International Communication Association
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The mission statement of the International Communication Association states its purpose and goals to be the following: "The International Communication Association aims to advance the scholarly study of human communication by encouraging and facilitating excellence in academic research worldwide. The purposes of the Association are (1) to provide an international forum to enable the development, conduct, and critical evaluation of communication research; (2) to sustain a program of high quality scholarly publication and knowledge exchange; (3) to facilitate inclusiveness and debate among scholars from diverse national and cultural backgrounds and from multi-disciplinary perspectives on communication-related issues; and (4) to promote a wider public interest in, and visibility of, the theories, methods, findings and applications generated by research in communication and allied fields" (retrieved 8/21/07 from the International Communication Association Website, http://www.icahdq.org/aboutica/missionstatement.asp) The International Communication Association held its 57th annual conference in San Francisco, California from May 24th-28th, 2007. The theme was Creating Communication: Content, Control and Critique. There was a strong focus on computer mediated communication, blogging, media studies, game studies, health communication, and globalization, among others, all emphasizing communication in the global sphere.
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Journals put out by the ICA include the Journal of Communication, Health Communication Research, Communication Theory, Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, and Communication, Culture, and Critique.
