Dear Colleague:

Welcome to the International Communication Association (ICA) Website.

ICA's mission is to bring together university scholars and other professionals around the world to share research and discuss important issues pertaining to human communication. The association's 3200 members participate in eighteen divisions and interest groups that explore diverse areas of inquiry and practice. These include interpersonal, mass, organizational, and international communication, often supported with information technologies, and focused on a plethora of important social topics such as education, gender, health, language, law, politics, and popular culture. Members approach the study of human communication from a variety of social scientific, humanistic, and philosophical perspectives using diverse theoretical, methodological, and political orientations.

Our website contains considerable information that we hope you find useful. As the site map on our home page shows, you can find information about our:

	divisions and organizational structure
	association officers and honorees
	publications and their editors, including tables of contents of recent issues
	1998 annual convention, including the Call for Papers, and a copy of the program in searchable form when it is ready next spring.

You can also find:

	the most recent issue of our Newsletter
	a means for contacting the home office, and for joining the association
	direct links to some of our divisions and other sources for information about communication
	latest news flashes