The story
ICA was founded on January 1, 1950, in Austin, Texas, as the National Society for the Study of Communication (NSSC), a subsidiary organization of the Speech Association of America (now the National Communication Association). The following year, NSSC published the first issue of its official journal, Journal of Communication.
In 1967, the NSSC formally separated from the SSA and opened its membership to scholars outside of the U.S. It changed its name two years later to the International Communication Association.
ICA relocated its offices from Austin, TX to Washington, D.C., in 2001. The association purchased a permanent headquarters in Washington in 2006.
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