Minutes from 2009 ICA Business Meeting
August 11, 2010
The minutes from the 2010 ICA Business Meeting in
Singapore, prepared by outgoing secretary Stijn
Reijnders, can be downloaded here.
ICA 2010: Interest Group Sessions
June 16, 2010
A handy listing
of the CHIG sessions at the upcoming
ICA conference, in pdf form, can be
downloaded here.
ICA 2010: Interest Group Reception
June 16, 2010
The
Communication History Interest Group will host a
reception at the upcoming ICA conference.
When: June 24, 17:30 - 18:45 (5:30 p.m. - 6:45 p.m.)
Where: location TBD. Check here in the days ahead. The location will also be announced at the CHIG business meeting (June 24, 16:00 - 17:15, Room #207)
When: June 24, 17:30 - 18:45 (5:30 p.m. - 6:45 p.m.)
Where: location TBD. Check here in the days ahead. The location will also be announced at the CHIG business meeting (June 24, 16:00 - 17:15, Room #207)
ICA 2010: Interest Group Business Meeting
June 16, 2010
Please attend
the Interest Group’s business meeting!
When: Saturday, June 24, 16:00 - 17:15 (4:00 p.m - 5:15 p.m.)
Where: SUNTEC Room #207
Agenda
1. Approval of minutes of business meeting in 2009
2. Chair’s Report
a) How fares the interest group?
--170 members in May of 2008
--202 members in May of 2009
--down to about 163 members in January 2010 (after the purge)
--about 185 members now
b) Activities
--programming was TIGHT, as it often is in new IGs
--we wound up with 5 sessions; VERY high rejection rate (56%)
--there was no pre-con this year
c) Report from Board meetings in January 2010 and June 2010
3. Two paper award presentations: top paper and top faculty paper
Top Paper: “The Beginning of the End: The Decline of the Churchgoing Bell in Urban America,” by Deborah Lubken
Top Faculty Paper: “‘The Totalitarian Destruction of the Public Sphere?’: Public Communication in the GDR,” by Michael Meyen and Anke Fiedler
4. Open Discussion Item: How do we grow?
5. Future leadership of the interest group
--election for Secretary in Summer of 2010
6. Internationalization Strategy for 2010-2011
--membership shrank from last fall
--however, our membership from Asia, Australia went up slightly, as we had hoped
--one goal now must be to reach out to these new members and make significant efforts to include these new members in future programming, to avoid isolating them
--SO: THERE IS MUCH TO BE DONE HERE
7. Salute to outgoing secretary, Stijn Reijnders (whose term is up). Reminder that the summer of 2010 will feature an election for a new CHIG Secretary.
8. Salute to incoming vice-chair, Philip Lodge. In keeping with ICA bylaws, Lodge will serve two years as vice-chair, followed by two years as chair.
9. Recruit reviewers for papers. Recruit chairs/respondents. Who is willing?
10. Other business
When: Saturday, June 24, 16:00 - 17:15 (4:00 p.m - 5:15 p.m.)
Where: SUNTEC Room #207
Agenda
1. Approval of minutes of business meeting in 2009
2. Chair’s Report
a) How fares the interest group?
--170 members in May of 2008
--202 members in May of 2009
--down to about 163 members in January 2010 (after the purge)
--about 185 members now
b) Activities
--programming was TIGHT, as it often is in new IGs
--we wound up with 5 sessions; VERY high rejection rate (56%)
--there was no pre-con this year
c) Report from Board meetings in January 2010 and June 2010
3. Two paper award presentations: top paper and top faculty paper
Top Paper: “The Beginning of the End: The Decline of the Churchgoing Bell in Urban America,” by Deborah Lubken
Top Faculty Paper: “‘The Totalitarian Destruction of the Public Sphere?’: Public Communication in the GDR,” by Michael Meyen and Anke Fiedler
4. Open Discussion Item: How do we grow?
5. Future leadership of the interest group
--election for Secretary in Summer of 2010
6. Internationalization Strategy for 2010-2011
--membership shrank from last fall
--however, our membership from Asia, Australia went up slightly, as we had hoped
--one goal now must be to reach out to these new members and make significant efforts to include these new members in future programming, to avoid isolating them
--SO: THERE IS MUCH TO BE DONE HERE
7. Salute to outgoing secretary, Stijn Reijnders (whose term is up). Reminder that the summer of 2010 will feature an election for a new CHIG Secretary.
8. Salute to incoming vice-chair, Philip Lodge. In keeping with ICA bylaws, Lodge will serve two years as vice-chair, followed by two years as chair.
9. Recruit reviewers for papers. Recruit chairs/respondents. Who is willing?
10. Other business
Philip Lodge Elected Interest Group Vice-Chair
October 19, 2009
Philip Lodge, lecturer in communication at Napier
University (Scotland), was elected vice-chair of
the Communication History Interest Group. Philip,
a specialist in the history of British
communication studies, will assume the post at the
conclusion of the ICA 2010 Conference in Singapore.
Congratulations Philip!
Submit to ICA's 2010 Conference in Singapore
October 11, 2009
The deadline for submitting papers, panels, and
roundtables to ICA's 2010 Conference in Singapore is
November 6 (11:00pm EST). Sumbit to the Interest
Group!
Call for Papers
The Communication History Interest Group was officially established at ICA’s 2007 conference. This Interest Group is dedicated to providing a base for at least three kinds of historical scholarship in communication: the history of communication (including media history), the history of the field of communication, and the history of the idea of communication. Those who wish to familiarize themselves with this new Interest Group should visit our website: http://www.communicationhistory.org. We welcome papers, panels, and roundtables on topics that relate to these broad areas of historical inquiry.
The Interest Group reminds potential contributors that ‘history’ is linked to numerous methodological and theoretical approaches to scholarship, and encourages submitters to think broadly about history.
The Interest Group accepts full papers, panel proposals, and roundtable proposals.
Full papers should be no longer than 30 pages in length, double-spaced.
Panel proposals should include:
1) Official panel listing as it would appear in the program
2) A 400-word rationale for the panel
3) A 150-word abstract of each of the papers on the panel
4) Complete contact information for each panelist
5) A 75-word description of the panel for the conference program
Roundtable proposals should include:
1) Official roundtable listing as it would appear in the program
2) A 400-word rationale for the roundtable
3) A 150-word abstract of each of the presentations in the roundtable
4) Complete contact information for each roundtable participant
5) A 75-word description of the roundtable for the conference program
Authors should submit papers and panel or roundtable proposals to the Communication History Interest Group on the ICA website.
Communication History Interest Group
David W. Park
Lake Forest College
555 North Sheridan Road
Box H-13
Lake Forest IL 60045-2399
USA
E-mail: park@lakeforest.edu
Call for Papers
The Communication History Interest Group was officially established at ICA’s 2007 conference. This Interest Group is dedicated to providing a base for at least three kinds of historical scholarship in communication: the history of communication (including media history), the history of the field of communication, and the history of the idea of communication. Those who wish to familiarize themselves with this new Interest Group should visit our website: http://www.communicationhistory.org. We welcome papers, panels, and roundtables on topics that relate to these broad areas of historical inquiry.
The Interest Group reminds potential contributors that ‘history’ is linked to numerous methodological and theoretical approaches to scholarship, and encourages submitters to think broadly about history.
The Interest Group accepts full papers, panel proposals, and roundtable proposals.
Full papers should be no longer than 30 pages in length, double-spaced.
Panel proposals should include:
1) Official panel listing as it would appear in the program
2) A 400-word rationale for the panel
3) A 150-word abstract of each of the papers on the panel
4) Complete contact information for each panelist
5) A 75-word description of the panel for the conference program
Roundtable proposals should include:
1) Official roundtable listing as it would appear in the program
2) A 400-word rationale for the roundtable
3) A 150-word abstract of each of the presentations in the roundtable
4) Complete contact information for each roundtable participant
5) A 75-word description of the roundtable for the conference program
Authors should submit papers and panel or roundtable proposals to the Communication History Interest Group on the ICA website.
Communication History Interest Group
David W. Park
Lake Forest College
555 North Sheridan Road
Box H-13
Lake Forest IL 60045-2399
USA
E-mail: park@lakeforest.edu
ICA 2009: Interest Group Business Meeting
May 19, 2009
Please attend
the Interest Group’s business meeting!
When: Saturday, May 23, 3:00 p.m-4:15 p.m.
Where: the "Illinois" room, Marriott hotel
Agenda
1. Acceptance of minutes of business meeting in 2008
2. Chair’s Report (Dave Park)
a) How fares the interest group?
b) Activities
c) Report from Board meetings in January 09 and May 09
3. Two award presentations: top paper and top faculty paper
4. Open discussion item: how do we grow?
5. Future leadership of the interest group. Recruitment of candidates to become the next vice-chair of the group.
6. Internationalization Strategy for 2009-2010
7. Other business
When: Saturday, May 23, 3:00 p.m-4:15 p.m.
Where: the "Illinois" room, Marriott hotel
Agenda
1. Acceptance of minutes of business meeting in 2008
2. Chair’s Report (Dave Park)
a) How fares the interest group?
b) Activities
c) Report from Board meetings in January 09 and May 09
3. Two award presentations: top paper and top faculty paper
4. Open discussion item: how do we grow?
5. Future leadership of the interest group. Recruitment of candidates to become the next vice-chair of the group.
6. Internationalization Strategy for 2009-2010
7. Other business
ICA 2009: Interest Group Reception
May 19, 2009
The
Communication History Interest Group and Feminist
Scholarship Division are holding a joint reception at
the upcoming ICA conference.
When: 6:00-7:15 p.m. on Friday, May 22,
Where: in the "Northwestern" room of the Marriott hotel.
The reception will feature the screening of a documentary film, "Out of the Question: Women, Media, and the Art of Inquiry”:
When: 6:00-7:15 p.m. on Friday, May 22,
Where: in the "Northwestern" room of the Marriott hotel.
The reception will feature the screening of a documentary film, "Out of the Question: Women, Media, and the Art of Inquiry”:
In the 1940s, a group of often-unsung women helped lay the foundations for the field of media research. Working at Columbia U's Bureau of Applied Social Research and government agencies like the Voice of America and the Office of War Information, these women investigated wartime propaganda and the emerging media cultures of American life, helped establish new research methods like the focused interview, and carved out careers in climates that strongly favored the men they worked with. This documentary, directed by award-winning filmmaker Naomi McCormack, charts the experiences and careers of five of these women—-Thelma Anderson, Joan Doris Goldhammer, Gladys Lang, Thelma McCormack, and Yole Sills—who together did pioneering work on media and politics, social influence, and celebrity during a formative period for the field.
"Out of the Question" was directed and produced by Naomi McCormack (Penn State U). Executive Producer and Research Director for "Out of the Question": Peter Simonson (U of Colorado).
The organizers of this reception wish to acknowledge the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. The Annenberg School for Communication is the sponsor and distributor of "Out of the Question."
ICA 2009: Interest Group Sessions
May 19, 2009
A handy listing
of the CHIG sessions at the upcoming
ICA conference, in pdf form, can be
downloaded here.
ICA Preconference: The schedule is up!
February 23, 2009
ICA Preconference: The Future is Prologue: New Media, New Histories?
October 16, 2008
The
Future is Prologue: New Media, New
Histories?
New media encompass both new opportunities and new dilemmas for scholars. This ICA pre-conference invites participants to reflect on ways to analyze, preserve , and understand new media in a manner that is both sensitive to the past and to future needs of historical research. The history of new media is a burgeoning new subfield, but one aspect that often goes overlooked is how new media involve new ways of doing history. The purpose of this pre-conference is to focus attention on the shifting needs of historical scholarship about new media. It will include a demonstration of new technologies for collaboration and visualization under development at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago.
We welcome papers on a wide array of historically-grounded themes. The following illustrations of topics suggest – but are not intended to limit – topics suitable for paper submissions:
* The idea of ‘storage’ as it relates to new media and historiography.
* The contextualization of historical problems in a new media milieu.
* The changing meanings and implications of inscription as the internet more fully embraces a range of audio-visual forms of communication.
* Ideological implications of speculations regarding the future.
* The changing place of ‘the virtual’ in new media studies.
* Digital history.
* The reputed move away from print media to new media.
* Changing meanings of the ‘global’ in relation to new media.
* Ubiquity, indexing, correlation and access.
* New media and transformations in the scholarly enterprise.
Abstracts of 300 words should be submitted no later than November 1, 2008.
Send abstracts to: David Park, Chair of the ICA Communication History Interest Group, at park@lakeforest.edu.
Authors will be informed whether abstracts have been accepted by 21 November 2008. Papers will be due by May 1, 2009. The program for this pre-conference will take place all day on May 21, 2009, the date established for ICA pre-conferences. The available time allows for three consecutive blocks of short presentations and roundtable-style discussions.
The pre-conference is a joint initiative by the Communication History Interest Group of the ICA, New Media & Society and the Electronic Visualization Laboratory and Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The pre-conference will be held at The University of Illinois at Chicago, and there will be transportation available for participants and attendees between the conference hotel and the UIC campus.
Organized by
* Dave Park, Chair, Communication History Interest Group, http://www.icahdq.org/sections/secdetinfo.asp?SecCode=DIV23
* Nicholas Jankowski and Steve Jones, co-editors New Media & Society, http://newmediaandsociety.com
Click here for more information: http://www.icahdq.org/conferences/2009/future.asp
New media encompass both new opportunities and new dilemmas for scholars. This ICA pre-conference invites participants to reflect on ways to analyze, preserve , and understand new media in a manner that is both sensitive to the past and to future needs of historical research. The history of new media is a burgeoning new subfield, but one aspect that often goes overlooked is how new media involve new ways of doing history. The purpose of this pre-conference is to focus attention on the shifting needs of historical scholarship about new media. It will include a demonstration of new technologies for collaboration and visualization under development at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago.
We welcome papers on a wide array of historically-grounded themes. The following illustrations of topics suggest – but are not intended to limit – topics suitable for paper submissions:
* The idea of ‘storage’ as it relates to new media and historiography.
* The contextualization of historical problems in a new media milieu.
* The changing meanings and implications of inscription as the internet more fully embraces a range of audio-visual forms of communication.
* Ideological implications of speculations regarding the future.
* The changing place of ‘the virtual’ in new media studies.
* Digital history.
* The reputed move away from print media to new media.
* Changing meanings of the ‘global’ in relation to new media.
* Ubiquity, indexing, correlation and access.
* New media and transformations in the scholarly enterprise.
Abstracts of 300 words should be submitted no later than November 1, 2008.
Send abstracts to: David Park, Chair of the ICA Communication History Interest Group, at park@lakeforest.edu.
Authors will be informed whether abstracts have been accepted by 21 November 2008. Papers will be due by May 1, 2009. The program for this pre-conference will take place all day on May 21, 2009, the date established for ICA pre-conferences. The available time allows for three consecutive blocks of short presentations and roundtable-style discussions.
The pre-conference is a joint initiative by the Communication History Interest Group of the ICA, New Media & Society and the Electronic Visualization Laboratory and Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The pre-conference will be held at The University of Illinois at Chicago, and there will be transportation available for participants and attendees between the conference hotel and the UIC campus.
Organized by
* Dave Park, Chair, Communication History Interest Group, http://www.icahdq.org/sections/secdetinfo.asp?SecCode=DIV23
* Nicholas Jankowski and Steve Jones, co-editors New Media & Society, http://newmediaandsociety.com
Click here for more information: http://www.icahdq.org/conferences/2009/future.asp
ICA 2008: Interest Group Sessions and Awards
May 30, 2008
The Communication History Interest Group, in its first
ICA conference as a recognized ICA
unit, fielded seven panels in Montreal. (The
response to our call for papers was extraordinary,
leading to the Association’s highest paper
rejection rate, despite extra panel slots from
ICA.)
See the CHIG panels in this truncated version of the program. Conference registrees can download the papers on the ICA site.
Congratulations to our two award recipients!
1) Best Overall Paper: Philip Lodge (Napier University, UK), “Towards an Institutional and Intellectual History of British Communication Studies”
2) Best Student Paper: Victor W. Pickard (University of Illinois, USA), “‘Whether the Giants Should Be Slain or Persuaded to Be Good’: Revisiting the Hutchins Commission and the Role of Media in a Democratic Society”
See the CHIG panels in this truncated version of the program. Conference registrees can download the papers on the ICA site.
Congratulations to our two award recipients!
1) Best Overall Paper: Philip Lodge (Napier University, UK), “Towards an Institutional and Intellectual History of British Communication Studies”
2) Best Student Paper: Victor W. Pickard (University of Illinois, USA), “‘Whether the Giants Should Be Slain or Persuaded to Be Good’: Revisiting the Hutchins Commission and the Role of Media in a Democratic Society”
Montreal Preconference: The Long History of New Media
May 29, 2008
The Interest Group’s preconference
(co-sponsored with New Media & Society), held
in Montreal before the annual ICA gathering, was a great success.
Read the abstracts here.
Interest Group Holds First Business Meeting at ICA
June 10, 2007
The Communication History lnterest Group held its
inaugural business meeting on May 27. Download the
minutes.