The Association of Turkish and American Communication Scholars (ATACS) seeks abstracts for the 7th International Symposium Communication in the Millennium. The Association welcomes original papers on a variety of topics, including Communication Theory and Communication Studies, Public Relations and Advertising, Journalism, New Technologies, Cinema-TV and Broadcast, Ethics, Communication Education. Other topics will be considered if space is available in the program.

International Symposium Communication in the Millennium has been organized since 2003 between two countries USA and Turkey, and every year the symposium organizers have noticed augmenting interest to the academic event. Because of this interest, Co-Founders and the Organization Committee of this symposium decided to form an association where both countries' scholars are represented and through the Association organize the 7th and upcoming symposiums. The headquarters of the Association is USA, Texas, Austin. The Board of the ATACS is responsible for the 7th and upcoming symposiums. The mission of the ATACS is to advance the communication profession in both countries through well-grounded academic research and foster communication academics' cooperation. The International Symposium, Communication in the New Millennium is one of the established products of the newly founded ATACS currently, but the association will be working on different projects to serve its mission in the near future. For details and membership to the association please visit our website: http://cim.anadolu.edu.tr/

The world is getting smaller with high technology-based communication systems. This also brings people together. Communication scholars, especially, should be close to one another and this is why we are gathering them and preparing a platform for discussion.

This 7th reunion will take place at University of Texas at Austin, USA where the 1st International Symposium Communication in Millennium has been hosted in 2003.

The aim of the symposium is to establish and continue an international multidisciplinary forum for the development of innovative dialogue between Turkish and American scholars.

This symposium serves a number of purposes:

• The main purpose is to establish a meeting ground for a dialogue between the Turkish and American communication scholars. The international symposium place rotates between the two countries. Although the cooperation is mainly between two countries scholars, other countries' scholars are welcomed to this symposium as well, as it had been in the previous ones.
• Secondly, popular and main issues of the communication field in the new Millennium will be discussed.
• And with this dialogue, future projects and comparative studies will be developed.
• The symposium aims to foster and promote work that is intended to make a constructive contribution to the communication field and its development.

The symposium welcomes work of scholars and graduate students in the communication field.

Looking forward to seeing you...

Abstract Submission Deadline: January 30, 2009.

Notification of the scholar/s about the accepted papers:March 13 , 2009.

Full Paper Submission Deadline: May 1, 2009.

Final Symposium Program Announcement: May 11, 2009.

Symposium Dates: May 17-20, 2009.

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Rules:

• Authorsshould submit their manuscripts through CIM's electronic.submission process at http://cim.anadolu.edu.tr
• All correspondences will be done via Internet or e-mails.
• The language of the symposium is English. Therefore abstracts, papers and presentations will be in English.
• There is a limit for the number of submissions. One author should not submit MORE THAN ONE abstract for the evaluation unless the second paper is a co-authored one. (One author's name can be on two papers, one single and the other co-authored). It is required for the author to evaluate his/her own paper first before submission.
• Abstracts will be 500-800 words.
• The abstracts should provide complete contact information (address, telephone, and email) and brief biographical summaries (full name, highest earned academic degree, institution granting that degree, and present academic or professional title).

Review Process:

• The papers that will be presented in the symposium will be selected by the evaluation of the referees.
• Each paper will be sent to at least three referees or a maximum of five referees.
• The papers that have average 7 points from 10 will be presented.
• Co-Founders and the Organizing Committee have the right to invite papers for the symposium.
• Invited papers, and keynote speeches also will be published in the symposium book and the web page.

Co-Founders of CIM:

• Maxwell E. McCombs, Ph.D. , University of Texas at Austin, U.S.A.
• Erkan Yuksel, Ph.D, Anadolu University, Eskisehir, TURKEY
• Serra Gorpe, Ph.D., APR, Istanbul University, Istanbul, TURKEY
  

2008-2009 Board Members:

• President: Maxwell E. McCombs, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, U.S.A.
• Erkan Yuksel, Ph.D, Anadolu University, TURKEY
• Serra Gorpe, Ph.D., APR, Istanbul University, TURKEY
• Donald L. Shaw, Ph.D., University of North Carolina, U.S.A.
• Brad Hamm, Ph.D., Indiana University, U.S.A.
• David Weaver, Ph.D., Indiana University, U.S.A.
• Christine l. Ogan Ph.D., Indiana University, U.S.A.

Advisory Board:

• Judith K. Litterst, St. Cloud State University , U.S.A.
• Nazli Bayram, Ph.D., Anadolu University, Turkey
• Nejdet Atabek, Ph.D., Anadolu University, Turkey
• Sezen Unlu, Ph.D., Anadolu University, Turkey
• Suat Gezgin, Ph.D., Istanbul University, Turkey
• Ugur Demiray, Ph.D., Anadolu University, Turkey
• Werner Severin, Ph.D., Austin, Texas, U.S.A .

Sessions:

• Communication Theory and Research/
• Agenda-Setting Studies /
• Cultural & Critical Studies
• Political Communication /
• Media and Technology / Communication Technology/
• Media Literacy & Media Education /
• Cinema, TV & Radio
• Advertising/
• Public Relations /
• Media Ethics /
• Media Law /

Scientific Committee

Webmasters:

• Huseyin Altunlu, (Anadolu University, Turkey)
• Mevlut Demircioglu, (Anadolu University, Turkey)

The registration fee is 200 U.S. dollars for each participant who will present the paper in the symposium.
Co-authored papers should be presented by different co-authors and the fees have to be paid for each paper.
The fee will be paid in cash at the first and second days of the symposium.
A Registration and Information Desk will be available to participants in the seminar venue from Sunday, 16 May to Monday, 17 May.
The presenter will have a participation certificate.
All the papers will be published on the web page of the symposium and in the printed symposium book.

Guest Registration Fee:
Guest registration fee is 100 US Dollars. It will be paid by those who won't present a paper in the symposium. This fee includes Gala Dinner and coffee breaks.

The full papers will be published in the symposium book and on the association web page. But the scientific committee has right to reject the publication of the full paper after presentation if it does not meet the requirements of the symposium, both content and otherwise.

To ensure top quality, and professional proceedings, authors are requested to pay special attention to the formats and contents of their papers. Papers which are submitted in a technically unsuitable format cannot be published in the proceedings book or on the symposium.

Please use this checklist for the full paper submissions:

General Rules:

• Final papers will be in English.
• Final papers will be sent to cim@anadolu.edu.tr. The paper must arrive in electronic format taking into consideration the deadlines. Any paper received after the deadline will not be presented in the symposium or will not be included in the symposium book.
• The referees have the right to reject the final paper if it does not match with the original abstract.
• Final papers will be 5000 to 8000 words. Paper page length should not be more than 15 pages. References, graphics, tables all count toward total pages count. The cover page must be an extra page.
• All the papers should be written in Microsoft Word files.
• Paper Size must be A4 size.
• All page margins must be 3 cm.
• Use only a one-column layout.
• Font face must be Palatino Linotype or Palatino.
• Font size must be 10 point (except the first paper title in the first page is 12 pt)
• Final papers should conform to the APA Style.
• Do not start a new page for new sections (chapters) or subsections.
• Do not insert page numbers. Do NOT include PAGE NUMBERS
• Also no form of running heads is allowed. Do NOT include HEADERS or FOOTER.
• Do not use the paragraph spacing feature of your word processor to create the line spaces indicated in the following sections.
• Place pictures, figures and tables centered between the margins without any text flowing around them.
• On the initial page of the final papers information about the author(s) and revised edition of the abstracts should be included.
• Prepare a cover page for the paper.

Cover page:

• The cover page is the identification page of the paper.
• The name of the paper,
• Full name of the author/s
• The title of the author/s
• The university of the author/s
• The country of the author/s
• The e-mail addresses of the authors should be included on the cover page.
• A SHORT BIOGRAPHY of author/s in English, no more than 100 words per each author to be included in the symposium proceedings booklet should be written.
• REVISED ABSTRACTS should be written on the first page or the paper should not start from the cover page.

Citations, Literature References, Figures and Tables:

• Papers will conform to the APA Style.
• Insert the sequence "(Name, year)" (without the quotes) into the running text for a citation to a literature reference. Name is the second name of the author and year is the year of printing.
• Citing several authors is also allowed. In this case the single authors must be delimited either by commas or the word "&". The phrase "et al." is also valid. The year can either be written in short form or in long form (i.e. 92 and 1992 are both valid entries) is a possible lower case literal, if you refer to more than one article of an author of the same year. The word "see" and the brackets around the year are optional.
• Examples:
  ... this special form (see Wonko & Tsio 1994b) is very...
  ... as described in (Wonko 94a)...
  ... and this algorithm (Tsio et al. 1994c) is used...
• Insert the sequence "(Fig. n)" (without the quotes) into the running text to refer to a Figure contained in the current document. Insert the sequence "(Tab. n)" (without the quotes) into the running text for a markup to a table contained in the current document.
• Each reference should start with the sequence "Name (Year)" (without the quotes). Name and year must match the citation in the running text [see Citations]. The single information fields of a Reference (Author1, Author2, Title...) should be divided by commas or semicolons.
• Use the APA style when referencing a book or journal article making sure to precede the reference with the bracketed information.
• Center figures and tables between the margins with one blank line above and below each.
• Insert the text "Figure n. Description" or "Table n. Description" (without the quotes) in 10 point font after the figure/table (n is a unique number that identifies the figure/table; description is a short description about its contents. "Figure n. and Table n." should be in bold).
• For more information please check the sample copy file or visit the previous symposium papers.

• Presentations will be done in English.
• Power Point presentations are recommended.
• Time limit per each presentation will be 15 minutes.
• It is strongly recommended that each participant should present ONLY ONE and their own paper.
• The authors who also has another co-authored paper won't be able to present both of the papers. it's recommended that each paper should be presented by diffrent authors.
• Authors who will not be able to attend the symposium and present their papers in USA will be taken out of the final program and their work will not be included in the symposium proceedings.
• Therefore the papers must be presented only by its author(s).
• There will not be simultaneous translation during the symposium.

Location: Texas Union, University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA
Lodging: The participants will pay their own hotel accommodation. There are lots of hotels in the city that you find and make your rezervations online.

Beside that if you need any assistance for the suggestion of hotel names, please send an e-mail to us (cim@anadolu.edu.tr).

Looking forward to seeing you in University of Texas at Austin,

For the 7thInternational Symposium: Communication in the Millennium