars. Please donate directly to this endowment by going to the ICA homepage and clicking on “Donate to ICA” in the upper right hand corner. Donations are tax deductible.

Susannah Stern, Secretary
susannahstern@sandiego.edu

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Communication History Interest Group

In addition to its regular programming, the Communication History Interest Group is sponsoring two preconferences for Boston: (1) Mediating War and Technology; and (2) Post-Rorty Pragmatism: The New Wave of Pragmatism in Communication Research.

1. Mediating War and Technology (May 26, 2011). This preconference brings together communication and history scholars for an exchange of ideas concerning war, technology, media, and history. War and technology are established themes in the fields of history and communication, though hoped-for connections between scholars in both fields have been slow in coming. Careful attention to how historical methods can assist communication scholars in their understanding of these broad themes will offer to pre-conference attendees and presenters alike valuable tools for more thoroughly working history into the field of communication. At the same time, historians will gain new insight into archival texts through the application of communications theory and methodology, leading to exciting developments in both fields. The pre-conference will feature invited speakers from both fields, including a roundtable with David Kaiser, Menahem Blondheim, Carolyn Marvin, and Fred Turner. More information can be found at http://www.communicationhistory.org/precon/precon.html.

2. Post-Rorty Pragmatism: The New Wave of Pragmatism in Communication Research (May 26, 2011). The four classic figures of American pragmatism--Charles Sanders Peirce, George Herbert Mead, William James, and John Dewey--engaged communication, in various ways, as a descriptive and explanatory category. Peirce’s semiotics, for one, fed twentieth-century theory development about communication across the humanities and social sciences. In the last decade, debates on communication theory have returned to pragmatism. The aim of this preconference is to further promote the line of research that examines the relationship between pragmatism and communication first initiated by Peirce, James, and Dewey. Therefore, we invite submissions examining any one of a number of themes to which this relationship draws attention: democratic deliberation, semiotics, communication ethics, media and the public sphere, the importance of face-to-face communication, philosophical foundations of rhetoric, media and communication, and social movements to name just a few. The purpose of this preconference is to showcase the manner in which the intellectual tradition of pragmatism has helped with the advancement of communication scholarship, and to continue to develop communication theory by using the tradition of pragmatism to advance our understanding of key questions in the field. Contact Robert Danisch (rdanisch@gsu.concordia.ca) for more information.

Jeff Pooley, Chair
pooley@muhlenberg.edu