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Minutes from 2008 ICA Business Meeting...

... can be found here.

ICA 2008: Interest Group Sessions and Awards

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”

Montreal Preconference: The Long History of New Media

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


The Communication History lnterest Group held its inaugural business meeting on May 27. Download the minutes.