20 October, 2022 - Julia Pohle, co-Chair of the Communication Policy and Technology Section, will participate in a "special panel" at the upcoming ECREA conference in Aarhus, Denmark, entitled "Essential yet Endangered: The State of CLP Research in Europe".
IAMCR, along with several other international associations of media and communication scholars, is supporting a project to address the situation of mental health and emotional wellbeing among academics in the field. The project will begin with an online survey that is open for your responses until 18 October.
On 27 June 2022 two online roundtables on 'Global South Perspectives on International Migration, Diasporas and Mobility in the Post-digital Era' were organised by IAMCR’s Diaspora and Media Working Group. One of them focused on Africa and the other on Asia. Watch the recordings here.
The Emerging Scholars Network and Communication Policy and Technology sections of IAMCR held a three-day online professionalization workshop for early career scholars from February 23 to 25. Interested graduate students are invited to a followup workshop on Academic Writing and publishing to be held on 2 September.
15/07/2022 - On 21 July, the Postgraduate Programme in Communication of Unisinos University in Brazil was unexpectedly and arbitrarily shut down by the university’s management. IAMCR stands in solidarity with colleagues in the programme, one of Brazil's most prestigious in the field.
The voting period for the Sections and Working Groups heads election has ended. We would like to thank all of the candidates who expressed their willingness to serve as a section or working group officer and also to all who voted. See the results here.
IAMCR books
By Chikezie E. Uzuegbunam, Children and Young People’s Digital Lifeworlds is the 22nd title in the Palgrave/IAMCR book series Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research. The book explores the ways in which adolescents in Nigeria domesticate technology and the role of digital gatekeepers such as parents, guardians, and teachers in their digital lifeworlds.
By Aliaa Dakroury, The Instant World Report focuses on Canada's pioneering role in shaping the international understanding of the right to communicate, particularly through the Canadian Telecommission Studies of 1969. The 23rd title in the Palgrave/IAMCR book series Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research.
Members' books
This book by IAMCR member Claire Konkes analyses how news and other media contribute to our expectations and hopes for the role of law during environmental conflict.
Written by IAMCR member Anastasia Denisova, this book explores the urgent challenges of communicating climate change in the media. It goes to the very heart of what makes humans care about stories enough to act.
Edited by IAMCR members Nelson Ribeiro and Barbie Zelizer, this critical and timely collection argues for the centrality of propaganda in discussions about the contemporary media landscape and its informational ecosystems.
This memoir, completed just before longtime IAMCR member Vincent Mosco’s sudden death, chronicles the last half century of research, activism and teaching in critical communication, technology and society from the perspective of one of its pioneering figures.