The annual conference of the International Communication Association, an academic association for scholars interested in the study, teaching, and application of all aspects of human and mediated communication, will be held in Montreal in May and is, according to Leslie Steeves, SOJC director of Graduate Studies, "among the most competitive in our field for paper submissions."

"It’s a huge honor that ten of our continuing doctoral students are on the program for the Montreal conference in May," Steeves says.  "It will also be a great experience and networking opportunity for them."   

The acceptance rate for papers at ICA for this year's conference was forty-five percent, according to Steeves.

Alina Padilla-Miller's paper, “Virtual Ethnicity in MySpace,” has been named a top three paper in the interactive poster session for the Ethnicity and Race in Communication Division; Ahran Park's “Fruit of the Poisonous Tree: A Comparative Analysis of Reporting Illegal Wiretapping in South Korea and the United States” is also a top three paper, in the Communication Law and Policy Division.

The students and their papers are listed below. 

Ahran Park:  “Fruit of the Poisonous Tree: A Comparative Analysis of Reporting Illegal Wiretapping in South Korea and the United States.” Communication Law and Policy Division.

Cary Greenwood: "Evolutionary Theory: The Missing Link for Public Relations."   Public Relations Division.

Ahran Park:  "The Right to Know about Violent Images?: The Virginia Tech Killer's Gun Points at the Viewer." Visual Studies Division.

Alina Padilla-Miller:  “Virtual Ethnicity in MySpace.” Ethnicity and Race in Communication Division.

Kathleen Ryan, Hillary Lake and Joy Mapaye:  "Newsqueens? A comparative analysis of women's roles in network news." Feminist Scholarship Division.

Kathleen Ryan: " ’I didn't do anything important’: a pragmatist analysis of the oral history interview."  Interpersonal Communication Division.
 
David Gracon: "Music Subcultures, Community and Cultural Resistance — A Case Study of Independent Record Store Culture at The House of Records."  Popular Communication Division.

Andre Sirois:  “Digitizing the DJ: Does the Digital Record Simulation Technology Serato ScratchLIVE Affect the Authenticity of the Hip-Hop DJ?”  Popular Communication Division.
 
Andre Sirois:  “Turntablism as a Subculture of Defiance: How Subverting Musical and Technological Hegemony Reappropriates the Essence of Hip-Hop Culture.”  Popular Communication Division.

Andre Sirois:  " ‘Our Country. Our Truck’: A Critical Examination of the Patriotic Appeal and American Values in a Chevrolet Silverado Advertising Campaign.”  Mass Communication Division.