Hi All --

        SIGCIS members aiming to broaden their audience a bit and especially those housed in Communication departments will be glad to know that a group of folks have recently formed a
Communication History Interest Group within the International Communication Association. According to its charter, the group aims to bring together folks around the following:

a) The history of communication, including media history
 
b) The history of the idea of communication
 
c) The History of research into media and communication
 
        My own experience has been that the group has been quite catholic in its interests and very open to the history of technology and technoculture more broadly. To date, its panels have been among the best at ICA. For those who want to follow up, the group keeps a website at:  http://www.communicationhistory.org/ and a listserv at http://www.communicationhistory.org/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/list/commhistlist/ .

-- Fred Turner

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