National diversity at conferences of the International Communication Association

Doctoral institutions were ranked (1) globally, and (2) according to selected specialties in communication studies based on a combination of NCA and ICA top convention paper awards from 1994 through 1998. In conjunction with other data on the research productivity of doctoral institutions in communication studies, students, faculty, and administrators are urged to utilize the results of this study to assess the programs of particular doctoral institutions. Not only can the schools listed here be compared to other schools not listed, but those listed can also be compared with each other either globally or in particular specialties.

This article examines how individuals at different stages in the innovation-decision process perceive computer-assisted legal research systems (CALR). Following Barnett's ("An associational model for the diffusion of complex innovations." Presented at the International Communication Association, Chicago, IL; 1978 [1]) associational model for the diffusion of complex innovations, a survey is described which applied metric multidimensional scaling to measure the cognitive structure of potential adopters toward a domain of concepts related to CALR. The study demonstrates the utility of this approach for examining the diffusion process. The results suggest that there are clear distinctions in the structures of individuals' associations at different stages in the diffusion process. First, people at later stages in the process identify more closely with the various online systems. Second, adopters more closely associate the attributes which describe the advantages of computer-based systems with the systems. Third, the variance in the population's perceptions of the relationship among the concepts decreases. Implications of the results are discussed. © 1988 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Media history is a relatively new area in media studies worldwide. In South Africa, it has not made significant inroads onto the agendas of conference programmes, academic journal articles or student syllabi. Twenty years ago, the eminent Danish scholar, Hans Fredrik Dahl (1994: 551), noted that 'the media as a historical object is far from fully understood at present'. In South African scholarship at least, not much has changed. Dahl went on to suggest that there are two main reasons for the paucity of media-historical studies. The 'endless present' and 'ubiquitous reality' of the media seem to make them 'resist historical exploration by their sheer and monotonous insistence on dealing with contemporary moments' (ibid.). The second reason is a lack of interest in the media on the part of the historical fraternity, where the most important question seems to revolve around the value and credibility of the media as source material, rather than the media per se. This means that little effort has been invested in developing a methodology appropriate to historical studies of the media. While the majority of research projects on media deal with the here and now, and the urgency of a rapidly changing structural, ethical and technological milieu in which the media are situated discourages reflective accounts of the past, there is evidence of a growing interest in media history. Both the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) and the International Communication Association (ICA) have healthy sections devoted to the area. This issue of Critical Arts contributes to that interest, in what is the first of two back-to-back editions devoted to exploring the media in historical terms. Specifically, the emphasis is on Empire and media in the twentieth century. The current issue centres on broadcasting (with a nod to telecommunications), while the subsequent issue will focus on print media. To speak of 'broadcasting' before 1950 is to speak predominantly of radio, and indeed all the articles in this issue confine themselves to the medium of radio. Empire and audience In the 20th century, the concept of 'empires' appeared to be an anachronism--a leftover from a bygone era of raw exploitation and extraction. While it is true that the glory days of the late 19th century were over, the importance of the imperial project remained long after the European flags were lowered. The history of the global south is, in large measure, the history of colonisation and postcolonial endeavours. Many institutions--political, economic and cultural--bear traces of earlier arrangements. This is particularly true of the media, both broadcast and print. Empires were peopled with a variety of constituents: there were the colonial governors, acting as the direct proxies for the colonial authorities; the predominantly white communities--either 'expats' who lived in the colonies for a number of years, but whose hearts and minds remained 'at home' in the motherland, or 'settlers' who lived in the country on a permanent basis, often over several generations with no intention of returning to Europe; other white settler groups of different languages and ethnicities who shared little of the cultural, ideological or political affinities of the colonists; and, finally, the indigenous populations--always the largest by number, but inevitably the group with the smallest stake in matters such as broadcasting. The various articles in this issue all speak to the different audiences they served. In the account of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) during the Second World War, Teer-Tomaselli outlines how the tension between the long-term English-speaking settlers and their white Afrikaner counterparts was exacerbated by the former's dedication to the Commonwealth's war efforts, and the latter's quest for self-determination and independence from Britain. The broadcaster's role in this was ambiguous at first, as the animosities in the outside society spilt over into the corporation itself. …

This article describes the use of self‐directed teams to incorporate service‐learning into an organizational communication course. The service‐learning project was conducted in conjunction with the local school district, under a grant designed to improve relationships between area educational agencies and the community. The service‐learning project described in this report addressed this need through the completion of a communication audit modeled on the International Communication Association's audit protocol. The service‐learning project utilized self‐directed student teams that surveyed or interviewed nearly 400 staff, student, parent, and general community members, performed a content analysis of printed material produced by the school district for a variety of audiences, and examined the use of telecommunication and information technology in the district offices and classrooms. At the conclusion of the project students engaged in structured reflection. Project initiation, planning, implementation, and the results of the service‐learning reflective process are the focus of this report.

The study reported in this article investigated some of the communication discipline's publication conventions to provide information that can shape hiring, promotion, and/or tenure practices, particularly at highly research-oriented universities. The study investigates 349 research articles by 125 authors published in eight International Communication Association (ICA) and National Communication Association (NCA) journals between January 1999 and June 2004. The analyses focus on authors, their gender, academic rank, and university affiliations. Results show that full professors have significantly higher rates of productivity than either associate or assistant professors, even though assistant professors as a group are associated with the most manuscripts. The study reveals a short list (n = 12) of universities whose faculty and/or alumni have published more than their peers and those scholars' preferred publication outlets; recognizes especially productive scholars by academic rank (n = 11); and presents data that indicate a potential trend towards dissolving gender differences.

Vanderburg’s (2005) Living in the Labyrinth of Technology, describes the seemingly ambivalent state of life and meaning within a technological society. The ubiquity and invisibility of advancing information and communication technologies (ICT’s) challenges individuals sense of self and society, and their understanding of how meaning is communicated, by whom, for what purpose, and with what outcomes. The convergence of information, communication, and technology has become an important concern in academia as is apparent in the intersecting interests of technology studies, information studies, and communication studies in areas related to the role of technology in social interaction, meaning creation, identity formation, culture, and information exchange. This intersection of fields is partly due to the convergence of information and communications with advancing technological innovation. This has given rise to the ever-expanding convergence in academic research within communications and technology studies. This is exemplified through an amassing body of research publications focusing on technology, information, and communication, along with continued growth of technology and communication oriented research activities carried out within professional associations (Society for Social Studies of Science [4S] and the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology [EASST], International Communication Association, Canadian Communication Association).

Social informatics: Beyond emergence

Winner of the 2017 Outstanding Book Award from the Popular Communication Division of the International Communication Association (ICA) Nearly as soon as television began to enter American homes in the late 1940s, social activists recognized that it was a powerful tool for shaping the nation’s views. By targeting broadcast regulations and laws, both liberal and conservative activist groups have sought to influence what America sees on the small screen. Public Interests describes the impressive battles that these media activists fought and charts how they tried to change the face of American television. Allison Perlman looks behind the scenes to track the strategies employed by several key groups of media reformers, from civil rights organizations like the NAACP to conservative groups like the Parents Television Council. While some of these campaigns were designed to improve the representation of certain marginalized groups in television programming, as Perlman reveals, they all strove for more systemic reforms, from early efforts to create educational channels to more recent attempts to preserve a space for Spanish-language broadcasting. Public Interests fills in a key piece of the history of American social reform movements, revealing pressure groups’ deep investments in influencing both television programming and broadcasting policy. Vividly illustrating the resilience, flexibility, and diversity of media activist campaigns from the 1950s onward, the book offers valuable lessons that can be applied to current battles over the airwaves

Academic conferences are considered central to the dissemination of research and play a key role in the prestige systems of academia. And yet the organization of these, and the power systems they maintain, have been little discussed. What is a conference supposed to achieve? Who and what is it for? The annual Alliance of Digital Humanities Organization (ADHO)’s Digital Humanities conference is a central occasion in the digital humanities academic calendar, and, as an international, interdisciplinary, regular, long-standing, large-scale event, it provides an ideal locus to consider various aspects of contemporary academic conference organization, and how this impacts the shape and definition of a scholarly field. Examining this annual event allows us to clarify ADHO’s policies and procedures to consider how they frame the digital humanities at large. This paper approaches the annual Digital Humanities conference via a Reflection-in-Action and Reflection-on-Action approach encompassing the experiences of various people formally involved in organizing the conference over the past decade. Considering the last seven years of the conference as well as its broader history, we argue that conferences are central mechanisms for agenda setting and fostering a community of digital humanities practitioners. Through analyses of the selection of Program Committees, the choosing of conference themes, the preparation of calls for papers, the peer review process, and the selection of keynotes, we contend that existing structures and processes inadequately address concerns around representation, diversity, multilingualism, and labor. Our recommendations, including aligning the conference budget with its priorities, fostering fair labor practices, and creating accountability structures will be useful to those organizing future Digital Humanities events, and conference organizers throughout academia interested in making academic conferences more inclusive, welcoming environments that encourage a plurality of voices to fully partake in academic discourse.

The 2023 7th International Conference on Mechanics, Mathematics and Applied Physics (ICMMAP 2023) took place in Dalian, China during 8th to 10th September 2023. The conferences in this series started in 2017 as an academic conference and gradually expanded to include wider topic fields as well. Now the International Conference on Mechanics, Mathematics and Applied Physics has been developed into an annual international conference based in China with topics encompassing the whole area of mechanics, mathematics and applied physics.The aim of the Conference was to provide a platform for the exploration of both fundamental topics and new applications of research fields related to mechanics, mathematics and applied physics, bring different scientific communities together, and thus facilitate the contacts between science, technology and industry. All the attendees were welcomed to give comments and raise questions to the speeches and presentations during the Conference.More than 100 participants attended the Conference which consisted of ten keynote speeches, as well as plenty of oral and poster contributions. Among them, Prof. Zhenxin Liu (Dalian University of Technology, China), who is interested in the researches on Stochastic Dynamical Systems and Stochastic Differential Equations, delivered a keynote speech on The Averaging Principle for SDEs with Monotone Coefficients. And Prof. Chongjun Li (Dalian University of Technology, China) made a report on Revised SBFEM on Arbitrary Polygons and Faceted Polyhedrons with the Second Order Completeness by Elimination of Bubble Functions. He focuses his research on Numerical Approximation, Computational Geometry, Multivariate Spline Theory, and Spline Finite Elements. And the other speakers performed their speeches one by one, sharing research experience and professional insights on specific topics. It is really a great opportunity to promote academic communication and collaboration worldwide.This volume gathers papers from regular contributions of ICMMAP 2023; each contribution submitted for publication has been peer reviewed and the Editors are very grateful to the referees for their careful support in improving the original manuscripts. The manuscripts accepted for publication cover different topics of mechanics, mathematics and applied physics: Computational Mechanics, Multiphase Fluid Mechanics, Partial Differential Equation, Simulation and Monte-Carlo Methods, Nuclear Electronics, etc.It is a great honor to present this volume of Journal of Physics: Conference Series and we deeply thank the authors for their enthusiastic and high-grade contribution.Finally, we would like to thank the Conference Chair, the Publication Chair, the members of the Technical Program Committee as well as Organizing Committee, the conference secretariat and the support from Dalian Jiaotong University that allowed the success of ICMMAP 2023.The Committee of ICMMAP 2023List of Committee Member are avaible in this pdf.

This Side of the Mountain Virginia Carney Impressions of the Twenty-first Annual ASA Conference Though she and her husband have lived in Washington, D.C. for many years, Katherine White grew up in the hills ofVirginia. During a recent visit with their daughter (Dr. Kathy Bullock, professor ofmusic and director of the Black Music Ensemble at Berea College), Mrs. White and I sat around her daughter's dining room table after dinner and swapped stories about growing up in Southern Appalachia—she as a black woman, I as a Cherokee/Appalachian. Eventually, storytelling segued into philosophizing and I listened closely to the words of my elderly friend. "Some folks spend their whole lives making friends with 'classy' people," she remarked, "but I have always made it a point to befriend the ordinary people, you know, the ones who don't have any special talent, or a lot of education, or money, or fame. I've watched things for a lot of years now, and it never fails—when you really need somebody, those 'classy' friends are nowhere to be found. But the common people will come through for you every time." The words of Mrs. White, a woman widely loved and respected by people of all races and classes, were a timely reminder of the people we called "good decent folks" when I was growing up in the hills of East Tennessee, and of the ways in which lines of social stratification seem to blur in any gathering of Southern Appalachian people. Even among the 400 people who attended the recent Appalachian Studies conference in Boone, NC, for example, the boundaries which usually exist between the "highly educated" and the "self-educated" seemed considerably more permeable than at other academic conferences I have attended. Though culture, in order to survive, must be dynamic and adaptive, stagnant concepts of Appalachian people—like those of American Indians— persist throughout the world, perpetuated by the media and the entertainment industry, and often internalized by Appalachians themselves. Consequently, many of our young people endure incredible ridicule and are subjected to painful stereotypes when they enter institutions of Virginia Carney, lecturer and writer, is completing workfor a Ph.D. degree at the University ofKentucky. She received the Ellershaw Award as the outstanding graduate student in the English department for 1997-98. higher education—even within the Appalachian region. It is primarilywith Appalachian youth in mind, then, that I make the following observations and comments after attending the twenty-first annual conference of the Appalachian Studies Association. More Than Ever Before (1)This year, more than ever before, a diversity of voices joined in the presentations and panel discussions of the conference—and audiences listened and responded with warmth and encouragement. A quick glance at session titles such as the following gives some idea of the mosaic of people who live and work in Appalachia today: "Sustaining Community Memory: Research and Regional Collections in a Digital Age." "Retaining the Cherokee Tradition ofFamily Support in the Midst of Change." "African-American Music in Appalachia: A Wealth ofTradition in Changing Times. " "Polio and Prayer Chains: Partnershipsfor Health in the Mountains." "Where'd You Come From, Where'd You Go? Asian American Families in Western North Carolina." We've come a long way from the days when only white Appalachians attended the annual conference and when the voices of Afrilachians, Cherokees, Melungeons, and other ethnic groups were completely silenced in discussions ofAppalachian studies. Programs such as the one provided this year demonstrate the richness of our cultural diversity and enable our young people to learn first-hand the value oflistening to those who may be ethnically or professionally different from us, but who have a common cultural heritage. Special Recognition (2)Several colleges and universities deserve recognition for the number ofstudents they brought to the 1998 ASA Conference. For example, the host institution, Appalachian State University, along with Marshall and Radford Universities, not only encouraged students to participate in the program, but in many cases provided travel stipends so that students could experience a conference which would inspire and encourage them to become actively involved in maintaining the cultural autonomy of Southern Appalachia. These institutions, along with others...

The International Joint AIRAPT-22 & HPCJ-50 Conference was held in Odaiba, Tokyo, on 26–31 July 2009. About 480 scientists from 24 countries attended the conference and 464 papers, including 3 plenary lectures, 39 invited talks, and 156 oral presentations, were presented. It is my great pleasure to present this proceedings volume, which is based on the high quality scientific works presented at the conference.The International AIRAPT conference has been held every two years in various countries around the world since 1965, while High Pressure Conference of Japan (HPCJ) has been held annually since 1959 in various Japanese cities. Pressure is a fundamental parameter to control the property of matter. As a result, both AIRAPT and HPCJ have become highly multidisciplinary, and cover Physics, Chemistry, Materials Science, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Biosciences, Food Science, and Technology. Although each discipline has a unique target, they all have high-pressure research in common. This proceedings volume includes about 200 papers of state-of-the-art studies from numerous fields. I hope this proceedings volume provides excellent pieces of information in various fields to further advance high-pressure research. Takehiko Yagi Conference Chairman Institute for Solid State Physics The University of Tokyo 7 December 2009 Participants at the conference venue, Tokyo International Exchange Center, Odaiba, Tokyo, Japan. Editor in Chief TAKEMURA Kenichi National Institute for Materials Science, Japan Editorial board Tadashi KONDO Osaka University, Japan Hitoshi MATSUKI The University of Tokushima, Japan Nobuyuki MATUBAYASI Kyoto University, Japan Yoshihisa MORI Okayama University of Science, Japan Osamu OHTAKA Osaka University, Japan Chihiro SEKINE Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan

The 6th International Conference on Inelastic X-ray Scattering (IXS2007) was held on Awaji Island, near Kobe, Japan, from May 7 to 11, 2007. This conference is held every three years, allowing one to take the pulse of the field, with review talks by experts, and focused talks on the most recent results and planned developments. The conference venue has included the US, Europe, and Japan. The site for 2007 was the Awaji Yumebutai conference center, a green and rather lush setting near the Seto Inland Sea, accessible from Kobe by crossing the world's longest suspension bridge.

Academic conferences are cultural ceremonials that serve as occasions for professional learning as well as organizational and professional socialization. A cultural analysis of the different structures and processes of the annual conferences held by two academic organizations (the Academy of Management and the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society) illustrates the integral role that conferences play in the formation and affirmation of each organization's cultural values, beliefs, and practices. This comparison of academic ceremonials also identifies the presence of two alternative modes of organizational and professional socialization and explores their implications for each organization, the academic profession, and management education.

This study set out to explore the ways in which social media can facilitate learning in medical education. In particular we were interested in determining whether the use of Twitter during an academic conference can promote learning for participants. The Twitter transcript from the annual International Conference on Residency Education (ICRE) 2013 was qualitatively analysed for evidence of the three overarching cognitive themes: (1) preconceptions, (2) frameworks, and (3) metacognition/refl ection in regard to the National Research Council ’ s (NRC) How People Learn framework . Content analysis of the Twitter transcript revealed evidence of the three cognitive themes as related to how people learn. Twitter appears to be most effective at stimulating individuals ’ preconceptions, thereby engaging them with the new material acquired during a medical education conference. The study of social media data, such as the Twitter data used in this study, is in its infancy. Having established that Twitter does hold signifi cant potential as a learning tool during an academic conference, we are now in a better position to more closely examine the spread, depth, and sustainability of such learning during medical education meetings.