INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION newsletter VOLUME 45, ISSUE 9 NOVEMBER 2017 In other association-wide elections, Secretary: Matthew Weber, Rutgers Hernando Rojas (U of Wisconsin) was Election elected as Board Member-At Large ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNICATION and Sarah Cho (U of Massachusetts) (26.04% VOTER TURNOUT) was elected as Student Board Member. Vice Chair: Jonathon P. Schuldt, Results In: Both will serve a two-year term and will Cornell U start their positions after the ICA Prague Secretary: Franzisca Weder, U of Terry Flew conference in 2018. Klagenfurt Several association-wide bylaws changes FEMINIST SCHOLARSHIP President were approved. Thirty-one new officers (22.22% VOTER TURNOUT) were elected across 23 Divisions and Bylaws Revisions Vote: Revisions Pass Interest Groups. Five bylaws changes – “I accept the proposed changes to the Elect Select were approved and two dues amounts bylaws” were increased. Results of all elections are listed below: GAME STUDIES (27.96% VOTER TURNOUT) CHILDREN, ADOLESCENTS & MEDIA Secretary: Ruud Jacobs, Erasmus U, (28.33% VOTER TURNOUT) Rotterdam Secretary: Ine Beyens, U of Amsterdam Student Representative: Joe Student Representative: Cecelia Zhou, Wasserman, West Virginia U U of Hong Kong Bylaws Revision: Revisions Pass – “I GLOBAL COMMUNICATION AND accept the proposed changes to the SOCIAL CHANGE bylaws” (23.58% VOTER TURNOUT) Secretary: Yu Hong, Zhejiang U COMMUNICATION & TECHNOLOGY (18.71% VOTER TURNOUT) HEALTH COMMUNICATION Vice Chair: Ran Wei, U of South (23.55% VOTER TURNOUT) Carolina Vice Chair: Itzhak Yanovitzky, Rutgers by Jennifer Le, Newsletter - November 2017 ICA Secretary: , U of U ICA Manager of Conference Services German Neubaum Duisburg-Essen Bylaws Revision Vote: Revisions Pass – “I accept the proposed changes to the erry Flew (Queensland U of COMMUNICATION HISTORY bylaws” Technology) was elected President (25.45% VOTER TURNOUT) Dues Increase Vote: Dues Increase Elect Select by the members of the Vice Chair: Derek Vaillant, U of Pass – “I accept the proposed dues TInternational Communication Association Michigan increase” in the 2017 ICA election. Upon election, Flew automatically becomes a member of COMMUNICATION LAW AND POLICY INFORMATION SYSTEMS the association’s Executive Committee. He (20.60% VOTER TURNOUT) (20.59% VOTER TURNOUT) will serve as a Program Chair for the 2019 Vice Chair: Krisztina Rozgonyi, U of Secretary: Russell Clayton, Florida ICA conference in Washington, D.C., after Vienna State U which he will become President of ICA. COMMUNICATION SCIENCE & INSTRUCTIONAL AND Terry is currently at Queensland University BIOLOGY DEVELOPMENTAL COMMUNICATION of Technology, where he is a Professor of (26.52% VOTER TURNOUT) (11.89% VOTER TURNOUT) Media and Communication as well as an Vice Chair: Allison Eden, Michigan Vice Chair: Davide Girardelli, RMIT U Assistant Dean in the Creative Industries State U Vietnam Faculty. He has been active within ICA Secretary: Christopher Cascio, U of holding various leadership roles since Wisconsin 2012: Board Member-at-Large, Vice-Chair and Chair of the Global Communication & COMPUTATIONAL METHODS Social Change Division, and committees. (30.13% VOTER TURNOUT) Terry also organized an ICA regional Vice Chair: Cindy Shen, U of California, conference in Brisbane, Australia three Davis years ago. see ELECTION, page 5 1 ICA-Wide Award International Communication Association 2017–2018 Board of Directors Nominations Due Executive Committee Paula Gardner, President, McMaster U 31 January Patricia Moy, President Elect, U of Washington Terry Flew, President Elect Select, Queensland U of Technology Peng Hwa Ang, Immediate Past President, Nanyang Technological U Jennifer Le, Amy Jordan, Past President, U of Pennsylvania ICA Manager of Conference Services Peter Vorderer, General Secretary, U of Mannheim Laura Sawyer, Executive Director (ex-officio), ICA Members-at-Large ICA has revised its deadline for book-related awards to allow the Akira Miyahara, Seinan Gakuin U committees more time to read and evaluate the Sister Agnes Lucy Lando, Daystar U submissions. While in the past, all awards shared a universal Lilach Nir, Hebrew U deadline of 31 January, now that deadline only applies to these six awards: Steven H. Chaffee Career Student Members Achievement Award, James W. Carey Urban Communication Tamar Lazar, U of Haifa Grant, Applied Research Award, Outstanding Article Award, Young Julie Escurignan, U of Roehampton Scholar Award, and the B. Aubrey Fisher Mentorship Award. These four awards have kept the traditional nomination period of Division & Interest Group Chairs 1 November – 31 January at 16:00 UTC. To nominate for one of the four ICA Awards, please go here: Guobin Yang, Activism, Communication, and Social Justice, U of Pennsylvania http://www.icahdq.org/?page=AwardNomination Jessica Piotrowski, Children, Adolescents, and the Media, U of Amsterdam Lee Humphreys, Communication and Technology, Cornell U David Park, Communication History, Lake Forest College As previously stated in the October Newsletter, the two ICA Book Katharine Sarikakis, Communication Law & Policy, U of Vienna Awards (Outstanding Book Award and Fellows Book Award) have Rene Weber, Communication Science and Biology, U of California - Santa a new separate nomination period and deadline: 1 September Barbara – 15 December at 16:00 UTC. Don’t forget to mail your book Wouter van Atteveldt, Computational Methods, VU Amsterdam copies to Jennifer Le at the ICA headquarters in Washington D.C. Bruno Takahashi, Environmental Communication, Michigan State U by 15 December 2017. To nominate for one of the two ICA Book Anamik Saha, Ethnicity and Race in Communication, Goldsmiths, U of London Awards, please go here: Stine Eckert, Feminist Scholarship, Wayne State U http://www.icahdq.org/?page=BookAwardsNoms Julia Kneer, Game Studies, Erasmus U Rotterdam Shiv Ganesh, Global Communication and Social Change, Massey U There is a new nomination system for ICA Fellows. All Evelyn Ho, Health Communication, U of San Francisco nominations should be submitted online by 31 January here: Zheng Wang, Information Systems, Ohio State U http://www.icahdq.org/?page=FellowsNomination. Submitters are Stephanie Kelly, Instructional & Developmental Communication, North Carolina A&T State U asked to submit all materials in a single PDF file. To learn more Chia-Fang (Sandy) Hsu, Intercultural Communication, U of Wyoming about ICA Fellows visit this link: http://www.icahdq.org/page/ Jordan Soliz, Intergroup Communication, U of Nebraska - Lincoln Fellows. Jennifer Samp, Interpersonal Communication, U of Georgia Henrik Örnebring, Journalism Studies, Karlstad U For more information on all ICA Awards, please visit: http://www. Jessica Robles, Language & Social Interaction, Loughborough U icahdq.org/page/Awards. Lukasz Szulc, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Queer Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science Eve Ng, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Queer Studies, Ohio U Young Mie Kim, Mass Communication, U of Wisconsin - Madison Philip Napoli, Media Industry Studies, Duke U Colin Agur, Mobile Communication, U of Minnesota Bart J. van den Hooff, Organizational Communication, VU U Amsterdam Mirca Madianou, Philosophy, Theory, and Critique, Goldsmiths, U of London Peter Van Aelst, Political Communication, U of Antwerp QUICK LINKS Stephen Harrington, Popular Communication, Queensland U of Technology Alina Dolea, Public Diplomacy, U of Bucharest Katerina Tsetsura, Public Relations, U of Oklahoma Nominate for ICA AWARDS Marie Hardin, Sports Communication, Pennsylvania State U Nominate for ICA BOOK AWARDS Catherine Preston, Visual Communication Studies, U of Kansas Nominate someone for ICA FELLOW Editorial & Advertising Jennifer Le, ICA Manager of Conference Services Kristine Rosa, ICA Assistant Manager of Member Services ICA ICA Newsletter - November 2017 ICA Newsletter is published 10 times annually (combining January-February and June-July issues) by the International Communication Association. 2 Political communication topics range from studies addressing efforts to enhance democratic practices, tactics for reconciling political power with traditional authorities, and efficiency evaluations of public sector services. Authors query practices of President’s organizational communication across corporations, universities, Message and non-profits, addressing the effectiveness of internal structures, public relation strategies, and consumer, student and Paula Gardner, President employee satisfaction. McMaster U Nearly a third of our submissions deal with media issues — critiques of corporate media practices and media ownership, and a range of journalistic critiques of media framings of items ranging from terrorist attacks, to women politicians and women athletes. Another collection of papers queries the role of new media technologies in practices ranging from agricultural development to First ICAfrica youth political participation and news creation and transformative education. Publication Workshop This brief scan provides a snapshot of current issues that most concern communication scholars living, researching, writing, I am sitting in Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi and teaching in Africa. This research clearly impacts the health, writing this column en route to our second ICAfrica event — development, and future possibilities of African countries. We this time in Entebbe, Uganda — to participate in our first-ever foreground this collection of probing research so that we as