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International Communication Association
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Washington, DC  20036 USA

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ICA Awards

The call for nominations for the ICA Awards is announced in the ICA Newsletter, typically in the November issue. Please check the newsletters for detailed information about nomination deadlines and required supporting material. The deadline for each of the awards is January 31.

  • Steven H. Chaffee Career Productivity Award*
  • James W. Carey Urban Communication Award*
  • Outstanding Book Award
  • Applied/Public Policy Research Award
  • Outstanding Article Award
  • Young Scholar Award
  • B. Aubrey Fisher Mentorship Award
  • ICA Fellows Book Award
  • Communication Research as Collaborative Practice*
  • Communication Research as an Agent of Change*
  • Communication Research as an Open Field*

* All nominees must be ICA members with the exception of those nominated for these awards

The International Communication Association is the largest international academic association for scholars interested in the study, teaching, and application of all aspects of human and mediated communication.

It maintains an active membership of more than 4,300 individuals of which some two-thirds are teaching and conducting research in colleges, universities and schools around the world. Other members are graduate students, and those working in government, the media, communication technology, business law, medicine and other professions.

ICA aims to advance the scholarly study of human communication by encouraging and facilitating excellence in academic research worldwide. The purposes of the Association are:

  • to provide an international forum to enable the development, conduct, and critical evaluation of communication research;
  • to sustain a program of high quality scholarly publication and knowledge exchange;
  • to facilitate inclusiveness and debate among scholars from diverse national and cultural backgrounds and from multi-disciplinary perspectives on communication-related issues;
  • to promote a wider public interest in, and visibility of, the theories, methods, findings and applications generated by research in communication and allied fields.

ICA's activities fall into three main categories.

  • Annual conference of some 2000 academics in the field of communication from around the world, along with occasional regional conferences.
  • Publication of a series of high quality journals and related publications, both broad-ranging and specialized.
  • Supports the research activities of its members. This includes a prestigious series of annual awards, representation to professional, funding and policy agencies, enabling collaboration, dissemination and publicity, and facilitating the activities of its many divisions and interest groups.

ICA Journals

The Journal of Communication is a general forum for communication scholarship and publishes articles and book reviews examining a broad range of issues in communication theory and research.

Human Communication Research seeks to advance understanding of human symbolic processes, so there is a strong emphasis on theory-driven research, the development of new theoretical models in communication, and the development of innovative methods for observing and measuring communication behavior.

Communication Theory publishes research articles, theoretical essays, and reviews on topics of broad theoretical interest from across the range of communication studies.

The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication is a web-based journal that is broadly interdisciplinary in scope. It publishes mostly empirical research making use of social science methods.

Communication, Culture, & Critique publishes critical, interpretive, and qualitative research examining the role of communication and cultural criticism in today's world.

Publications

A Guide to Publishing in Scholarly Communication Journals. This popular guide is aimed at facilitating the publication process for potential contributors.

Communication in the Public Interest. From the growing monopolization of global media, to human rights issues and health campaigns, communicating in a time of war, and issues of free speech and society, communication has real political and ethical imperatives in our world.

Communication Yearbookis a forum for the exchange of interdisciplinary and internationally diverse scholarship relating to communication in its many forms.

International Encyclopedia of Communication. The idea behind this project is to create the premiere and absolutely essential reference source in the field of Communication.  

Handbooks of Communication. The series of scholarly handbooks represents the interests of ICA members and help to further the association's goals of promoting theory and research in the communication discipline.  

Theme Sessions Series. This series publishes some papers from the annual conference theme sessions in a short edited book of approximately six chapters.

The British tenure in Singapore has left a lasting imprint in the island through its civic buildings rendered in the Palladian, Renaissance, or Neo-classical traditions.

Among these impressive buildings are the National Museum of Singapore (main picture), the old Supreme Court Building, the St. Andrew's Cathedral, the Fullerton Hotel (main bottom picture), and the Raffles Hotel (above).



St. Andrew's Cathedral, the country's largest and home to the Anglican Diocese of Singapore


The Victoria Theater and Concert Hall, with its clock tower that was completed in 1906



The Asian Civilization Museum, the first to curate pan-Asian cultures and civilizations.