17 April, 2025 - The Digital Divide Working Group in collaboration with the Mass Media Research Group at the University of Sharjah (UAE) will host a research symposium on "Digital Capital and Political Power" to be held on 17 April 2025 at the University of Sharjah.
On 29 October the Health Communication Working Group hosted the webinar "Health Communication at the crossroads", where leading experts discussed the evolving landscape of health communication theory, research, and practice. Watch the recording here.
The Participatory Communication Research and Community Communication and Alternative Media Sections recently hosted a two-day webinar on "Environmental and Social Justice: Participatory & Community Communication", in line with the upcoming IAMCR 2025 conference theme. Watch the recordings here.
On 14 October, the Political Economy Section hosted a book talk on Political Economy of Media and Communication: Methodological Approaches. The event featured contributions from the book's editors, showcasing diverse methodological perspectives and offering insights into the state of the field. Watch the recording here.
Podcast studies scholars from four continents explored future directions of podcast studies at a multidisciplinary Roundtable Pre-Conference event for IAMCR 2024, co-convened by the Music, Audio, Radio and Sound Working Group at Griffith University, Brisbane on 25 June.
The Political Communication Research Section issued its October newsletter including takeaways from Christchurch 2024, the latest calls for papers, job opportunities, publications, and events that might be of interest to the section's members.
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
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.
Edited by IAMCR members Anna Gladkova and Elena Vartanova, together with Shi-xu, this book looks at the rise of new digital divides and reveals how these inequalities affect cross-cultural communication from a cultural discourse studies perspective.