07/11/2024

2025 ECA Convention Political Communication Interest Group Call for Papers

Political Communication Interest Group

The 116th Annual Convention of the Eastern Communication Association

Contemporary Problems, Creative Solutions

Hyatt Regency, Buffalo, NY

March 26-30, 2025

Submission Deadline: October 16, 2024, 11:59 PM PST

Known as the “City of Good Neighbors” for its welcoming and supportive community, Buffalo will be the site for the 2025 annual convention of the Eastern Communication Association. For the first time in 23 years, ECA will be held in the great state of New York! Please join us at the Hyatt Regency Buffalo from March 26-30, 2025, for the 116th ECA annual convention. 

The Political Communication Interest Group invites paper and panel submissions for ECA’s 116^th Annual Convention. The 2024 convention theme is Contemporary Problems, Creative Solutions. You are encouraged to bring your creative take on:

• How can understanding historical context help create lasting solutions to contemporary problems?
• How can political communication move ideas and theories into a wider body of knowledge and public discourse?
• What communication ideas, topics, or concepts can help us understand our current communicative context?
• What kinds of impacts do current technologies have on political campaigns and communication?
• What current trends and movements are changing the direction of political communication practice, scholarship, and/or pedagogy?

Paper and panel/program submissions must be received by 11:59 p.m. (PST) on October 16, 2024.

ECA utilizes Attendee Interactive to manage submissions and reviews. (https://ww4.aievolution.com/eca2501/). To submit your work, you will be prompted to log in using ECA-specific credentials or prompted to create a new account.

Competitive Papers

Submissions of completed papers should be no more than 25 pages, excluding title page, abstract, references, and appendices. Completed papers should be written in accordance with standards set by the Chicago Manual of Style, the American Psychological Association (APA), or the Modern Language Association (MLA). All submissions of completed papers should be uploaded to Attendee Interactive and include the following:

• The word “Debut” marked on all papers written by authors who have not presented previously at a regional or national convention.
• Indicate “Student Paper” if the work is authored solely by graduate or undergraduate students.
  • Special designations (debut and/or student) will appear both on the title page of the manuscript and in Attendee Interactive.
• Title and abstract: The abstract should appear on the second page of the document and be entered separately into Attendee Interactive.
• A statement of professional responsibility on the title page: In submitting the attached paper or proposal, I/We recognize that this submission is considered a professional responsibility. I/We agree to present this panel or paper if it is accepted and programmed. I/We further recognize that all who attend and present at ECA’s annual meeting must register and pay required fees. 
• If the paper has multiple authors, please indicate who will be presenting at the convention in Attendee Interactive.
• Special Requests/Requests for AV: Please enter this information into Attendee Interactive rather than note any special requests on your manuscript. Due to cost, AV will be limited.
• Final paper with all identifying information removed for blind review. (Microsoft provides instructions for removing personal information from Word documents at https://bit.ly/39HxAZI)

Program/Panel or Roundtable Proposal

All program/panel submissions should be uploaded to Attendee Interactive and include the following:

• A thematic title for the program.
• Names of the chair and respondents (if any). Chairs should not also be designated as respondents.
• Names, mailing addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, and institutional affiliations of all participants.
• Titles and abstracts for each paper or presentation.
• A program copy (no more than a 75-word description) as it should appear in the final program.
• A detailed rationale for the program/panel.
• A statement of professional responsibility: In submitting the attached paper or proposal, I/We recognize that this submission is considered a professional responsibility. I/We agree to present this panel or paper if it is accepted and programmed. I/We further recognize that all who attend and present at ECA’s annual meeting must register and pay required fees. 
• Special Requests/Requests for AV: Please enter this information into Attendee Interactive rather than note any special requests on your description or rationale. Due to cost, AV will be limited.
• Information about Roundtable Discussions: a program featuring 5-8 presenters who briefly share a position paper or summary of recent research on a focused topic moderated by a chair with “on-the-spot” interaction and discussion by participants and audience. Please indicate whether the panel is a “roundtable” during the Attendee Interactive submission process.

All paper and program/panel submissions should be uploaded to and processed through Attendee Interactive (link available through ECAsite.org).

For questions about submissions to the Political Communication Interest Group, please contact the Political Communication Interest Group Program Planner (Robert Stise, University of Delaware) via email for further information: rstise@udel.edu