The Award honours three outstanding papers that explore race, representation, and resistance through innovative approaches to media and communication. Their work reflects Hall’s legacy of critical, socially engaged scholarship across diverse cultural and political contexts.
Edited by Jack Linchuan Qiu, Shinjoung Yeo and Richard Maxwell (2025)
This book provides a global perspective on labor and technology, exploring resistance, solidarity, and alternatives in digital capitalism.
Zhuhai, China, 19–20 August. Organised by Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University and co-sponsored by IAMCR, the Interactive Narratives Conference 2025 explores "Narrative Convergence: Technology and Culture," examining how emerging media, AI, and storytelling practices intersect with cultural identity.
The 2025 FAO/IAMCR Rural Communication Services Awards winners are: Subekti W. Priyadharma (Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia), Mohammad Sahid Ullah (University of Chittagong, Bangladesh), and Li Zhang (Tsinghua University, China).
The Political Communication Research Section issued its June newsletter, where you can find updates on IAMCR Singapore, LATAM and Section Paper Awards, job postings, call for papers and recent publications from our members.
The draft schedule of IAMCR 2025 is now available for consultation. It currently only shows parallel sessions, primarily the paper presentation sessions of our thematic sections and working groups.
IAMCR books
Public Communication in Freefall is the latest title in the Palgrave/IAMCR book series Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research. It explores key challenges facing global political communication at a time in which transformations in political practice, media ecology and cultural expectations.
Edited by Sudeshna Roy (2025)
This book delivers an authoritative exploration of a variety of critical conflicts in the world and a spectrum of approaches to peace communication.
Members' books
Written by IAMCR member Ama De-Graft-Aikins, this volume provides an interdisciplinary model for arts-based health communication, grounded in African contexts and supported by extensive research and visual documentation.
Edited by IAMCR member Emmanuel K. Ngwainmbi, this volume examines how misinformation and media dynamics shaped Covid-19 communication—revealing global challenges in information access, trust, and public understanding during pandemics.
This volume examines how Internet infrastructure reflects global power dynamics, governance, and resistance. Co-authored by IAMCR member Francesca Musiani, it offers a sharp interdisciplinary perspective on digital geopolitics and technological sovereignty.
Written by IAMCR member Wajiha Raza Rizvi, this volume critically examines key international political films and prose—from Eisenstein to Riefenstahl—highlighting how cinema constructs persuasion, power, and cultural narratives across history.