ICA invites you to submit your individual submission or session proposal for the 75th Annual ICA Conference. Participants can attend in person in Denver, Colorado, USA, or present remotely*. The conference will take place from 12-16 June 2025 and will focus on ICA@75: Disrupting and Consolidating Communication Research.
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Tips for Online Submission
INDIVIDUAL PROPOSAL: SUBMITTING A PAPER OR EXTENDED ABSTRACT?
Have your document ready to upload! You MUST upload a paper or extended abstract to complete the individual submission process. Before submitting your document, remove all author identification from the text, cover page, and file properties. (In the "File" menu, select "Properties," delete any identifying information, click "OK," and save the document.)
SESSIONS PROPOSALS: SUBMITTING A PANEL OR ROUND TABLE PROPOSAL?
Plan ahead! The Session Organizer submits the panel proposal and enters all the panel information, including the abstract rationale and listing of all panel participants. When entering a panel participant, please SEARCH THE DATABASE for the participants. ENTER ONLY TWO OR THREE LETTERS OF THE FIRST AND LAST NAMES WHEN SEARCHING. This strategy will minimize the possibility of missing a record because of a 'special' character in the first or last names. In the Panel Description field, enter the text of your panel proposal, including rationale, presentation authors and titles, and abstracts or any other information mentioned in the Call for Papers. You can do this by copying and pasting the text of the panel proposal from your Word document.
CONSIDER SUBMITTING YOUR WORK OR PAPER AS A THEME SESSION
If your topic crosses the interests of several divisions or interest groups, and relates to this year's theme, "ICA@75: Disrupting and Consolidating Communication Research", consider submitting your work or paper as a theme session for the conference OR the interdivisional category instead to a single division or interest group. Please read the full theme here.
If you have any questions about submitting your work for the theme sessions, please get in touch with one of this year’s theme co-chairs:
MEMBER ASSOCIATIONS SHOULD SUBMIT ONLINE
ICA Member Associations are entitled to one panel program at the conference. The highest-ranking elected officer or designated program planner of each Member Association is invited to submit a panel proposal through the online submission system by the 1 November submission deadline. Follow the instructions for submitting a panel session and submit it under Sponsored Sessions.
Contributors of individual and panel submissions to the Conference Theme will be requested to self-assess diversity. At the time of submission, individuals who seek to contribute to the conference theme will self-assess: (i) the extent to which the submission focuses on a specific region of the world or is global in its scope; (ii) the extent to which the submission references and builds on scholarship diverse in terms of region, ethnicity, gender, and career stage; (iii) the extent to which coauthors (if any) reflect diversity in terms of region, ethnicity, gender, career stage, other academic disciplines (including those beyond the social sciences and humanities), and non-academic entities (e.g., civil society, government, industry, NGOs, policymakers). In addition to the above, contributors to all panel conference theme submissions will be requested to self-assess, at submission, the extent to which the panel as a whole reflects diversity in terms of region, ethnicity, gender, career stage, other academic disciplines (including those beyond the social sciences and humanities), and non-academic entities (e.g., civil society, government, industry, NGOs, policymakers). These self-assessments will be used along with other criteria to make decisions about submission acceptances.
Panel conference-theme submissions are encouraged to (i) showcase and/or critique ongoing inter-divisional communication scholarship relevant to the conference theme; (ii) propose the development of an inter-divisional research agenda relevant to the conference theme; and/or (iii) assemble a blue-sky session for individuals to workshop nascent ideas that could lead to the future development of an inter-divisional research agenda relevant to the conference theme.
REVIEWER
All individual submitters are expected to review at least one submission (if applicable). Please declare your interest in being a reviewer by updating your profile in the submission management system. Watch this tutorial on how to sign up to review.
SUBMITTER LIMIT
Submitters can only be the first author on a maximum of three submissions. However, there is no longer a limit on submissions in general, only for the first author.
ACCESSING THE SITE
To access the submission management system, please click here. You do not have to be an ICA member to access and submit, but you need a ScholarOne Abstracts profile. If you created a ScholarOne Abstracts profile last year, you can access the system using the same login information. Our membership database is not linked to the submission management system. If you have questions or concerns about accessing or editing your profile, please contact ScholarOne’s Help Desk.
IMPORTANT NOTE
ICA or Unit Planners regularly send messages or emails concerning paper submissions or reviewing. Sometimes, our emails filter into spam folders, usually those of those with a university address. So, after signing in, frequently check your message center in the submission system. The message center stores all messages sent and eliminates the problem of universities blocking emails.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 1 November @ 12:00 noon ICA headquarters time (EST)
Be sure to read the conference guidelines for more tips on how to submit, and check out the tutorial for more information.