The 2009 Australian and New Zealand Communications Association conference (ANZCA09), held at QUT in Brisbane from July 8-10, 2009, brought together 242 communications researchers from 20 countries.

The papers from the ANZCA09 conference that are in this collection have been subject to double-blind peer reviewing prior to inclusion in this volume. They bring together contributions across the full range of conference streams including:

• Advertising and Integrated Marketing Communication
• Communication and Pedagogy
• Communication Ethics
• Creativity and Communication
• Digital and Social Media
• Disability and Communication
• Entertainment
• Global Media and Communication
• Intercultural Communication
• Journalism and News Media
• Media and Citizenship
• Organisational Communication
• Political Communication
• Public Relations
• Radio-Audio-Sound Research and Practice
• Science and Environmental Communication
• Speech Communication and Rhetoric
• Visual Communication

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