International Communication Association

Divisions: Popular Communication

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Devon Powers Chair

Temple University
Dept. of Advertising
2020 N. 13th Street
Philadelphia PA 19122
Ph. +1 215 204 5953 Fax +1 215 204 5953
devon.powers@temple.edu
Melissa Aronczyk, Vice Chair

Rutgers University
School of Communication and Information
4 Huntington St.
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Ph. 1-848-932-7122
melissa.aronczyk@rutgers.edu
Sriram Mohan, Secretary

University of Michigan - Communication Studies
5370 North Quad
105 State St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
sriramm@umich.edu

Evie Psarras, Student/Early Career Rep

University of Illinois - Chicago - Communication
1007 W. Harrison Street
Chicago, IL 60607
epsarr2@uic.edu

Popular Communication is concerned with providing a forum for scholarly investigation, analysis, and dialogue among communication researchers interested in a wide variety of communication symbols, forms, phenomena and strategic systems of symbols within the context of contemporary popular culture.

Division members encourage and employ a variety of empirical and critical methodologies with application to diverse human communication acts, processes, products and artifacts which have informational, entertainment, or suasory potential or effect among mass audiences.