LibGuides: Communication: Communication Organizations

Organizations and Research Centers

American Communication Organization The ACA is a not-for-profit virtual professional association ommitted to enabling the effective use of new and evolving technologies to facilitate communication instruction, research and criticism, and to offering a technologically supportive venue for all who study the ways in which humans communicate.
American Forensic Association The American Forensic Association was founded in 1949 in Chicago. It took over the National Debate Tournament from the United States Military Academy in 1966 and runs the American Forensic Association National Individual Events Tournament. It is a national organization designed to promote excellence in public speaking, individual events, and debate.
Association for Women in Communications AWC is a professional organization that champions the advancement of women across all communications disciplines by recognizing excellence, promoting leadership and positioning its members at the forefront of the evolving communications era.
Center for Nonverbal Studies Private, nonprofit research center located in Spokane, Washington.The Center's mission is to advance the study of human communication in all its forms apart from language and promote the scientific study of nonverbal communication.
International Academy of Intercultural Research The Primary Purpose of the Academy is to promote intercultural understanding. Accordingly, it promotes and encourages research, theory, and practice in the field of intercultural relations.
International Assocation for Mass Communication Research The International Association for Media and Communication Research - IAMCR - is the preeminent worldwide professional organisation in the field of media and communication research. Its members promote global inclusiveness and excellence within the best traditions of critical scholarship in the field.
International Association for Relationship Research The International Association for Relationship Research (IARR) is a scientific and professional organization including hundreds of scholars and practitioners focused on stimulating and supporting the scientific study of personal and social relationships.
International Communication Association ICA is an academic association for scholars interested in the study, teaching, and application of all aspects of human and mediated communication. Since 2003, ICA has been officially associated with the United Nations as a non-governmental association (NGO).
International Listening Association The International Listening Association promotes the study, development, and teaching of listening and the practice of effective listening skills and techniques.
International Speech Communication Association The purpose of the association is to promote, in an international world-wide context, activities and exchanges in all fields related to speech communication science and technology.
National Communication Association 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.
Toastmasters International Toastmasters International is a non-profit educational organization that teaches public speaking and leadership skills through a worldwide network of meeting locations.
Western States Communication Association The Association's purpose is to unite people in the Western States who have an academic, lay or professional interest in communication and who want to promote their mutual educational interests.