IAMCR Singapore 2025
Communicating Environmental Justice
13-17 July 2025
Submit abstracts from 3 December to 7 February 2025 See the CfP
9 January, 2025 - The Political Economy Section, along with guest panelist Peichi Chung (Chinese University of Hong Kong), will deliver an interactive workshop to help scholars prepare abstracts for the 2025 Singapore Conference. The session will cover topics such as evaluation criteria, reviewer roles, and the abstract selection process.
17 January, 2025 @13h00 UTC - Join the Inclusive Communication and People with Disabilities (ICO) Working Group in this webinar exploring inclusive communication from the point of view of those with visible and invisible disabilities, broadly conceived. Pre-register by 15 January 2025.
22 January, 2025 @12h00 UTC - The Communication, Social Justice and Democracy Working Group will be hosting an online roundtable reflecting on the intersection of democracy and media in India, Indonesia, Turkey and Brazil. Pre-register by 20 January 2025.
The recording of the webinar hosted on 13 December 2024 by the Communication Policy & Technology (CPT) Section and the National Institute of Science in Informational Disputes and Sovereignties (INCT DSI, Brazil) is now available. The session explored the complexities of digital sovereignty from a Global South perspective.
The Gender and Communication Section has released its December newsletter, featuring a call for topics, abstracts and reviewers for IAMCR 2025, funding opportunities, a report of the October business meeting, recent publications, and other updates of interest to section members. Read it here.
IAMCR condemns the abuse of the penal system in Azerbaijan for political purposes, and calls upon the Azeri government and upon the President, Ilham Aliyev, to immediately release all scholars, journalists and activists who exercise their freedom of expression and academic freedom and are prisoners for that reason.
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
By Nico Carpentier and Jeffrey Wimmer, this book is a theoretical reflection on the intersection of democracy and media through a constructionist lens.
This book, edited by Daniel Biltereyst and Ernest Mathijs, brings together contemporary and historical views on censorship, covering fifteen countries, including Argentina, France, Turkey, Japan and the United States.
By Daya Thussu, this book highlights the growing importance of digital communication in legitimizing and promoting the geopolitical and economic goals of leading powers. The ideas and arguments advanced in it privilege a reading of geopolitical processes and examples from the perspective of the global South.
By Raymond Archee and Myra Gurney, this book explains key communication concepts and effective strategies that students will use to communicate in their professional lives, no matter what career they ultimately choose.