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a href="http://www.icahdq.org/" Volume 36, Number 1: January/February 2008 What's Inside February 29 Deadline for 2008 ICA Officer Nominations Journal of Communication Receiving Articles Online President's Message: Reflections on the ICA Awards Conference Presenters: Apply for Travel Grants Until March 1 In Montreal: Underground City Call for Nominations: Instructional & Developmental Division's Graduate Student Teaching Awards ICA Launches 58th Annual Conference Registration Site Student Column: Finding Meaningful Research Topics: Advice from Senior Scholars (Part 2 of 2) News of Interest to the Profession Division & Interest Group News Call for Papers Available Positions & Other Advertising International Communication 2007-2008 February 29 Deadline for 2008 ICA Officer Nominations Board of Directors Michael J. West, ICA Staff Executive Committee Sonia Livingstone, President, London School of Economics Any member who wishes to submit a nomination for the offices in ICA's fall 2008 elections must do so by February Ronald E. Rice, Immediate Past President, U of 29, 2008, the deadline for receipt of all nominations. Members may nominate candidates for president-elect select, California - Santa Barbara a student board member, and two board members-at-large - representing the regions East and South & West Asia. Patrice Buzzanell, President-Elect, Purdue U Barbie Zelizer, President-Elect/Select, U of The East Asia region, as defined by the UNESCO Statistical Yearbook, includes China, Hong Kong, Japan, Pennsylvania Jon Nussbaum, Past President, Pennsylvania Kazakhstan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan. South & West Asia includes Arab League, State U Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Wolf Donsbach (ex-oficio), Finance Chair, Jordan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Technical U Dresden Michael L. Haley (ex-oficio), Executive Director Philippines, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Members-at-Large Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam and Yemen. Sherry Ferguson, U of Ottowa Yu-li-Liu, National Chengchi U Board members, both student and at-large, serve 2-year terms on the board. The president serves for one year, but Elena E. Pernia, U of the Philippines, Dilman will be a member of the ICA Executive Committee for 5 1/2 years: six months as president-elect select; one year as Gianpetro Mazzoleni, U of Milan president-elect and conference program chair; one year as ICA president; two years as past president; and one Juliet Roper, U of Waikato year as chair of the ICA Finance Committee. Student Members Rebecca Hains, Temple U Any ICA member may nominate any other ICA member for office. Nominations must include a letter of nomination Mikaela Marlow, U of California - Santa and statement about the candidates credentials and record of service to ICA. Nominees will be asked to provide a Barbara vita and list of references. Division Chairs & ICA Vice Presidents Paul Bolls, Information Systems, U of Missouri - George Cheney, U of Utah, is the current chair of the ICA Nominating Committee. Other committee members Columbia Pamela Kalbfleish, Interpersonal include Jesus Arroyave, U del Norte, Colombia; Jennifer L. Bartlett, Queensland U of Technology; Kirsten Communication, U of North Dakota Drotner, U of Southern Denmark; and Rajiv N. Rimal, Johns Hopkins U. Questions on the nominating process may Robin Nabi, Mass Communication, U of be directed to George Cheney at [email protected]. Send nominations - which must be received, not California Santa Barbara Cynthia Stohl, Organizational Communication, postmarked, by February 29, 2008 - to: U of California - Santa Barbara Jim Neuliep, Intercultural Communication, St. Dr. George Cheney Norbert College Department of Communication, U of Utah Oliver Boyd-Barrett, Global Communication and 255 S. Central Campus Drive, Room 2400 Social Change, Bowling Green State U Patricia Moy, Political Communication, U of Salt Lake City UT 84112 USA Washington (01) 801-585-5918 phone Amy Nathanson, Instructional & Developmental (01) 801-585-6255 fax Communication, Ohio State U Douglas Storey, Health Communication, Johns Online balloting in the fall 2008 ICA elections will begin on September 15 and continue until October 1, 2008. Hopkins U Ingrid Volkmer, Philosophy of Communication, U of Melbourne Jan A.G.M. Van Dijk, Communication & Technology, U of Twente Lynn Schofield Clark, Popular Communication, U of Denver Betteke van Ruler, Public Relations, U of Amsterdam Vicki Mayer, Feminist Scholarship, Tulane U Journal of Communication Receiving Articles Online Sharon Strover, Communication Law & Policy, Sharon Strover, Communication Law & Policy, Journal of Communication Receiving Articles Online U of Texas - Austin Michael Cody, U of Southern California Mark Aakhus, Language & Social Interaction - Rutgers U Marion G. Mueller, Visual Communication, The editor-elect of the Journal of Communication, Michael J. Cody, is now accepting manuscripts for review via the Jacobs U - Bremen online submission system provided by Manuscript Central. To submit your manuscript to JoC, please go to John Newhagen, Journalism Studies, U of http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jcom and follow the online instructions. Maryland Special Interest Group Chairs Authors who wish to submit book reviews should also submit the reviews via the journal's Manuscript Central site. David J. Phillips, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, & When submitting a book review, please be sure to select "book review" from the manuscript type drop-down menu Transgender Studies, U of Texas - Austin Bernadette Watson, Intergroup Communication, on the site. For inquiries regarding books reviews, please contact the 2009-2011 Book Review Editor, Professor U of Queensland Elisia Cohen ([email protected]). Kumarini Silva, Ethnicity and Race in Communication, Northeastern U The Journal of Communication accepts all methods of scholarly inquiry into communication, and international John Sherry, Game Studies, Michigan State U submissions are especially welcome. Manuscripts must be prepared in strict accordance with the 5th edition of the David Park, History of Communication, Lake Forest College Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. Additional guidelines for submitting manuscripts are posted online: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/submit.asp?ref=0021-9916 Editorial & Advertising Michael J. West, ICA, Publications Manager Inquiries about manuscripts and reviews should be directed to the editor-elect Michael Cody at [email protected] and ICA Newsletter (ISSN0018876X) is published information about newly published books to be reviewed should be directed to Elisia Cohen at 10 times annually (combining January-February and June-July issues) by the International [email protected]. Communication Association, 1500 21st Street NW, Washington, DC 20036 USA; phone: (01) Michael J. Cody, Editor-Elect 202-955-1444; fax: (01) 202-955-1448; email: Journal of Communication [email protected]; website: Annenberg School of Communication http://www.icahdq.org. ICA dues include $30 for a subscription to the ICA Newsletter for one University of Southern California year. The Newsletter is available to nonmembers Los Angeles, CA 90089-0281 USA for $30 per year. Direct requests for ad rates and [email protected] other inquiries to Michael J. West, Editor, at the address listed above. News and advertising deadlines are Jan. 15 for the January-February issue; Feb. 15 for March; Mar. 15 for April; Apr. Elisia L. Cohen, Book Review Editor 15 for May; June 15 for June-July; July 15 for August; August 15 for September; September 15 Department of Communication for October; October 15 for November; Nov. 15 231 Grehan Building for December. University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40506-0042 USA Have You Published A Book Recently? [email protected] Have you recently published a book in communication? If so, your publisher should be exhibiting with ICA during the Montreal conference in 2008 and advertising in upcoming Newsletter and conference materials. Maybe your publisher would like to schedule a book signing or reception during the conference. Contact Michael Haley at [email protected] to discuss the possibilities! President's Message: Reflections on the ICA Awards Support ICA When You Shop At Amazon.com! Sonia Livingstone, ICA President If you make ANY purchase at Amazon.com, please consider using the link to Amazon from the ICA web site (http://www.icahdq.org/marketplace/index.html). As this newsletter is published, the deadline for ICA's awards nominations will have just closed, Any subsequent purchase made gives us credit. and the awards committees will begin their work of reviewing and evaluating the nominations submitted to them. In thanking them in advance for their efforts, it is my hope that their work is Subject: Undelivered Mail Returned to onerous! In other words, I hope that they have received many submissions-making their job Sender: Sender Denied harder, yes, but also more inclusive, more representative of ICA as a whole. If you are not receiving emails from the ICA home offices at least once a month, your mail ICA's awards process has been under constant review in recent years. While award recipients server is probably blocking our email messages to you. If you wish to get announcements from have, undoubtedly, represented excellent scholarship in our field,