KACA's Digital Initiative

KACA has joined the digital revolution in an effort to reach our members more efficiently and more effectively. It has continuoulsy immersed itself in both open and closed digital communication environment, such as the official Website, the official blog, listserve, Facebook, and PICASA, a photo-sharing site. We believe that the adoption of such communication technologies has fulfilled the very basic need of our organization - disseminating news, sharing job positions, and storing episodic memories.

However, as our member base has been rapidly growing and our members' role in academic community becomes more important, it is important that it considers the organization's core missions and needs. According to KACA's mission statement, KACA aims to encourage and facilitate exchange of professional knowledge in various fields of communication, and encourage and facilitate cooperation among members in exchanging professional information and conducting research in communication. It also aims to facilitate academic and social exchange of communication scholars between North America and Korea. We believe KACA's digital communication as well as its traditionally valued avenues of communication has undoubtedly fulfilled its missions. In this regard, we appreciate all our members' support of and contribution to KACA's digital communication channels. Especially, we recognize the leadership role and support of Dr. Hye-ryeon Lee in establishing our digital presence. We also recognize and deeply appreciate Dr. Kyo Ho Youm's insightful input to our channels and his commitment to our community.

However, we believe that we have not fully harnessed the potential of our members as yet. We have members whose cutting-edge research has drawn tremendous attention. We have distinguished researchers, teachers and professionals whose expertise in diverse communication fields has shed light on understanding diverse communication-related phenomena.

First of all, we strongly encourage KACA members to contribute to this blog, posting your own stories and news items. Using a blog is not difficult at all: Please refer to http://kacanet.org/blog/?page_id=2. We especially welcome members who can contribute to writing insightful commentaries or interesting columns. Second, we will be happy to share all of your delightful moments with other members. Please feel free to send your news items or episodic memories along with pictures to the KACA Web master joonsoo@kacanet.org. Please don't forget that we have our official Picasa Web albums at http://picasaweb.google.com/kacanetorg. Third, we also are experimenting with Facebook and Twitter for bridging members online and maintaining relationships around the globe. You can find the link to the KACA Facebook group and Twitter on our Web site. Let's stay in touch.