Canadian Communication Association Explained

Canadian Communication Association
Language:English, French
Formation:1979

The Canadian Communication Association (CCA; or Association canadienne de communication ACC in French) is a national, bilingual association of communications researchers, educators, and private and public sector professionals in Canada. Established in 1979, the CCA/ACC "seeks to advance communication research and studies in the belief that a better understanding of communication is crucial to building a vibrant society."[1] [2]

History

1970s

The creation of the CCA has been considered to be due in part to research that emerged out of the Ontario Royal Commission on Violence in the Communications Industry (LaMarsh Commission) of 1976. This commission drew together a number of scholars who later met at a conference in the University of Windsor in 1978[3] and again in 1979 in Philadelphia where the presentations tended to focus on research that came out of the commission.[4] In this same year, the CCA was established on June 1, 1979 during the Learned Societies Conference (now the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences) in Saskatoon, Canada.[5] [6] The pre-existing Canadian Journal of Communication was voted to be the official journal of the association.[5] However, discussions over this arrangement led to the absence of any legally binding relationship between the two. The journal exists independently of the association and is owned by its subscribers.[7]

1980s

Part of the activities of the CCA in its early years was to address the combination of unique Canadian perspectives and the burgeoning theories on the nature and definition of communication. Advancing the debate, especially at early CCA meetings and conferences were "pioneers of Canadian communication studies"[8] including: Earle Beattie, William Gilsdorf, Garth Jowett, Annie Mear, William Melody, Walter Romanow, Paul Rutherford, Liora Salter, Eugene Tate, James R. Taylor, Gaëtan Tremblay,[8] Gertrude Robinson[9] and others. Indeed, "[t]he politics of the Canadian Communication Association was grounded in the search for an answer to the very definition of communication."[8] The creation of the CCA and has been described as a part of the larger trend to establish the interdisciplinary field of communication as part of emergent scholarly, professional, and corporate activities in the twentieth century.[10] [11] [12]

1990s

In the early 1990s, news and discussion about the association was communicated by an electronic mailing list called CCANet.[13] In the later half of the 1990s, the Association for the Study of Canadian Radio and Television (ASCRT) / Association des études sur la radio-télévision canadienne (AERTC) ended its term as an association and merged with the CCA due to a lack of interest from young scholars.[14]

Structure

Current

The executive governance structure for 2022-2024 is as follows:

Past Presidents

  • 2020-2022: Tanner Mirrlees
  • 2018-2020: Mary Francoli
  • 2016-2018: Daniel J. Paré
  • 2014-2016: Penelope Ironstone
  • 2012-2014: Colette Brin
  • 2010-2012: Darin Barney
  • 2008-2010: Dale Bradley
  • 2006-2008: Rebecca Sullivan
  • 2004-2006: Leslie Regan Shade
  • 2002-2004: Sheryl Hamilton
  • 2000-2002: Paul Attallah
  • 1999-2000: Will Straw
  • 1998-1999: David Taras
  • 1997-1998: Marc Raboy
  • 1996-1997: Ghislaine Guérard
  • 1995-1996: David Mitchell
  • 1994-1995: Denis Bachand
  • 1993-1994: James Linton
  • 1992-1993: James R. Taylor
  • 1991-1992: Alison Beale
  • 1990-1991: William Gilsdorf
  • 1989-1990: Florian Sauvageau
  • 1988-1989: Jay Weston
  • 1987-1988: Liora Salter
  • 1985-1986: Gail Valaskakis
  • 1984-1985: Roger de la Garde
  • 1983-1984: Fred Fletcher
  • 1982-1983: William Leiss
  • 1981-1982: Gertrude J. Robinson
  • 1980-1981: Gaetan Tremblay

Annual conference

The conference is normally held during the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Congress, a gathering of scholarly associations from across the country. This typically takes place between late-May to early-June at a Canadian university.[1]

Association awards

Notes and References

  1. Web site: CCA Annual Meeting. CCA. June 1, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170529031503/http://www.acc-cca.ca/annualmeeting. May 29, 2017. dead.
  2. Ali. Christopher. The Canadian Communication Tradition. InMedia: The French Journal of Media Studies. 2013. 4. 1 June 2017.
  3. British Journal of Canadian Studies. The Ontario Royal Commission on Violence in the Communications Industry: Twenty years later. Tate. Eugene. 1998. 1. 13 . 160.
  4. Canadian Journal of Communication . 25 . 1 . 2000 . Tate . Eugene . The Beginnings of Communication Studies in Canada: Concluding Comments: Canadian Journal of Communication and the LaMarsh Commission .
  5. Tate. Eugene. 1979. Canadian Communication Association Founded: Reflections on the Saskatoon Meeting. Canadian Journal of Communication. en. 6. 1. 1–2 . 10.22230/cjc.1979v6n1a221. 1499-6642. free.
  6. Homer. Joan. 1980. The Spectrum of Communication: Can it survive the politics of association?. Canadian Journal of Communication. en. 6. 3. 34. 10.22230/cjc.1980v6n3a236. free.
  7. Book: Gilbert . John . Lorimer . Rowland . Patrick . Ruth J . Scholarly communication in the next millennium: Selected papers from Canada's Policy Conference . Canadian Journal of Communication Corporation . Vancouver . 1997 . 9780969898320 . 140.
  8. Fouts. Gregory. 2000. The Beginnings of Communication Studies in Canada: The Canadian Communication Association and the Canadian Journal of Communication: Some Reminiscences and Trends. Canadian Journal of Communication. en. 25. 1. 10.22230/cjc.2000v25n1a1142. 1499-6642.
  9. Book: Babe, Robert . Canadian communication thought : ten foundational writers . University of Toronto Press . Toronto Ont . 2000 . 9780802079497. 211.
  10. Book: Graff, Harvey . Undisciplining knowledge : interdisciplinarity in the twentieth century . Johns Hopkins University Press . Baltimore . 2015 . 9781421417455. 84;248.
  11. Book: Miller, Toby . Global Media Studies . Wiley . Chicester . 2016 . 9780745693064 . Table 1.2.
  12. Book: Croucher, Stephen . Understanding communication theory : a beginner's guide . Routledge . New York . 2016 . 9781317751373. 12.
  13. Book: Association of Research Libraries, Office of Scientific and Academic Publishing . Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters, and Academic Discussion Lists. 1991. 1-2. 1057-1337. 92649836. 81.
  14. Book: Bredin . Marian . Henderson . Scott. Matheson . Sarah A. . Mary J. . Miller . From Kine to Hi-Def: A personal view of Television Studies in Canada . Canadian television : text and context . Wilfrid Laurier University Press . Waterloo, Ontario, Canada . 2012 . 9781554583898 . 31 .
  15. Web site: CRTC Prize for Excellence in Policy Research . Government of Canada . January 22, 2018 . 3 June 2015.

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