Volume 37, Number 6: August 2009 a href="http://www.icahdq.org/" What's Inside 2009 ICA Elections Begin September 8 Tadasu Todd Imahori, Seinan Gakuin U, Dies President's Message: Spiral of Cynicism Wins ICA Fellows Book Award Annie Lang Wins Chaffee Award at 2009 Chicago Conference ICA Honors Top 2009 Posters at "Scholar to Scholar" Session in Chicago Cosponsored eSociety Conference in Shanghai Intercultural Dialogue: Istanbul 2009 Student Column: Advice From Former PhD Candidates News of Interest to the Profession Division & Interest Group News Calls for Papers Available Positions & Other Advertising 2009 ICA Elections Begin September 8 Michael J. West, ICA Staff ICA members will begin voting for association-wide and division/interest group officers beginning Tuesday, September 8. As always, the vote will take place using an online-only ballot that is easy to use, expense-free, and green. Since its introduction in 2005, it has generated increasingly high voter turnout. Polls will remain open until October 16. To access the ballot from the ICA website (www.icahdq.org), members will need their ICA login name and password. Members should make sure that ICA has their correct e-mail address so that the association can send them an announcement of the election and a link to the ballot. The ICA website allows you to personally verify, correct, and/or update the information. The association-wide elections include the 1-year term for President-Elect. Candidates for the position in this election are Larry Gross (U of Southern California) and Karen Ross (U of Liverpool). Members will also have the chance to elect a Board Member-at-Large for the Americas (non-U.S.); candidates for a 3-year term in this position are Becky Lentz (McGill U, Canada) and Evan Potter (U of Ottawa, Canada). Members can also choose between two candidates for a 2-year term as Student Board Member: Yea-wen Chen (U of New Mexico) and Diana Nastasia (U of North Dakota). Statements for presidential candidates will appear in the September issue of the Newsletter. All other statements are on the ICA home page. 2008 DIVISION AND INTEREST GROUP OFFICER CANDIDATES COMMUNICATION AND TECHNOLOGY (CAT) Vice-Chair: Kwan Min Lee (U of Southern California) Andrea Pitasi (Gabriele DAnnunzio U) Lidwien van de Wijngaert (U of Twente) COMMUNICATION LAW & POLICY Vice-Chair: Edward L. Carter (Brigham Young U) Laura Stein (U of Texas) GLOBAL COMMUNICATION & SOCIAL CHANGE ICA is Now on Twitter! ICA is now on Twitter! If you have a Twitter account, you can follow our feed at http://www.twitter.com/icahdq. ICA members are now LinkedIn! ICA members are now LinkedIn! Join them at http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=843047&trk=anet_ug_hm. Join ICA members in the new Facebook group! Join ICA members in the new Facebook group! Go to Facebook.com and look up the International Communication Association under "Groups." INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION 2009 - 2010 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Executive Committee Barbie Zelizer, President, U of Pennsylvania Francois Cooren, President-Elect, U de Montreal Patrice Buzzanell, Immediate Past President, Purdue U Sonia Livingstone, Past President, London School of Economics Ronald E. Rice, (ex-oficio), Finance Chair, U of California - Santa Barbara Michael L. Haley (ex-oficio), Executive Director Members-at-Large Aldo Vasquez Rios, U de San Martin Porres, Peru Eun-Ju Lee, Seoul National U Rohan Samarajiva, LIRNEasia Gianpetro Mazzoleni, U of Milan Juliet Roper, U of Waikato Student Members Michele Khoo, Nanyang Technological U Malte Hinrichsen, U of Amsterdam Division Chairs & ICA Vice Presidents S Shyam Sundar, Communication & Technology, Pennsylvania State U Stephen McDowell, Communication Law & Policy, Florida State U Myria Georgiou, Ethnicity and Race in Communication, Leeds U Diana Rios, Feminist Scholarship, U of Connecticut Robert Huesca, Global Communication and Social Change, Trinity U Dave Buller, Health Communication, Klein-Buendel Robert F. Potter, Information Systems, Indiana U Kristen Harrison, Instructional & Developmental Communication, U of