The Council of Communication Associations is a non-profit organization established in 1995 as an umbrella entity for several

learned societies A learned society (; also learned academy, scholarly society, or academic association) is an organization that exists to promote an academic discipline, profession, or a group of related disciplines such as the arts and science. Membership may ...

in the field of

communication studies Communication studies or communication science is an academic discipline that deals with processes of human communication and behavior, patterns of communication in interpersonal relationships, social interactions and communication in diffe ...

. Its member societies include: * American Journalism Historians Association *

Association for Business Communication The Association for Business Communication (ABC) is a learned society for the field of business communication. The organization is interdisciplinary, with members belonging to academic fields such as management, marketing, English, foreign l ...

Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) is a major international membership organization for Academia, academics in the field, offering regional and national Academic conference, conferences and refereed publicat ...

* Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Media * Black College Communication Association * Broadcast Education Association * International Communication Association * National Association for Media Literacy Education Prior member association included: *

National Communication Association The National Communication Association (NCA) is a not-for-profit association of academics in the field of communication. Organization NCA is governed by the Legislative Assembly, which meets during the NCA Annual Convention. Between annual me ...

CCA's Constitution states: "The purposes of the Council shall be to enhance the missions and to facilitate the activities of its member associations, to advocate for the welfare and promote the understanding and advancement of communication, domestically and internationally, as academic and professional fields."

Patrice Buzzanell Patrice Buzzanell is a distinguished professor at the Brian Lamb School of Communication at Purdue University. She focuses on organizational communication from a feminist viewpoint. A majority of the research Dr. Buzzanell has completed is geare ...

et al. describe CCA as "an example of an umbrella association that serves regional, specifically North American, interests but that may serve much broader constituencies" In 2010, CCA established the

Center for Intercultural Dialogue The Center for Intercultural Dialogue (CID) was established by the Council of Communication Associations (CCA) in March 2010. Intercultural dialogue occurs when members of different cultural groups, who hold conflicting opinions and assumption ...

. "The Center approaches ICD at two levels: encouraging research on the topic, but also bringing international scholars together in shared dialogue about their work" Leeds-Hurwitz, W. (2015). Intercultural dialogue. In K. Tracy, C. Ilie & T. Sandel (Eds.), International encyclopedia of language and social interaction (vol. 2, pp. 860-868). Boston: John Wiley & Sons. DOI: 10.1002/9781118611463/wbielsi061

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Council of Communication AssociationsCenter for Intercultural DialogueAmerican Journalism Historians AssociationAssociation for Business CommunicationAssociation for Education in Journalism and Mass CommunicationAssociation of Schools of Journalism and Mass MediaBlack College Communication AssociationBroadcast Education AssociationInternational Communication AssociationNational Association for Media Literacy Education
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