Dear ICCA Members,

We are pleased to announce that we have two outstanding candidates for the ICCA Vice President election:

● Dr. Hongmei Li
● Dr. Céline Yunya Song

We thank both candidates for their willingness to serve the association.

Congratulations to the authors of six papers accepted to the ICCA panel at the 108th Annual AEJMC conference in San Francisco, USA from August 7 to 10, 2025! This year we received many high-quality papers. The acceptance rate is 37.5% after a rigorous blind-review process.

International Chinese Communication Association October Event
Topic: “From Academia to Silicon Valley: An Epic Journey of Self-Discovery”

Speaker: Dr. Judy Suo
Judy Suo has navigated an unconventional career path, moving from a B.A. in Chinese Literature and a PhD in Communication to 12+ years in Silicon Valley, where she led product and strategy at Apple, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and eBay. She launched over 10 AI products before founding Suo’s Leadership and Coaching Service.

Have you ever considered working at a liberal arts college?
Curious about what life is like as a faculty member?
Join us for an insightful panel discussion with three experienced faculty members who will share their stories and answer your questions!

The Chinese Communication Association is organizing a series of webinars called "Solidarity Symposia" to facilitate collaboration and mutual support during the COVID-19 crisis.

The International Chinese Communication Association has two panels at the upcoming NCA conference 2020.
Both of these panels are asynchronous with pre-recorded presentations. This year’s NCA
doesn’t charge any registration fee, if you have an active NCA membership. Please come and
check out these fascinating presentations.

The International Chinese Communication Association (ICCA), a long-time affiliate of the International Communication Association (ICA), invites submissions for the ICA annual conference to be held May 27-31, 2021, in Denver, Colorado, U.S.
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ICCA will hold two competitive research sessions, jointly with Korean American Communication Association (KACA).

Homebrew Comm-Research is gaining momentum while we work from home. What are the basic approaches of computational comm research that may help combat the pandemic? How to select & develop methodological tools? What are important lessons & best practices? How to collaborate across disciplinary & cultural boundaries? Please register online: https://bit.ly/3cJqC2b

The International Chinese Communication Association (ICCA), a long-time affiliate of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), invites submissions for the AEJMC annual conference to be held August 6-9, 2020, in San Francisco, California. As in the past, ICCA will hold a competitive research paper session at the AEJMC conference. You are invited to contribute to this ICCA session.

The International Chinese Communication Association (ICCA, 國際中華傳播學會) is organizing a series of webinars called "Solidarity Symposia" to facilitate collaboration and mutual support during the COVID-19 crisis. C-Centre is a co-organizer for this webinar series. Please see below for the first event, to be held next Thursday morning (Hong Kong time), which will be about comparative health communication research using survey and content analysis. This first event will be in Mandarin Chinese, but in the future there will also be English-language ICCA webinars. Please stay tuned.

The ICCA Steering Committee is calling for an emergency virtual meeting via Zoom to discuss the handling of the viral outbreak and ways to counter rising anti-Chinese racism, especially in the US.

Please note that due to COVID-19, NCA has extended the deadline for submission to 11:59 pm (Pacific Time), April 8, 2020.

Paper Call deadline has been extended to Sunday, March 22, 2020
ICCA/AEJMC Committee decides to extend the paper submission deadline to Sunday, March 22, 2020 to accommodate uncertainty and challenge caused by COVID 19. Please send your completed papers to Dr. Yong Volz (volzy@missouri.edu) and Dr. Xun Liu (sunnyxliu@stanford.edu) by 11:59PM U.S. EST, March 22, 2020.

ICCA-ICA research session, 2020 Gold Coast
FRIDAY, May 22, 2020, 3:30-4:45 p.m., Hall 1 of Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Center
<Journalism, Public Sentiment and Social Movements in Chinese Contexts>

The International Chinese Communication Association (ICCA) invites nominations for the Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award. To be eligible for this award, the nominee must be a 1) graduate student who served as an instructor of record, and 2) an ICCA member to receive this award. The award will be conferred during the annual conference of International Communication Association in Gold Coast, Australia in May 2020.