[ecrea] CFA: ICA graduate student preconference

ICA Political Communication Graduate Student Preconference
University of Arizona, May 23-24, 2012
Call for Abstracts
Sponsoring Division: Political Communication

Aims: The preconference goals include providing guidance, feedback and
professional socialization to political communication graduate students
at the master's and doctoral levels, introducing graduate students to
ICA and inviting them to take part in the academic discourse on
political communication through ICA, and cultivating a network among
young political communication scholars. To achieve these goals, the
preconference will bring together a select group of graduate students
working on political communication projects and provide them with the
opportunity to present and discuss their projects in a constructive
atmosphere. The preconference will also address common issues graduate
students face, including working toward publication and building a c.v.
The event will take place at the University of Arizona in Tucson, on May
23-24, 2012.

Submission guidelines:
Graduate students working on political communication projects are
invited to submit abstracts of their research projects. Studies of
communication dealing with government, political media, policy,
political figures, citizens, campaigns, and advocacy groups are all
within the purview of the division. Abstracts that address political
communication problems at all levels of analysis using a variety of
theories and methods are welcome.

Abstracts should be no longer than 750 words of text (plus figures and
references) that include an introduction of the theoretical or
conceptual foundations of the project, research questions, methods,
preliminary findings (if available), conclusions, and research
significance. Abstracts will undergo review; please be sure to remove
any identifying information. Projects at all stages will be considered,
including research currently in the stages of data collection or
analysis. Evaluation criteria will include quality of argument,
methodological rigor, and importance of project to theory building in
political communication.

Please submit abstracts as an attachment in PDF or Word format to
(ICA.gradstudent.preconf /at/ gmail.com). Indicate whether the project is a
thesis or dissertation project, specify the stage of work (e.g., writing
of the research proposal, complete and defended proposal, initial data
collection, advanced data collection, data analysis, final
writing/defending) and include author names, institutional affiliation,
regular mailing address, fax number and email address in a separate
document, or as part of the main message.

The deadline for submissions is December 31, 2011. Acceptance and
rejection decisions will go out on February 15, 2012.

Preconference Committee: Kevin Coe (University of Arizona), Claes de
Vreese (University of Amsterdam), Jill Edy (University of Oklahoma),
Lance Holbert (Ohio State University), Kate Kenski (U of Arizona) and
Yariv Tsfati (University of Haifa)

For more information please contact Yariv Tsfati, Division Chair,
Department of Communication University of Haifa, 31905 ISRAEL, Fax
++972-4-8240120, Email (ytsfati /at/ com.haifa.ac.il)




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