Launched at IAMCR 2025, this report explores how multimodal research practices—like film, performance, and installation—enhance media scholarship and outlines strategies for supporting non-written academic communication within the discipline.
The Islam & Media Working Group presented its annual Nile Awards at IAMCR 2025 in Singapore, recognizing outstanding research on Islam and media. Three papers were awarded for originality, methodology, and scholarly contribution.
On 17 July 2025, at the closing plenary at the Singapore conference, the members present condemned the conviction of IAMCR member Bahruz Samadov for high treason by the Azerbaijani courts, and called for his immediate release.
IAMCR’s Ethics Task Force hosted a workshop on fostering ethical, inclusive environments. Participants explored challenges and strategies for implementing the Code of Conduct across IAMCR activities, focusing on equity, inclusion, and accountability.
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.
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
Editing Essentials explores editing practices and ethics across media platforms. Written by IAMCR member Surbhi Dahiya and Aashish Joshi, it offers practical guidance for today’s complex journalism environment.
Editing Essentials explores the craft and ethics of editing across print, visual, audio, and digital media, offering practical guidance from Indian journalists, educators, and editors for today’s complex news environment.
This open-access volume examines how news media, AI, and data governance shape contemporary democracies. Co-edited by IAMCR member Robin Mansell, it offers a critical, interdisciplinary assessment of information ecosystems.
Edited by IAMCR members Dal Yong Jin and Kyong Yoon, this book explores how East Asian popular culture and digital platforms intertwine, highlighting the region’s growing global cultural influence and its role in shaping today’s platform-driven media landscape.
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.