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2006 ICA Conference in Dresden: 2006 ICA Sociation, Student Sessions, Etc Vol. 33, No. 10 December 2005 2006 ICA Conference in Dresden: Submissions Complete, Sessions Under Construction by Ronald E. Rice Groups, taking into account the unit’s al session will be provided to each of ICA President-Elect number of submissions, the unit’s the two units most involved in joint membership, and the unit’s number Division/IG sessions (i.e., not Theme The ICA Division and Interest Groups of sessions the prior year. This process Session); if there is a tie, the unit with have now received all the paper and treats Interest Groups the same as Di- greatest membership receives the ex- panel submissions for the 2006 Con- visions and heavily weights the confer- tra session. ference. The reviewers are evaluating ence submissions. The allocation for- and commenting on those submis- mula was derived from prior years’ al- For the 2005 conference in New York, sions. Soon the Division and Interest location procedures, tested and revised there were about 424 rooms available Group planners will begin organizing using several years’ worth of submis- for allocation. The New York confer- and ranking their panels. It’s a lot of sion data, and discussed and approved ence probably represents about the high time and effort by everyone, so please by the Executive Committee. water mark for total number of con- thank your unit’s planners, as well as ference rooms available without hav- the reviewers! More formally, the allocation formu- ing to go to larger, formal conference la is: halls, which are much more expen- The online submission system worked sive for an academic convention. There amazingly well, given that nearly 1500 .8 × [unit paper equivalent submis- were 2,180 paper equivalent submis- papers or panels were submitted in the sions: # papers + 4 × # panels × 4 (for sions (not counting special or theme). final two days! In fact, this year’s sub- business meeting)] This resulted in 392 Division and Unit mission count was 2,040, the second + .1 × [unit membership] sessions at 4 papers per session, or highest in conference history—a com- + .1 × [prior year unit sessions] plete surprise for a non-North Ameri- (continued on page 3) can conference. The result of these calculations is di- vided by the weighted total of these I recently provided each unit planner figures across all units, so that each the number of sessions that their unit unit is proportionally weighted across What’s Inside has been allocated for its regular-ses- the total. The resulting ratio is mul- ICA 2005 December Newsletter sion program. This allocation presumes tiplied by the number of rooms/ses- that all sessions include the equivalent sions available (after removing special, of four papers; high-density sessions theme, affiliate organizations, Fellows, 2 President’s Message and the Interactive Paper Plenary al- publisher, etc. sessions). This produc- 7 Student Column low a unit to accept more presenters. es the number of sessions allocated to It does not include other reserved ses- each unit. Fractions of .5 and higher 11 News of Interest sions, such as Plenaries, affiliated or- are rounded up. ganizations, publisher/editor sessions, 12 Division & Interest Fellows, German Communication As- If a session is sponsored jointly by two Group News sociation, student sessions, etc. units (Division or Interest Group), Calls for Papers one-half of its presenters count toward 15 This year the Executive Board ap- each unit’s total; if a session is spon- 19 Positions Available proved a consistent session allocation sored by three units, one-third of its & Other Advertising process for all Divisions and Interest presenters count; etc. One addition- 1 P R E S I D E N T ‘ S International Communication Association 2005–2006 Board of Directors Executive Committee Jon Nussbaum, President, Robert T. Craig, Past President, Pennsylvania State U U of Colorado Message Wolfgang Donsbach, Immediate Jennings Bryant (ex-offi cio), The Tradition of Service in ICA Past President, U of Dresden Finance Chair, U of Alabama Ronald Rice, President-elect, Michael L. Haley (ex-offi cio), by Jon Nussbaum U of California, Santa Executive Director ICA President Barbara Members-at-Large Sherry Ferguson, U of Ottowa Several years ago, I was exer- Joseph Man Chan, Chinese U Ted Zorn, U of Waikato cising at my local leisure cen- of Hong Kong Student Members ter with the same cast of char- Dafna Lemish, Tel Aviv U Tema Milstein, U of Washington acters that normally show up Karen Ross, Coventry U Chunke Su, U of Illinois at 6 am. One of the regulars, Division Chairs & ICA Vice Presidents who is not an academic, asked David Roskos-Ewoldsen, Information Systems, U of Alabama me if anything exciting was Beth LePoire, Interpersonal Communication, U of California, happening in my life. When Santa Barbara I told him I had just been ap- Holli Semetko, Mass Communication, Emory U Steven Corman, Organizational Communication, Arizona State U pointed editor of the Journal Min-Sun Kim, Intercultural & Development Communication, of Communication, he responded with “that should pay a U of Hawaii nice chunk of change.” I told him that editing this academ- Gianpetro Mazzoleni, Political Communication, U of Milan ic journal did not involve any fi nancial “payout” and that as Lynda McCroskey, Instructional & Developmental Communication, California State U-Long Beach a matter of fact, I had to ask my department and university John Lammers, Health Communication, U of Illinois to help with the additional cost to help pay for an editorial Christina Slade, Philosophy of Communication, Macquarie U assistant, a teaching release, postage, new stationary, an up- Joseph Walther, Communication & Technology, Cornell U grade to my computer and printer, and additional space for Debra Merskin, Popular Communication, U of Oregon Hochang Shin, Public Relations, Sogang U an editorial offi ce. He let out a laugh that fi lled the rather Marian Meyers, Feminist Scholarship, Georgia State U large weight room. Matt Jackson, Communication Law & Policy, Pennsylvania State U ICA is dependent upon the many individuals who volun- François Cooren, Language & Social Interaction, U de Montréal Michael Griffi n, Visual Communication, Macalester College teer to serve our association. Th e recent membership survey indicated that a majority of ICA members are interested in Special Interest Group Chairs becoming more involved in the various activities of the as- Katherine Sender, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, & Transgender sociation and would serve ICA if someone would only ask Studies, U of Pennsylvania them. From editing our journals, serving on the editorial Hiroshi Ota, Intergroup Communication, Aichi Shukutoku U boards, reviewing manuscripts, chairing divisions and in- Th omas Hanitzsch, Journalism Studies, Technische U Ilmenau terest groups, planning the conference, reading and ranking Isabel Molina & Kumarini Silva, Ethnicity and Race in Communication, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign paper and panel submissions, and chairing and serving on James Watt, Game Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute the association committees, ICA has become a rather com- plex system of dedicated and competent volunteers. Editorial & Advertising Howard Giles, U of California, Santa Barbara, I watch in amazement as individuals who are overwhelmed Chair, ICA Newsletter Committee with work in their own institutions and organizations—i.e., Michael J. West, Publications Manager, ICA their paying jobs—manage to devote massive amounts of time and energy to accomplish the tasks of our discipline. ICA Newsletter (ISSN0018876X) is published 10 times annually Often these service activities do not count, or count very (combining January-February and June-July issues) by the International Communication Association, 1730 Rhode Island NW, Suite 300, little, toward yearly evaluation or toward tenure and pro- Washington, DC 20036 USA; phone: 202-530-9855; fax: 202-530- motion. Certainly, none of these tasks lead to fame and for- 9851; email: [email protected]; website: www.icahdq.org. ICA tune; if anything, they quite often lead to strange stares and dues include $30 for a subscription to the ICA Newsletter for one year. Th e outright laughter when we explain our service activities to Newsletter is available to nonmembers for $30 per year. Direct requests for ad rates and other inquiries to Mike West, Editor, at the address listed above. those outside the academy, as I did that day in the weight ICA 2005 December Newsletter News and advertising deadlines are Dec.10 for the January-February issue; Feb. room. 10 for March; Mar. 10 for April; Apr. 10 for May; May 10 for June–June; July 10 for August; Aug. 10 for September; Sept. 10 for October; Oct. 10 for November; Nov. 10 for December. (continued on page 4) 2 Lead Story Here are some ICA conference planning deadlines: continued from page 1 December 6, 2005: Each unit completes its review process. 1,568 paper equivalents. So the acceptance rate was about 73 percent. December 13, 2005: Unit planners accomplish the panel- ing process: assigning papers to sessions, assigning chairs This year, there are 20 percent more submissions and 10 and discussants, estimate attendance at each session, rank- percent more units, but 12 percent fewer rooms available. ing sessions. All this will be done via the online system. There are about 375 rooms. There are also two new inter- January 15, 2006: Notification to unit planners by the pro- est groups; rapid growth in both membership and submis- gram chair of sessions accepted for the conference. Any fi- sions of the Journalism Studies Interest Group; and, in ac- nal questions need to be resolved. cordance with an increased emphasis on student participa- tion, one additional student session. There were 2,552 paper January 16-20, 2006: Notification of acceptance or rejec- equivalents submitted by divisions and units (not counting tion by program chair and unit planners to all submitters.
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