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Minutes of the Meeting of the
Intercultural and Development Division
Division Five
International Communication Association
Acapulco, Mexico
June 2, 2000
Introduction and Approval of 1999 Minutes
Chairperson of the Intercultural and Development Division Bella Mody called the meeting to order at 6:05. After participants introduced themselves and identified their institutions, Mody requested revisions to the 1999 business meeting minutes. It was agreed to add "security concerns and political sensitivity" to our discussion of international meetings (see 1999 minutes, Old Business). With that revision, members voted to approve the 1999 minutes.
Annual Report
Mody presented an update of the division's accomplishments. She discussed a proposal from S. Illinois University to co-sponsor a conference, Global Fusion, on behalf of the division. Mody agreed that if we participated, we wanted to ensure that panel proposals were peer-reviewed. Tom McPhail was enlisted to organize a blind review of proposals, and one session will use identical procedures to those used by Division 5 in the ICA paper/panel reviews.
Mody worked with Bill Gudykunst, Communication Yearbook editor, to include two chapters from our division areas in the yearbook, rather than one as in the past. The division acknowledged Gudykunst for that effort.
Mody discussed continuing efforts to diversify our panel of reviewers for ICA. She reviewed this year's procedures: Vice-Chair Rich Wiseman distributed intercultural papers/proposals to reviewers, and Mody distributed international and development papers/proposals to reviewers.
ICA continues to be concerned about globalization of its membership, Mody noted. Division Five members Josep Rota and Everett Rogers were members of the first globalization committee for ICA. It included participants from all over North America, in an attempt to at least diversify North American representation.
Michael Cody, editor of Communication Theory, is interested in special issue ideas. Karen Wilkins and Bella Mody are editors of a special issue (Volume 11, Issue 3) on development communication. Wilkins distributed Call for Papers fliers. The issue is entitled, "Communication, National Development, Social Change, and Global Disparity." Papers from all theoretical and methodological traditions are invited. Relevant topics include (but are not limited to) the communication implications of the global expansion of private capital, reductions in development assistance, the global quintile disparity of 150 to 1, the changing status of women and children, intra-state civil wars and ethnic cleansing, intellectual property, intellectual access, and identity. Send papers to Michael J. Cody, School of Communication, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0281 by September 15. Direct questions to Wilkins or Mody at kwilkins@email.utexas.edu or mody@msu.edu.
Mody invited all Division members to email Michael Cody with suggestions for future issues. John Downing's new book, "Internationalizing Media Theory," could be one topic for a future issue. Mody urged all members to actively respond to calls for nominations to ICA committees so we can advance the internationalization and cultural sensitivity of the association.
This year, ICA assigned 21 conference sessions to Division 5, the same as last year. Our acceptance rate was 50%, the LOWEST rate in all of the ICA divisions this year. ICA lost 241 members this year, and Division 5 lost 40 members. Conference leaders expect a membership drop in the years that the conference is outside the United States. Mody said that the Division receives $3 per person from the annual dues.
ICA will appoint a new executive director in charge of fundraising and technology issues.
Requests for Division Endorsements and Sponsorships
Mody reminded members that if they are interested in donating funds, ICA is a non-profit organization. In particular, donations are needed to help support student participation (e.g., one of the top paper student awardees couldn't attend.) If you make a donation to ICA, please earmark funds for Division 5.
Sumptuous Feast Described
One of the special events at ICA every year is the Division Five dinner. Rich Wiseman described plans for the Su Casa dinner, and the pre-arranged taxi service to and from the dinner. (Despite Wiseman's preview at the meeting, the breathtaking view of the bay and the unannounced fireworks following the dinner were delightful surprises added to the excellent, well-organized event.)
Approval of New Bylaws
After being unable to locate a copy of our bylaws, Wiseman reviewed bylaws from other divisions and drafted a new set of bylaws. In the discussion, one member asked that we keep the bylaws in several places so that we don't lose them again. Vince Berdayes, our volunteer web designer, offered to post them on the division website. Fred Casmir asked that we provide copies to ICA headquarters to keep, as well.
Members discussed Article 1, Section 1, regarding the three areas of scholarship -- intercultural, international, and development communication. Joe Straubhaar asked how membership was distributed among the three specialties. Mody explained that historically two-thirds of submissions and acceptances have been international (including international development communication) and one-third intercultural. Straubhaar asked whether officers represented the 2/3rds-1/3rd' diversity in membership: why not have the Chair be from an international specialty for two terms and from an intercultural specialty for the third term, given the composition of conference participation. Mody explained the procedure of rotating officers between intercultural (e.g., Rich Wiseman), and international/development (e.g. Bella Mody is a development communication scholar). The membership voted unanimously to approve the bylaws as submitted by Wiseman.
Nominations for Vice Chair and Secretary
Josep Rota and John Mayo were called on to present the nominees for new officers, as Mody and Melissa Johnson will step down after the Washington 2001 meeting, and Wiseman will move up to chair of the division. Mayo presented two candidates for the vice chair position: Tom Jacobson, interim dean, former department chair, and associate professor at the State University at Buffalo; and Karen Wilkins, associate professor in radio, television, and film from the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Jacobson said that since 1987, he has been the secretary of the division, is involved in the New European Association of Communication, and is active in IACMR. Dr. Wilkins said that she taught at the Chinese University at Hong Kong, and worked for a private organization evaluating health and human services. Her development communication research is in the Arab Mid-East and East Asia. She said that she has her department's support for administration support in the paper submission process.
The division also has two candidates for secretary: Vince Berdayes and Clemencia Rodriguez. Rodriguez is an associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin (University of Oklahoma as of fall 2000). She said her research deals with Colombian and Nicaraguan media, and in issues related to Latinos in the United Sates. She noted her study of alternative media as well as community media.
Vince Berdayes received his doctorate from Ohio State in 1997. He is an assistant professor at Saint Mary's College in Indiana. He said he researches intercultural communication and organizational communication. He also noted his study of the discourses of science in development, and in the philosophy of history and science. Berdayes is beginning his second year as Division Five's web designer.
ICA will distribute the ballot for both positions later in the year. Candidates will take office after the Washington meeting. A motion was made and seconded to accept the slate of candidates for vice chair and secretary.
Call for Papers and Proposals for the Washington, D. C. Conference,
May 24-28, 2000
Mody urged that people who propose panels or papers should send genuine statements concerning their planned participation. In Acapulco, an entire panel had to be cancelled because of no-shows. Given the division's 50% acceptance rate, Mody noted that it is simply not fair to our colleagues to propose something that you will not be present to deliver. The Division is trying to be fair to everyone submitting, and systematic about the process.
Mody also mentioned that the division is eager that all presenters at conferences use overheads to help visual presentation of content in addition to verbal presentation for those of us with accents that others cannot understand. If this division does not assist intercultural communication, which one will?
Wiseman said that members should be sure to submit papers to the correct person in the division. He oversees the intercultural papers/panels peer reviews and Mody is in charge of the international/development papers/panels. He stressed that the same paper/panel cannot be submitted to both parts of the same division or to more than one division in the same year.
Announcements
Mody invited names of senior scholars going to IAMCR in Singapore who would be willing to represent ICA on an ICA-IAMCR panel that Wolfgang Donsbach was hoping to organize. Three attendees volunteered.
Joe Cappella welcomes the names of scholars who could represent ICA as regional specialists at regional communication meetings. Mody noted that there was lots of praise for the initiatives of Joe Straubhaar and Sylvia Wiseboard who had represented ICA in their regions of specialization. Email Joe Cappella if you are interested.
Steve McDowell distributed information about the North American Youth Conference at Carleton University, August 17-19, 2000. The conference is sponsored by Carleton University's Centre on North American Politics and Society.
Clemencia Rodriguez provided handouts on the situation in Colombia today, which described the killings of journalists, academics, and 7,500 other victims since the 1980s, along with the displacement of one million Colombians. She urged attendees to call their U.S. political representatives concerning U.S./Colombian policy and aid. Useful resources listed in her briefing paper included:
Washington Office on Latin America www.wola.org
Latin America Working Group www.lawg.org
US/Colombia Coordinating Office 202-232-8090, agiffen@igc.org
Colombian Labor Monitor www.prairienet.org/clm
Info on the US aid package: www.ciponline.org/colombia/aid/
Steve Chaffee is responsible for documenting ICA's 50-year history. Carmen Lee is in charge of Division Five's history. Lee asked participants to email any information, insight, or experiences to her at carmelee@umail.ucsb.edu.
Fred Casmir noted that we need to share our intercultural/international/development experience with other divisions. He asked that we seek cross-cultural opportunities with other divisions, such as his successful effort with the public relations division at this conference.
Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz commended Mody for the many nominations of division members for vacancies on the Board.
The First Global Community College in Thailand on the Mekong is seeking professors. They will pay your room and board if you pay the airfare. Check out www.fgcc.net for more information.
Southern Illinois University is sponsoring Global Fusion 2000, endorsed by the Intercultural/Development Division of ICA, the International Communication Division of AEJMC, and the International Division of BEA. The conference is in St. Louis, October 13-15. For more information or to register, call 618-453-6691, or check out the website at www.siu.edu/~gf2000.
The submission deadline for the International and Intercultural Communication Annual (Volume 25) is December 1, 2000. This is a yearly publication sponsored by the National Communication Association and published by Sage. The theme for volume 25 is "Building Intercultural Alliances." Direct inquiries to Mary Jane Collier, Editor, Department of Communication Studies, 2142 S. High Street, Denver, CO 80208 USA. Email mcollier@du.edu.
SUNY has planned a Global Media Studies book series, edited by Yahya R. Kamalipour and Kuldip R. Rampal. Send proposals and manuscripts to Dale Cotton, SUNY Press Acquisitions Editor, State University Plaza, Albany NY 12246-0001. Submission guidelines are at www.sunypress.edu/info/mssub.html.
Andrew Moemeka enquired about the rationale for requiring that Division Five peer reviewers be associate professors. He felt tenured associate and full professors could be gatekeepers, who suppressed new ideas by junior faculty that did not fit into the paradigms of full professors. Mody explained that tenured faculty who had been promoted on the basis of their research and publication record were more acceptable reviewers of the research of their colleagues, and that the division had a large enough membership to give preference to such expertise in the peer review process.
ICA President's Comments
Cindy Galois discussed the next conference in Washington, D.C. on her theme, "Research Matters." Although our conference will be back in the United States in 2001, she hoped we could retain the international flavor that was so successful in Acapulco. She asked for suggestions for making the conference welcoming to non-US participants. The focus for 2001 will be the nexus between research and theory, and its application in the world. She was looking for theme panel ideas, suggestions, and comments related to the "Communication Research Matters" general theme, Galois said. Theme panels could bring in non-scholars to present their point of view. She said the Washington Hilton was a nice venue; and the 2001 conference probably would be bigger than the 2000 conference.
Website Update
Division 5 Web designer Vince Berdayes presented an overview of our website and its different sections and demystified the process of changing the content for us. He explained that the server was at the University of Illinois, and that he made changes to the site from his office in South Bend. He also reviewed the search function of the website for attendees and the site repository for division archives. Berdayes said the website will open up access. One possibility, he noted, was to have pdf files with full texts of conference papers in the ICA archives -- a handy tool for researchers.
Top Competitive Paper Awards
This year's winners received certificates celebrating Diego Rivera's murals in the Detroit Museum of Art. Mody explained that when she thought of how to honor the achievement and hard work of this year's authors presenting in Mexico, she decided to do so through the work of a Mexican artist who honored work and achievement in his art.
The honorees were:
Top Intercultural: "Face and Facework in Conflict: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of China, Germany, Japan, and the United States." John Oetzel, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque (USA), Stella Ting-Toomey, California State University, Fullerton (USA), Tomoko Masumoto and Yumiko Yokochi, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque (USA), Xiaohui Pan, Harbin Engineering University at Harbin, (HONG KONG, SAR, PRC), Jiro Takai, Nagoya City University, Nagoya (JAPAN), and Richard Wilcox, Fachhochschule Nurtingen (GERMANY).
Top International: "Broadcast Policies of the European Union: Economically or Culturally Bound?" Kenneth Rogerson, Duke University, Durham, NC (USA) and Paula L'Ecuyer, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (USA).
Top Development: "Resignifying Developmentalism at the Local Level: The Mediated Publicness of Operation Bootstrap in Puerto Rico." Ilia Rodriguez, New Orleans, LA (USA)
Student honorees were:
Top Intercultural: "Generation Ñ: Acculturation and Hispanic Youth." David M. Duty, University of Oklahoma, OK (USA)
Top International: "We are French, Too, But Different: Radio, Music, and the Articulation of Difference Among Young North Africans in France. Nabil Echchaibi, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (USA).
Top Development: "The Westernizer, the Developer, and the Azmari: Journalism Discourses in Ethiopia." Melissa A. Wall, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (USA).
First Division Five Lifetime Achievement Award
Mody recognized the Selection Committee for the division's first lifetime achievement award: Bill Gudykunst (Chair) and members John Mayo and Christine Ogan. Joseph Rota and Arvind Singhal made the winning nomination. The Division Five first lifetime award winner was Everett M. Rogers. Rota highlighted some of the many reasons Rogers was named, including his role as:
Rota noted that it was especially appropriate to present this award in Mexico, because Rogers' work has been particularly significant in Latin America. Many Latin American students have used Spanish and Portuguese translations of Rogers' books. Rota said that he was a student of Rogers, and became the first Mexican with a PhD in communication, one of many "unpayable debts" to Rogers.
Mody announced that the award, in the form of two framed prints of Diego Rivera's murals, had been mailed to Rogers' office.
In accepting the award, Rogers said that he had long been an admirer of Rivera, because his murals were not small enough for the wealthy to put in their homes (like paintings or sculptures), but were on display for all of the public to appreciate.
In his remarks, Rogers also told a personal anecdote about how he became interested in his research specialty. He said it was unlikely that someone born on a farm in Carroll County, Iowa -- who had never been out of his county until he attended Iowa State University -- would end up studying international and intercultural communication. His mother was the gatekeeper of what was read on the farm. And since there was nothing else do to on a farm in those pre-TV days, he read a book a day. Some of his favorites were the Rudyard Kipling books, which spurred his interest in India. Of course, he said, when he finally got to India many years later, he found out that it wasn't quite like Rudyard Kipling had portrayed it!
After a standing ovation for Rogers from the division membership, the meeting adjourned at 7:28.
Addendum
Attendance at Division 5 Business Meeting
June 1, 2000, Acapulco, Mexico
Craig Allen craig.allen@asu.edu *
Vince Berdayes berdayes@saintmarys.edu *
Theresa Bridges Theresa.Bridges@ou.edu
William Brown willbro@regent.edu *
Myriam Cabrera myriam.cabr@bc.sympatico.ca
Fred Casmir fcasmir@hotmail.com
Ling Chen chling@hkbu.edu.hk
Leeva Chung leeva@acusd.edu
Mary Jane Collier mcollier@du.edu *
Ni Duan niduan@u.arizona.edu *
David Duty duty@oc.edu
Nabil Echchaibi nechchai@indiana.edu
Sherry Ferguson Ferguson@uottawa.ca
Benson Fraser bensfra@regent.edu *
Heather Hudson Hudson@usfcu.edu
Robert Huesca rhuesca@trinity.edu *
Tom Jacobson Jacobson@acsu.buffalo.edu *
Melissa Johnson Johnson_M@social.chass.ncsu.edu
Tom Knutson tknute@jps.net *
Michele Koven mkoven@uiuc.edu
Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz wendy.leeds-hurwitz@uwp.edu
Maria Lapinski lapinsk3@pilot.msu.edu
Carmen Lee carmelee@umail.ucsb.edu
John Mayo jmayo@garnet.acms.fsu.edu *
Stephen McDowell smcdowel@mailer.fsu.edu *
Bella Mody mody@msu.edu
Andrew A. Moemeka moemeka@acsu.edu
Carmen Gomez Mont cegomo@datasys.com.mx *
Nancy Morris amorri@unix.temple.edu
Monique Myers mmyers@du.edu *
Kyoungtae Jodie Nam knam@utk.edu
John Oetzel joetzel@unm.edu *
Folu Ogundimu ogundimu@msu.edu *
Susan Poulsen poulsens@pdx.edu *
Clemencia Rodriguez clemencia@flash.net
Ev Rogers erogers@unm.edu *
Ken Rogerson rogerson@pps.duke.edu
Joseph Rota rota@ohio.edu *
Judith Sanders jasanders@csupomona.edu *
Arvind Singhal singhal@ohio.edu *
Ripley Smith LRS@NWC.EDU *
Concetta Stewart cstewart@astro.temple.edu *
Joe Straubhaar jostraubhaar@mail.utexas.edu *
Thomas Tufte tufte@hum.ku.dk *
Karin Wilkins kwilkins@mail.utexas.edu *
Russell B. Williams Russell.Williams@colostate.edu
Richard Wiseman rwiseman@fullerton.edu