KACA 30th Anniversary Conference Report
Sunday, March 15th, 2009A special Web page devoted to the KACA 30th Anniversary Conference (August 5, 2008) has been created.
Please check it out:
http://kacanet.org/events/KACA30.html
KACA Award Announcement
Monday, August 18th, 2008Dear KACA members.
I hope this message finds you well. I am very pleased to report to all of you that the KACA 30th Anniversary Conference was a big success. We had a very stimulating and interesting presentations and panels. We also were able to celebrate our 30 years of accomplishments by recognizing outstanding young scholars, students and senior scholars who contributed so much to the KACA over the years.
Please check out our blog site at www.KACAnet.org/blog for press coverage of the conference, some of the conference materials, and other news about the conference. In a few days, we will have the video footage of the conference on the web including the keynote presentation by Dr. Youn Ho Oh of the OhmyNews. So stay tuned!
In this message, however, I want to recognize the winners of the KACA Distinguished Young Scholar Award and the KACA Outstanding Student Award.
Professors Kwan Min Lee and Jisu Huh named as the KACA Distinguished Young Scholars!
To commemorate the 30th Anniversary of Korean American Communication Association, two outstanding young scholars (received the terminal degree within 7 years) who have shown unusual promise in the field of communication were chosen to receive the KACA Distinguished Young Scholar Awards at the KACA Anniversary Conference in Chicago. Drs. Kwan Min Lee, and Jisu Huh were the winners of the Awards, and received an Award Certificate and the prize of $1,000.
Dr. Kwan Min Lee is a tenured Associate Professor of Annenberg School for Communication at University of Southern California. He received his doctoral degree from Stanford University in 2002, major in Communication and minor in psychology. His impressive publications range from Computer assisted learning processes to Robotic personality to evolutionary cognitive psychology. He has published numerous articles and book chapters in Human communication Research, Journal of Communication, Communication Research, and other nationally and internationally recognized journals.
Dr. Jisu Huh is an assistant professor of school of Journalism and Mass Communication. She received her doctoral degree from University of Georgia Dr. Huh’s research areas include Advertising Effects (third-person effect/influence of presumed influence) Health Communication (direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertising), Trust and Credibility in Interactive advertising. She has published numerous articles in Journal of Advertising, Communication Research, Health Communication, and other nationally and internationally recognized journals. And finally, she won 2008 American Academy of Advertising’s Research Fellowship award.
The two Awardees were selected through a rigorous and extremely competitive selection process led by the Award Selection Committee which consisted with five senior professors: Eungjun Min (Rhode Island College), Jong K. Kang (Illinois State University), Min-Sun Kim (University of Hawaii at Manoa), Jin K. Kim (SUNY-Plattsburg), & Kyu Ho Youm (University of Oregon). Dr. Min served as the Committee Chair. Dr. Seok Kang (University of Texas-San Antonio) served as the Committee Coordinator and provided the necessary administrative support for the Committee.
Many congratulations to Drs. Lee and Huh. We are all very proud of their accomplishments. And, kudos to the Award Selection Committee members for a job well done.
Chul-Joo Lee, Kwang-Suk Lee, and Rachel Kim won the KACA Outstanding Student Awards!
Chul-Joo Lee (University of Pennsylvania), Kang-Suk Lee (University of Texas at Austin), and Rachel Kim (Michigan State University) were awarded the KACA Outstanding Student Awards at the 30th Anniversary Conference held in Chicago. The three winners were given an Award Certificate and a prize of $500 each. To give a brief description of each winner:
Chul-Joo Lee is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication. In the past three years, Lee has published more than 6 articles in peer-reviewed journals including Journal of Health Communication, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly and Science Communication. He is also a co-investigator of a National Institute of Health grant entitled, “Explaining the Boomerang Effect of the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign.”
Kang-Suk Lee recently completed his Ph.D. at the Radio-TV-Film Department in the University of Texas at Austin. He published three books in Korea and a number of articles related to the political economy and the new media. His work appeared in Media, Culture & Society, New Media & Society, The International Communication Gazette.
Rachel Kim of Michigan State University is a Ph.D. Candidate who explores the role of social networks and trust in relational deception detection. She developed protocols for a NSF Human and Social Dynamics (HSD) grant. Not only did she place her articles in journals such as Communication Monographs and Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, but she also has extensive background in teaching and community service.
Dr. Ji Hoon Park (Hope College) chaired the Award Selection Committee which included five other faculty members: Drs. Chang Mo Bahk (California State University at San Bernadino), Jaesub Lee (University of Houston), Hye-Jin Paek (Michigan State University), Eun-ho Yeo (Prairie View A&M University), and Young-Ok Yum (Kansas State University). With many qualified applicants for the Award, the selection process was difficult but the committee came to agree on the candidates who best deserve the awards.
Congratulations on the three well deserving awardees, and many thanks to the Award Selection Committee members for their hard work!
Prof. Jae Chul Shim’s Column appeared in The Mail Economic Daily
Monday, August 18th, 2008Professor Jae Chul Shim (Korea University) wrote a column about the KACA on Maeil Economic Daily.
Check it out:
Dr. Oh Yeon-Ho’s Lecture for KACA 30 Years
Thursday, August 14th, 2008KACA 30 year conference invited Dr. Oh Yeon-Ho, the CEO of OhMyNews, as a special guest. His lecture manuscripts are available in ppt and doc files below. Title: Candlelight2008 & Media Leadership
Powerpoint file
http://kacanet.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/chicago-media-leadership.ppt
Doc file
http://kacanet.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/chicago-speech.doc
Korea Times Coverage on KACA’s 30th Anniversary Event
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008KACA 30th Anniversary Conference
Thursday, July 24th, 2008Aloha KACA members.
It is hard to believe that it is already late July. The KACA 30th Anniversary Conference will be in just two weeks!
I would like to emphasize that this conference will be an opprotunity for all of Korean communciation scholars to come together and share our research findings as well as our visions for the future.
The conference should be very interesting with Dr. Youn Ho Oh, the president of the OhmyNews, who has made news worldwide by his innovative citizen journalism site as our plenary speaker. We will also have an opportunity to celebrate our successes at the gala reception sponsored by the Korea Times U.S.A..
For years, we all attended different conferences depending on what our subfields are. Some only attends NCA, others only attends AEJMC, ICA or AAA. This time, however, we will all come together and have our own event regardless of our disciplinary differences. This is truly our event, and we need your participation to make this a successful event. I am attaching the conference registration form. To qualify for the discounted registration fee, your registration should be postmarked by July 25. So, you still have a couple of days to register at the discounted rate. Otherwise, you can come to an hotel and register on the day of the conference. I am attching the conference agenda as well.
I look forward to seeing as many of you as possible in Chicago on August 5!
HR
Hye-ryeon Lee, Ph.D.
Associate Professor & Chair
Department of Speech Communication
University of Hawaii at Manoa
2560 Campus Road, George 329
Honolulu, HI 96822
Tel: (808) 956-3322
Fax: (808) 956-3947
www.hawaii.edu/speech
The 30th Anniversary Conference: General Information
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008Korean American Communication Association (KACA) will hold its 30th Anniversary Conference on August 5,
2008 at the Marriott Chicago Downtown Hotel.
REGISTRATION FEE (includes lunch, dinner, and conference materials):
Faculty/Professionals – $50 [before July 25, 2008]; $60 [after July 25, 2008]
Students – $10 [before July 25, 2008]; $15 [after July 25, 2008]
Make check payable to: Korean American Communication Association
Mail with the registration form to:
Hye-ryeon Lee
Associate Professor & Chair
Department of Speech Communication
University of Hawaii at Manoa
2560 Campus Road, George 329
Honolulu, HI 96822
REFUNDS: Requests for refunds will be received by Dr. Tae-Hyun Kim by July 31, 2008, in writing. No refunds
will be made thereafter. Please allow approximately two to three weeks for processing.
LODGING: The conference will be held at Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile, and hotel reservations
can be made through the AEJMC website: http://aejmc.org/_events/convention/hotel/index.php. We
recommend that you make reservations as soon as possible since the number of rooms reserved at the hotel
may be limited.
ACCESSIBILITY ASSISTANCE: If you would like assistance due to a mobility, hearing, or sight impairment, you
are warmly encouraged to contact the Conference Planner at (808) 956-3322 by July 25, 2008.
PLEASE DIRECT ALL REGISTRATION INQUIRIES TO:
Dr. Hye-ryeon Lee
Tel: (808) 956-3322
E-mail: hyeryeon@hawaii.edu
KACA 30th Anniversary Conference Prorgram & Registration Form
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008[KACA 30th Anniversary Conference]
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KACA 30th Anniversary Conference
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008Aloha KACA members.
I hope your summer is going well so far. It was very nice to see many of you at the recent ICA meeting in Montreal. It warms my heart to see how productive our members are at these conferences.
I am writing to you today to invite all of you to attend the KACA 30th Anniversary Conference to be held on August 5 this year. It will be a full day conference, a day before the start of the AEJMC confeence. This conference will be an opprotunity for all of Korean communciation scholars to come together and share our research findings as well as our visions for the future.
Mr. Youn Ho Oh, the president of the OhmyNews, who has made news worldwide by his innovative citizen journalism site will be our plenary speaker. Many of the founding members of the KACA 30 years ago will be attending the meeting. In addition to a wonderful research panel sessions, we will have a gala reception, sponsored by the Korea Times USA, where we will recognize our founding members, Distringuished Young Scholar Award recipients, and Outstanding Student Award recipients.
So, this is truly our event. For years, we all attended different conferences depending on what our subfields are. Some only attends NCA, others only attends AEJMC, ICA or AAA. This time, however, we will all come together and have our own event regardless of our disciplinary differences.
I am attaching the draft conference program and the conference registration form. Please take a look, make your plans now, and send in your registrations to me at your earliest convenience. Let me know if you have questions regarding the conference.
I hope that you will have productive rest of the summer, and look foreard to seeing as many of you as possible in Chicago on August 5 this summer!
HR
Attachment:
Conference Program (pdf)
Conference Registration Form
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Hye-ryeon Lee, Ph.D.
Associate Professor & Chair
Department of Speech Communication
University of Hawaii at Manoa
2560 Campus Road, George 329
Honolulu, HI 96822
Tel: (808) 956-3322
Fax: (808) 956-3947
www.hawaii.edu/speech
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The 30th Anniversary Conference, August 5, 2008, Chicago
Saturday, March 8th, 2008Hi All.
Below is a summary of our 30th anniversary conference and the tentative agenda. You may download
the pdf version of the tentative schedule.
Please mark it on your calendar and plan on attending the conference.
Tentative Conference Agenda
8:30 – 9:00 Registration and Networking
9:00 – 10:00 Opening Plenary session (Presided by Dr. Nojin Kwak)
KACA President’s State of the Association Report
KSJCS President (Hyok Nam Kwon) Congratulatory Remark
KACA Senor Speakers
Recognition of Founding Members and Past Presidents
10:00 – 11:30 Theme Panel (Presided by Dr. Hye-ryeon Lee)
4 Invited Presentations
11:30 – 12:15 Break for Quick Lunch
12:15 – 1:00 Keynote Speaker
Oh Youn Ho (OhMyNews)
1:00 – 1:15 Break and move to Breakout Session Rooms
1:15 – 2:45 Breakout sessions
3 Separate sessions organized by topic
2:45 – 3:00 Break and move to the Plenary Room
3:00 – 4:00 Student Top Three Paper (Presided by Dr. Kwangmi Ko Kim)
4:00 – 5:00 Community Perspectives Panel (Presided by Dr. Kay Yoon)
3 Community Members from Chicago on Korean immigrant community and Communication
5:00 – 5:15 Break
5:15 – 6:15 Final Plenary Panel: Looking towards the future (Presided by Dr. EJ Min)
KSJCS President, KACA President, 1 Senior, 1 Distinguished scholar, 1 young scholar, 1 student, 1 community person
6:30 – 8:00 Anniversary Gala Reception & Awards
KACA Contributor Awards
Young Scholar Awards
Student Awards
