The ICA Publications Committee has selected new editors for two of the Association's journals, Journal of Communication and Communication, Culture, & Critique. Malcolm Parks will begin his 3-year term as editor of JoC with Volume 61. John Downing will begin with CC&C's Volume 4.
Parks is a Professor of Communication at U of Washington. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Interpersonal Communication in 1973 from U of Montana, and his M.A. (1975) and Ph.D. (1976) from Michigan State U. He has been a member of ICA since 1972.
He has also been an active member of ICA's Interpersonal Communication Division, serving as its chair from 1990-92. He has served on the editorial boards of JoC, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Human Communication Research, and Communication Yearbook, and other prominent communication journals.
Parks' own research is oriented toward interpersonal relationships, health communication, organizational change, and social networks. His current projects include studies of impression formation and civic participation through online sites like Facebook, research on what people know about others' social networks, and studies regarding how social networks might be utilized in health promotion programs aimed at reducing obesity and protecting against sexually transmitted infections. He has been published frequently in ICA's Human Communication Research and Communication Yearbook, as well as to Journal of Social and Personal Relationships and over two dozen other books and journals. His book Personal Relationships and Personal Networks received the Gerald R. Miller Book Award from the National Communication Association in 2008.
Parks begins accepting manuscripts for the Journal of Communication in September. His official editorship begins 1 January 2011 and ends 31 December 2013.
Downing is Director of the Global Media Research Center and Professor of Media Studies at the College of Mass Communication and Media Arts, Southern Illinois U at Carbondale. He received his Master's Degree in Sociology in 1968 from London School of Economics, completing his PhD from LSE in 1974. He joined ICA in 1987, and is an active member of the ERIC, Intercultural Communication, Mass Communication, and Popular Communication Divisions and the Game Studies Interest Group.
Downing is a reviewer for four communication journals, including Journal of Communication, as well as 10 academic publishers. He is also a member of the Executive Editorial Committee for Global Media and Communication, and an Advisory Board member for Discourse and Society, Javnost/The Public, Gazette, and Telematics and Informatics.
Downing's research and teaching interests include theories of communication and culture; globalization; alternative media and social movements; Russian media since 1917; Third World political cinema; and social class, racism, and media. He is the author of 10 books, most recently Representing 'Race': Racisms, Ethnicities and Media (Sage), with Charles Husband; and over 70 articles and chapters dating back to 1976. He has been the recipient of 11 research grants and fellowships in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Hungary.
Downing begins accepting manuscripts for the Communication, Culture, & Critique in September. His official editorship begins 1 January 2011 and ends 31 December 2013.
Authors should submit their manuscripts through ICA's electronic submission process at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jcom (for Journal of Communication) or http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cccr (for Communication, Culture, & Critique). The manuscript document should provide complete contact information (address, telephone, FAX, and e-mail) and brief biographical summaries (full name, highest earned academic degree, institution granting that degree, and present academic or professional title) on the title page for each author. Manuscripts must conform to the specifications of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th edition, and authors should verify that the reference list is complete and in appropriate form. Additional guidelines for manuscript preparation may be found in recent issues of the journal. The staffs of each journal will process manuscripts in a prompt and professional fashion. In order to expedite reviews and ensure quality in the review process, some manuscripts will be forwarded to an associate editor who will serve as the action editor.
