INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION newsletter VOLUME 45, ISSUE 10 DECEMBER 2017 involved in ICA. Opportunities have workshops, to mentor early career been expanding over the past years. faculty, and more. These events of Many divisions have, for example, course have benefited all participants added divisional leadership positions by inspiring new research networks including student or early career and collaborations. representative to complement existing positions of Chairs, Vice Chairs and How do you get more involved? Find Secretary or in some cases Secretary/ the organizer of a regional conference, Historian. Some divisions have or ICA conference or research event added less formal positions including and just reach out—drop an email. Treasurer, Cybermistress/master or You will find that invitations to share Coordinator. All of these your labour and expertise are likely positions provide opportunities to to be met with great enthusiasm. better engage with ICA’s existing work, Engagement by members in our to initiate proposals to meet other broad ICA activities as well as through needs, and to initiate new activities elected position is crucial to our divisionally. continuing to diversify, enliven and enrich ICA as a truly international Most of us holding leadership positions organization. in ICA, myself included, did not begin President’s engaging with ICA with a view to holding such a position. We became Do you have questions Message invested as student representatives, active in division events or in a board about conference Paula Gardner, President level working group or task force. submission and McMaster U From that engagement, we discovered review? Check out the the great benefit this work brought-- Conference Frequently e have just completed our annual expanding our understanding of Asked Questions page! WICA elections and you will note a the organization but also increasing great number of new members taking our knowledge of other areas of positions in ICA as Division Chairs and communication research beyond our Wondering when you’ll Vice Chairs, Divisional Secretaries, usual pathways. find out the results of Student Representatives, and of your #ICA18 submission course a new ICA President-Elect- There are other opportunities to proposal? Results Select. Congratulations to all members engage in ICA too. Many ICA who threw their hats in the ring and to members have elected to attend our will be emailed on 17 those who were elected. We would regional conferences and found new January 2018. not be a vibrant organization without opportunities assist in supporting the commitment and engagement communication scholarship in areas of those willing to run for leadership of the world lesser represented in positions out of a shared conviction ICA. Last year, as you recall, we held that ICA should be a strong, diverse regional conferences in Nairobi, Kenya and collaborative organization. We and Singapore, this year a research appreciate your willingness to offer workshop in Entebbe, Uganda and this your candidacy in support of ICA, month our first regional conference in regardless of the outcome. Mumbai, India! Each of these events has identified a range of ICA activities I’d like to take this opportunity to that require member support, including encourage more of you to consider opportunities to support conference running for office or becoming more planning or execution, to offer training Call for Proposals: International Communication Association Blue Sky Workshops 2017–2018 Board of Directors Executive Committee Paula Gardner, President, McMaster U What are Blue Sky Workshops? Patricia Moy, President Elect, U of Washington Terry Flew, President Elect Select, Queensland U of Technology Blue Sky Workshops aim to engage participants in critical Peng Hwa Ang, Immediate Past President, Nanyang Technological U discussions of current concerns within the discipline; exploration Amy Jordan, Past President, U of Pennsylvania of theories, concepts, or methods; or the collective development Peter Vorderer, General Secretary, U of Mannheim Laura Sawyer, Executive Director (ex-officio), ICA of new research strategies or best-practice recommendations for a particular subfield of communication. These are not didactic presentations, but rather are meant to be opportunities for Members-at-Large dialogue. Blue Skies can also be created around issues of Akira Miyahara, Seinan Gakuin U professional development, such as writing and submitting grant Sister Agnes Lucy Lando, Daystar U proposals, developing a social media presence, or designing Lilach Nir, Hebrew U effective assignments. Student Members How do I submit a proposal for a Blue Sky Workshop? Tamar Lazar, U of Haifa Julie Escurignan, U of Roehampton Proposals for Blue Sky Workshops are not bound to ICA divisions or the regular submission system, but are managed by a separate Division & Interest Group Chairs work team. Each proposal should contain: Guobin Yang, Activism, Communication, and Social Justice, U of Pennsylvania Jessica Piotrowski, Children, Adolescents, and the Media, U of Amsterdam • a session title, Lee Humphreys, Communication and Technology, Cornell U • the name and contact information of the proposing session David Park, Communication History, Lake Forest College chair, Katharine Sarikakis, Communication Law & Policy, U of Vienna • a brief summary of the workshop (a 120-word abstract for the Rene Weber, Communication Science and Biology, U of California - Santa conference program) as well as Barbara • a longer description of the session’s topic, goals, and planned Wouter van Atteveldt, Computational Methods, VU Amsterdam Bruno Takahashi, Environmental Communication, Michigan State U schedule (up to 500 words, to be published on the ICA Anamik Saha, Ethnicity and Race in Communication, Goldsmiths, U of London website). Stine Eckert, Feminist Scholarship, Wayne State U • This long description should also include requirements or Julia Kneer, Game Studies, Erasmus U Rotterdam instructions, if there are any, for interested participants (e.g., Shiv Ganesh, Global Communication and Social Change, Massey U a condition that members interested in attending must submit Evelyn Ho, Health Communication, U of San Francisco their own thematic statements to the session chair prior to the Zheng Wang, Information Systems, Ohio State U conference, a suggestion of what core knowledge in a field or Stephanie Kelly, Instructional & Developmental Communication, North about a method is required for productive contribution, or an Carolina A&T State U invitation to bring computers for joint text production). Chia-Fang (Sandy) Hsu, Intercultural Communication, U of Wyoming Jordan Soliz, Intergroup Communication, U of Nebraska - Lincoln If the number of proposals exceeds the amount of available Jennifer Samp, Interpersonal Communication, U of Georgia rooms, proposals will be selected by the Conference Planner Henrik Örnebring, Journalism Studies, Karlstad U , Language & Social Interaction, Loughborough U and President-Elect, Patricia Moy. Please note that Blue Skies Jessica Robles Lukasz Szulc, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Queer Studies, London typically take place in smaller rooms set for 15-25 people. School of Economics and Political Science Eve Ng, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Queer Studies, Ohio U *Please make note that ICA cannot guarantee a particular room Young Mie Kim, Mass Communication, U of Wisconsin - Madison set (u-shape, classroom, etc.), and that audiovisual equipment Philip Napoli, Media Industry Studies, Duke U WILL NOT be available in the Blue Sky rooms. Colin Agur, Mobile Communication, U of Minnesota Bart J. van den Hooff, Organizational Communication, VU U Amsterdam Who can propose a Blue Sky Workshop? Mirca Madianou, Philosophy, Theory, and Critique, Goldsmiths, U of London Peter Van Aelst, Political Communication, U of Antwerp Anyone may propose a Blue Sky Workshop, and anyone may Stephen Harrington, Popular Communication, Queensland U of Technology attend a Blue Sky Workshop. Those who plan to attend a Alina Dolea, Public Diplomacy, U of Bucharest workshop should work with the workshop chair to discuss their Katerina Tsetsura, Public Relations, U of Oklahoma potential role and/or contribution. Organizers’ names will appear in Marie Hardin, Sports Communication, Pennsylvania State U Catherine Preston, Visual Communication Studies, U of Kansas the online, printed, and app versions of the program.

When are proposals due? Editorial & Advertising Jennifer Le, ICA Manager of Conference Services Proposals for Blue Sky Workshops can be submitted until 22 Kristine Rosa, ICA Assistant Manager of Member Services December 2017, 16:00 UTC to the online submission form here (https://www.icahdq.org/page/2018BlueSky). ICA Newsletter is published 10 times annually (combining January-February and June-July issues) by the International Communication Association. If you have any questions, please contact [email protected]. 2 | December 2017 ICA Newsletter 68TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION PRECONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS To read all the 68th Annual ICA Preconference and Postconference Call for Papers, visit here: http://www.icahdq.org/?page=2018PrePostconf.

Data and Publics: A New Structural Transformation of the · algorithms and publics Public Sphere? · algorithms in journalism 24 May 2018, Prague · data as discursive formation Sponsored by Communication and the Public · data journalism and publics · data visualization and public communication Despite the growing interest in data and society, relatively little · big data and deceptions in politics attention has been paid to the implications of a data society · data and the global public sphere for the forms and dynamics of publicity, publics, and public communication. If the institution of the modern public sphere Submission Process has always aspired to a degree of autonomy vis-à-vis its critical targets, what happens when its targets – be they government or The submissions should be emailed to communication-public@ business entities – begin to actively incite the production of public asc.upenn.edu by December 10, 2017. Authors will be informed discourse and then harvest it as data for profit or surveillance? of acceptance/rejection decisions no later than January 15, 2018. What new issues are raised when private individuals willingly Accepted abstracts will be posted to the preconference website in surrender personal information to the public sphere in their daily advance of the event. communication routines? Or when citizens’ communication routines are channeled and shaped by the algorithms of corporate Please direct questions on submissions or any aspect of the strategists? How may the advent of a data society lead to preconference to any of the following organizers: · Zhongdang changing forms and practices of public communication, ranging Pan, University of Wisconsin-Madison, [email protected] from journalism, policy debates, and public advocacy, to political · Lu Wei, Zhejiang University, [email protected] · Guobin Yang, campaigns and analysis and depictions of public opinion? University of Pennsylvania, [email protected]

We invite scholars to submit detailed abstracts (500-1,000 Special Note words) of theoretical and empirical research papers or proposals of thematic panels with multiple papers that critically This preconference will be the fourth annual conference for rethink the meaning and practices of publics and public Communication and the Public (CAP), an international refereed communication in this new data society. In addition to the journal jointly published by Zhejiang University and SAGE, questions raised above, scholars might explore: launched in 2016. The first two annual conferences, co-organized by Zhejiang University, University of Pennsylvania, and University 1. how the practices of tracking, trolling, data-mining, bots, of Wisconsin-Madison, were held in 2015 at Zhejiang University hacking, social media algorithms, and data analytics in Hangzhou, China, and in 2016 at Penn Wharton China Center shape the conditions and outcomes of publicity and public in Beijing. The third annual CAP conference was held as an ICA communication; preconference on Varieties of Publics and Counterpublics on May 2. whether the concept of the public sphere is still adequate for 25, 2017 in San Diego. For more information about the journal, analyzing contemporary social and political developments; please visit http://journals.sagepub.com/home/ctp. 3. whether public spheres are becoming private spheres and private spheres becoming public, and with what With full financial support from Zhejiang University, all events of consequences; the preconference are free to participants. Registration is also free 4. how the advent of data technologies is re-shaping journalism, and will be limited to 60 persons. After accepted presenters and complicating further not only its relationships with political panelists have registered, registration will be open to anyone until operations, but also its credibility and viability as a public the cap of 60 is reached. institution; 5. how new conditions of networked connectivity and circulation, and the data they generate, affect a host of concepts related to publics and publicity – such as strangerhood, anonymity, ‘THE PARTICIPATORY TURN’ TEN YEARS LATER privacy, openness, transparency, intersubjectivity, dialogue, TRUST/DISTRUST AND ENGAGEMENT/DISENGAGEMENT participation, speech freedom, identity, personhood, Prague, Czech Republic Thursday May 24, 2018, 0930-1600 authoritarianism, democracy, and more. Sponsored by the following ICA divisions: Journalism Studies; Philosophy, Theory and Critique; Political Communication, and Other possible paper topics may include, but are not limited to, Popular Communication. the following: Deadline for Extended Abstracts: December 18, 2017

· transparency of public data THEME · privacy of personal data This ICA preconference marks the anniversary of the participatory · data activism and politics turn: a decade ago, there was widespread optimism about · data collection and protection the creative, economic and democratic potential of audience · data and governance participation in the media. New technology and increased · data and surveillance competition pressured established media to rethink their December 2017 ICA Newsletter | 3 relationship with audiences, while internet and social media opened unprecedented participatory possibilities. In the passing decade, both positive and negative implications of the participatory turn have come to the forefront of media debate and scholarship. The participatory turn has led not only to increased engagement and involvement, but also to participatory fatigue, disengagement and resistance.

This preconference explores how participation as a concept, strategy and practice has developed over the last decade, and engages participants in a dialogue concerning contradictions and dilemmas.

We welcome contributions emphasising one or more of the following dimensions:

• Concepts, theories, approaches: How is participation in mass and social media understood and conceptualized within various approaches? In what ways are issues of trust and distrust, engagement and disengagement linked with popular email or in a separate attachment. participation in the media? • Organisation, production and the construction of participatory The extended abstracts will be subject to double blind peer : What characterizes the different formats and review. Decisions on acceptance will be made by January 22, roles for audiences in media production? How is audience 2018. participation and ordinariness constructed and negotiated in media content? Authors of accepted abstracts are expected to attend the pre- • Disappointment, distrust and resistance: How have missed conference and present in person. Participation fee (including opportunities and disappointment with the implications of the coffee break and lunch) is US $75 for presenters and non- participatory turn resulted in lack of trust, disengagement and presenters. resistance? ORGANIZERS AIMS • Trine Syvertsen, Professor of Media Studies, University of The aim of the preconference is to bring together participants from Oslo. E-mail [email protected] different fields of media and communication studies to a cross- • Gunn Enli, Professor of Media Studies, University of Oslo. disciplinary dialogue on participatory culture, trust/distrust and E-mail [email protected] engagement/disengagement. • Ignacio Bergillos, Lecturer of Media Studies and Journalism at CESAG, Comillas Pontifical University in Palma de In addition to a critical assessment of the implications of the Mallorca. E-mail: [email protected] participatory turn, the aim is to identify clusters of potential • Karoline Andrea Ihlebæk, post-doctoral research fellow in collaborators for 1-2 competitive panels for upcoming conferences Media Studies, University of Oslo. (ICA, ECREA, other). E-mail [email protected]

The preconference is based on presentations from participants, a keynote address and a panel discussion. Examining the Construction of Roma Identity, Voice, and Keynote speaker is Mark Deuze, professor of Media Studies in Representation the University of Amsterdam, author of Media Work (Polity, 2007) Organizer: Azeta Hatef, Doctoral Candidate, The and Media Life (Polity, 2014). Deuze will discuss trust, distrust Pennsylvania State University and participatory experiences under the title: The Straitjacket of Participatory Culture. May 23, 2018, 8:00am-12:00pm Location: Masaryk University, Brno Czech Republic SUBMISSION AND SELECTION PROCESS The conference is based on extended abstracts of 1000-1500 The Roma of East-Central Europe make up one of the largest words. ethnic minority groups throughout the region and experience ideological, social, economic, and political discrimination. Efforts Submit extended abstracts to: participationpreconica18@ to confront these injustices have been met with significant gmail.com by December 18, 2017. The extended abstracts challenges. For example, Roma identity is incredibly diverse, should include main idea/argument, research questions, short which leads to and complicates various initiatives working towards literature review and/or theoretical perspectives, information on the more equal treatment of the group. However, the Roma are methodology and empirical findings (if relevant). often presented as a single and stereotyped experience. This raises questions about voice and representation, a key theme We welcome different approaches, including discussions of in this year’s ICA conference. How is Roma identity created? literature, concepts and theories, historical perspectives and Who speak for the Roma? What roles do media play in such empirical analyses. constructions and authorities? How may Roma voices be elevated to better understand the experiences of the group and maximize All submitted abstracts must be anonymous with no reference to cultural and political participation? author(s). Include name, affiliation and contact details either in the 4 | December 2017 ICA Newsletter This panel seeks to 1) understand the construction of Roma Public relations scholarship has witnessed considerable growth identity 2) the voices that represent the Roma 3) the challenges in the number of network-based studies over the past decade. that develop from these representations of Roma experiences. We believe that the network perspective can offer a sophisticated We call for diverse approaches that examine these topics. theoretical explanation of how complex relationships affect many aspects of public relations practice. We invite paper proposals that explore, but are not restricted to, the following questions: For an ICA preconference and special issue in Public Relations Review, we invite quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-method • How is Roma identity constructed/presented at the local, studies that use the range of network analytic techniques (i.e. national, and transnational level? whole and ego network approaches). Studies may include, but • How are Roma voices constructed/presented at the local, are not limited to, data from hyperlinks, semantic texts, social national, and transnational level? media,“big” data, secondary sources, and offline interaction • What are the implications of the seeming lack of diversity in patterns among individuals, groups, and/or organizations. Romani voices and experiences? • How is Roma identity and voice presented in the media? To advance the adoption and development of network theory and - What role do media play in the representation and research in public relations, this special issue and preconference construction of Roma voices and identity? invites contributions in, but not limited to, the following areas: - How can communities best respond to negative media Advocacy and Social Networks, Network Agenda-Building, portrayals of the Roma? Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Communication and • How can Roma challenge/reclaim the images and voices that Social Networks, Networked Crisis Communication, Networked represent the community? Relationship Management, Public Diplomacy on Digital Media. • What is the role of language in the construction of Romani All submissions will be reviewed for their contribution to advance identity? public relations theory building and practice. - How are these voices silenced or elevated? • How do organizations/government-related agencies/advocacy ICA Preconference Dates networks work alongside Roma communities? Jan. 1, 2018: Deadline for abstracts (500 words). Guideline for submission: Submit abstracts of 500 words, Email to [email protected] and [email protected]. together with participant’s name, position, institutional affiliation, Feb. 1, 2018: Decisions regarding ICA preconference announced and email address in MS Word by December 31, 2017. to authors. Decisions will be sent to participants by January 31st. May 1, 2018: Deadline for full manuscripts for the ICA preconference. Please submit abstracts and any questions regarding this May 24, 2018: ICA Preconference at conference hotel. preconference via email to [email protected] Special Issue Dates Registration fee: $25 June 1, 2018: Initial manuscript submitted to Public Relations Lodging and transportation: Participants are welcome to travel to Review. Brno on their own. Group discounts for lodging and transportation Sept. 15, 2018: Decisions and revisions announced to authors. are also available for those planning to stay in Brno prior to the Dec. 15, 2018: Final manuscripts due from authors to the editorial preconference. team. March 1, 2019: Planned publication of special issue online and in Arrangements are set for travel to Prague on May 24th with a hard copy. group- rate discount. • One night at the Hotel Continental: $62 (single) $82 (double) • Group rate for train from Brno to Prague: $10

ICA Preconference & Special Issue in Public Relations Review Call for Manuscripts Embracing the Network Paradigm: New Directions in Public Relations Research Guest co-editors Aimei Yang | Assistant Professor Adam Saffer | Assistant Professor

Scholars are increasingly applying a network perspective to examine a range of phenomena. A network perspective reasons that relationships are the basic building blocks of societies and it helps us to answer questions about the connections among individuals, groups, organizations, as well as nonhuman actors. December 2017 ICA Newsletter | 5 We look forward to reviewing the past forty years’ dissemination of Chinese Communication discipline Data and Communication with scholars from China and overseas through Organizers: Chinese Communication Association ([email protected]) dialogues and reflections. We will examine and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Media & Design discuss the past achievement, existing challenges, as ([email protected]) well as lessons learned from the past through different Date & Time: 13:00pm-17:00pm May 24th, 2018 Location: ICA Conference Hotel see PRECONFERENCE, page 15 Estimated Attendance: 50 Registration fee: $10.00 USD Deadline for submissions: December 31, 2017 Fair Use Q & A Human communication gravitates increasingly toward digital and data technology. This trend is rather salient in developing countries like China. Up Dear ICA, to June 2017, 751 million (54.3%) of the Chinese population use the Internet, and a majority of them (96.3%) access the Internet through their mobile Q I’m comparing the framing of news in devices. It is common for users – especially the young generations – to handle various venues, and want to publish every aspect of life and work on smartphones, including reading news, paying my results with an online journal where bills, ordering meals and getting entertained. It is safe to say the Chinese I can use different media (e.g. radio, society has been transformed by digital technology and data. , TV, newspapers, magazines). What are the rules about how much I can In concert with the ICA conference theme of “Voices,” our pre-conference use for free? I’m a grad student, and my focuses on the communication processed reshaped by digital technology university won’t pay for any licensing, and data. We want to focus on the theme whether digital media bring us more even if I can get in touch with the outlet’s voices or divide us into different segmented society? We invite scholars from licensing arm. across ICA’s divisions to discuss their work related to data and communication from various epistemological and methodological backgrounds. We welcome Thanks, discussions at the individual, group, organizational and societal levels. Please Yi submit full paper or extended abstracts to Dr. Zhou at [email protected] by

December 31st, 2017. Dear Yi, The following are themes we want to focus on:

• Data and the public sphere A Sounds like a great project! If you’re in • Data and the public life the U.S., you can consider whether you • Use and abuse of public data have access to fair use. As you make • Computational journalism your decisions, your best friend is ICA’s • Impact of VR and AR on journalism Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for • Cyberblog and its implication Communication Research. Read the • Individual and social settings introduction and the first category! • Consumer setting As the Code makes clear (but you should • Work and organization setting verify), it seems you do have a strong • Legal and regulatory setting argument for employment of fair use, • Surveillance setting the robust doctrine in U.S. copyright • Entertainment setting policy that allows free use of copyrighted • Business and new technology material under some circumstances. • Use and abuse of public data There are no fixed rules or numbers for • Mobile technology and society change how much you should take, but there • Impact of VR and AR on journalism are general “rules of reason.” Judges these days—and for a couple of decades now—pay great attention to whether your use is transformative. That means using Voices of Chinese Scholars over the Last 40 years something differently than its market 29 May 2018 Prague Czech Republic purpose. A radio news spot is designed to 29 May 2018 Tuesday; 8:30 am – 5:00 pm; inform people at the time. You are doing Hilton Prague hotel something different—analyzing its news frame. Once the transformative purpose As the 40th anniversary of Chinese Communication Scholarship is is established, judges look closely at approaching, we invite scholars to participate in the 2018 ICA Post- appropriateness—how much you took in conference together with the 8th Global Communication Forum: Voices of relation to the transformative purpose. Chinese Scholars Over the Last 40 Years, with a focus on timely issues Sometimes taking 100% (like with of communication and social interaction in China. This post-conference photographs) is entirely appropriate. But is designed to be held at the 2018 ICA conference site in Prague, Czech often you only need a short example from Republic. Using this 40 year landmark, this post-conference celebrates the work you are analyzing. past accomplishments while tracing themes and insights into the present as a foundation for innovative Chinese Communication scholarship in the Patricia Aufderheide for ICA upcoming decade(s).

6 | December 2017 ICA Newsletter by Julie Randolph & Kristine Rosa, MEMBERSHIP COLUMN ICA Membership Team Congratulating the winning renewals!

Earlier this fall, ICA encouraged members to renew early by 30 September for the chance to win FREE registration for the 2018 Annual Conference in Prague. Members who renewed by 30 September automatically had their names entered for a chance to win.

We are delighted to share the three winners, randomly selected, one from each Tier*.

WINNIE N. MBATHA MARIA TERESA NICOLAS JOSEPH WASSERMAN Daystar U, KENYA U of Panamericana, MEXICO West Virginia U, USA

We wish to thank every member who participated by renewing prior to the contest deadline. As members continue to complete renewals, please know we are thrilled to have you and thankful for your ongoing commitment to the ICA community!

Thank you for being a valued ICA member and best wishes for the coming New Year.

*ICA has a triple-tiered dues structure following the UN model for A, B, and C countries, based on the World Bank’s indicators of Gross National Income. Residents of B-tier countries pay 75% of the A-tier price and residents of C-tier countries pay 50% of the A-tier price. 41 preconferences 2 postconferences

8 1 0 2 E Take your pick and submit! GU ICA PRA

ICA & SUSTAINABILITY As ICA works to reduce our waste and carbon footprint, every member can help. When planning conference travel, you can reduce fuel consumption by limiting the number of flights you take, taking public transit after flying and staying close to the conference hotel. When packing, bring a reusable water bottle and travel mug to easily handle hot and cold beverages without disposable cups. As the conference wraps up, consider holding on to your lanyard and badge holder for next year¹s conference. If combining your ICA travel with vacation, explore the conference region instead of flying elsewhere. While these sustainable travel tips are tiny steps, if we all move forward as an organization, they will signal the scholarly community¹s commitment to tackling environmental issues head on.

December 2017 ICA Newsletter | 7 by Tamar Lazar & Julie Escurignan STUDENT COLUMN ICA Student Board Members Calling for Student and Early Career Division and Interest Group Representatives

Since the beginning of the academic year, the Student and Early It is compulsory for Students and Early Career Scholars to be Career Advisory Committee (SECAC) has been working to put represented in every Division/Interest Group. If you would like to together an up-to-date list of all Student and Early-Career Division serve your fellow Students and Early Career Scholars as well as & Interest Group Representatives (SECDR). Our goal is to make it ICA, do not hesitate to volunteer for the next election! available on our website so each and everyone of you can contact your Division(s)/Interest Group(s) representative(s) whenever you SECDR list need to. The SECAC also plans on better involving all Student and Early Career Representatives into its processes, from Division Student and Early Career Reps decision making to writing in the newsletter. Children, Adolescents and the Shina Alade and Cecelia Zhou Media SECDRs are students or early career scholars [i.e. who submitted Communication & Technology Christine Cook their dissertation within the past two years] and members of the Division/Interest group. During their two-year term they participate Communication History Samantha Oliver in their Division/Interest group meetings and activities, all year Environmental Communication Adina Tamar Abeles long as well as during ICA annual conference. They focus on and Jeff Hoffman needs and opportunities related to SEC members, participate Ethnicity and Race in Comm Tara Pixley in organizing summer schools, preconferences, Blue Sky workshops, mentoring programs etc., and disseminate information Feminist Scholarship Rosemary Clark-Parsons to SEC members on behalf of the Division/Interest group. Game Studies Elizabeth Newbury and Joe Wasserman If our efforts have been successful most of the Student and Early Career Division and Interest Group Representatives are now Global Communication & Ju-Oak Kim known (See the list below). Social Change Health Communication 2016-18: Yen-I Lee; Zexin We are still waiting to receive the names of representatives of (Marsha) Ma and Camella these Divisions/Interest Groups: Rising 2017-19: Mackenzie • Communication Law and Policy Greenwell, Samantha Stanley • Mass Communication and Sydney O’Shay Wallace • Visual Communication Information Systems Alex Hedstrom • Computational Methods and Anthony Almond • Media Industry Studies Instructional & Developmental Paromita Pain If you are one of these representative or if you know about an Communication error in the SECDR list, please contact us at: Intercultural Communication Yu Lu [email protected] Interpersonal Communication Elizabeth Dorrance Hall

From this year onward, it is required for every Division Journalism Studies Alla Rybina and Natacha and Interest Group to have a Student and Early Career Yazbeck Representative. If your Division/Interest Group does not have a Language & Social Interaction Sarah Cho representative yet and you would like to apply, please email the Organizational Communication Millie Harrison Chair of your Division/Interest Group! Philosophy, Theory & Critique Ido Ramati Political Communication Shannon McGregor Popular Communication Jennifer Carlberg Public Relations Phuong Hoan Le Interest Group Student and Early Career Rep Activism, Communication & Jasmine Erdener Social Justice Communication Science & Clare Grall Biology Intergroup Communication Marko Drajojevic LGBTQ Lukasz Szulc & Lik Sam Chan Mobile Communication Raeul Ferrer Sports Communication Qingru Xu

8 | December 2017 ICA Newsletter MEMBER NEWS

This column includes new postings with the latest news from ICA member news, as well as outside publication announcements. All ICA members are encouraged to submit their latest professional news for inclusion in the Newsletter by emailing Jennifer Le at [email protected].

NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT Available in paperback, hardback and eBook editions at Peter Lang and wherever fine books are sold. Book Release November 30, 2017 Drones: Media Discourse & The Public Imagination By Kevin Howley (Peter Lang, 2018) ISBN-13: 978-1433126406 NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT ISBN-10: 1433126400 Constructing Digital Cultures: Tweets, Trends, Race, and Drones: Media Discourse & The Public Imagination starts with Gender a basic premise: technology shapes and is shaped by the By Judith Rosenbaum, [email protected] we tell about it. Stories about drones – at once anxious Publisher: Lexington Books and hopeful, fearful and awe-inspired – are emblematic of This new book examines how serves as the intersection the profound ambivalence that frequently accompanies the between popular culture and social identity. introduction of new technologies. Through critical analysis of You can find more information on the book in the blurb a variety of cultural forms – from newspaper headlines, nightly below and on the publisher’s website: https://rowman.com/ newscasts, and documentary films to advertising, entertainment ISBN/9781498546911/Constructing-Digital-Cultures-Tweets- media, and graphic arts — this book demonstrates the prevalence Trends-Race-and-Gender of drones in global battlefields and domestic airspace, public discourse and the popular imagination. Written in a lively, Twitter has become a space where ordinary citizens and world- engaging and accessible style, Kevin Howley argues that leaders alike share their thoughts and ideas. As a result, some media discourse plays a decisive role in shaping these new argue Twitter has leveled the playing field, while others reject technologies, understanding their application in various spheres this view as too optimistic. This has led to an ongoing debate of human activity, and integrating them into everyday life. Doing about the platform’s democratizing potential and whether activity so, Howley highlights the relationship between discursive and on Twitter engenders change or merely magnifies existing material practice in the social construction of technology. voices. Constructing Digital Cultures explores these issues and more through an in-depth examination of how Twitter users About the Author collaborate to create cultural understandings. Looking closely Kevin Howley is Professor of Media Studies at DePauw at how user-generated narratives renegotiate dominant ideas University. His work has appeared in the Journal of Radio about gender and race, this volume provides insight into the Studies, Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, Social nature of digital culture produced on Twitter and the platform’s Movement Studies and Television and New Media. He is author potential as a virtual public sphere. Constructing Digital Cultures of Community Media: People, Places, and Communication investigates arenas of discussion often seen on Twitter—from Technologies (2005), and editor of Understanding Community entertainment and popular culture to politics, social justice Media (2010) and Media Interventions (2013). issues, and advertising—and looks into how members of ethnic minority groups use and relate to the platform. Through an in- Contents depth examination of individual expressions, the different kinds Introduction: “Don’t Call Them Drones” of dialogue that characterize the platform, and various ways in Part I Perpetual War which people connect, Constructing Digital Cultures provides a 1. Technological Dreams and Killing Machines, or Drones and critical, empirically based consideration of Twitter’s potential as an The Sublime inclusive, egalitarian public sphere for the modern age. 2. A New Kind of War 3. Murder Incorporated 4. Part II Domesticating Drones 5. Unmanned: Drones for Fun and Profit NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT 6. Eye in the Sky: Regimes of Surveillance 7. Reporting the Drone Wars Scripts and Communication for Relationships, Second Part III Witnessing Edition by James M. Honeycutt and Pavica Sheldon; Peter 8. Survivors Speak Lang Publishers 9. Mr. Al-Muslimi Goes to Washington https://www.peterlang.com/view/product/81759 10. Distributed Intimacies: Robotic Warfare and Drone Whistleblowers Contents: Part IV Resistance Chapter 1. The Pursuit of Intimacy and Relational Scripts 11. Direct Action and Media Activism Chapter 2. Emotion and Cognition about Relationships 12. “I Have a Drone”: Internet Memes and Digital Dissent Chapter 3. Generating and Maintaining Relationships through 13. Think Locally, Bomb Globally: Satirizing Drones Imagined Interactions Conclusion: Twenty-First Century Empire and Communication Chapter 4. Physiology and Relationships Endorsements Chapter 5. Schemata, Scenes, and Scripts for Relationships Chapter 6. Development of Relationships: Stage Theories and

December 2017 ICA Newsletter | 9 Relational script Theory Chapter 7. Scripts for Romantic Development and Decline Chapter 8. Semantics of Break-ups Chapter 9. Online Communication and Relational Scripts Chapter 10. Scripts for Office Romance: Approved or Forbidden? Chapter 11. Dysfunctional Scripts for Abusive Relationships Chapter 12. The Dark Side of Social Media Communication Chapter 13. Scripts for Constructive Communication

This book discusses the basis of relationship scripts, emotions, imagery, and physiology of relationships including romance, friendship, work associates, mentors, and social media friends. We argue that people’s expectations for relational development influence their communication, faith, and commitment in relationships. Misconstruing sexual or flirtatious intent, for example, is derived from having different scripts about attraction. We discuss abusive relationships including social media influences on relationships as well as abuse, stalking, verbal and physical aggression.

This book is designed for classes in psychology, communication, sociology, family studies, and social work. It provides a comprehensive overview of how scripts and communication are used in relationships.

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10 | December 2017 ICA Newsletter DIVISION & INTEREST GROUP NEWS

This column includes new postings with the latest news from ICA Division and Interest Group chairs, whether for their own members or for readers outside the Division/IG. Division/IG chairs are encouraged to submit their latest news by emailing Jennifer Le at [email protected].

COMMUNICATION AND TECHNOLOGY DIVISION 3. A one-page abstract of the dissertation; 4. A representative chapter or selected sections of the Dear CAT community, dissertation, OR a paper summarizing the dissertation study, problem/hypothesis and rationale, methods, and findings, I would like to take this opportunity to briefly introduce myself – hi! of up to 30 pages in length (double-spaced, excluding My name is Chrissy Cook, and I am both a Canadian PhD student references and figures; approximately 7,500 words). at Tilburg U, and your division’s new Early Career and Graduate Student representative. My job is essentially to be our newest Please submit the nominations and address any questions to Mike members’ gateway to the division board. If you are a student or Yao (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Chair of the ICA CAT postdoc (or a humble assistant professor) and you have an idea, Awards Committee, [email protected]. concern, or question that you want to bring to the table, I am your ‘in’, so to speak. My other job is to make sure that you are all Best regards, taken care of and have a great time at our events, and particularly Mike Yao, Ph.D. our ever-famous doctoral consortium preconference. In the spirit ICA CAT Awards Committee Chair of communication, therefore, I would like to start a dialogue with Associate Professor of Digital Media, College of Media you about what you would like to see from CAT in the coming U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign years in terms of graduate studies and early career. If you have an idea or something that you want to make happen, I encourage you to send me an e-mail at [email protected] so we can work together to make sure CAT is not just the biggest division, but also ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNICATION DIVISION the best for you. ICA Environmental Communication Division Dissertation Sincerely, Award Chrissy Cook DEADLINE: 1 March, 2018

* * * The ICA Environmental Communication Division’s dissertation Dear CAT members, award recognizes the best in doctoral research and dissertation writing in environmental communication. The 2018 award will be The ICA Communication and Technology Division (CAT) is the inaugural competition of the division. The award will be given seeking nominations the Herbert S. Dordick Dissertation in even-numbered years thereafter. The winner will be recognized Award. The submission deadline award nomination is 12:00 am with a certificate and cash award during the division’s business GMT, March 1, 2018. Any doctoral dissertation in the area of meeting at the annual conference. communication and technology, completed and defended between 1 January and 31 December of 2017, is eligible for consideration. Nominations for the award are invited from programs and This Dordick Dissertation Award honors the memory of Herbert institutions granting a Ph.D. in any aspect of communication S. Dordick (1925-1998), a distinguished telecommunications or related fields (e.g. environmental studies, political science, engineer, public/urban policy researcher and intellectual, teacher sociology). The rules for the competition are as follows: and mentor. The Dordick Dissertation Award recognizes the most outstanding doctoral dissertation in the area of communication 1) Dissertations completed between January 1 and December 31 and technology completed and defended in the preceding (inclusive) for 2 years prior to the conference year are eligible for year, and is presented annually at the business meeting of the consideration. For this first competition, dissertations completed Communication and Technology Division of the International AND successfully defended between January 1, 2016 and Communication Association. December 31, 2017 are eligible.

Dissertation authors need not be members of ICA or the CAT 2) The dissertation advisor, dissertation committee member, Division for their work to be considered, but Award recipients graduate program director, faculty colleague, or the nominee may must be ICA members at the time the Award is given (i.e., the ICA make nominations. Nominations have to be made with a cover annual conference in the year after completing the dissertation). letter indicating the scholarly strengths of the work. In the case of Self-nominations are welcome. a self-nomination, a cover letter from the advisor must accompany the nomination. Nomination materials should include: 3) A manuscript that summarizes the key elements of the 1. Full contact information of the dissertation author, including dissertation must be submitted with all nominations. The summary name, surface mail address, email address, and phone must follow these guidelines: number; 2. A cover letter or statement (1-2 pages) by the nominator • The manuscript must not exceed 30 pages of text (double describing the significance of the work and its merit/suitability spaced, 12-point font, 1-inch margins) plus references, for the Award; tables, appendix, etc.

December 2017 ICA Newsletter | 11 • The manuscript should clearly identify and include the Communication Divisions, with the ICA Chair serving as the award rationale, theoretical framework, research questions, relevant coordinator. literature, methods, results, and conclusions. • The submitted manuscript must include a cover sheet The nomination packet should include (a) a cover letter with the that contains only the title and the abstract. All identifying name, postal address, telephone number and email address of information has to be removed from the text of the paper and the nominee and his or her advisor(s) and completion date of the the file properties. thesis or dissertation, and (b) a summary (excluding title page and • The manuscript and accompanying documents must be references) of the thesis or dissertation not exceeding 5 pages (8 submitted as a single PDF document. ½ x 11” page, Times New Roman 12 point font, double-spaced, • Full dissertations or chapters of dissertations will not be one-inch margins on all sides, and in English; not counting title accepted for review. page and references). The 5-page summary should describe • Submissions that do not meet these guidelines will be clearly and concisely the study’s rationale, theoretical framework, returned without undergoing review. research questions, methods, results, and conclusions. Care should be taken to mask the identity of the author within the text 4) All materials must be received by 1 March 2018 and should of the summary. The summary should include a title page that be submitted via email to the ICA Environmental Communication contains only the title of the thesis or dissertation. Complete Division Chair: Bruno Takahashi, Michigan State U, theses or dissertations or chapters of same will not be accepted [email protected] for review. Reviewers will be instructed not to read beyond the first 5 pages of text. PLEASE SUBMIT PACKET AS A MS WORD DOCUMENT—NOT AS A PDF.

HEALTH COMMUNICATION On or near Feb 23rd, a slate of up to 3 finalists for each award will be selected by the evaluation committee. Finalists will be 2018 ICA/NCA Amanda L. Kundrat Thesis of the Year and invited to submit an extended integrated summary of the thesis Abby Prestin Dissertation Awards or dissertation not exceeding 30 pages (double-spaced, one-inch margins on all sides, and in English). These summaries will be Each year, a committee composed of leaders from the Health reviewed by the committee and the award winners will be selected Communication Divisions of the ICA and NCA reviews Masters from among the finalists. Theses and Doctoral Dissertations submitted for consideration. Authors of the top-rated thesis and top-rated dissertation (and Send an electronic copy of the nomination packet including cover their faculty advisors) are recognized at the annual division letter and 5-page summary to: business meeting during ICA’s conference with the presentation Evelyn Y. Ho of a certificate and cash award and are also acknowledged at the Chair, ICA Health Communication Division annual NCA division business meeting. Email: [email protected]

In 2010, the Thesis of the Year Award was renamed the Amanda The deadline for receipt of the nomination packets is February L. Kundrat Health Communication Thesis of the Year thanks to 1, 2018. Nomination packets received after that date will not be an endowment created by the Kundrat family for that award. reviewed. Amanda’s MA thesis previously won the Thesis of the Year Award. see DIVISION NEWS, page 26 The dissertation award is given in honor of the late Abby Prestin, an exemplary health communication scholar and person who tragically passed away on 3 September, 2014 at the age of 34 after a year-long battle with lymphoma. Both her MA Thesis and PhD Dissertations won these awards, and the Award is endowed by her family and friends.

For more information about these endowments and ways for you to contribute to this fund, please go to http://www.icahdq.org/ donations/default.asp? and look for the two funds alphabetized under the name “Health Communication.”

REQUIREMENTS & INSTRUCTIONS

ICA and NCA are pleased to release a call for outstanding masters theses and doctoral dissertations in the area of health communication. A cash award is given in the amount of US$500 each for the top dissertation and top thesis.

To be considered for the 2018 awards, theses and dissertations must have been completed (defended) between 1 September 2016 and 31 December 2017. If the completion date was in the last four months of 2016, the thesis or dissertation cannot have been submitted for last year’s (2017) competition. Individuals may nominate themselves, but advisors must be notified of the nomination. Thesis and dissertation nominations will be evaluated by a panel of officers and members of the ICA and NCA Health 12 | December 2017 ICA Newsletter CALLS FOR PAPERS

Visit our Resources section for more Call for Papers: http://www.icahdq.org/page/CFP.

Video Competition: What does Intercultural Dialogue Look be free of sexist and discriminatory language. Upon notification Like? of acceptance of a manuscript, the author must provide a copy of the completed manuscript as well as camera-ready copy of The Center for Intercultural Dialogue (CID) has organized its first any artwork and figures, and must assign copyright to the Taylor ever video competition, open to students enrolled in any college & Francis Group, LLC. -Inquiries may be made to the Editor, or university during the 2017-2018 academic year. To enter, Jennifer Samp, U of Georgia, at [email protected]. participants must submit a video no longer than 2 minutes that highlights the importance of intercultural dialogue, responding to -Books for review and book review ideas should be submitted to the question: “What does intercultural dialogue look like?” Entries Mary Beth Asbury, Middle Tennessee State U, will be accepted April 15-May 31, 2018. [email protected]

One winner will receive a US$200 prize. The top 20 entries will be posted to the CID YouTube channel, and be highlighted on the CID website, along with posts describing the creators and CFP: Refugee Socialities and the Media special issue for highlighting each of their videos, throughout the rest of 2018. Popular Communication

Submissions will be evaluated based on originality, clarity, A Special Issue for the journal Popular Communication cultural message, effective use of technology, and overall impact. Students can work independently or in groups. Please encourage Issue Editors: Jonathan Corpus Ong (U of Massachusetts) your students to get creative, show off their skills and have fun and Maria Rovisco (U of Leicester) with this topic. This special issue explores the ways in which diverse media Further details and submission rules available: https:// and artistic genres cultivate social relationships with and among centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/2017/11/13/cid-video- refugees and internally displaced populations. Building on competition-what-does-intercultural-dialogue-look-like/ political-economic studies of forced migration and critiques of humanitarian securitization in the European ‘refugee crisis’ Contact Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, CID Director, with any questions: response, this collection draws attention to the role of media and [email protected] popular communication in shaping the affective dimension of the refugee experience and citizen response. While this collection engages with the dominant discourses that amalgamate fears about diverse migrant communities in Europe and North America, Call for Manuscripts and Book Reviews: Southern it invites deeper reflection on the social arrangements and Communication Journal emotional expressions afforded by a broader range of: popular communication genres, technological interventions, artistic The Southern Communication Journal publishes original spaces, and everyday media practices. The theme ‘Refugee scholarship that makes significant contributions to understanding Socialities and the Media’ thus redirects focus onto how popular the processes and consequences of human communication. media forms and mediated interactions materialize and visualize The journal is not limited with regard to topic, methodological processes of inclusion and exclusion and create possibilities for approach, or theoretical perspective, although authors must coping and healing for refugees. establish the significance of the research, soundness of methodological choices, and appropriateness of theoretical The special issue invites submissions engaging with a broad perspectives. We seek to publish articles and book reviews that range of mediated socialities–from hospitality to conviviality to will be of interest to scholars, researchers, and practitioners of hostility–that are experienced by refugees in global context. It communication. also adopts a broad notion of refugee and asylum-seeker; we thus aim to consider environmental refugees such as those in the SCJ employs a process of blind review, although the editor Caribbean, economic refugees such as those in Hong Kong, and reserves the right to return without benefit of review manuscripts political refugees such as the Rohingya in Myanmar. that are outside of the mission of the journal, are deeply flawed, or do not conform to the guidelines listed below. Authors should We welcome papers that address areas including but not limited submit their work electronically to the Manuscript Central website to: for SCJ: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rsjc - Everyday media practices among refugees All manuscripts should include an abstract of approximately 150 - Imaginaries of refugees in popular culture and their creative words and a list of key words that clearly indicate the scholarly interruptions conversation to which the essay contributes. Submissions may be - Artistic, entertainment and technological interventions in the in either APA or Chicago, and must be original research not under borderlands (i.e., refugee camps) review elsewhere. - Media events, sports rituals, fandoms in contexts of displacement Manuscripts should not normally exceed 25 double-spaced pages, - Affective dimension of digital humanitarianism, volunteerism, and including text, references, notes, tables, and figures. Writing must fundraising for refugees

December 2017 ICA Newsletter | 13 - Celebrities, influencers, and CFP: Special issue of Social Media + alternatives by collectives such as Unlike communities in the refugee response Society on Alternative Social Media Us (http://networkcultures.org/unlikeus/). - Participatory media projects with Earlier instances of ASM included refugees After Social Media: Alternatives, New diaspora*, built as a critical response to the - Inter-migrant interactions, perceptions, Beginnings, and Socialized Media growing dominance of in the late and organizations 2000s, with a goal of decentralizing social - Media and (open-)home-making and Editors: Fenwick McKelvey, Sean media data and allowing end users more emergent forms of hospitality Lawson, and Robert W. Gehl control over their personal information. - Mobile and geolocating media including Later, decentralized systems, such as refugee apps and dating apps in processes The editors seeks 500 word abstracts and GNU social, came online as of resettlement and acculturation for proposed articles for a special issue alternatives to Twitter. of Social Media + Society on “alternative Deadlines: social media.” The editors welcome The alternative gained a lot proposals from scholars, practitioners, of attention, especially due to its manifesto - 15 January, 2018: Extended abstracts and activists from across disciplinary with the opening provocation: “Your due (500-800 words) boundaries so long as the work is critical is owned by advertisers.” and empirically rich. Alternatives to Facebook and Twitter - 30 January: Decisions announced have even appeared on the Dark Web Our call starts with a question: what (see https://socialmediaalternatives.org/ - 15 April: Papers due (6,000 words) The comes after social media? It is hard archive/items/browse?tags=dark+web for editors are open to discuss proposals to imagine something other than the examples). and welcome inquiries at jcong@umass. current configuration of social media edu (Jonathan) or [email protected] – of Facebook and Twitter – but signs As they have developed over the past (Maria). of discontent abound. Social media several years, alternatives decried the companies have become deputized censorship and manipulation of content to police and moderate whilst being found in corporate social media. Building accused of poisoning civil discourse. Their on this, new alternatives dedicated to Call for Abstracts integration of advertising and targeting “free speech” arose during and after the signals a new epoch of promotional contentious elections in Western countries Public Relations in a Global Context culture, but no one trusts the media in 2016 and 2017, including the Twitter anymore. As Brooke Duffy argues in alternative . Proclaiming its defense The Athens Institute for Education and (Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love, of free speech – especially against the Research (ATINER) everyone can create, so long as they don’t perceived liberal bias of Silicon Valley- mind growing broke doing so. In sum, based corporate sites – Gab promises 16th Annual International Conference today’s social media is broken... but what’s freedom for everyone, including the “alt on Communication and Media Studies, next? right” and white supremacists, to speak. May 14-17, 2018 For the past several years, one answer But other networks, such as the federated The Academic Committee of the Athens to “what’s next?” has been “alternative system , have been built to allow Institute for Education and research social media.” Alternative social media for powerful moderation of discourse, invites scholars to submit paper encompasses a wide range of systems, with Codes of Conduct that often prohibit abstracts for presentation and the 16th from diaspora* to Ello to Tokumei. In hate, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, Annual International Conference on contrast to what Robert Gehl calls or racist speech. Indeed, while they are Communication and Media Studies in “corporate social media,” such as wildly divergent in their politics, both Gab Athens, Greece, May 14-17, 2018. The Facebook, Twitter, and Mastodon have positioned themselves research stream, Public Relations in a as antidotes to corporate social media. Global Context, will allow professors from Google+, and Pinterest, alternative social These debates over speech in ASM echo around the world to address the status media (ASM) “allows for users the longstanding tension identified by of public relations on a global scale by alternative media scholars, where many discussing contemporary tops. Specific to share content and connect with alternative media developers seek to topic areas may include corporate one another but also denies the socialize media and bring it in line with social responsibility, cross-cultural commercialization of speech, allows users leftist politics, but see their discourses collaboration, reputation management, more access to shape the underlying appropriated by right-wing media crisis communications, citizen diplomacy, technical infrastructure, and radically organizations. global public relations measurement, experiments with surveillance regimes” global media management, technological (see http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/ Regardless of whether they are right or innovations, freedom of information, full/10.1177/2056305115604338). left, alternative social media face a simply professional ethics, and the evolution of reality: they just aren’t popular. Compared the professional on a global scale. The Thus, alternative social media may be to the billions of Twitter and Facebook conference is organized by the Mass understood in relation to larger histories of users, alternative sites’ user bases are Media & Communications Unit of ATINER. alternative media, documented by scholars tiny. Whether or not their goal ought to Prior to January 15, submit 400-word such as Megan Boler, Nick Couldry, be massive scale, the powerful network abstracts using form found at https://www. Chris Atton, and Clemencia Rodriguez, effects of corporate social media – as well atiner.gr/med-streams and carried through into social media as the bewildering array of alternatives

see CALLS FOR PAPERS, page 28

14 | December 2017 ICA Newsletter paper authors will also be invited to submit revised versions PRECONFERENCE continued from page 6 after the ICA conference for edited book manuscripts to be voices in the context of globalization and localization. We also published by the conference organizers at a later date. look into the future of Chinese Communication Scholarship for the 5. Please list (1) title of the paper, (2) name(s) of the author(s), next ten years and beyond. (3) affiliation(s), (4) mailing address(es) and (5) email address(es) in your e-mail. Therefore, this combined 2018 ICA post-conference and the 8th 6. Top Paper Award: Top paper awards (students and Global Communication Forum opens a platform for researchers professors) will be distributed in the closing ceremony. interested in the Voices of Chinese Scholars Over the Last 40 years. We cordially invite people and scholars from all over the *All papers, except for invited keynotes and co-sponsor sessions world to share their findings, exchange insights, and make efforts will be competitively reviewed and selected in a masked review to promote communication research. process.

Themes and Submission Important Dates: We invite scholars to submit: (a) Full papers of theoretical and Deadline for Abstracts and Panel Proposals Submission: 31 empirical research papers (25 page limit, including references) (b) December 2017 Deadline for Full Paper submission: 1st February Extended abstracts (1000-1500 words, including references) 2018 Abstract/Paper/Panel Acceptance/Rejection Notification: 1st (c) Proposals of thematic panels with multiple papers (2000 word March 2018 Revised Abstract/Paper Submission: 1st April 2018 limit, including references) on Chinese communication research, Early bird registration: 10 March 2018 reflective thinking, comparative studies between China and the Registration Deadline: 31 March 2018 West, theoretical development in Chinese communication, or empirical communication studies in China. Registration: Registration fee will be $70 USD for non-student attendees and Possible Themes could include but are not limited to: $35 USD for students. The registration fee covers the costs for • Communication in China: Past and Future; conference attendance and conference materials, including 1 • Voices and Dialogues of Chinese Communication Scholars; lunch and 2 coffee/tea breaks. • Methodologies and Theories Innovation in Chinese Communication; Once your paper/panel proposal/abstract is accepted, the • The Education and Reform of Chinese Communications authors must register the post-conference by 31 March 2018, or Scholarship; your papers/panels/abstracts would be withdrawn from the ICA • Globalization and Localization of Chinese Communication post-conference program. All attendees need to pay their own Studies; costs of transportation, accommodation, and breakfast during the • New Media and Development of Chinese Communication; conference. • Innovation and Transformation in Mass Communication; • Innovation and Transformation in Interpersonal Communication; Conference Chairs and Contacts: • Innovation and Transformation in Organizational Communication; • New Development in Advertising and Public Relations; • Media Ethics and Media Law Research; • Media Economics and Media Culture ; • Media and Cultural Creative Industry; • Media Literacy Research; • International Communication & Intercultural Communication; • Political Communication & Public Communication; • Health Communication & Science Communication; • The Rise and Impact of Mobile Media and Social Media;

Language: English and Chinese

Paper/ Abstracts/Panel Submission and Publishing 1. Papers submitted in English must use the APA format; papers submitted in Chinese should follow the standard of Chinese academic publishing. 2. Please send Two copies of your papers, extended abstracts or panel proposals in different Word or pdf files as e-mail attachments to [email protected]. 3. One copy of your paper or panels should be masked for competitive review, and the other copy of the paper or panels should contain a cover page with full contact information. 4. The cover page should include the title of the paper, name(s) of the author(s) as well as affiliation(s). If you are submitting in Chinese, please also submit your titles, abstract, and cover page in English as well as Chinese. Once your paper, panel, or extended abstract is accepted, you can submit a revised/ final version to the organizers by the deadline. Our full

December 2017 ICA Newsletter | 15 Organizing Committee Chairs: ranked journal. • Dr. Zhang Guoliang Head of Global Communication Research Institute, Refugees, Religious Threats, and How to participate: Shanghai Jiao Tong U (SJTU), China; Political Radicalization: Theoretical and Please submit an extended abstract of a Founding President of Communication Empirical Perspectives maximum of five pages (double-spaced, Association of China (CAC); includes all tables, figures, references) to [email protected] co-sponsored by the Political Hajo Boomgaarden (hajo.boomgaarden@ • Dr. Patrice M. BuzzanellChair for the Communication Division & the Department univie.ac.at) by January 7, 2018. Extended Department of Communication, U of of Communication at the U of Vienna abstracts must include a clear discussion South Florida, USA; ICA Fellow and of the research problem, the theoretical Past President; NCA Distinguished Sophie Lecheler (U of Vienna, Austria) framework including literature review, and Scholar; [email protected]; Jörg Matthes (U of Vienna, Austria) describe methods as well as results in [email protected] Hajo Boomgaarden (U of Vienna, Austria) case of empirical work. • Dr. WEI Ran Gonzales Brothers Professor of Journalism, U of South This preconference aims to shed light on Successful applicants will be notified Carolina; Editor-in-Chief The Journal the role of mass or social media during not later than February 1, 2018. The of Information Society; Past President the European refugee crisis. The ongoing preconference will be a full-day conference of the Chinese Communication migration of refugees seeking shelter (9 am to 5 pm), held at the ICA conference Association (CCA), an ICA affiliated within the borders of Europe has fueled hotel in Prague on Wednesday, May 23rd, association; [email protected] the development of increasingly polarized 2018 (costs $40). Full papers will need to societies within Europe, with some political be submitted no later than April 30th, 2018 Executive Committee Chairs: or societal actors stressing humanitarian and will be made available to all those • Dr. Pearl WANG Haoqing (Dean values and others stirring fears of religious participating in the preconference. of Center for Cooperation and threats and rising terror. Education Development of ICCI, If you have questions, please contact Hajo SJTU-USC Institute of Cultural and The media play a central role in this Boomgaarden (hajo.boomgaarden@univie. Creative Industry, a collaboration development; they set the agenda for ac.at), Jörg Matthes (joerg.matthes@ between SJTU and the U of Southern public discourse, identify problems or univie.ac.at), or Sophie Lecheler (sophie. California; [email protected]) challenges and may provide solutions [email protected]). • Dr. WANG Qian (Dean of Health that may lead to the peaceful integration Communication Research Center, of refugees in European countries. The New Media International Program refugee situation has also shown just Director, School of Media and Design, how central digital and social media Articulating Voice. The Expressivity and Shanghai Jiao Tong U, wang_qian@ communication has become in many Performativity of Media Practices sjtu.edu.cn) European citizens’ lives, with Facebook and Twitter functioning as first sources Sponsored by the Philosophy, Theory and Organizers: of (perhaps untruthful) information, as Critique (PTC) Division of the International • Global Communication Research well as potential platforms for political Communication Association Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong radicalization. University 24 May 2017, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, • Chinese Communication Association The preconference invites theoretical Prague, Czech Republic (CCA-ICA Affiliate) and empirical contributions that either: Main Conference Hotel • School of Media and Design, study the depiction of the “refugee crisis” Deadline for proposals: 10 January 2018 Shanghai Jiao Tong University in mediated communication, focus on (300-500 words abstract) • SJTU-USC Institute of Cultural and how mediated depictions influence Creative Industry (ICCI) individuals’ reactions to the “refugee Organizers: Christian Pentzold (University • Center for Cooperation and Education crisis”, both with respect to the depiction of Bremen), Kenzie Burchell (University Development, ICCI of refugees themselves, but also with of Toronto), Olivier Driessens (University • Association of Chinese an eye on radicalization by right-wing of Cambridge), Alice Mattoni (Scuola Communication Studies (ACCS) populist parties, take a comparative Normale Superiore), John Postill (RMIT view of the issue, as topics such as the University), Cara Wallis (Texas A&M Note: This 2018 ICA Preconference will migration and integration of refugees, University) also be the 8th Global Communication political polarization, and radicalization Forum held by Global Communication are rarely confined to one country alone, “Media matter most when they seem not Research Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong connect the broader issue of the “refugee to matter at all.” (Wendy Chun) But how University. We have successfully held the crisis” and its consequences with other can we understand the practices through 2013 ICA Regional conference in Shanghai relevant questions, such as journalistic which innovations in media and digital data and 2012 ICA preconference in United professionalization and responsibility, move from being unexpected, novel, and States. The 2012 ICA pre-conference (and political protest, or methodological impactful to the negotiated, embedded, Fifth Global Communication Forum) in development within our field. and habitual? Phoenix, AZ, featured over 60 presenters from 43 different universities in China The goal is to facilitate an open, The preconference takes issue with and overseas and the 2013 ICA Regional interdisciplinary, and international debate the mundane yet pervasive nature of Conference in Shanghai drew upon more on the issue, taking place right in the media habits, rituals, and customs. It than 300 experts, scholars, and students centre of Europe. The organizers plan assesses the purchase of practice-based from 18 different countries and regions. to publish selected contributions to the approaches in order to see under what preconference in a special issue in a conditions and with what consequences 16 | December 2017 ICA Newsletter they enter studies in communication 500 words proposal to Christian Pentzold distributed in advance. The afternoon and media. In particular, we invite ([email protected]) by portion of the workshop will be devoted to participants to consider the expressive and January 10, 2018. planning how to incorporate deliberative performative dimension of what people pedagogy into teaching, practice, and/ actually do and say in relation to media Authors will be notified of their acceptance or scholarship. Participants will be in and to the wider communication ecologies before 31 January 2018. Please direct any small groups led by a mentor to ensure in which these articulations take place. We questions to: Alice Mattoni (alice.mattoni@ that they leave the preconference with an are especially interested in contributions sns.it) or Christian Pentzold (christian. individualized plan for utilizing deliberative that examine how voices are expressed, [email protected]). pedagogy. represented, or muted and that study the ways practices of voice combine, overlap, We welcome participants from all or collide with other mediated activities stages of academic careers, including in contemporary societies. With this, Deliberative Pedagogy, Theory and graduate students, experienced we strive for an explanation and critical Practice faculty, and administrators. There is appreciation of media practices whose no fee for this preconference, as it is accomplishment is a perennial exercise in Organizers: generously supported through a joint which we find ourselves immersed. Sara Mehltretter Drury, Wabash College, learning agreement with the Kettering United States Idit Manosevitch, Netanya Foundation. Participants will be asked to We welcome theoretical and/or empirical Academic College, Israel Carmen Greab, submit a survey and reflection after the contributions on questions including: Babes-Bolyai University, Romania preconference that will be shared with the Kettering Foundation. ● How can we theorize and study In this preconference we seek to expand the interplay between media-related the discussion about deliberative Participants for this seminar should submit practices and technologies, discourses, or pedagogy and its potential applications in a 1-page proposal that details: institutions? How are these constellations communication scholarship and teaching. created, maintained, and transformed? We invite proposals that discuss ways by (1) Name (2) Institution, with details How do praxeological approaches which civic engagement and/or deliberative about the institution (e.g., a mid-sized correspond to other inquiries into speech engagement may be incorporated within liberal arts university, or a large research- acts, media rituals, or media habits? the academic teaching of communication intensive university) (3) Position/Role and other relevant fields (e.g. politics, at their institution (4) A discussion of ● What resources and skills are mobilized leadership studies, civic engagement and the participant’s interest in deliberative in order to perform voices? What is service learning). pedagogy, including a proposed course the meaning of the work that goes or activity that the participant may use into activities of voicing? How do they The methodologies of deliberative for the afternoon workshop session of contribute to or undermine the constitution pedagogy were recently publicized in the the preconference. (5) Any questions or of public spheres, privacy, and civic life in edited volume, Deliberative Pedagogy: concerns for the workshop organizers past and contemporary societies? Teaching and Learning for Democratic Proposals should be emailed to drurys@ Citizenship (eds. Shaffer, Longo, wabash.edu and are due 12 January ● How do we grasp media practices Manosevitch, and Thomas, Michigan State 2018. Participants will be notified of their empirically, and how do we analyze them University Press, 2017). More than a single selection by 26 January 2018. Questions across modes of expression, across set of methods, deliberative pedagogy is on this preconference can be directed to cultures, different times, and ages? How “…is simultaneously a way of teaching Sara A. Mehltretter Drury, drurys@wabash. can we challenge and advance the kinds of that is itself deliberative and a process edu translation and transformation happening for developing the skills, behaviors, and in-between the situated enactment of values that support deliberative practice. media practices and the descriptions and Perhaps most important, the work of stories of scholarly accounts? deliberative pedagogy is about space- From fragmentation to Integration: making: creating and holding space Addressing the role of communication ● How can we understand the ways for authentic and productive dialogue in refugee crises and resettlement through which media practices are conversations that can ultimately be not processes accomplished in social fields? How are only educational but also transformative.” they deployed in struggles for gaining voice (Longo, Manosevitch, & Shaffer, 2017, xxi). Sponsored by the ICA Intercultural and visibility as in political communication Communication Division and journalism, participation and The field of communication offers many mobilization, health communication, courses with inherent connections to Prague (CZE), 24th May 2018 or science communication? How have key aspects of deliberative pedagogy media practices changed over time and in in various of areas including public Charles University, Faculty of Law, Lecture relation to innovations in digitization and speaking, political communication, Hall 103 08:00-17:00 datafication? leadership studies, and more. Additionally, deliberative pedagogy provides a pathway Právnická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy v Responses to the contributions will be to interdisciplinary collaboration in the Praze nám. Curieových 7 given by Elisenda Ardèvol (Universitat classroom. 116 40 Praha 1 Czech Republic Oberta de Catalunya); Maria Bakardjieva (University of Calgary), S. Elizabeth Bird In this preconference workshop, https://www.prf.cuni.cz/en/ (University of Southern Florida); Nick participants will engage in a seminar-style Couldry (London School of Economics and discussion about the theory of deliberative Organizing Committee – Contact Political Science). Please email a 300- pedagogy. A seminar reading list will be information Miguel Vicente Mariño, U de December 2017 ICA Newsletter | 17 Valladolid (Spain), [email protected] on national boundaries and control of culture to dialogue and international Amanda Paz Alencar, Erasmus U human movements. Both the extension cooperation? What is the role played Rotterdam (Netherlands), pazalencar@ and depth of these challenges call for an by NGOs, social enterprises, private eshcc.eur.nl integral approach to their management, corporations in these processes and which Carlos Arcila Calderón, U de Salamanca mainly because all expectations point to an relations are being established between (Spain), [email protected] increase and intensification in the coming them and media professionals? Félix Ortega Mohedano, U de Salamanca years. − How are the national authorities reacting (Spain), [email protected] Noemi to refugee crisis and resettlement, not only Mena Montes, Erasmus U Rotterdam This one-day preconference aims to regarding their political decisions but also (Netherlands), [email protected] identify and build up dialogues between in terms of their communication strategies diverse actors coming from different to deal with their internal and external Description settings and disciplines. Based on applied publics? This preconference emerges from social projects currently being developed − Which roles are being played by lay the ongoing refugee crisis at the in various countries and on the scientific citizens in the public sphere, both as a Mediterranean Sea, calling for dialogue projects accumulated during the last result of conventional courses of public between scholars and practitioners decade, this forum pretends to explore opinion actions and as new digital forms of interested in the roles played by the encountered limitations and identify activism? Communication regarding this multifaceted the effective solutions in these social, − Are migration processes experiencing challenge. Although the event is open economic and cultural processes. The changes in the way they are presented to to cover different humanitarian crises common backbone of the contributions their public opinion? Has the traditional worldwide, the urgency and relevance will deal with the role played by Media and focus on punctual alarms shifted to a more of this topic appeals to the scholarly Communication in these social practices, balanced and continuous attention by commitment to propose applied solutions ranging from mass media representations media, society and political authorities? to decision making bodies and involved of refugees to the mediated − How are refugees, as primary social organizations. Discussing the role of mass communicational exchanges conducted in actors in the process of integration, and new social media, and intercultural the social media scenarios, from political perceiving and redefining the role and communication in this context turns into a negotiation between relevant actors in the functions of media and communication must for our research community. field of policy-making to the role played by technologies during the whole integration hands on intercultural mediation projects. process? Objective The main purpose of this conference is to Communication Research, at its diverse Submission process open a space for dialogue regarding the layers and from a wide array of topics The organizers invite interested way refugee crises are tackled by political, and methods, is expected to contribute to participants to submit extended abstracts social and media actors, aiming to set the analysis of social, demographic and of less than 1500 words (around 4 double- some guidelines to avoid those mistakes cultural changes, so tackling the on going spaced pages, including a selection of previously noticed and leading to a more refugee crisis in the Mediterranean area is references) describing the purpose, theory, constructive and conscious coverage and an opportunity to connect theoretical and method(s), results, and conclusions of social action. methodological advances with a relevant the scientific study or social intervention topic which certainly requires practical, project. We also welcome critical and Rationale technical and applied contributions. In reflexive submissions that provide an The phenomenon of massive forced doing so, screening the online activity insightful perspective on the topics migration is not new in our global history. In turns into an additional sphere to be kept highlighted in this call. recent years, however, increasing numbers under attention, as a new space for social of asylum seekers and refugees have discussion and action. Please submit 1) a separate title page dominated headlines and political agendas including the paper’s title and author’s across Europe and elsewhere. The current Completing a panoramic approach to a details (name, title, and institutional refugee crisis at the Mediterranean Sea complex phenomenon is the purpose of affiliation) and 2) an anonymized extended put significant more pressure to EU a preconference that will try to merge abstract. countries. An unprecedented number the strengths of social collective action of refugees reaching the shores of with both the theoretical and empirical Extended abstracts’ submission deadline Europe and the socioeconomic, ethnic contributions coming from recent applied is 15 January 2018. Acceptance decisions and religious diversity of recent flows research projects. In doing so, comparative will be announced by 29 January 2018. have deepened and broadened existing media and social studies are strongly Full papers are expected by 15th April integration challenges in European encouraged. An initial, but not exhaustive, 2018. communities. list of research questions we would like to address during this preconference are: Please submit your proposals as a PDF At the same time, the crisis has file to the following email: miguelvm@soc. emphasized the lack of cohesion between − What media coverage are receiving uva.es different policies and programs in this the humanitarian crises during the area, as well as the rise of nationalist and last decade? How are refugees being Expected outcomes xenophobic sentiments in many European portrayed by media companies based A selection of papers presented at this countries, affecting the development of at the countries receiving migrants? preconference will be offered to join a unified solution to growing refugee Which discourses and explanations are a special issue proposal to a leading challenge. At a more global level, being displayed and spread across the Communication Research journal. forced migrations related with climate audiences? change processes are also bringing new − Which actions and projects are being Registration fee challenges to a current status quo based more effective in promoting an open 40 USD (including coffee breaks) 18 | December 2017 ICA Newsletter Expected assistance December 15, 2017. setting to more recent inquiries about the This preconference is open to anyone mediatization of politics, elections have interested in this topic, regardless s/he is Please write IIPCAP: YOURNAME in the provided the backdrop to many of the key presenting a paper. subject line of the email. theoretical breakthroughs in the field.

Abstracts and bios should be sent as Word But in an increasingly fragmented news attachments, each in a separate document, environment, where people rely on Applying the Capabilities Approach to one saved as YOURNAME:Abstract and an ever-expanding range of media to Media and Communications May 24, the other as YOURNAME:Bio. understand what is happening in the 2018 Venue: Main Conference Hotel world, election reporting is changing Abstract Deadline: December 15, 2017 Abstracts not sent according to the above across new content platforms and instructions and not accompanied by a providers. As the Reuters 2017 Digital Recent years have seen a growing short bio will not be reviewed. News Report established, the citizens of interest in the concept of justice in media many democracies now rely to a greater and communication studies. In the more Authors will be notified of their acceptance extent on online rather than broadcast and general literature on social justice, an before January 12, 2018. A small number print news, with social media platforms important contribution has come from of abstracts will be accepted to the playing a greater role in disseminating the capabilities approach developed by workshop and full papers are expected by information than newspapers. Meanwhile, Indian economist Amartya Sen and US May 1, 2018. the political communication environment philosopher Martha Nussbaum. The theory in which political journalists work challenges utilitarian narratives and liberal Authors presenting at the pre-conference continues to evolve in line with cultural notions of redistributive justice and has will be invited to submit their completed and technological trends, with new become the cornerstone of the United papers for review in a special issue of the challenges emerging for reporters in Nations’ Human Development Index. Journal of Information Policy (www.jip- covering candidates who might eschew the Despite its potentially great relevance online.org) to be published in 2018. channels of communication traditionally for media industries and production overseen by journalists and appeal directly studies, information and communication The preconference will take place at the to voters. New journalistic practices are for development, telecommunications ICA venue on Thursday, May 24, 9AM- also emerging in response to questions of and media policy, and digital media 5PM. With financial support from the truth and ‘post-truth’ in political campaigns. research, there has been limited use of the Institute for Information Policy at Penn capabilities approach across the media, State, cost per participant will be $50 It is therefore crucial that we ask the communication and cultural studies field. (including two coffee breaks and lunch). important questions of election reporting, and seek new empirical and theoretical By bringing together for the first time Pre-conference organizers: insights that take thinking forward in this scholars engaged in applying the David Hesmondhalgh, U of Leeds; Heather field. This one day ICA preconference, capabilities approach to media and Ford, U of Leeds; Robin Mansell, London supported by the Political Communication communications, this ICA preconference School of Economics; Jonathan Corpus and Journalism Studies Divisions, aims advances an agenda to create a new Ong, U of Massachusetts Amherst; Amit to bring together leading scholars around interdisciplinary focus in the field. It Schejter, Ben-Gurion U of the Negev and the world to consider the changing nature aims to build conceptual bridges across Penn State of news media during recent election emerging frameworks for studying campaigns. We encourage submissions communicative capabilities, media Sponsor: The pre-conference is sponsored that explore election reporting across both practice, and digital literacies and to by the Institute for Information Policy at advanced and developing democracies. engage with normative debates about Penn State University. media justice, creative justice, and We would welcome new theoretical and data justice. The preconference directly empirical inquiries that examine: engages with the central theme of the ICA Annual Conference on “Voices” by inviting Making Sense of Election Reporting: · The quality of information supplied during reflection on the ways we can address New Directions, New Challenges? election campaign (e.g. debates about inequalities and enhance communicative 24 May 2018. 9.00am - 5.00pm policy Vs game, hard or soft news etc.) opportunities for media workers and users Velka zasedaci sin (room), · Representing voters during election in a global context. Karolinum, Charles University, campaigns (e.g. use of polls, vox pops Prague, Czech Republic etc.) The preconference will open with a · New insights on questions of balance, keynote address by Nick Couldry (London Divisions: Journalism Studies and objectivity and impartiality of election School of Economics) and feature panels Political Communication reporting from invited speakers applying the · Reporting elections in a post-truth capabilities approach to policy debates, Organizers: Dr Stephen Cushion (Cardiff environment development interventions, and normative U) and Dr Dan Jackson (Bournemouth U) · The role of fake news during election media theories. We also invite paper Keynote speaker: Professor Frank Esser, campaigns submissions from scholars interested U of Zurich · Blurring boundaries between news in this topic and we will accept a small genres and popular culture in election number of papers from this open call. Description and Objective reporting Elections reporting is one of the most · Who sets the media agenda and Abstract of up to 500 words and a short studied areas of journalism studies intermedia agenda setting (e.g. between bio of the author(s) should be sent to Prof and political communication. From new and legacy media) Amit Schejter ([email protected]) by longstanding debates about agenda · The interaction between journalists, December 2017 ICA Newsletter | 19 politicians and campaign professionals Prague, 24 May 2018 dialogue between academia and industry. during election campaigns Consequently, the conference welcomes · New insights into the relationship The ICA Game Studies Division invites submissions from different theoretical and between news media, public opinion and both game scholars and game developers methodological perspectives. voter behaviour to a one- day conference on gaming that · Changing news consumption habits and takes place aside from desktop and TV Due to this thematic focus, potential how this is shaping the role and influence settings. Building upon a wide distribution submission may include, but are not limited of mainstream news media of high-performing gaming devices and to, the following: a flourishing market for gaming and Outputs from the preconference gamification apps, multi-platform gaming • Gaming practices outside traditional We are in discussion with relevant journals enjoyed a renaissance in recent years with gaming settings for a special issue on new developments in booming numbers of gamers and ever- • Modes of play/ types of play election news. If successful, submissions increasing revenues. As a consequence of • Game streaming and Let’s Plays for the conference will be considered and this revival, video gaming today not only • Retrogaming full papers invited in September 2018. predominates many households as one • Gaming arcades of the favorite pastime activities but also • (Positive and negative) effects of Submission procedure breaks into locations in both private (e.g. gaming aside traditional settings Please send proposals for 15 minute bedroom) and public sphere (e.g., public • Perceptions of gaming outside paper presentations to Stephen Cushion transportation services, train stations, or traditional settings ([email protected]) and Dan bus stops, sidewalks, work/classrooms) • Motivations for gaming outside Jackson ([email protected]). that were, thus far, not associated with desktop/TV settings Proposals should include the following: gaming. Game streaming allows us to • Public gaming and audience reactions title and name, institutional affiliation, and take our favorite games with us, wherever towards gaming in public places email address, together with a paper title we go as long as there is an internet • Gamification approaches and abstract of not more than 500 words. connection. These days, games have • Technological features for gaming Proposers should also indicate whether or become an almost ubiquitous part of outside traditional settings (e.g. Virtual not they are current postgraduate students. everyday life, where we can watch live Boardgames, Virtual Tabletops) streams of other people playing games, • Demos or prototypes of mobile games Contributors will be selected by peer giving game advice, or discussing games or gaming platforms review, and will be notified of the outcome 24 hours a day. • Novel gaming technologies (Mixed of their proposal by 26th January 2018. Reality, Augmented Reality …,) Authors are expected to attend the The emergence of these non-traditional preconference and present in person. gaming contexts questions extant This list is far from exhaustive. We knowledge on video gaming as new encourage submissions using a wide All participants – whether speaking or not audiences with needs and motivations array of theoretical and methodological – must register and pay fees. Registration different from long-standing gamers approaches (including but not limited costs (including a welcome breakfast, find their way to video games. Novel to critical/ rhetorical, qualitative, and coffee breaks and lunch buffet) are 50 and idiosyncratic gaming practices and quantitative research methods). We also USD for presenters and non-presenters. experiences have arisen, which bring into encourage not only academic, but also To register, participants need to go to www. question the relationships between games industry submissions (including market/ icahdq.org and register online as part of and their players. On the producer side, player analyses, potentials, game design their main ICA conference registration, or gaming outside traditional desktop and TV concepts, showcases, prototypes that as a stand-alone registration. As spaces settings also opens up opportunities for challenge the status quo). are limited to 40 participants, priority will be game designers to create innovative play given to those accepted for presentation. concepts as well as for the incorporation of CONFERENCE FORMAT

Key dates technological innovation that layer real- The event provides participants a world settings with gamified content. In platform to present their current research · 15th January 2018. Deadline for paper addition to these new developments, we and to enter into dialogue with both submission. also see a revival of retrogaming and a multidisciplinary academic audiences and · 26th January 2018. Paper proposers re-emergence of public arcades (e.g. VR industry practitioners. The conference notified of decision by conference gaming arcades). Acting in concert, these will consist of (submission-based) paper committee. developments offer a fertile ground for sessions where recent work is presented, · 1 April 2018. Deadline for preconference game-related scholarship to broaden its each followed by a discussion led by two registration. scope towards new phenomena and to invited respondents, one from academia · 24th May 2018. Preconference starts in question well-established principles. and industry. Additionally, invited keynote Prague. speakers will provide an opening and a To meet these new circumstances, our closing address for the event. conference theme puts strong emphasis on gaming beyond the prototypical desktop HOW TO PARTICIPATE GAMES EVERYWHERE, GAMING and TV setting. Thus, the goal of this EVERYWHERE one-day event is to examine the past, The conference invites several types of present, and future of ubiquitous gaming. submissions: On the Edge of Ubiquity, from Mobile to We aim to transcend division boundaries Augmented Reality Games and Beyond to facilitate interdisciplinary exchange • Research Reports (all forms of and multi- perspective discussion on empirical work) ICA Game Studies 2018 pre-conference these issues as well as establish a fruitful • Theoretical Papers (all forms of 20 | December 2017 ICA Newsletter theoretical work, e.g. brainstorming of Online communication and audience or mediate the adoption or use of ideas, position papers) analytics go hand in hand these days. audience analytics; • Demonstrations (game or tech Analytical software packages such • Audience analytics in advertising prototypes/products) as Chartbeat and Parse.ly offer live and public relations: How audience observational data about website visitors, metrics are tracked, measured, and For Research Reports and Theoretical their preferences and usage behaviors. used in the fields of advertising and Papers, submitted proposals should For instance, journalists and editors may public relations; provide (1) a brief description of the be presented with real-time, quantifiable • Audience measurement and media theoretical background, (2) research information on how particular news stories ethics: The ethical implications of questions, and (3) a summary of the are performing, and how they fare against using audience analytics in media methodological approach. Submissions are other stories. Moreover, audience metrics industries; recommended best not required to provide full results in case from third-party platforms (e.g., Facebook, practices or those that have been of ongoing data collection, but presenters Apple News) offer indications of how adopted by different newsrooms are expected to to present their results at specific articles perform in comparison to the conference. other outlets’ work. Submissions

We encourage all forms of game-related In light of this flood of information, one We accept extended abstracts with a Demonstrations (e.g., tech/game demos, might expect audience analytics to maximum length of 1500 words (approx. prototypes, etc.). Proposals should influence communicators. For example, 5 double-spaced pages; excluding provide (1) a brief description of the basic Anderson (2011) found online journalists references, tables, and figures). Please functionality, purpose, and mechanics of followed audience analytics closely follow American Psychological Association the demonstration and (2) how it relates to and adjusted daily newsroom routines (APA) style (6th edition). Submissions the main focus of the pre-conference. accordingly. However, it remains unclear further require an even shorter abstract how uses manifest themselves across (to be included in the program) of no Word limit: 500–1200 word extended organizations and practices. For example, more than 150 words. Please delete any abstracts, excluding references (6th ed. some scholars have found audience identifying information before submitting APA style). analytics to influence homepage-ranking your proposal as it will be subject to a positions (e.g., Lee et al. 2014) while blinded peer review. Submissions should consist of two others found limited effects (e.g., Zamith separate files: a first file with a version 2016). Similarly, Almgren and Olsson Submissions should be sent in an editable of the paper blinded for peer review and (2016) report that news outlets increasingly format (e.g., Microsoft Word) to the a second file with all author information build on Facebook to strengthen user preconference organizing committee at ica. (name(s), institution(s), title). Submissions participation, but Nel and Westlund (2012) [email protected]. The deadline will be blind reviewed by a panel of found the variety of distribution platforms in for all submission formats is January 21. international scholars. Please note that use by newsrooms vary strongly. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out authors may not submit work that has no later than February 11, 2018. already been submitted to the main ICA In recent years, a growing body of work conference. emerged around this area, though it We will invite all authors of accepted remains limited and loosely connected. submissions to submit a full paper with a Please email all submissions and For this preconference, we hence invite maximum length of 8,000 words by May 6, questions to Kevin Koban (koban@hrz. submissions from scholars across multiple 2018. tu-chemnitz.de) divisions and interest groups to bring together multidisciplinary and international Organizational Matters IMPORTANT DATES research on audience analytics. The half- day preconference will consist of several The preconference will take place on Deadline for submissions: January 15, 20-minute slots for presentations. Thursday, May 24, 2018 (12 to 5) in 2018 at 11:59pm EST Notification of one of the ICA conference hotels (to acceptance: February 15, 2018 Submissions will be subject to blinded be announced). The registration fee is peer-review. We encourage submissions $20 and includes coffee breaks. In case CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS focusing on any of the following areas: of questions, please do not hesitate to contact us via ica.analytics.precon@gmail. Daniel Pietschmann, Chemnitz U of • Explicating audience analytics: com. Technology; Kevin Koban, Chemnitz U What they measure and why they of Technology; Akiko Shibuya, Soka U; are used; critical analyses of the Douglas Schules, Rikkyo U; Tim Wulf, U of discourse around them and their Cologne; Maxwell Foxman, Columbia U mythology; the existence of a ‘golden Communicating with Machines: Theory metric‘; historical analyses of audience and Practice Please visit www.games-everywhere.com measurement; for more information! • Audience analytics and journalism: The machines are coming, some are How journalistic attitudes toward here, and they tell us much about what it audiences or their behaviors are means to be human. This pre-conference affected by analytics; the effects they focuses on communication with and --- Call for Extended Abstracts --- have on organizational strategies for between humans and machines. These Audience Analytics ICA 2018 producing or distributing news content; digital interlocutors have the potential to Preconference, May 24, Prague Patrick impacts on news content and how engage, alter, and disrupt “normal” events, Ferrucci, Mario Haim, Folker Hanusch, to measure those potential effects; practices, and phenomena. We invite Edson Tandoc, & Rodrigo Zamith the factors that explain, moderate, scholars from any epistemological and December 2017 ICA Newsletter | 21 methodological backgrounds to discuss forms of scholarship (theoretical, empirical, prominent guest professors focusing on their work related to Human-Machine etc). Proposals should be submitted as socio-political and cultural dimensions of Communication (HMC). This encompasses an attachment to Patric Spence: HMC. mediation. Human-Computer Interaction, Human- [email protected] Robot Interaction, and Human-Agent Sponsoring ICA Divisions Interaction, in this full-day pre-conference. Sponsors: ERIC (Ethnicity in Race and We seek to raise awareness of and further • University of Oregon, School of Communication); Political Communication; develop HMC research, theory and the Journalism and Communication Environmental Communication; Global scholarly community surrounding it. We • Northern Illinois Communication and Social Change; welcome scholars from across ICA’s University, Department of Philosophy, Theory and Critique divisions in addition to scholars who have Communication never attended ICA before. • Northern Kentucky University, College Confirmed Speakers of Informatics Prof. Lilie Chouliaraki, The London School Deadline for submissions: 29 January • University of Illinois at of Economics Prof. Silvio Waisbord, 2018 Chicago, Department of George Washington U Prof. Kate Nash, Notification of acceptance: 12 February Communication Goldsmiths - U of London 2018 • University of Kentucky, School of Dr. Ekaterina Balabanova, U of Liverpool Information Science Preconference Focus: As artificial • Western Michigan University, School The preconference organizers invite intelligence, robotics, and ICTs continue to of Communication submissions that scrutinize the develop and merge, we are increasingly • University of Central persistent and emergent intersections interacting with digital interlocutors such Florida, Nicholson School of between media and human rights in as voice-based agents, robots, and social Communication relation to sociocultural, political, bots. We also are sending and receiving • Communication and Social Robotics economic, and environmental messages to and from wearable devices. Lab dynamics. What roles do, for instance, We directly interact with the technologies citizen journalism, and media witnessing surrounding us, and digital entities have Organizers: play for strengthening human rights in been and continue to stand in for humans Patric Spence, U of Central Florida the diverse contexts of communicational in everyday communication contexts. The Autumn Edwards, Western Michigan U and spatial crossroads? How, in recent surge of digital interlocutors into Chad Edwards, Western Michigan U relational terms, do social movements, quotidian routines has been accompanied Andrea L. Guzman, Northern Illinois U national governments and international with questions – voiced by leading David J. Gunkel, Northern Illinois U organizations weigh in the furthering scientists as well as the average person Steve Jones, U of Illinois at Chicago of human rights, and in what ways do – regarding the ramifications of these Austin Lee, Northern Kentucky U media and communication (technologies) technologies and our interactions with Seth C. Lewis, U of Oregon intervene and what affordances do they them. Seungahn Nah, U of Oregon bring in? In what domains of legal and cultural interventionism do human rights Possible topic areas for participant After all the presenters have registered, we organizations collaborate with media on presentations include, but are not limited will have 20 spots left for other attendees. digital platforms? The overall objective to, communicative practices between If you would like to attend this pre- is to contribute to knowledge and humans and digital interlocutors, the conference, please send an email to Patric debates on the crucial ties between integration of artificial entities into private, Spence at hmc.preconference@gmail. human rights and the media in a professional, and political spaces, com for further directions. globalizing and digitalizing world. Both the incorporation of AI into journalism the challenges and opportunities (e.g. and other media industries, cultural Date & Time: Thursday, 24 May 2018; mediated humanitarian intervention discourse surrounding these technologies, 8:30 – 16:00 vis-à-vis the question of desensitization relationship dynamics between humans Venue: Hilton: Prague of audiences to suffering) presented by and machines, reinterpretations and Cost of Registration & Attendance: such macro dynamics are considered. representations of humans as digital Faculty $75 USD/ Student $50 USD entities, and intercultural aspects of HMC. The preconference is intended to be of interest primarily to media and Pre-conference format: Our goal is to communications researchers from a provide a space for participants to present Global Media and Human Rights diverse variety of backgrounds and their research and engage in conversation May 23 (1/2 day) & 24, 2018 disciplinary orientations. Due to the highly with one another. We have adopted a two- Off-Site Venue: Autoklub ČR, Opletalova inter- and trans-disciplinary nature of its tiered format in which some scholars will 29, 110 00, Praha 1 theme, we also invite submissions from be invited to deliver a paper presentation Conference Registration Fee: $35.00 neighboring disciplines as well as from while others will be invited to take part USD activist networks and the creative sector. in a poster session. More details are We particularly encourage creative and forthcoming. The preconference is organized by experimental formats and interventions the Leading Research Environment, such as fragments from short films, Proposals: (750-1,000 words excluding “Global Media Studies and the Politics of installations and other genres of critical references). Proposals should detail Communication”, based at the Department textual/visual mediations. what the scholar plans to present and of Media Studies at Stockholm University, how it relates to the overall focus of Sweden. The Leading Research Potential topics include but are not the preconference on human-machine Environment has a focus on human rights limited to: communication. We are interested in all and the media, and has been hosting Communication rights 22 | December 2017 ICA Newsletter • Racial/ethnic/gendered/sexual politics modes of communication. For example, variables (e.g., knowledge structures, and positionalities ü Cultural politics, narratives have been found to affect – in attitudes, behavioral intentions, actual neoliberalism and the rise of the far- a short-term perspective – recipients’ behaviors). right ü Social movements attitudes and behavioral intentions that are • Environmental communication and beneficial to their personal health (e.g. Kim Submissions: Extended Abstracts (max. rights & Niederdeppe, 2016) or on benevolent 800 words excluding references, tables, • Popular culture and resistance attitudes towards stigmatized groups in and figures) should be sent to Corinna • The media and social justice society (e.g. Wong, Lookadoo, & Nisbett, Oschatz (corinna.oschatz@uni-mainz. • Media studies, ‘rights’ discourses and 2017). de). Please send your submission in MS intersectionality Word (.docx) or Rich Text Format (.rtf). • Social media, human rights and Substantially less research has so far The deadline for submission is 31 January activism addressed the temporal stability and 2018. Notification of acceptance will be • Media strategies sustainability of narrative media effects. sent to authors no later than March 1, • War, terrorism and surveillance The relatively small number of existing 2018. The preconference will take place • Migration studies on long-term effects is related to a on 24 May 2018 (9 a.m. to 5 p.m.) on- • Humanitarianism need for theoretical models specifying the site at the conference venue in Prague. development of persuasive effects over Should you have any queries, please do Selection will be based on abstract time and for solutions to methodological not hesitate to contact Corinna Oschatz submission (min 250 words, max 500 obstacles in detecting the long-term impact ([email protected]). words). The deadline for abstract of narratives. However, to understand how submissions is 31 January 2018. The effects of storytelling evolve over time is decision on accepted proposals will of great scientific and social relevance: be announced by February 15, 2018. Communicative interventions aiming at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Accepted participants will circulate short recipients’ personal health will only have Queer Interest Group 2018 Preconference position papers prior to the preconference a relevant impact if the positive short- (deadline 30 April, 2018). term influence on attitudes and intentions MEDIA, GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN translates into, for example, regular EUROPE All abstracts must be written in Word, and medical check-ups or physical activity. include the following information at the top Narrative messages aiming at attitudes 24 May 2018, 09:00-17:00 of the page: (1) name, (2) position/title, towards social fringe groups will only Cafe Kampus, Naprstkova 272/10 Prague, (3) affiliation, and (4) paper title. In the have a valuable impact on society if these Czech Republic abstracts, please specify (1) the thematic groups are accepted and integrated in the Abstract Deadline: 1 February 2018 focus of the proposed contributions and (2) long run. links to the preconference scope. Media are gendered and sexualized while Generally, two forms of research of long- gender and sexuality are heavily mediated. Please email abstracts to Christian term effects can be distinguished. On the Gender and sexuality figure prominently Christensen (christian.christensen@ims. one hand, these are long-term effects of in many aspects of media production, su.se) AND Miyase Christensen (miyase. single narratives such as movies (Hart representation, consumption and use. At [email protected]). In the subject & Leiserowitz, 2009) or storified news this preconference, we will build on a vast line please write: “ICA preconference messages (Shaffer et al., 2017). On the body of research in this area to examine submission (your last name)”. other hand, these are cumulated effects of the intersections between media, gender multiple narratives disseminated in a serial and sexuality as well as age, ability, class, Organizing committee: Christian format (Wang & Singhal., 2016) or sets of religion, race, ethnicity and nationality. Christensen, Miyase Christensen, Anna independent narratives on the same topic Inspired by the fact that the International Roosvall, Kristina Riegert (Stockholm consumed over a longer period of time Communication Association will for the first U) (Wills et al., 2009). time in history hold its annual conference in Central Europe, we would like to This preconference seeks for original think about those intersections from a contributions on both types of long- European perspective, particularly from the Long-term Effects in Narrative term effects. The Call for Papers invites perspective of underrepresented contexts Communication Research scholars from various ICA divisions and such as Central, Eastern and Southern interest groups to: Europe. How do European contexts matter 24 May 2018, Prague (1) discuss theoretical approaches for the intersections of media, gender and modelling the long-term effects of narrative sexuality? How are those intersections Corinna Oschatz, Katharina Emde- communication, manifested in Europe at different historical Lachmund, Christoph Klimmt (2) reflect on (potentially unique) moments and at different geographical capabilities of narratives to involve scales (such as cities, countries and Narratives have been attracting the interest audiences (e.g., transportation, regions)? What can we learn about those of communication scholars in various identification, narrative engagement) as intersections thinking through Europe- fields, such as health communication, well as boundary conditions that may specific issues such as larger geopolitical media psychology, political communication, facilitate, enlarge, or undermine the long- challenges (e.g. Brexit, austerity measures, or journalism studies (Green, Strange, & term impact of storified messages, ‘refugee crisis’, postcommunist transitions Brock, 2002).Their research is motivated (3) present current empirical research and the rise of the far right) as well as by the observation that, although generally on long-term effects that may relate to a challenges specifically related to gender obtaining small effect sizes, narratives wide range of fictional and non-fictional and sexuality (e.g. homonationalism in reliably show a stronger impact on the narratives as well as diverse topics, Western Europe, ‘gay propaganda’ laws examined outcomes than non-narrative mechanisms, moderators, and outcome in Russia and Lithuania, and anti-gender December 2017 ICA Newsletter | 23 campaigns across the continent)? Also, co-sponsored by the Mobile (MCIG) of the International Communication more theoretically, what can such Europe- Communication Interest Group of Association (ICA). A description of the specific research contribute to mainstream, the International Communication respective research areas can be found largely Anglo-American, studies of media, Association (ICA) in the last section of this call. In your gender and sexuality? What are the Thursday, 24 May 2018 | Skautsky submission, please identify whether you’re legacies and the futures of European Institut, Prague, Czech Republic submitting to MCIG or CAT. gender, feminist, sexuality and LGBTQ Proposals must identify a significant media studies? The consortium will bring together PhD problem (or problems) in a relevant candidates conducting research on various field of research, briefly outline current Submission process types of communication technologies and knowledge of the problem domain, and The preconference will provide a space for mobile communication to give them the clearly formulate a research question, or getting feedback on research in progress, opportunity to present and discuss their specify hypotheses to be tested. Proposals exchanging ideas and networking. We research in a constructive and international should outline the research approach, invite scholars at all stages of their atmosphere. The objectives of the event methods, and any results obtained so far. careers, across multiple disciplines as are to provide feedback and advice to Submissions should be between 3000 and well as employing diverse methods and participating PhD candidates on their 4000 words (excluding references and theories to submit abstracts of 300 to 500 in-progress research thesis. Moreover, appendices), and must include name and words along with their short bio notes to the Doctoral Consortium will provide affiliation of the PhD candidate. Lukasz Szulc ([email protected]) by 1 the opportunity to meet experts as well Applications need to be accompanied by February 2018. We are open to works as fellow PhD candidates from different a short letter of recommendation from addressing a wide spectrum of mainstream backgrounds working on related topics. the advisor or member of the dissertation and alternative media (including but not During the consortium, students and committee stating how the PhD candidate limited to press, radio, television, cinema, faculty will be organized into small groups, can benefit from participation in the digital and mobile media) and a diversity of determined by the thematic nature of the Doctoral Consortium. genres and platforms (such as journalism, research. In each group, students will advertising, TV drama, porn, films, present their work, and receive feedback The proposal and letter of recommendation games, social media and dating sites). from their fellow students and faculty must be submitted as one PDF document However, we ask that all submissions participants, all of whom will have read and sent as an attachment in an email reflect on the importance of the European the proposals in advance of the Doctoral to Veronika Karnowski at veronika. context. The preconference will consist Consortium. Each proposal will receive [email protected]. The deadline for of short individual presentations (10-12 detailed feedback from three faculty submission is 1 February 2018. Submitted min), allowing participants to have in- participants. There will be two poster proposals will be reviewed by the members depth discussions and produce broader sessions to allow participants from other of the program committee based on insights. Authors will be informed of their groups to learn about and comment on the significance of research, specificity of acceptance or rejection by 1 March 2018. research of the PhD candidates. research topic and/or questions, clarity We will consider to publish selected In addition to the presentation and critique of writing and degree to which student contributions in a special issue in a peer- of proposals, there will be discussion of can benefit from expert guidance and reviewed journal. issues related to making the transition from feedback. graduate student to faculty member. Of Registration course, this process differs widely across To help ensure the consortium best meets Participation is only by invitation. Authors different nations and academic traditions. the needs of its members, limited financial of the accepted abstracts will need to Bearing these differences in mind, we assistance is made possible by the CAT register through the ICA website (www. will discuss positioning one’s work for the Division and the MCIG. Please note in icahdq.org). Cost for participation is job market, strategies for publication, the your application if you would like to be 25USD for early registration (by 1 April interviewing process and other aspects of considered for financial support to cover 2018) and 35USD for late registration. faculty job searches. Anticipating a time your costs for participation in the Doctoral when participants will have an academic Consortium (this support would cover only Organizers position, the discussion will include issues the $75 participation fee and not travel to Lukasz Szulc (London School of like managing workload and working the conference). Economics and Political Science, UK) relationships, finding a work/life balance, Alexander Dhoest (University of Antwerp, and ways of being a successful academic. About the Communication and Technology Belgium) Division Lynn Comella (University of Nevada, Las Submission Process The CAT Division is concerned with Vegas, US) Applicants must be advanced to candidacy, the role played by Information and and have their dissertation proposal topic Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the Sponsor previously approved by their committee or process of communication. It is committed The preconference is generously supervisor. Ideally, students will be in the to enhancing theory and methodology sponsored by the Department of early stages of their dissertation, where pertaining to adoption, usage, effects, Communication Studies at the University of feedback would be helpful in refining and and policy of ICTs. Areas of research Antwerp, Belgium. advancing their work. To apply, students include human-computer interaction, must submit a proposal describing their computer-mediated communication, mobile research. communication, and other technologically mediated social interaction and networking CALL FOR STUDENT PROPOSALS Submissions must be related to one of in all contexts (interpersonal, group, 9th Annual Doctoral Consortium of the working areas of the Communication organizational, societal/cultural) and at the Communication and Technology and Technology Division (CAT) or the all levels of analyses. CAT invites papers Division Mobile Communication Interest Group that make an innovative and original 24 | December 2017 ICA Newsletter contribution to our understanding of ICTs, Senior scholars will give insights on The number of participants at this with the primary focus on communication questions and specific areas of public workshop is limited to 15 to allow for aspects of particular technological relations and/or strategic communication discussion. Only those students whose characteristics. research that are discussed in the Ph.D. proposals are accepted will be able to projects with a focus on: attend. Registration • Theoretical developments: Emerging Participation is only by invitation. Once perspectives, theories, and methods in Deadlines a proposal is accepted, students can Strategic communication (for example, • Deadline for submission of short register through the ICA website. Cost for excellence theory, institutional theory, proposal (3 pages maximum): January participation is US$75 per person. CCO, qualitative and quantitative 10, 2018 (please email your entry to methods) and in specific fields (for [email protected] AND to Program Committee (faculty mentors) example, relationship management, [email protected]) Marjolijn L. Antheunis, Tilburg U, crisis communication, CSR, social • Acceptance will be provided by: Netherlands (Program Director) media, leadership communication). January 31, 2018 Katy Pearce, U of Washington, USA • Methodological developments: • Deadline for short paper submission (Program committee) Methodologies, empirical challenges, (6,000 words): March 1, 2018 Veronika Karnowski, Ludwig-Maximilians and solutions are discussed and • Deadline for short review (1,000 U, Germany (Program committee) evaluated with related to Strategic words): May 1, 2018 (email to Klaus Bruhn Jensen, U of Copenhagen, Communication organizers and must be ready to Denmark • Publication strategies: By reviewing distribute at the workshop) Benjamin H. Detenber, Nanyang other students’ papers and taking part Technological U, Singapore in the discussions, students also will Participation fee: Participation is free to Jordan Frith, U of North Texas, USA learn about the reviewing process all students whose papers are accepted. Jesse Fox, Ohio State U, USA as well as how to improve their skills Each participant’s fee will be covered Roselyn Lee-Won, Ohio State U, USA on writing, submitting, and revising by the Public Relations Division of ICA. Richard S. Ling, Nanyang Technological U, manuscripts for top journals. However, you must be a current ICA PRD Singapore member at the time of the conference to Malcolm Parks, U of Washington, USA This is a competitive workshop. Only participate. Please register via the ICA Lidwien van de Wijngaert, Radboud a selected number of students will be website. University, Netherlands granted the opportunity to attend it. Mike Yao, U of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, USA After completing the workshop, a certificate of attendance will be presented to Digital Asia: Social Change, students who have actively participated Engagement, and Voices by submitting a full paper and reviewing Half-day ICA Pre-conference Ph.D. a fellow student’s paper as well as by 2018 International Communication Workshop in Public Relations and attending the workshop. Association (ICA) Preconference May 24, Strategic Communication 2018 / Prague, Czech Republic Application and submission Date: 24 May, 2018 from 9 a.m. until 1 • Students apply with a short proposal Priority deadline: December 31, 2017 p.m. (max. 3 pages excl. figures, tables, Sponsored by the ICA PR Division references) that describes the Regular deadline: January 31, 2018 Organizers: Drs. Katerina Tsetsura and (planned) research by outlining the Dean Kruckeberg research problem and research gap, The role of new communication core theories or perspectives, the technologies—such as the internet, social This workshop will provide doctoral methodology, or empirical results. media, and mobile phones—in political and students with an opportunity to discuss The proposal needs to outline core civic engagement has generated significant their dissertation research in a constructive challenges and questions that the interest not only from scholars, but also and supportive atmosphere. The student has at this stage of his/ her organizations, politicians, and ordinary workshop is relevant for Ph.D. students project. By submitting a proposal, a citizens. While recent events in parts of the within the research field of Strategic student confirms his/her intention to world, such as the Umbrella movement in Communication, including Public Relations participate to the workshop. Hong Kong and prominent roles of social and Organizational Communication, • The proposals will be reviewed in media in elections, help recognize the who are at different stages of their January 2018. potential of new communication media as dissertation process. Students will receive • Once accepted, students must submit an agent contributing to macro-level political feedback and advice on their projects a short paper of approximately 6,000 changes, these new communication tools and recommendations for their theoretical words, no later than March 1, 2018, are also actively utilized in more traditional frameworks, methodologies, and research via email to organizers. This paper political processes, such as electoral designs from senior scholars and fellow can be focused on the core aspects campaigns. Also important is everyday use students who review the proposals. that the student would like to discuss of new communication technologies, which (for example, theories, empirical provides individuals with an opportunity to The workshop will also serve as a platform section). encounter public affairs news and discourse, for students to establish a valuable • The written peer review (about 1,000 enhance understanding of issues, and get network and to examine issues that are words) is due May 1, 2018, via involved in civic and political opportunities. important for their future careers. It will email to organizers. At the seminar, One of critical elements that we should provide a basis for general discussions on students will present a peer review of pay attention to when appreciating the role a variety of other issues. a fellow student’s paper. of new media—perhaps underlying all of December 2017 ICA Newsletter | 25 these processes and practices—would be concerns the overall ICA conference theme, Communication Studies, University of values, traditions, and history that define Voices, in an Asian- context are encouraged Michigan, U.S.A. each Asian country and the region. to submit a paper. Marko Skoric, Associate Professor, Abstracts of no more than 500 words should Department of Media and Communication, This preconference aims to showcase be submitted via the online submission City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong innovative scholarly work examining form (https://goo.gl/aqkwoZ) by either the Natalie Pang, Senior Research Fellow, Lee various subjects concerning the role of priority or the regular deadline. For each Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National social media, mobile phones, and other author, please include name, institutional University of Singapore, Singapore new communication technologies in the affiliation, and department, title/position, Baohua Zhou, Professor, Journalism formation of democratic citizenship writ and contact information. For problems School at Fudan University, China large—in Asia. The preference seeks with submission or questions, please email Tetsuro Kobayashi, Associate Professor, studies that address relevant topics in a [email protected]. Department of Media and Communication, particular Asian county, and comparative City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong research on Asian countries or Asian and Modest travel grants will be available to Muneo Kaigo, Associate Professor, Faculty non-Asian countries is also welcome. In participants, particularly graduate students of Humanities and Social Sciences, particular, the preconference encourages who are from developing/transitional University of Tsukuba, Japan a theory-driven analysis of the role of new countries that appear in Tiers B and C Scott Campbell, Professor, Department media in real-world, offline civic and political on the ICA country tier chart (country of of Communication Studies, University of action, including recent elections and civic residence, not of origin). Michigan, U.S.A. mobilization for sustainable development in Junho Choi, Professor, Graduate School of environmental, economic, and social well- Preconference Chairs Information, Yonsei University, Korea being. In addition, scholars whose research Nojin Kwak, Professor, Department of

• Families and work-life balance DIVISION NEWS continued from page 12 • Communication theory as it relates to families INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION research in interpersonal and relational • Inventive approaches to studying DIVISION contexts, it is not unusual to see families family communication studied in a variety of other communication • Diversity and inclusion issues Call for Submissions: Outstanding contexts including health, media, regarding families Dissertation and Thesis Awards 2018 organizations and organizing, law and policy, and cultural studies, to name only As this topic list indicates, even though this The Interpersonal Communication Division a few. preconference is being sponsored by the of the International Communication Interpersonal Communication Division, we Association seeks nominations for the Often, family communication studies draw strongly encourage participation across Division’s annual Outstanding Dissertation from literature in only one contextual area; the many divisions and interest groups that and Outstanding Thesis Awards. and, similarly, those research studies are are involved with family communication Applicants should submit (a) a 25-35 presented back to people within that same studies. Additionally, and embracing yet abstract or paper-length version of the sub-area of the field. Although valuable another facet of inclusivity, at least one thesis or dissertation, and (b) a letter of scholarship is undoubtedly generated in panel or session within the preconference nomination from the dissertation/thesis these silos, one has to wonder how much will be dedicated to non-normative families. director explaining why the project should family communication scholars from across be recognized. Deadline for submission of the field can benefit from each other’s Submitting to the Family materials is 30 January, 2018. Applicants work. Communication Preconference must have defended the project between Jan. 1 and Dec 31 of 2017. Submit This preconference brings together Abstract submissions should be sent as a application materials electronically scholars from all backgrounds who study Microsoft word document to [email protected] in a single .pdf to Jennifer A. Samp, both families and communication. In by Monday, 22 January 2018. To assist in Interpersonal Division Chair, at doing so, we will consider how to advance organizing abstract review, please include [email protected]. family communication studies in relevant, your last name as part of the file, and in informed, and innovative ways. In addition the subject line of your submission email ----- to a keynote speech and opportunities for include FAMILY COMMUNICATION: LAST discussion, the preconference will also NAME. Preconference Call for Panelists feature competitively-selected research. Inclusivity and Family Communication Abstracts should include a title, 5-7 key Research: Advances and Innovations Possible topic areas for competitive papers words, a body of up to 500 words, and from across the Discipline or high-density presentations include the references. Thursday, 24 May 2018, 10:00-17:00 following: Review and Notification of Decision Scholarship related to family • Relational communication in families communication continues to be of • Family health concerns We anticipate a fast peer-review process, interest to many scholars across the • Family use of traditional and new and authors will be notified of their communication discipline. Although media acceptance before 1 February 2018. the flagship publication for family • How laws and policies continue to Submission of a full paper is expected by communication scholarship, Journal of shape families 1 May 2018. Authors of accepted abstracts Family Communication, tends to publish • Representations of family in media will be expected to register for and

26 | December 2017 ICA Newsletter attend the pre-conference that is held on interviewing process and other aspects of Division and the MCIG. Please note in Thursday, 24 May 2018, from 10:00-17:00. faculty job searches. Anticipating a time your application if you would like to be The full 2018 ICA meeting will begin that when participants will have an academic considered for financial support to cover night with the opening reception. position, the discussion will include issues your costs for participation in the Doctoral like managing workload and working Consortium (this support would cover only Authors presenting at the preconference relationships, finding a work/life balance, the US$75 participation fee and not travel may be considered for an edited collection and ways of being a successful academic. to the conference). to be published in 2019. More details will be provided with acceptance notifications. Submission Process Registration Applicants must be advanced to Participation is only by invitation. Once candidacy, and have their dissertation a proposal is accepted, students can proposal topic previously approved by register through the ICA website. Cost for MOBILE COMMUNICATION INTEREST their committee or supervisor. Ideally, participation is US$75 per person. GROUP students will be in the early stages of their dissertation, where feedback would Program Committee (faculty mentors) CALL FOR STUDENT PROPOSALS be helpful in refining and advancing their Marjolijn L. Antheunis, Tilburg U, 9th Annual Doctoral Consortium of work. To apply, students must submit a Netherlands (Program Director); Katy the Communication and Technology proposal describing their research. Pearce, U of Washington, USA (Program Division committee); Veronika Karnowski, Ludwig- co-sponsored by the Mobile Submissions must be related to one of Communication Interest Group of the working areas of the Communication the International Communication and Technology Division (CAT) or the ICA Journal Editors Association (ICA) Mobile Communication Interest Group (MCIG) of the International Communication Annals of the International Thursday, 24 May 2018 | Skautsky Association (ICA). A description of the Communication Association Institut, Prague, Czech Republic respective research areas can be found David Ewoldsen, Michigan State U in the last section of this call. In your [email protected] Description submission, please identify whether you’re https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rica The consortium will bring together PhD submitting to MCIG or CAT. candidates conducting research on various types of communication technologies and Proposals must identify a significant Communication, Culture,& Critique mobile communication to give them the problem (or problems) in a relevant Laurie Ouellette, U of Minnesota/ opportunity to present and discuss their field of research, briefly outline current [email protected] research in a constructive and international knowledge of the problem domain, and Sarah Banet-Weiser, U of Southern atmosphere. The objectives of the event clearly formulate a research question, or California are to provide feedback and advice to specify hypotheses to be tested. Proposals [email protected] participating PhD candidates on their should outline the research approach, http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cccr in-progress research thesis. Moreover, methods, and any results obtained so far. the Doctoral Consortium will provide Submissions should be between 3000 and the opportunity to meet experts as well 4000 words (excluding references and Communication Theory as fellow PhD candidates from different appendices), and must include name and Karin Wilkins, U of Texas - Austin backgrounds working on related topics. affiliation of the PhD candidate. [email protected] http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/comth During the consortium, students and Applications need to be accompanied by faculty will be organized into small groups, a short letter of recommendation from determined by the thematic nature of the the advisor or member of the dissertation Human Communication Research research. In each group, students will committee stating how the PhD candidate Eun-Ju Lee, Seoul National U present their work, and receive feedback can benefit from participation in the [email protected] from their fellow students and faculty Doctoral Consortium. http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/hcr participants, all of whom will have read the proposals in advance of the Doctoral The proposal and letter of recommendation Consortium. Each proposal will receive must be submitted as one PDF document Journal of Communication detailed feedback from three faculty and sent as an attachment in an email Silvio Waisbord, George Washington participants. There will be two poster to Veronika Karnowski at veronika. U sessions to allow participants from other [email protected]. The deadline for [email protected] groups to learn about and comment on the submission is 1 February 2018. Submitted http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jcom research of the PhD candidates. proposals will be reviewed by the members of the program committee based In addition to the presentation and critique on significance of research, specificity of Journal of Computer-Mediated of proposals, there will be discussion of research topic and/or questions, clarity Communication issues related to making the transition from of writing and degree to which student S. Shyam Sundar, Pennsylvania graduate student to faculty member. Of can benefit from expert guidance and State U course, this process differs widely across feedback. & Sungkyunkwan U different nations and academic traditions. [email protected] Bearing these differences in mind, we To help ensure the consortium best meets http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jcmc will discuss positioning one’s work for the the needs of its members, limited financial job market, strategies for publication, the assistance is made possible by the CAT December 2017 ICA Newsletter | 27 Maximilians U, Germany (Program conferences. Please check the 2018 ICA Theories in Public Relations: committee); Klaus Bruhn Jensen, U of conference website for more information Reflections and Future Directions, Copenhagen, Denmark; Benjamin H. and calls for papers: prepared by Chiara Valentini and Lee Detenber, Nanyang Technological U, Edwards, is sponsored by the Public Singapore; Jordan Frith, U of North Texas, 1. The Ph.D. Student Workshop, Relations Division. USA; Jesse Fox, Ohio State U, USA prepared by Katerina Tsetsura and 4. The postconference proposal, Roselyn Lee-Won, Ohio State U, USA Dean Kruckeberg, is sponsored by the Lobbying and Democracy: The Richard S. Ling, Nanyang Technological Public Relations Division. Voice of Communication, prepared U, Singapore; Malcolm Parks, U of 2. The Preconference proposal, Diverse by Oyvind Ihlen, Anna Shavit, Chiara Washington, USA; Lidwien van de Voices: Authentic Communication, Valentini, Scott Davidson from the Wijngaert, Radboud U, Netherlands Trust, Dialogue, and Society, European Public Relations Education Mike Yao, U of Illinois at Urbana- prepared by Flora Hung-Baesecke, and Research Association, is Champaign, USA Regina Chen from Public Relations sponsored by the Public Diplomacy Society of China, Oyvind Ihlen from Interest Group and co-sponsored by the European Public Relations the Public Relations Division. Education and Research Association, 5. Preconference proposal, Voice and PUBLIC RELATIONS DIVISION and Denisa Hejlová from Charles Voices: Exploring the Tensions University in Prague, is sponsored between Plurivocity and Univocity Pre/PostConference Proposal by the Public Relations Division (exact title to be confirmed), prepared Submissions and co-sponsored by the Global by Professor François Cooren Communication and Social Change (Université de Montréal), is co- At the 2018 ICA conference in Prague, Division, and the Organizational sponsored by the Public Relations the Public Relations Division will sponsor/ Communication Division. Division and other ICA divisions. co-sponsor the following pre- and post- 3. The Preconference proposal,

the editor to find a suitable list of reviewers CALLS FOR PAPERS continued from page 14 for each edition of the NWJC, ensuring – certainly have stifled the growth of the 2018: Acceptance notifications sent to a timely and thorough review of potential alternatives. Still, the alternatives deserve authors MAY 15 2018: Full drafts due to submissions. critical attention, because they force [email protected] JULY 15 2018: us to rethink what we mean by “social Comments sent to authors by editors A complete nomination includes: (1) a media.” What tethers so many people to SEPTEMBER 15 2018: Final drafts letter of application from the candidate that so few corporate sites? And what actual submitted to Social Media + Society for includes the candidate’s experience for the “alternatives” to corporate social media do peer review FEBRUARY 2019: Special task of journal editing; (2) the candidate’s the current slate of alternative social media Issue Publication curriculum vitae; and (3) contact platforms propose? information for two references who can speak to the candidate’s qualifications for Topics that may be explored in this special the position. Please send your nomination issue of Social Media + Society might Call for Journal Editor to Kevin T. Jones, NWCA President include ([email protected]). The Northwest Communication Association * ethnographic or participant observation (NWCA) is accepting nominations for Review of nominations begins on 1 engagements with alternative social media the position of Editor of the Northwest February, 2018, and continues until the communities Journal of Communication (NWJC). position is filled. The goal is to present * software studies analysis of shifts in Self-nominations are welcome. The the new editor at the 2018 NWCA annual underlying ASM technologies appointment is for three years and begins conference in April 2018. For questions or * narratives from practitioners who in Spring 2018. The new editor will work queries, please feel free to contact Kevin have built, moderated, or extensively with the current editor during a transition Jones ([email protected]). participated in ASM period. The new editor will be responsible * comparative analysis of two or more ASM for the 2019-2021 editions of the journal. platforms The NWJC is a peer reviewed, EBSCO * studies of ASM as political, technical or listed journal, publishing one issue per Call for Abstracts cultural discourses or desires year of quality scholarship on a variety of * regulatory and policy discussion communication topics. The editor need Special Issue of Journal of International regarding controversies involving ASM not be a resident of the Pacific Northwest, and Intercultural Communication * speculative proposals or fictions about but will be expected to attend our annual new ASM that address existing problems conference every April in Coeur d’Alene, Stretching the Boundaries of * analysis of appropriation of ASM Idaho. Submissions to the journal are International and Intercultural innovations by corporate social media not limited to residents of the Northwest Communication Scholarship system or members of the NWCA. The editorial board may include scholars from across This is a call for abstracts for a special ***Timeline/Important Dates [subject to the United States, and can be composed issue of the Journal of International change] DECEMBER 20 2017: 500 word of members of the editor’s choosing, in and Intercultural Communication with abstracts and CVs/resumes may be sent consultation with the NWCA Executive the theme, “Stretching the boundaries to [email protected] JANUARY 20 Council (EC). The EC will also work with of international and intercultural communication (IIC) scholarship.” 28 | December 2017 ICA Newsletter This special issue invites studies that by Sunny Lie (Assistant Professor, drawn into alternate, fictional, reexamine assumptions about what counts Communication, California State cinematic, and comic book universes, as communication in general, and IIC in Polytechnic U, Pomona, USA) and social networks, immersive worlds, particular. For example, given the current Natasha Shrikant (Assistant Professor, and augmented realities? globalized, transnational, and technology Communication, U of Colorado-Boulder, • In an age of increasing communicative driven context, has IIC changed at all? If USA). We are currently accepting abstracts complexities and oversimplifications, so, how? In what new ways has it shifted for potential articles to be included in what is truth and what is reality? How given our current times of change and this special issue. Abstracts should be do real/virtual and analogue/digital discord? What is the significance of these maximum 300 words. The deadline for universes overlap/separate? changes? abstract submissions is 11 December, • How is journalism overcoming 2017. Abstracts should be sent as an vernaculars of real/fake news in a We call for studies that address the attachment via email to Sunny Lie at slie@ “post-truth” era, while still actively above questions using approaches that cpp.edu or Natasha Shrikant at Natasha. seeking solutions? fall under the umbrella of “language and [email protected]. Authors whose • What constitute material universes in social interaction” (LSI). LSI approaches abstract have been selected for the next antiquity and contemporary culture? are distinctive in that they how stage of submission will be contacted via • How do technological and everyday forms of communication such as email and invited to submit full manuscripts cosmological universes transform text, talk, language use, and other forms by 5 March, 2018. The manuscripts will theory-practice? of social interaction play an important role undergo further review and be considered in constituting identities, relationships, for publication, coming out in 2019. • In this context, what is posthumanism cultures, and communities. We seek Feel free to contact the co-editors with and how are speculative futures LSI studies that analyze IIC as situated questions via the abovementioned email already integrating into (re)generative in local cultural contexts and illustrate addresses. General information about medicine, music, law & other how participants’ use of new forms of IIC the journal may be found at: http://www. disciplines? create, recreate, and are formative of tandfonline.com/action/ • How are emerging systems, current states of social institutions such environments, architectures, the as education, law, medicine, economics, sciences and the arts converging/ religion, and politics. diverging into societies and What is Universe? Communication • universes? What are universes of IIC can be “new” in the sense that it Complexity • Coherence values? occurs via social media or other recently U of Oregon in Portland available technology, stems directly from 19-21 April, 2018 With the definitions of “universe” continuing and/or is being shaped by current social to , important questions abound as and political contexts, or is simply a form The What is Universe? (2018) we address a sweeping range of issues of communication from communities that conference-experience examines next April in Portland, Oregon. have not thus far been studied or featured communication, complexity/simplicity, in IIC scholarship. coherence/incoherence and, how they Conference Organizers: Janet Wasko may or may not contribute to “a pluralistic and Jeremy Swartz (University of Oregon) Submissions could take theoretical universe.” This conference marks the approaches that highlight shared cultural third collaboration among scholars Send 100–150 word abstracts or dimensions of communication that from the natural and social sciences, installations by 31 DECEMBER, 2017 constitute and organize social life, and/ communication, media, law, design, and to: Janet Wasko, [email protected]. or approaches that highlight variation in art. We invite proposals for scholarly School of Journalism and Communication, ways community members orient to or papers, panels, exhibits and installations U of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA negotiate cultural norms in their everyday on a wide variety of issues and topics. interactions. Studies could also take Please see whatis.uoregon.edu for more a comparative approach and provide details. systematic, cross-cultural comparisons Review of Communication Special between communication means and Participants will explore universes— Issue CFP -- Literature as Philosophy of meanings in different local contexts. The from reality bubbles, immersive virtual Communication specific approaches we call for include, environments, and alternate histories, but are not limited to: ethnography to agential realism, media genealogy Guest Editor: Donovan Irven, of communication, interactional and archaeology, to bio-inspired, urban Midwestern State University sociolinguistics, sociocultural linguistics, and ecological design, to universal ([email protected]) discourse analysis, socio-pragmatic rights, disabilities studies, multicultural discourse approaches, and narrative communities, networks, and cosmologies. Deadline: Monday, January 15, 2018 analysis. Submission Guidelines: http://explore. Proposals may address the following tandfonline.com/cfp/ah/rroc-si- Possible focuses include: questions (as well as others): literature-4q2017

-Digital communication • What are communication, science, The possibility that literature is capable -Changes in communication shaped by media, design, and philosophy of disclosing ontological insights has current social and political contexts universes today, and how are they occupied philosophy at least since Hegel’s -Communication forms in understudied syncretizing? How can universities lectures on aesthetics. That philosophy communities and disciplines be understood as exists as a literary tradition intended to universes? convey certain arguments and insights This special issue will be co-edited • How are citizens increasingly being is often overlooked, and the manifold December 2017 ICA Newsletter | 29 communicative praxes that enable the to ontological insights. Rather than of communication. expression of philosophical insights in manuscripts on literary texts that are • The intersection of philosophy literature are treated merely as accidents presented as philosophical “readings” of of communication and literature: in the history of literary movements that said text (i.e., Heideggerian/Deleuzean/ the ways in which philosophy are themselves considered to have little Nietzschean interpretations of x novel/ and literature overlap, particularly or no philosophical import. This special poem/story), this special issue seeks when this facilitates insights into issue looks at the relationship between explorations of the unique ways literature the philosophy of communication, philosophy and literature at the intersection communicates its own ontological insights; ontology, communicative praxis. of communicative praxis, particularly that is, how literature can be philosophical • The relationship between historical where the insights are ontological ones in its own right. movements in philosophy and concerning the nature of existence, literature: how philosophy and human or otherwise, as fundamentally With the above questions in mind, the literature engage in a creative communicative. journal invites submissions on, but not dialogue with one another and limited to, the following themes: influence each other in domains such How are ontological insights expressed? as writing technique, style, conceptual In what ways has the philosophy of • Philosophy of communication as apparatuses and permutations, and communication been shaped by literature, ontology: how literature itself can be or foundational questions. or vice versa, particularly in the realm of not be ontological, and how literature • Conceptualization of existence in ontology? Generally, what does it mean communicates this ontology through philosophy and literature: specific to “express” ontological insights, and implicit or explicit communicative ontological insights expressed how might philosophical essays, or more praxes that are informed by the in philosophy and/or literature artistic literary genres be specially suited philosophical tradition. and how each domain may or or unsuited to express such ontological • Philosophy as literature: how may not be suited to expressing insights? This special issue is interested in philosophy has developed techniques particular ontologies, especially submissions that reflect on the relationship as a communicative praxis that allow it where such ontologies figure into between the philosophy of communication to disclose unique ontological insights, the nature of communication itself, and literature, or philosophically informed and how such inquiry may or may not or even the nature of existence meditations on literature that give rise be informed by an implicit philosophy as fundamentally communicative. AVAILABLE POSITIONS & OPPORTUNITIES

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ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY at least one of the following areas: degree programs, visit the department Department of Humanities website, or contact the search committee Assistant Professor in the Department • Research methods, quantitative and chair, Associate Professor Karl Stolley, by of Humanities ideally also qualitative email at [email protected]. • User experience and user research The Department of Humanities at Illinois • Information structure and design Institute of Technology seeks a tenure- track assistant professor for a Fall 2018 Applicants should submit a single PDF file MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY appointment. The ideal candidate will containing (1) letter of interest, (2) C.V., and School of Journalism complement the department’s core (3) contact information for three references Two Tenure-Track Assistant Professors disciplinary areas: communication, to [email protected]. information architecture; history; linguistics; Fall 2017: Immersive Storytelling & Visual media studies; philosophy and ethics; and Illinois Institute of Technology is an EEO/ Communication Faculty Search science, technology, and society. Candidates AA/Title VI/Title IX/Section 504/ADA/ must demonstrate a research agenda that ADEA employer committed to enhancing The School of Journalism at Michigan integrates digital media technologies and equity, inclusion and diversity within its State University seeks two tenure-track humanistic scholarship and whose research community. It actively seeks applications assistant professors, one with experience questions are approached and answered from all individuals regardless of race, in immersive storytelling and the other who through large-scale quantitative or corpus- color, sex, marital status, religion, creed, is a visual communicator with an emphasis based research methods. Successful national origin, disability, age, military or in photojournalism or documentary applicants must have completed a Ph.D. by veteran status, sexual orientation, and/or photography. The ideal candidates will August 2018 and must provide evidence of gender identity and expression. All qualified have well-defined research agendas with potential for collaborative, interdisciplinary applicants will receive equal consideration evidence of scholarly publication in peer- research. for employment. reviewed journals. Candidates must also have potential for external funding in The ideal candidate will be prepared to Review of applications will begin their area of expertise. The candidate will teach undergraduate- and graduate-level on November 15, 2017 and continue until share our vision for an exciting future for research methods. In addition to courses the position is filled. For more information journalism and will teach our students to be in the candidate’s area of expertise, about the Humanities Department, world-class journalists. candidates should be prepared to teach in including graduate and undergraduate

30 | December 2017 ICA Newsletter Our innovative colleagues have the Assistant Professor: Public Relations Review of the applications will begin after potential to be an exemplary teachers and We are seeking a scholar in the area of 31 December 2017 and continue until the prolific scholars. Thus, candidates will have public relations with research and teaching position is filled. The candidate is expected a PhD, an MFA or other terminal degree expertise in such areas as corporate to start in December 2018. Only shortlisted in a related field by August 15, 2018. communications management, international candidates will be notified. Experience in producing and teaching public relations, public relations strategy, augmented reality, virtual reality, interactive public relations and social media or public 360 video or interactive immersive relations in an Asian context. The successful environment platforms is desired in the first candidate will have a record of research NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY position and a record as a photojournalist published in strong academic journals, an Assistant or Associate Professor of or documentary photographer is desired in agenda for seeking external funding, and Computer Science + Journalism the second. These scholars will be required a commitment to excellence in teaching at As part of an ambitious plan to expand to conduct research in his or her chosen the undergraduate and graduate levels. interdisciplinary work in computer science area of communication and join our efforts and other fields, Northwestern University to seek external funding. The Wee Kim Wee School of Communication seeks to hire a new faculty member and Information is a vibrant global leader in whose work focuses on the intersection of To apply for the Immersive Storytelling communication and information research Computer Science and Journalism/Media position, please refer to Posting #476824 and education. Recent hires and a high and has the potential to drive change and and for the Visual Communication level of support reaffirm the School’s pre- transformation in the field of journalism. Faculty Search position refer to Posting eminence in the disciplines under its aegis. We invite candidates to apply for a new #476702. Complete an electronic Singapore is a vibrant cosmopolitan city/ position as Professor of Computer submission at the Michigan State University state with good weather, low crime, rich Science & Journalism at the Associate Employment Opportunities website: www. cultural attractions, exceptional food, and or Assistant Professor level. The faculty careers.msu.edu. Applicants should submit proximity to numerous points of interest in member will have positions in both the the following: 1) cover letter summarizing Southeast Asia. McCormick School of Engineering and the qualifications for the position and your Medill School of Journalism. vision for immersive storytelling or visual Emoluments and General Terms and communication, 2) CV, 3) the names and Conditions of Service The search is open to academic candidates contact info of three references, and 4) Salary will be competitive and will be as well as distinguished technology web link to an online portfolio or PDF commensurate with qualifications and professionals. We are interested in document. The search committee will begin experience. The University offers a candidates who have a track record of considering applications Dec. 18, 2017. The comprehensive fringe benefit package. success in researching, developing and search closes when a suitable candidate Information on emoluments and general deploying technology relevant to journalism is hired. Please direct any questions for terms and conditions of service is available in and media, as well as research interests the immersive storytelling position to Dr. the section on Terms and Conditions (http:// in a computer science discipline such as Rachel Mourao ([email protected]), and bit.ly/1V80Rf4) for Academic Appointments. Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, for the visual communication position to Human-Computer Interaction or Knowledge Dr. Howard Bossen ([email protected]), Application Procedures Management. School of Journalism, Michigan State University. To apply, please refer to Candidates whose background is primarily the Guidelines (http://bit.ly/1LDnrKk) in the media or technology industry MSU is an affirmative action, equal for submitting an Application for Faculty should be able to demonstrate experience opportunity employer, and is committed to Appointment and send your application building or leading the development achieving excellence through diversity. The package [consisting of cover letter, of software that addresses the needs university actively encourages applications curriculum vitae, personal particulars form, of journalists, publishers and/or media and/or nominations of women, Persons of a statement of current and future research consumers. Academic candidates should Color, veterans and persons with disabilities interest, teaching statement, effectiveness have a research agenda at the intersection Shape of teaching (If any), selected publications, of computer science and journalism, and and the names of 5 referees] by 31 experience developing technologies for December 2017 to: media practitioners or consumers.

NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL The Search Committee Given Northwestern’s longstanding UNIVERSITY, SINGAPORE commitment to interdisciplinary work in Wee Kim Wee School of Communication Nanyang Technological University these fields, an interest in teaching students and Information Wee Kim Wee School of Communication from both journalism and computer science Assistant Professor and Information -- and fostering collaboration between them 31 Nanyang Link, WKWSCI Building -- is critical. Young and research-intensive, Nanyang Singapore 637718 Technological University (NTU Singapore) The goal of the CS + X initiative is the is ranked 11th globally. It is also placed Email: [email protected] transformational integration of CS with 1st among the world’s best young other fields. With the dual focus of research universities. NTU’s Wee Kim Wee School Applications sent via email should include and education, candidates will work across of Communication and Information seeks the reference “Application for Assistant schools to help create an environment new faculty colleagues with a strong record Professor in Public Relations” in the of cross-functional cooperation and of high-quality research and a commitment subject line. Enquiries about the position coordination between disciplines. to mentoring the next generation of can be addressed to the above email. communication and information scholars. We encourage candidates to send December 2017 ICA Newsletter | 31 applications as soon as possible. technologies, democracy, social change, SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY Applications received by December 15, gender and racial equality, and public School of Communication 2017 will be given full consideration. policy as well as catalyzing and supporting Two Tenure-Track Positions However, the position will remain open others in the Rutgers and engaged until filled. Applicants should submit (1) a communities; b) providing opportunities The School of Communication at Simon cover letter indicating rank applied for, (2) a for students and faculty to learn from Fraser University invites applications from curriculum vitae, (3) three to five references scholars, experts, and activists with outstanding candidates for two tenure-track (4) statements of research and teaching frontline experience; c) developing classes positions at the rank of Assistant Professor: interests, and (5) two representative and educational programs to enhance publications. For general questions about students’ understanding of how technology 1. News, Social Media, and Public the search or application assistance post and media shape who we are; and d) Communication submission, contact facsearch@eecs. guiding students toward critically analyzing northwestern.edu important social and cultural questions and Intersection of news, social media and encouraging them to take action to address public communication. Specific areas of Northwestern University is an Equal social inequalities. focus may include but are not limited to Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer political economy and governance of news of all protected classes, including veterans The successful candidate will be the first production and distribution;; the impact and individuals with disabilities. Women, Gloria Steinem Chair and therefore will of social media on journalism and public underrepresented racial and ethnic play an important role in shaping the chair’s communication;; news, democracy and minorities, individuals with disabilities, and development, ensuring that its work is world- the public sphere; critical analysis of news veterans are encouraged to apply. Hiring leading in envisioning its positive impact on discourse; independent media, ethnic media is contingent upon eligibility to work in the gender equality in society. The successful and alternative journalism; the influence of United States. applicant’s expertise and interest may public relations and marketing on news be grounded in gender, communication, media;; data journalism; communication To apply for the position: https:// media, or information. He or she will be rights and access to infzrmation;; media facultyrecruiting.northwestern.edu/apply/ excited by students and teaching; a leader activism; studies of users, creators, and NTc who will foster robust collaboration among publics. We are searching for candidates related scholars and practitioners and who address these or other issues using build a hub for innovation in teaching and qualitative, quantitative, media and news practice. We seek a leader who is creative, analysis that might include discourse RUTGERS UNIVERSITY dynamic, and energetic, an effective and and frame analysis, content analysis, Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair trusted communicator who is excited ethnography, and computational or digital in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies about collaborating and leading a diverse methods or a combination of approaches. Rutgers University’s School of and dynamic team of colleagues and Communication and Information, the students, and about engaging in national 2. Big data Institute for Women’s Leadership, and and international arenas. The successful the Department of Women’s and Gender candidate will also have a demonstrable Area of big data in relation to theories and Studies in the School of Arts and Sciences, record of public engagement as a public methodologies in the field of communication. are joining together to seek a prominent intellectual, scholar, professional, and/or Specific areas of focus may include but leader in the area of media, culture, and activist in related areas. are not limited to social media, algorithmic feminist studies to launch the prestigious culture, critical data studies, digital Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair. This is a two to three year rotating position. humanities, surveillance, critical artificial Responsibilities of the position include intelligence, platform studies, blockchain The Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in undergraduate and graduate teaching and crypto technologies, data visualization, Media, Culture and Feminist Studies assignments in communication, media, infrastructure studies, quantified self, data reflects and builds on the work and world information, and women studies; an active politics, data ethics, privacy, and health. We view of Gloria Steinem, feminist, organizer, program of engagement in the candidate’s are searching for candidates who address reporter, editor, and humanist. The chair area of expertise and interest; initiating and these or other issues using qualitative, inspires students and faculty at Rutgers, facilitating events and collaborations (e.g., quantitative, computational, digital methods as well as the wider audience outside the workshops, internships, symposia, guest or a combination of approaches. university, to explore and reimagine the lectures, projects, etc.); and communicating role of the media in serving democracy, on behalf of the Gloria Steinem Endowed Situated in the Faculty of Communication, with explicit focus on women and under- Chair with all relevant stakeholders. The Art and Technology, the School of served communities. Connecting the expected start date for the position is Communication is a national and global worlds of academia and media, this chair September 2018. leader in the discipline. The School is a will invite all students to come together dynamic site of research and teaching across boundaries, to analyze, critique, For more details about this position and with a strategic focus on digital media and create media that reflect reality, and to apply, visit http://jobs.rutgers.edu/ and communication. Our critical tradition to provide facts, narratives, and new forms postings/55123 to the study of communication includes of storytelling that advance empathy, approaches such as media and culture, democracy, communal action, and Rutgers University is an AA/EEO technology studies, global communication, innovative solutions. employer - M/F/Veteran/Disability. For culture industries and policy, history additional information please see our Non- of communication, and applied media This notable leader may come from the Discrimination Statement. http://uhr.rutgers. production, among others. The successful academic, media, and/or activist worlds edu/non-discrimination-statement candidate will build on the School’s history and will engage with topics such as a) of critical engagement while developing examining the relationship among media new directions in research and teaching 32 | December 2017 ICA Newsletter to reflect contemporary and emergent Rochester, New York. We invite applications such as experiential and service learning issues of digital media and communication. for a full time faculty member to teach are favorable. Successful candidates will We seek an innovative colleague who will applied media research, analytics, strategic integrate research into their teaching, and challenge traditional distinctions between communication, business communication, vice versa. Interdisciplinary, collaborative, critical analysis and applied approaches. advertising, and media economics and student- and pedagogy-centered at the undergraduate and graduate research programs are preferential and Candidates are expected to have a level. Qualifications: Doctorate preferred. encouraged institution-wide. Dedication to completed Ph.D. (or Ph.D. near completion) M.S., M.A., or M.B.A. considered. Previous serving the campus and local community in Communication or a cognate discipline, industry and teaching experience is also is elemental to the mission and culture at a record of teaching experience and preferred. St. Mary’s University. St. Mary’s fosters excellence, a clear potential to contribute a community of faith in which people of to the School’s research culture, and an Applicants from diverse groups encouraged varied traditions and experiences unite in emerging publication record appropriate to apply. commitment to an educational venture, in to the position. The successful candidate dedication to a life of scholarship, and in will be expected to teach and supervise Visiting faculty teach a 4-4 load and advise service to society. Candidates should be students at all undergraduate and graduate students. They may continue their research prepared to conduct academic advising, levels and to work with partners inside and and contribute to college-wide committees. advise student media organizations outside the University. An annual travel stipend is available. Fisher such as the national award-winning offers a comprehensive and competitive student news publication The Rattler, and All qualified candidates are encouraged benefits package. contribute to department, school, and to apply. However, Canadian citizens and university committees and initiatives. Ph.D. permanent residents will be given priority. Applicants must be legally authorized to or ABD in communication or related field by Simon Fraser University is committed work in the US, and be available to teach August 2018 required. Some professional to employment equity and welcomes in fall 2018. experience is desirable. applications from all qualified women and men, including visible minorities, persons Please apply at Review of applications will begin December of aboriginal heritage, persons with https://jobs.sjfc.edu/applicants/ 1, 2017, and continue until the position is disabilities, and LGBTQ-identified persons. jsp/shared/frameset/Frameset. filled. Applications and full job description jsp?time=1510194408469 Or https://jobs. can be found at https://stmarytx. Applications should include a cover letter, sjfc.edu/ applicantpro.com/jobs/, and questions a curriculum vitae, a concise statement may be emailed to Amanda Kennedy of research established and projected, ([email protected]). Any offer a statement of teaching experience, of employment will be contingent upon performance and philosophy, and two writing ST. MARY’S UNIVERSITY successful completion of a clear background samples. Please submit all documents in a Department of English & check. Underrepresented candidates are single PDF file with bookmarks. In addition, Communication Studies strongly encouraged to apply. All qualified three letters of reference should be sent Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of applicants will be considered regardless of under separate cover. Please direct all Communication Studies (Fall 2018) religion, race, gender, sex, sexuality, age, materials to: disability, or any other legally protected The Department of English & category. AA/EOE Director, School of Communication Communication Studies at St. Mary’s Shape Simon Fraser University University, San Antonio, Texas, seeks an 8888 University Drive assistant professor to fill a tenure-track Burnaby, BC, Canada V5A 1S6 position in communication studies starting c/o: [email protected] Fall 2018. We are interested in teaching and SYRACUSE UNIVERISTY scholarship in communication specialties Communications Department Review of applications will begin related to journalism, media studies, digital Associate or Full Professor on November 30th, 2017 and will continue and visual communication, and/or digital until the position is filled. humanities—and particularly how theory The Communications Department at and practice from those traditions are Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse These positions are subject to funding situated in community contexts. Teaching School of Public Communications invites and final approval by the SFU Board of duties include core curriculum, upper- applications for a full-time teaching position, Governors. Under the authority of the division, and MA-level courses, with general in the area of communications law beginning University Act, personal information that and specific topics in communication theory in fall 2018, at the rank of associate or is required by the University for academic and methods, writing across media contexts full professor. A candidate with extensive appointment competitions will be collected. and platforms, journalism and broadcasting, relevant professional experience will be For further details, please see: http://www. and media design and production. Ability to considered for a position as a Professor of sfu.ca/vpacademic/faculty_openings/ teach quantitative methods at graduate and Practice. A Ph.D. or J.D. is required. collection_notice.html undergraduate levels is preferred. The successful candidate will have a Candidates must demonstrate evidence strong track record in research, policy of teaching excellence, dedication to development, or practice in the field of ST. JOHN FISHER COLLEGE service, and research potential in the communication law. We are especially Visiting Assistant Professor candidate’s field of specialty. A commitment interested in candidates with specialties to student-centered learning is essential, in 1) digital privacy, or 2) media and Visiting Assistant Professor of Media and engaged and innovative pedagogies technology law. Management at St. John Fisher College in and community-focused teaching practices December 2017 ICA Newsletter | 33 Successful candidates will demonstrate For full description and online application creative/scholarship and teaching. an interest in working with students from instructions, go to https://www.sujobopps. The Department of Advertising and Public the undergraduate to the doctoral level. com – JOB# 073556. Cover letter, resume Relations has enjoyed over 40 years of At the graduate level we regularly offer or vitae and names, addresses, and a list achievement by leading scholars and a courses on media law for our professionally of four references must be attached online. highly competitive AAF National Student oriented master’s students. At the Review of applications begins December 31 Advertising Competition team. Our creative undergraduate level, we regularly offer and will continue until the position is filled. students have won awards in regional, specific courses on communications law national and international advertising for journalism students; for public relations For more information, feel free to competitions and is ranked among the top and advertising students; and for students contact Brad Gorham, Search Chair, creative programs by the One Club for Art in the television, radio and film industries. Communications, S.I. Newhouse School & Copy. The Department’s Plank Center The ideal candidate should feel comfortable of Public Communications, Syracuse for Leadership in Public Relations and its teaching any of these classes; the course University. Phone: 315-443-1950. Email: student-run Capstone Agency prepare our load will be 4 or 5 courses a year depending [email protected] students to be socially-conscious leaders on background. The ability to teach Apply Here: http://www.Click2Apply.net/ in the field. Our department is focused on other communication classes in areas rwq33ht8ps672v86 building a diverse culture of intellectual and consistent with the candidate’s experience creative engagement for our faculty and is also desirable, including the possibility of students. specialty law courses. UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA The University of Alabama is the state’s The successful candidate should expect Department of Advertising and Public flagship public university and offers the full a variety of service duties, including: Relations course of academic programs and social academic and career advising of Tenure-Track life to its approximately 38,000 students. undergraduate and graduate students; It is located in Tuscaloosa, a diverse city mentoring junior faculty; department, The Department of Advertising and Public with a population of more than 115,000 and school and university committee service; Relations and College of Communication offers an excellent quality of life with many and occasional community outreach. and Information Sciences at The University cultural and outdoor activities, as well as a Widely regarded as the nation’s leading of Alabama seeks an outstanding colleague very reasonable cost of living. school of communications, the S.I. Newhouse to join our nationally recognized program. School of Public Communications is home This tenure-track position will have To apply: Upload an application, resume to approximately 1,900 undergraduate teaching responsibilities in the Department and a cover letter that includes a list of three and 250 graduate students. The School is of Advertising and Public Relations references at https://facultyjobs.ua.edu. housed in a 250,000-square foot, three- including coursework such as advertising building complex that includes state-of- copywriting, portfolio development, art Applications will be accepted until the the-art classrooms, a 300-seat auditorium, direction, concepting strategies, and position is filled; however, review of a research center, an executive education advertising campaigns. Opportunities for applications will begin November 10, 2017. wing, a café and many spaces for formal new course development, and additional Questions regarding the search should be and informal meetings and collaboration summer and Interim teaching are available. directed to the search chair, Dr. Caryl Cooper among students, faculty and staff. A recent There is the expectation of teaching at the (205-454-9320; [email protected]). $18 million renovation of Newhouse 2 undergraduate and graduate levels. includes the Studio and Innovation Center. The University of Alabama is an Equal This center encompasses a high-tech As we seek an individual with expertise in Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. entertainment production environment that the conceptualization of advertising efforts, Women and minorities are encouraged to rivals many Hollywood studios, a creative the successful candidate will bring the apply. hub where Newhouse expertise in content proper academic expertise and professional development and production meets the experience. The academic certification latest media technology and programming required for this position is a terminal trends and a top-of-the-line digital news degree such as a MFA or Ph.D. The ideal UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN center. This space provides the school candidate will have professional experience DIEGO with a cutting-edge media facility that gives in advertising and digital communication. Department of Communication students the best possible preparation for Some college-level teaching experience is Assistant Professor careers in the communications industry. also preferred, as the successful candidate Beyond this, our school continues its must have a record of effectively engaging The Department of Communication (http:// tradition of attracting the best and the students in the classroom. Applicants must communication.ucsd.edu/) within the brightest. Students are among the best also demonstrate the ability to contribute Division of Social Sciences at the University in the country, having secured a place to the graduate education mission of the of California, San Diego is seeking to make in the class through a highly competitive university as well as being active and appointments at the Assistant Professor admissions process. This year’s incoming involved member of a highly collaborative level, to begin Fall, 2018 in two areas: freshmen earned an average 3.8 GPA. team at both the departmental and college levels. 1. Journalism Studies/Networks of The Newhouse School encourages Production and Circulation of candidates to apply who will help us As this is a tenure track position, it is News. We are looking for a candidate broaden the diversity of our faculty. important to note that tenure can be with an active and creative research Syracuse University is an Affirmative achieved via a creative track or research and teaching program that focuses Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. track. Regardless of the track selected, on the evolving nature of journalism the position requires an individual who and, more broadly, on the networks is dedicated to the highest standards in of news-organization, -production, 34 | December 2017 ICA Newsletter -circulation, and consumption. Areas of would contribute to campus diversity goals; undergraduate and graduate students, particular interest include: the shifting and contact information for three reference engage in governance and other service norms, genres, and practices of news letters activities, and demonstrate interest in production; the changing boundaries contributing to online education, diversity, between journalism and other UC San Diego is an Equal Opportunity/ and the internationalization of the college narrative forms and cultural platforms Affirmative Action Employer with a strong and university. for information dissemination; institutional commitment to excellence the political economy of news through diversity. All qualified applicants The Department of Public Relations is organizations; and the interactions will receive consideration for employment one of the largest public relations programs of journalists and other actors in the without regard to race, color, religion, sex, in the country, with eight tenured faculty production and circulation of news. national origin, disability, age or protected members, one endowed chair in public veteran status. interest communications, and two full-time 2. Critical Studies of Technology, lecturers, for a total of 11 faculty members. Media, and Persuasion. We are It serves approximately 600 undergraduate looking for a candidate with an active majors, 25 master’s students, and 10 Ph.D. and creative research and teaching UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA students. The Department consistently is program that focuses on technology, College of Journalism and ranked among the top three public relations media, and persuasion in the digital Communications programs in the United States and enjoys age; explores the blurred boundaries Tenure-Track Faculty Position an excellent international reputation. between corporate and public interests; and considers possibilities The Department of Public Relations in the The College of Journalism and for configuring novel forms of politics, College of Journalism and Communications Communications (www.jou.ufl.edu) has civil society, and popular culture. Areas at the University of Florida invites 57 full-time faculty members teaching in of particular interest include: emergent applications for a nine-month tenure- four departments: Advertising, Journalism, forms of media and data manipulation track appointment at the rank of assistant Public Relations, and Telecommunication. and distribution by state, corporate, professor, to begin August 2018. A recognized national leader in the and non-governmental actors; data The University of Florida College of field, the College is accredited by the mining and algorithmic targeting of Journalism and Communications Accrediting Council on Education in consumers, citizens, and political actors is recognized as a national leader Journalism and Mass Communications by government and corporations; the in communication scholarship and (ACEJMC). The College also houses a impact of advertising, promotional professional skills development. In our full-service communications agency, led by communication, and consumer culture march to preeminence, we are adding 15 professionals and staffed by students. The on civil society, industries, human new lecturer and faculty positions across University of Florida is a member of the subjectivity, and political movements. Advertising, Journalism, Public Relations Association of American Universities and is and Telecommunication disciplines. Be categorized in the Carnegie Commission’s For both positions, successful candidates part of an ambitious, progressive and top tier of research universities. UF’s more will situate their work historically and have collaborative program at one of the U.S. than 52,000 students come from all 50 strong methodological skills that include or News and World Report’s top-ten public states and more than 100 countries. combine ethnography, cultural and historical research universities in the U.S. analysis, institutional analysis (including Application Procedure: To view political economy), or textual and discourse Qualifications: application instructions and complete an analysis. A comparative perspective is also online résumé, visit www.hr.ufl.edu/job. welcome. Candidates for the assistant professor The reference number for the vacancy of public relations position must possess is 505348. Applications must include an The Department of Communication at an earned Ph.D. in communication or electronic copy of the following: (1) a letter the University of California, San Diego other relevant field by August 2018 and of interest; (2) complete curriculum vitae; (3) is committed to academic excellence a record of original scholarly research. teaching evaluation data, where available, and diversity within the faculty, staff, and Preference will be given to applicants or evidence of teaching effectiveness; and student body. We seek candidates who with demonstrated expertise in one or (4) names, addresses, e-mail addresses, will maintain the highest standards of a combination of the following areas: and telephone numbers of at least three scholarship and professional activity and corporate reputation and identity, crisis/risk, references. The Search Committee may make a strong and meaningful contribution digital/social media, health, international, request additional materials at a later time. to the development of a campus climate public interest communications, ethics, and If an accommodation due to a disability is that supports equality and diversity. Salary other areas relevant to public relations. needed to apply for this position, please call is commensurate with qualifications and Other qualifications include evidence (352) 392-4621 or the Florida Relay System based on University of California pay scales. of excellence in teaching, a publication at (800) 955-8771 (TDD). To ensure full consideration, all application record, potential to secure grant funding, materials must be submitted electronically and productivity and effectiveness in Review of applications will begin December by December 8, 2017, at the following contributing to a collegial environment. 8, 2017, and will continue until the position links: https://apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/apply/ is filled. JPF01545 and https://apol-recruit.ucsd. Responsibilities: edu/apply/JPF01544 The search is conducted under Florida’s The successful candidate will teach open records laws, and all documents are Application must include: a two to three undergraduate and graduate courses open for public inspection. page cover letter; CV; statement detailing in public relations. The faculty member Minorities and women are encouraged to your research interests; statement detailing will supervise master’s theses and Ph.D. apply. AA/EEO employer. how your research, teaching and service dissertations. He or she will advise Questions can be directed to Dr. Moon J. December 2017 ICA Newsletter | 35 Lee, Associate Professor, at (352) 273- selective graduate and undergraduate 1699 or [email protected]. programs, and the dynamism, resources, In the Stan Richards School, our faculty and personnel of a major research is our best asset. We have 18 graduate Apply Here: http://www.Click2Apply.net/ institute, Annenberg faculty and students faculty, 3 emeritus professors, 8 full-time v339sdmhwb5zrmpc can follow their interests at virtually any lecturers and 12 part-time lecturers. Our academic intersection they choose. The unique mix of research expertise covers influence of digital networks on large- five main areas: pro-social persuasion, scale group activities, the impact of health- health and science communication, brand UNIVERSITY OF PENNSLYVANIA related messages and media content on and identity, new technology, and sports Dean of the Annenberg School for healthcare decisions, and the aspects media and marketing. Across those areas, Communication of interconnected social, economic, and our faculty members draw from qualitative technological systems on everyday life and quantitative methods and collaborate The University of Pennsylvania seeks an are just a few of the multi-layered and with interdisciplinary teams across campus. eminent academic with proven, strategic, interconnected fields of research found judicious, and collaborative leadership among Annenberg’s faculty, researchers, Qualifications skills to serve as the next Dean of the and students. Annenberg School for Communication. Applicants should have a Ph.D. in public The Dean of the Annenberg School for The University of Pennsylvania has retained relations, advertising, organizational Communication is responsible to Penn Isaacson, Miller, a national executive communication, telecommunication, mass President Amy Gutmann and Provost search firm, to assist in the recruitment communication, strategic communication, Wendell Pritchett for the conduct, of its next Dean of the Annenberg marketing, or a related field, or be a coordination, and quality of Annenberg’s School for Communication. Inquiries, candidate near completion of the Ph.D., educational programs, research activities, nominations, and applications should be with evidence of outstanding research, finances, facilities, outreach, and other directed in confidence to the search firm in teaching, service, and grant potential in the operations. The Dean is charged with the confidence at www.imsearch.com/6382. To area of public relations. responsibility of maintaining the highest ensure strongest possible consideration, standards of teaching and scholarship applications should be submitted as soon Application Instructions and further increasing the distinction and as possible. global leadership of the school. As a senior Interested applicants should submit a member of the Penn leadership team, the The University of Pennsylvania values letter of application, current curriculum Dean works closely and collaboratively diversity and seeks talented students, vita, list of references, representative with the Annenberg faculty, the President, faculty and staff from diverse backgrounds. scholarly publications, statement of the Provost, the Deans of Penn’s other The University of Pennsylvania does not research interests, and a teaching 11 schools, and the other senior officers discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, statement by visiting https://apply.interfolio. of the University to manage Annenberg’s sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, com/46527 . Three confidential letters programs and resources in furtherance of creed, national or ethnic origin, citizenship of recommendation are also requested. the University’s academic and institutional status, age, disability, veteran status or any Applications must be made via Interfolio’s goals, including inclusion, innovation, and other legally protected class status in the ByCommittee solution. If you do not have impact, as expressed in the Penn Compact administration of its admissions, financial a Dossier account with Interfolio, you will 2020. aid, educational or athletic programs, or be prompted to create one prior to applying other University-administered programs for the position. If you have questions The successful Dean candidate will or in its employment practices. Questions about using Interfolio, please email present a distinguished record of or complaints regarding this policy should [email protected] or call (877) 997-8807. achievement in research, education, and be directed to the Executive Director of administration. He or she will demonstrate the Office of Affirmative Action and Equal Review of applications will impeccable academic judgment and an Opportunity Programs, Sansom Place begin immediately and will continue uncompromising commitment to academic East, 3600 Chestnut Street, Suite 228, until the position has been filled. Proof of excellence, a commitment to diversity in all Philadelphia, PA 19104-6106; or (215) 898- conferred degree and a background check its forms, an unwavering ethical compass, 6993 (Voice). will be conducted on the applicant selected. and a deep commitment to interdisciplinary Questions can be directed to the chair of collaboration. An articulate and enthusiastic the search committee, Dr. Lee Ann Kahlor communicator, in consultation with the at: [email protected]. Annenberg faculty, the Dean will develop UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN and implement a strategic vision for the Moody College of Communication The Richards School offers undergraduate School’s future consonant with the Penn Assistant or Association Professor – degrees in advertising and public relations Compact 2020, establish and pursue clear Public Relations and masters and Ph.D. degrees in strategic priorities, and raise and manage Advertising. For more information about resources effectively to steadily advance The Stan Richards School of Advertising & our programs visit http://advertising. those priorities. Public Relations in the Moody College of utexas.edu/. The Stan Richards School Communication at The University of Texas of Advertising & Public Relations and the Penn’s Annenberg School for at Austin seeks applicants for a tenure- Moody College of Communication are Communication is home to an eminent track/tenured faculty position at the rank of committed to achieving diversity in its and diverse faculty and student body that Assistant or Associate Professor to begin faculty, students, and curricula, and we advances innovative educational and Fall 2018. We are seeking an outstanding welcome applicants who can help achieve research programs. With world renowned scholar and with relevant expertise and these objectives. The University of Texas scholarly programs and deep partnerships interest in public relations. Salary is at Austin is a tobacco-free campus; for across Penn’s 11 other schools, highly- competitive. more information visit http://www.utexas. 36 | December 2017 ICA Newsletter edu/tobaccofree/ Moody College of Communication: http://moody.utexas.edu/

The Stan Richards School is emerging as a leader on campus in our efforts to build a diverse and inclusive home for students. Please see https://advertising.utexas.edu/ about/diversity-commitment.

The University of Texas is an AA/EEO employer. A background check will be conducted on the successful candidate.

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