Media and Popular Culture: Organizations

A not-for-profit organization created to promote academic and professional research, criticism, teaching, practical use, and exchange of principles and theories of human communication. Publishes American Communication Journal.

The AEJMC exists to promote the highest possible standards for education in journalism and mass communication, to encourage the widest possible range of communication research, to encourage the implementation of a multi-cultural society in the classroom and curriculum, and to defend and maintain freedom of expression in day-to-day living.

The Association of Internet Researchers is an academic association dedicated to the advancement of the cross-disciplinary field of Internet studies.

Central States Communication Association (CSCA) is a professional, academic organization of primary and secondary school teachers, students, college and university professors, and communication professionals.

The Council for the Advancement of Science Writing is committed to improving the quality of science news reaching the public.

ICA is an academic association for scholars interested in the study, teaching, and application of all aspects of human and mediated communication.

Promotes Speech Communication Science and Technology, both in the industrial and Academic areas, covering all the aspects of Speech Communication (Acoustics, Phonetics, Phonology, Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition, etc.)

A full-service trade association which represents the interests of free, over-the-air radio and television broadcasters.

The NASW was formally incorporated in 1955 with a charter to "foster the dissemination of accurate information regarding science through all media normally devoted to informing the public."

The National Communication Association advances communication as the discipline that studies all forms, modes, media and consequences of communication through humanistic, social scientific and aesthetic inquiry.

The Society for Technical Communication is a professional association dedicated to the advancement of technical communication. Technical communicators research and create information about technical processes or products directed to a targeted audience through various forms of media.

The Southern States Communication Association's purpose is to promote the study, criticism, research, teaching, and application of the artistic, humanistic, and scientific principles of communication.

WSCA is a not-for-profit educational association of scholars, teachers, and students of communication with over 1,000 members not only from the western states but from all parts of the United States and countries around the world.