Volume 12, Issue 1 of The Political Economy of Communication journal is now available. This special guest-edited issue focuses on communication and climate issues.
The Communication, Social justice and Democracy (CJD) Working Group shares updates on its January 2026 online meeting, calls for participation in upcoming conferences, and recent publications by its members.
29 January, 2026 - Join the Political Economy and the Popular Culture Sections for a panel discussion on East Asian Media Culture in the Age of Digital Platforms, focusing on the convergence of popular culture and digital platforms in the East Asian context. Pre-register by 27 January.
26 January 2026 @17h00 UTC- The Music Audio Radio & Sound Working Group will host a webinar to discuss how global music streaming platforms are reshaping music production, distribution, and consumption across different contexts. Pre-register here.
The Gender and Communication Section has released its December 2025 newsletter, featuring a call for proposals, a call for reviewers, an interview with Haohan Yuan and more.
IAMCR offers a range of awards and grants for authors of papers accepted for presentation at the 2026 conference. These include travel grants, awards recognising outstanding research on Urban Communication, Media Production Automation, Decolonising the Digital, and the Herbert Schiller Memorial Award.
IAMCR books
Public Communication in Freefall is the latest title in the Palgrave/IAMCR book series Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research. It examines the challenges facing political communication in the 2020s, drawing on and critically updating Jay Blumler’s work to explore what publicness and democracy mean in a changing media and political environment.
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
Fighting Polarisation explores how people across the globe resist polarising us–them politics through shared spaces of dialogue and deliberation. Written by IAMCR member Cherian George, it draws on deliberative democracy, social psychology, memory studies, and international case studies to map grassroots efforts that challenge prejudice, counter hate, and reimagine a more inclusive democratic “we.”
By IAMCR member David Hesmondhalgh, this book provides the first international account of how streaming is shaping music culture today by considering the implications of streaming platforms for the production, distribution, and consumption of recorded music around the globe.
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.