About ECA
Interest Groups
Members may choose to join up to three (3) Interest Groups as part of their membership. Interest Group membership benefits include:
- Leadership opportunities to serve as Interest Group officer
- Special mailings and emails from Interest Groups
- Opportunity to network with others whose research and teaching interests are similar
ECA formally recognizes its nineteen Interest Groups to assist the organization in conducting its business and coordinating convention programs and panels.
For additional information regarding ECA's Interest Groups, please choose from the following list:
- Applied Communication
- Argumentation & Forensics
- Communication and Law
- Community College
- Health Communication
- Communication and Technology
- Instructional Communication
- Intercultural Communication
- Interpersonal Communication
- Interpretation & Performance Studies
- Kenneth Burke
- Media Communication
- Nonverbal Communication
- Organizational Communication
- Philosophy of Communication
- Political Communication
- Rhetoric and Public Address
- Theory & Methodology
- Voices of Diversity
ECA formally recognizes its nineteen Interest Groups to assist the organization in conducting its business and coordinating convention programs and panels. Interest Groups send one representative to the Executive Council on a rotating basis. The rotation schedule is as follows:
Term begins mid-point 2008/ends mid-point 2010:
- Communication and Technology
- Media Communication
Nonverbal Communication - Organizational Communication
- Political Communication
- Rhetoric and Public Address
- Voices of Diversity
Term begins mid-point 2009/ends mid-point 2011:
- Applied Communication
- Argumentation & Forensics
- Communication & Law
- Community College
- Kenneth Burke
- Theory & Methodology
Term began mid-point 2010/ends mid-point 2012:
- Health Communication
- Instructional Communication
- Intercultural Communication
- Interpersonal Communication
- Interpretation & Performance Studies
- Philosophy of Communication
