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 twenty 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 Administration
- Communication Law & Ethics
- Communication and Technology
- Communication Traits
- Community College
- Health Communication
- 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 twenty-one 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 2010/ends mid-point 2012:
- Communication Traits
- Health Communication
- Instructional Communication
- Intercultural Communication
- Interpersonal Communication
- Interpretation & Performance Studies
- Philosophy of Communication
Term begins mid-point 2011/ends mid-point 2013:
- Communication and Technology
- Media Communication
- Nonverbal Communication
- Organizational Communication
- Political Communication
- Rhetoric and Public Address
- Voices of Diversity
Term begns mid-point 2012/ends mid-point 2014:
- Applied Communication
- Argumentation & Forensics
- Communication Administration
- Communication, Law & Ethics
- Community College
- Kenneth Burke
- Theory & Methodology
