Tuesday, May 15, 2012

ICA Political Communication Division Business Meeting Agenda 2012

Below you will find the Agenda for the 2012 Political Division Business Meeting for ICA in Phoenix, AZ


* WELCOME (Yariv Tsfati)
* Approval of the 2011 Business Meeting minutes

* Report from ICA Board of Directors meeting (Yariv Tsfati)
ACTION ITEMS
INFORMATION ITEMS
DISCUSSION ITEMS

* Report about the activities of the division (Yariv Tsfati)
Graduate student preconference update, co-sponsor of three conferences, the Kaid-Sanders fund established.

* Secretary/Treasurer report on division membership (Yariv for Susan Holmberg)

*Budget taskforce report and approval of the budget for FY 2012-2013(Yariv Tsfati)

*Ideas for new divisional award(s) (Yariv Tsfati and Claes de Vreese)

* Journal report: Political Communication (Patricia Moy for Shanto Iyengar)

* Joint Publications Committee report (Patricia Moy)

* Newsletter and website report: (Talia Stroud and blogger Maegan Stephens)

* Program Planner's report, travel grant and paper award winners (Claes de Vreese)

* 2011 Sanders-Kaid Political Communication Article of the Year Award (Keren Tenenboim Weinblatt for Scott Althaus)

* David Swanson Award (Steeve Reese)

* New business and announcements from the floor (if any)

* Passing of the gavel

* Off-site reception: directions and details

* ADJOURN

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

ICA Joint Happy Hour

The Journalism Studies and Political Communication divisions of the International Communication Association invite you to our annual reception.

Please join us for our joint happy hour event on Sunday, May 27, immediately following our business meetings (approximately 6 pm).

Location: The First Amendment Forum at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Arizona State University. 555 N. Central Ave., Phoenix, AZ 85004

Walking to Walter Cronkite School from the conference hotel will take 5 to 10 minutes. Here's a link to a locator map, showing the Sheraton Hotel and the Cronkite School:

http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=340+n+3r+st+phoenix&daddr=33.4534665,-112.070813+to:33.45347,-112.07126+to:555+N.+Central+Avenue+phoenix&hl=en&ll=33.45385,-112.073679&spn=0.004547,0.00809&sll=33.4536,-112.07155&sspn=0.004807,0.00809&geocode=FZVy_gEdH_JR-SkRpVhgGBIrhzGEoaJSJGi_7g%3BFZp1_gEdY-9R-SkLhtxtGBIrhzF_7074wYP6wQ%3BFZ51_gEdpO1R-SkLhtxtGBIrhzF_7074wYP6wQ%3BFfZ2_gEd6eVR-Snp51zGIhIrhzGrVmK3ytbcdA&t=m&dirflg=w&mra=dvme&mrsp=1&sz=17&via=1,2&z=17


Please copy the link, paste it in your internet browser and you will see the directions. It's a good idea to bring a PRINTED COPY with you to Phoenix. If you can't access the map, Google maps offers these walking directions:

From the hotel, head north. Turn left onto E Taylor St. The Walter Cronkite School is three blocks away, on the northeast corner of Central Avenue and E Taylor Street.


The event is sponsored by Tailor & Francis.

See you there!

Yariv Tsfati, Claes de Vreese (Political Communication)

Frank Esser, Stephanie Craft (Journalism Studies)

ICA Political Communication Division 2011 Business Meeting Minutes (Boston, MA)

* WELCOME (Yariv Tsfati)

Conference called to order at 16.30

* Approval of the 2010 Business Meeting minutes

Minutes approved


* Report from ICA Board of Directors meeting (Yariv Tsfati)

  • Record high submissions, attendance despite low paper acceptance rate
  • Suggested visiting virtual conference – more comments there than in “3D” sessions!
  • Limit number of submissions to 5 per submitter. Executive committee – both interest in and fear about going to China – decision to go to Fukoka, Japan in 2016, and first try a regional conference in China.
  • Policy for political engagement was accepted – procedure for timely political engagement approved
  • Update on upcoming Regional conferences


*From the annual report of the division (Yariv Tsfati): the first graduate student preconference was held at BU. 24 students presented their work; Special thanks to preconference committee (Kevin Barnhurst, Patricia Moy, Jim Shanahan, Claes de Vreese, Geoffrey Baym). Special thanks to BU and Jim Shanahan for sponsoring the event.


*From the annual report of the division – Transnational Connections Symposium, Segovia, Spain – many thanks to Patricia Moy–Magdalena Wojcieszak - hopes this will become a bi-annual event); Conference in Warsaw, September, mentioned by Agnieszka Stepinska


*Upcoming division elections (Yariv Tsfati). Nominations committee: Hernando Rojas, U of Madison, Wisconsin (Chair), Erik Albæk, U of Southern Denmark, Lilach Nir, Hebrew U, ISRAEL and Marko Skoric, Nanyang Technical U. The deadline for nominations is June 8.


*Proposal for a Kaid- Sanders Award (Jesper Strömbäck) explained that Linda Kaid had passed away this year and proposed to establish an Award in her name and in the name of her mentor and division founder Keith Sander.

- Yariv notes that Linda’s husband Cliff Jones has generously offered to match up to USD 12,000 to create an award fund whose fruits will be used to give a cash prize for the award winner. Members were asked to contribute through the ICA wesite.

- A motion proposed to name the division’s best paper award as the Kaid-Sanders award –(Motion passed)


* Secretary/Treasurer report on division membership and finances (Susan Holmberg)

Our budget for the current year is USD 8,520: USD 2,250 will go to T&F for free online access to the journal, 2,000 (approximately) will be spent on the reception. Approximately 500 for travel grants and plaque. The preconference may cost an additional 500. So I think it is safe to say we should have at least 3,000 USd left.

Membership is 756 a slight increase from last year (705).


* Journal report: Political Communication (Shanto Iyengar)

Current acceptance rate 13-14 % (up somewhat from last year)

Backlog is currently 4 issues

Temporarily disbanded special issues


* Joint Publications Committee report (Patricia Moy)

Motion proposed to cancel online subscription at 3.00/head at the end of the period – as there does not seem to be extensive use of this option. Motion carried.

Patria Moy then presented the displeasure of the joint publication committee with the contract with the publisher. On the other hand, T&F owns the title so we can’t break off and negotiate with another publisher – something else that would include AEJMC IAMCR, etc. another option is to remain with better conditions and to get Taylor and Francis to increase compensation and royalties. Question from the floor: Can we have our own e-journal with the exact same name?

1. Motion that division empowers elected officers and publication committee to express its displeasure with T&F about the current terms of the contract (motion passed)

2. Contingent on response the joint publications committee is to seriously consider an appropriate response (motion passed)


* Newsletter and website report: (Talia Stroud and blogger Maegan Stephens): Invited members to visit website and blog and share announcements with membership using these outlets.


* Program Planner's report, travel grant and paper award winners (Claes de Vreese)

-Most papers reviewed by 3 reviewers - 646 reviewer transaction. All reviewers had a Phd. (33% US, 45% Europe, 22% elsewhere).

-260 papers (up from 182 last year and 232 in Chicago)

-132 papers were accepted, for a 51 % acceptance rate

-There were 22 panel proposals submitted (all reviewed by three reviewers); up from 9 last year.

-5 were accepted (23 % acceptance rate).

-Gave preference to full papers given competitiveness.


*Top student papers:

-Augmenting or Ameliorating the Knowledge Gap? A Panel Analysis of the Effects of Political TV Exposure on Campaign Learning, Susanna Dilliplane, U of Pennsylvania

-Brandishing Broomsticks and Dumping Dow: Rhetoric of Alternative Media Texts Related to Bhopal Gas Tragedy Activism, Rahul Mukherjee, Film and Media Studies, UCSB

-Effects of the Obama Presidential Campaign on White Racial Prejudice, Seth Goldman, Annenberg, U Penn


*Top faculty paper - The Online Flow of Environmental Advocacy Clips From The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, Geoffrey Baym, U North Carolina – Greensboro

Chirag Shah, Rutgers University


*Travel grants - to Jenna Mae Atun (Manila) and Rico Neumann (Costa Rica)


*2010 Political Communication Article of the Year Award (Maria Jose Canel for Chip Eveland; committee members: María José Canel, Clarissa David, William Eveland (chair), Jesper Strömbäck, David Weaver). The winner is:

Rojas, H. (2010). “Corrective” actions in the public sphere: How perceptions of media and media effects shape political behavior. International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 22, 343-363.

Honorable mentions:

-Nisbet, E. C., & Myers, T. A. (2010). Challenging the state: Transnational TV and political identity in the Middle East. Political Communication, 27, 347-366.

-Strömbäck, J., & Shehata, A. (2010). Media malaise or a virtuous circle? Exploring the causal relationship between news media exposure, political news attention and political interest. European Journal of Political Research, 49, 575-597.


* New business and announcements from the floor (if any)

No new business


* Off-site reception: directions and details


* ADJOURN

Meeting adjourned at 17.44 pm

ICA 2011 Budget Proposal

FY Last year: 2010-2011 2011-2012 2012-2013
Reveues
membership (carryover money included) 8,770.00 8,542.00 8,600.00
Royelties-T&F 5,496.00 5,580.00 12,000.00
Honorarium - T&F 3,750.00 3,750.00
Total revenues 14,266.00 17,872.00 24,350.00
Expenses
Reception -1,700.00 -2,400.00 -3,500.00
Top student paper awards (3 * 500) -1,500.00 -1,500.00
Student Travel (ICA adds a matching fund of 300) -700.00 -4,600.00 -4,600.00
Top student paper from B-C country -1,000.00
Misc. (plaques etc) -200.00 -300.00 -300.00
Transfer to Sander-Kaid Fund -7,496.00
Awards -500.00 -1,000.00
Website/newsletter support -350.00 0.00 -500.00
Grad student preconference -4,000.00 -8,000.00
Total -10,446.00 -13,300.00 -20,400.00
Ending balance 3,820.00 4,572.00 3,950.00

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Call for Chapter: International Political Communication edited volume

The impact and significance of global political communication has become unavoidable over the last decade as the war on terrorism played out on the international mass media. Much of the research in this area has been driven by data derived from western and developed countries. It is quite plausible that as the political, economic, and cultural milieu of a nation changes, the form of political communication that is possible there also changes. Considering the growing impact of new communication technology and globalization of media, it is very important for the field to begin looking at the ways in which political communication is divergent as well as comparable in different countries. This edited book will examine the interaction of media and politics in diverse countries by drawing on global scholarship in political communication.

We are soliciting chapters from scholars studying specific regions and countries. The chapters will be designed as case studies that detail the way politics is communicated and talked about through the media in these territories. Authors are asked to focus particularly on theoretical analysis as well as an assessment of the impact of communication technology advances and their impact on traditional modes of communication. One clear example of the change wrought by new technologies has occurred throughout the Middle East. In the case of the Arab Spring, the traditional models of top down communication were largely superseded by the mass use of the internet and cell phones. Furthermore, the effect was heightened by a strong element of cross-fertilization of ideas across the region which was facilitated both through the internet as well as Arabic language mass media. The influence of regional, common-language mass media in these protests was also an indication of the increasing influence of regional content providers as opposed to the traditional impact of English language transnational media.

The juxtaposition of these case studies sets the stage for learning from the way culture, history and media interact to create the particular manifestations of political communication in countries around the world. In addition, the volume is designed to examine the application and validity of popular media theories across different cultural and media contexts. In this case, the emphasis placed on theoretical analysis in the case studies will illuminate the way in which a theory that was created in a Western context can be applied and/or extended through its use in understanding an Asian or African location. In addition, readers would be introduced to theory being constructed in other regions of the world.

If interested, please submit an abstract (500 words) and CV by June 30, 2012. Completed chapters of 4000 – 5000 words will need to be submitted by September 30, 2012.

Please send all abstracts and inquiries to Saman Talib at samantalib1@hotmail.com

Lectureship in Political Communication (equivalent to a tenure track Assistant Professorship) - University of Glasgow

Applications are invited from outstanding candidates with a research focus in any subfield of Political Communication, although preference may be given to applicants with a focus on new media. You will have a strong track record of publications appropriate to career stage as well as a completed, or nearly completed, PhD in a relevant subject. You will maintain an active programme of research and will contribute to the general work of the School, including teaching for the MSc in Political Communication.

Politics is an established, successful and expanding part of the School of Social and Political Sciences and this post will complement and reinforce existing strengths in political communication and related subjects. The appointee will play a role in a number of research clusters in Politics - especially Citizens, Communication and Political Actors - and in relevant College and University research networks.

For more information and application package, please follow this link

Closing date: Tuesday 29th May 2012