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Communication Resource Links
This section lists some important academic and professional organizations, many of
which conduct regular conferences where participants present research and network
among one another. Connection with these organizations is an efficient way to stay
current with the advances and people in the field.
- AEJMC, founded in 1912, is a non-profit organization whose members comprise professors
of journalism and mass communication, administrators, students and media professionals.
- AECT, established in 1923, helps networking among professionals holding a common interest
in the use of educational technology and its application to the learning process.
- AMA is a large membership-based organization of professional marketers that supports
the practice, study and teaching of marketing.
- Alpha Lambda Delta, founded in 1924, is "a large national society that honors academic
excellence during a student's first year at college."
- ACA seeks to "promote academic and professional research, criticism, teaching, practical
use, and exchange of principles and theories of human communication."
- APC is a regional hub of journalists that seeks to "serve the professional and social
needs of our journalism community and foster journalistic excellence," and to "advance
the public's interest in and understanding of a free press."
- Founded in 1955, BEA is the professional association for scholars, industry professionals
and students who are interested in electronic media and multimedia enterprises.
- CIOS is a membership-based organization that supports the use of computer technologies
in the service of communication scholarship and education.
- This site created by a professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz is
an interesting hub of information about nonverbal communication.
- FCC, established in 1934 as an autonomous U.S. government agency reporting to Congress,
regulates interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire,
satellite and cable.
- FAC is "a forum for the study and exploration of free-expression issues, including
freedom of speech, of the press and of religion, the right to assemble and petition
the government." It is affiliated with Vanderbilt University and the Freedom Forum.
- FF is a "nonpartisan foundation dedicated to free press, free speech and free spirit
for all people." Its agenda covers a "Newseum," and First Amendment freedoms.
- GAFMDE is a state agency that offers information resources and film office services
free of charge to individuals or companies interested in relocating or shooting in
Georgia.
- IABC is an "international network of professionals committed to improving the effectiveness
of organizations through strategic interactive and integrated business communication
management."
- ICA was formed in 1950, and its president describes it as "an international association
for scholars interested in the study, teaching and application of all aspects of human
and mediated communication."
- Headquarted in Geneva, Switzerland, this organization, part of the United Nations,
helps "governments and the private sector coordinate global telecom networks and policies."
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- IRE provides educational services to reporters and editors interested in proactive
journalism. Its resource center contains abstracts of over 12,000 investigative reporting
stories.
- IPG promotes excellence in journalism about the Internet, online services, and bulletin
board systems.
- indieWIRE is an online community of independent filmmakers and aficionados that specializes
in reporting film festivals.
- NAB describes itself as "a full-service trade association which represents the interests
of free, over-the-air radio and television broadcasters."
- NMA describes itself as "a full-service trade association which represents the interests
of free, over-the-air radio and television broadcasters."
- Started in 1914, this association of scholars, educators and students supports research,
teaching and service in communication fields.
- Peterson's is a popular education resource on the Web, and contains information about
with information about colleges and universities, career schools, graduate programs,
distance learning, executive training, private secondary schools, summer opportunities,
study abroad, financial aid, test preparation, and career exploration.
- PJNet is a global professional association of journalists and educators interested
in exploring and strengthening the relationship between journalism and democracy via
public and participatory journalism. It is hosted by the Robert D. Fowler Distinguished
Chair in Communication at ÁñÁ«»ÆÊÓƵ.
- Chartered in 1947, PRSA seeks to "unify, strengthen and advance the profession of
public relations."
- This organization was founded by the PRSA in 1968, and its purpose is to "cultivate
a favorable and mutually advantageous relationship between students and professional
public relations practitioners."
- RWB's trilingual (French, English and Spanish) site keeps a daily tally of attacks
on press freedom as they occur throughout the world.
- Founded in 1909 as the Sigma Delta Chi fraternity, SPJ today is a broad-based organization
that works to improve and protect the free press tradition in America.
- SSCA is a regional organization that declares its purpose as being "to promote the
study, criticism, research, teaching, and application of the artistic, humanistic,
and scientific principles of communication."
- STC is a large membership-based association that seeks to "advance the arts and sciences
of technical communication."
- This online forum for reporters and editors features "more than 20,000 Web resources
helpful to the media and anyone else doing research."
- Pew describes itself as "an incubator for civic journalism experiments that enable
news organizations to create and refine better ways of reporting the news to re-engage
people in public life."
- This is a comprehensive resource to magazine publishing resources available on the
Web. In-depth categories focus on general publishing, design and layout, editorial/journalism,
circulation/promotion, production and web publishing and research tools.
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