09/03/2016

CSCA 2017 Call for Papers Reminder: Health Communication

Hello members of the Health Communication Interest Group. I am writing to remind you the deadline for submitting panels or papers to CSCA is just over a month away. We generated wonderful topic ideas at our April business meeting and during September I will share those ideas on our Facebook page, where you are encouraged to solicit potential co-authors or panelists. That address is: www.facebook.com/groups/137783146424405/ 

Call for Submissions

2017 Central States Communication Association (CSCA) Annual Conference


Hyatt Regency Minneapolis, Minnesota

March 16 – 18, 2017

Create

The Health Communication Interest Group invites submissions of competitive papers, programs, and panels to be considered for programming the 2017 CSCA conference in Minneapolis.

Our interest group focuses on helping key publics better grasp, appreciate, use, and articulate health communication research, practice, and teaching. Health communication scholars also monitor and evaluate the efficacy of community-based, communication-driven, and health-related applications. The interest group is dedicated to engaging in interdisciplinary collaboration to develop curricular innovations centering on health communication. Thus, scholarship, community outreach, and pedagogy comprise our mission.

We invite submissions on all topics which advance our mission, especially those which address the conference theme, Create. In keeping with the theme and with our host city’s focus on urban health, we encourage expansive understandings of health to include social, ecological, and built environments and the role communication plays in creating and sustaining them. We also encourage innovative understandings of communication’s ability to create both positive and negative health outcomes across a range of contexts, including identity formation and stigma, social and family support, patient-provider interaction, technology and telehealth, health care team functionality, corporate and organizational communication, political communication, health campaigns and interventions, mass media messages, and critical theory and advocacy. We strongly encourage submissions which address contemporary health opportunities and threats, which invite cross-unit participation and collaboration, and which create new opportunities and experiences for conference attendees. We enthusiastically encourage submissions from students and panel submissions which include panelists from multiple institutions.

The CSCA Health Communication Interest Group’s Facebook group is an excellent forum to share ideas and solicit panelists: www.facebook.com/groups/137783146424405/

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Competitive Papers:

• A Competitive Paper Submission Form must be submitted along with each paper and should indicate whether authors are CSCA members. This form is located on the Convention Call for Submissions page of the CSCA website: csca-net.org.
• Papers must include a title page and brief abstract (150 words or less). Author names and any identifying information must be removed from papers prior to submission.
• Graduate and undergraduate students should type “STUDENT” on the upper right-hand corner of the title page. If the paper will be a student debut, please type “DEBUT STUDENT” on the upper right- hand corner of the title page. To be considered a student debut paper, (1) the author must be a graduate or undergraduate student, (2) the paper must have single authorship, and (3) the paper must be the author’s first paper to be presented at CSCA.
• Only completed papers conforming to current APA standards will be accepted.
• Papers may not exceed 25 pages, excluding title, abstract, references, and appendices. Papers exceeding the maximum page limit will not be considered for review.
• Individuals may submit no more than one lead-authored paper.
• Indicate if author(s) are CSCA members.

Discussion and Paper Panels: 

• Discussion and paper panels must be submitted using the respective forms
  located on the Convention Call for Submissions page of the CSCA website:
  csca-net.org.
• Panel submission forms must include the following: (a) title, (b) description (75 words or less), (c) rationale (75 words or less), and (d) a complete list of participants along with their institutional affiliations, contact information, and CSCA membership status. Panels should also include titles and brief abstracts (150 words or less) for each paper or explanation of each participant’s purpose/perspective.

Format: All papers and panel proposals must be submitted electronically using Microsoft Word.
Documents sent using any other format will be returned to the sender.

Technology: All technology requests should be made at the time of submission.

Deadline: Submissions must be received by 11:59 pm on Monday, October 3, 2016. An email acknowledging the receipt of paper and panel proposals will be sent following each submission.

Submission: Send all papers and panel proposals electronically to: Brendan Young, Western Illinois University-Quad Cities, at CSCAhealth@gmail.com . If you have questions, email Brendan at LB-Young@wiu.edu.