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Volume 44, Number 4: May2016 What's Inside ICA Launches an Important New Journal: The Annals of the International Communication Association. Conference Update 5 Ways Being ICA President Has Transformed Me (For The Better) What's New at Conference This Year? "Little things" to help maximize your comfort while traveling to Japan Japan's National Pastime Spotlight on Preconference Blue Sky Workshops Special Panel Recognizing Our Affiliate Journals Almost Half Way There! Numbers and Newcomers Article from the Sustainability Committee Spotlight on Students and Early Career Events Member News Call for Papers Division News Available Positions and Job Opportunities ICA Launches an Important New Journal: The Annals of the International Communication Association Executive Committee Amy Jordan, President, U of Pennsylvania Dave Ewoldsen, Editor of The Annals of ICA, Michigan State U Peng Hwa Ang, President Elect, Nanyang Technological U Nanyang Technological U Paula Gardner, President Elect-Select, McMaster U Peter Vorderer, Immediate Past President, U of Mannheim Francois Heinderyckx, Past President, U Libre de Bruxelles Cynthia Stohl, Finance Chair (ex-officio), U of California-Santa Barbara David Ewoldsen Laura Sawyer, Executive Director Editor of The Annals of ICA Michael L. Haley (ex-officio), Executive Director Emeritus Michigan State U Members-at-Large Colleen Mills, U of Canterbury Over the past two years, the Publications Committee, the Executive Committee of ICA Akira Miyahara, Seinan Gakuin U and a dedicated task force have undertaken an in-depth review ofCommunication Lilach Nir, Hebrew U Magdalena Wojcieszak, U of Yearbook to consider how its editorial model could be revised and its positioning better fit Amsterdam Student Members among the range of existing ICA outlets (ICA's other journals, theInternational Francois Allard-Huver, Paris Sorbonne U - CELSA Encyclopedia of Communication, the Communication Handbooks Series, the Annual Charlotte Loeb, U of Mannheim Conference Theme Book Series, and Communication in the Public Interest Series). Within Division Chairs Sahara Byrne, Children, that process, it became apparent that the aims and purpose of CY would be best served Adolescents, and the Media, Cornell U by transforming what was essentially a yearly edited book series into an academic Cornell U journal. The new journal, later namedThe Annals of the International Communication James A. Danowski, Communication & Technology, Association (AICA), will be published quarterly by Routledge (Taylor & Francis) offering a U of Illinois at Chicago state-of-the-art website that will make articles available as soon as they are ready and Richard Popp, Communication History, U of Wisconsin - before they are bound in quarterly issues and yearly volumes. This new peer-reviewed Milwaukee journal will offer ICA a venue to share the types of content that are not or insufficiently Seamus Simpson, Communication Law & Policy, U catered for by existing outlets. of Salford Richard Doherty, Environmental The Annals will continue the tradition of Communication Yearbook in providing an updated Communication, U of Leeds context for key research from across the Association, in an interdisciplinary and Federico Subervi, Ethnicity and Race in Communication, Kent international fashion. The continuity with CY is such that we plan to make the archives of State U CY available on the website of the Annals beginning with Volume 6 of CY. But the Annals Natalia Rybas, Feminist Scholarship, Indiana U East will innovate in publishing three distinct kinds of contributions: Review Articles, Nicholas Bowman, Game Communication Insights, and Topical Book Review Essays. Studies, West Virginia U Terry Flew, Global "Review Articles" are state-of-the-discipline literature reviews and essays, including Communication and Social Change, Queensland U of descriptive reviews, meta-analyses, and theoretical essays. Reviews can be retrospective Technology reviews, which help readers understand the development of current knowledge within the Kevin Wright, Health discipline, or prescriptive essays that create a roadmap for where research needs to go in Communication, George Mason U Kevin Wise, Information the future. Systems, U of Illinois Aaron Boyson, Instructional & "Communication Insights" are solicited reviews that examine a set of predetermined topics Developmental Communication, U of Minnesota - Duluth that provide a degree of continuity across the years and indicate how a specific research U of Minnesota - Duluth Stephen Croucher, Intercultural domain has developed. A set of predetermined topics will rotate over 5-year periods. The Communication, U of Jyvaskyla goal of these reviews is to provide a sense of continuity across the years so that scholars Ascan F. Koerner, Interpersonal Communication, U of Minnesota will get a clear sense of how an area of research has progressed across time. Matt Carlson, Journalism Studies, Saint Louis U "Topical Book Review Essays" are essays that should include a discussion of recently Alena L. Vasilyeva, Language & published books that focus on a central theme within the discipline. The goal of the Social Interaction, U of Massachusetts Amherst Annals Topical Book Review Essays is to provide a critical synthesis of a set of published Lance Holbert, Mass books (at least two), but the essay should go beyond the confines of a traditional book Communication, Temple U Craig Scott, Organizational review. Rather, the focus is on a critical essay that addresses issues pertinent to the Communication, Rutgers U discipline. Alison Hearn, Philosophy, Theory, and Critique, U of The last volume of Communication Yearbook will be published in the first half of 2016, Western Ontario Jesper Stromback, Political while the first issue of the Annals will be published about a year from now (first quarter of Communication, Mid Sweden U 2017). We are lucky to have an excellent set of Associate Editors agree to help with the Melissa Click, Popular Communication, U of Missouri - launching of this new journal:Miyase Christensen (Stockholm U), Thomas Hanitzsch Columbia (LMU Munich), Weiyu Zheng (National Uy of Singapore), and Herman Wasserman (U of Chiara Valentini, Public Cape Town). Relations, Aarhus U Giorgia Aiello, Visual Communication Studies, U of The call for contributions has been released and we can't wait to read what you will be Leeds Interest Group Chairs contributing. The website for online submissions is now live:https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rica Travers Scott, Lesbian, Gay, https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rica Bisexual, Transgender & Queer Studies, Clemson U Eve Ng, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Finally, we would like to thank Elisia Cohen for her excellent work editing the last 4 Transgender & Queer Studies, volumes of CY andLinda Bathgate at Routledge for her continued commitment to CY and Ohio U now AICA. Janice Krieger, Intergroup Communication, U of Florida Patricia Phalen, Media Industry Dave Ewoldsen (Michigan State U, Editor of The Annals of ICA) Studies, George Washington U Francois Heinderyckx (U libre de Bruxelles, ICA Past-President) Veronika Karnowski, Mobile Communication, Ludwig Maximillans U Munich Andrew Billings, Sports Communication Chair, U of Alabama Editorial & Advertising Michael J. West, ICA, Publications Manager Jennifer Le, ICA, Executive Assistant Kristine Rosa, ICA, Member Services Associate ICA Conference Update Newsletter is published 10 times annually (combining January-February and June-July Peng Hwa Ang, ICA President-Elect, Nanyang Technological U issues) by the International Communication Association. Communication, Culture, & Critique Radhika E. Parameswaran, Editor Indiana U School of Journalism Ernie Pyle Hall 200 Bloomington, IN 47405 USA [email protected] Peng Hwa Ang, ICA President-Elect, Human Communication Nanyang Technological U Research Nanyang Technological U Research John Courtright, Editor By now you most certainly have heard the news of the earthquake affecting Kumamoto, a U of Delaware Department of Communication city on Kyushu, the same island on which Fukuoka sits. As we mentioned in our message 237 Pearson Hall to attendees the week of the quakes, our thoughts are with those who were affected so Newark, DE 19716 USA tragically by this incident. [email protected] My first instinct was to ask our Executive Director to check the hotel and to query our local Communication Theory Karin Wilkins, Editor organiser on the damage. She had, of course already done so-the office personnel speak U of Texas - Austin to Akira Miyahara and the hotel staff every day!-and had good news: Fukuoka Department of Radio-TV-Film experienced no damage. In fact, a few days later came the report that a group of CMA 6.118 I University Station Austin, TX 78712-1091 students had evacuated from the south of the island to safety in Fukuoka, to the north. It's USA reassuring to learn that officials find Fukuoka safe. [email protected] I know that the Japanese take safety very seriously too. The bullet trains also are Journal of Communication equipped with "earthquake brakes" that slow trains to a stop at the first hint of seismic Silvio Waisbord, Editor George Washington U activity, this has done much to eliminate derailments. Bullet-train services from Fukuoka 4901 46th Street, NW to the south were suspended immediately when the quake struck; they have since resumed. Washington, D.C., 20016 USA [email protected] Buildings are designed to absorb shocks. And as the Hilton at Fukuoka is quite new, and owned by the