IAMCR - International Association for Media and Communication Research

Annabelle Sreberny, President

I am delighted to have been elected President of IAMCR from the 2008 congresss in Stockholm.

My academic base is the Centre for Media and Film Studies at the School of Asian and African Studies (SOAS), part of the University of London.  Our remit is to study developments in media, communication and film in the non-Western world.

For over thirty years, since before the revolution of 1979, I have been working on Iran and its mediated cultural environment, with particular interest in processes of democratization and participation, especially for women. I'm currently working on a book on Iranian blogging, Blogestan, to be published by I. B. Tauris Publishers. I also interested in the broader developments in the media landscape of the Middle East and am on the editorial board of the new Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication.

I have a strong interest in diasporic formations and am involved in a major AHRC-funded research project within its "Diasporas" programme that focuses on the BBC World Service as a cultural contact-zone between diasporas and homes (www.open.ac.uk/socialsciences/diasporas/ )

I continue to work in the area of globalization and culture, and am particularly interested in how macro-level and micro-level proccesses impact upon each other. I also continue to think about international news flows and actors and the role of mediated representation in diplomacy.

Have a look at www.soas.ac.uk/mediaandfilm/staff/

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John Downing, Vice President

John Downing's research and teaching interests are in globalization, culture and media; social movement media; media, 'race' and ethnicity; and cinemas of the global South. He also regularly teaches a graduate course on theories of culture and media.

He is currently editing a one-volume encyclopedia of social movement media. He is founding director of the Global Media Research Center, in the College of Mass Communication and Media Arts at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and previously was John T. Jones, Jr., Centennial Professor at the University of Texas, Austin (1990-2003).

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Ruth Teer-Tomaselli, Vice President

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Hopeton Dunn, Secretary General

Hopeton Dunn is a leading communications scholar, researcher and policy analyst at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica. He holds an endowed Chair in Telecommunications Policy and Management and is Academic Director of the University’s Master’s Degree Programme in Telecommunications Policy and Technology. 

In addition to being the Secretary General (Acting) of the IAMCR, he is also Co-Chairman of the Association’s Task Force on Global Media and Communication Policies. Hopeton is an Associate Editor of the South African Journal, Critical Arts, and an Advisory Board Member for the Journal, Telecommunications Policy.

His books and academic papers have been in the areas of public policies in New Media and Telecommunications, Theories of Globalization, and the Political Economy of African and Caribbean Media. He has delivered lectures or presented on distinguished academic panels on these subjects in the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, Asia, Europe and North America.

He currently serves as Chairman of Jamaica’s regulatory Broadcasting Commission and a member of the country’s National Commission for UNESCO.

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Beate Josephi, Treasurer

Beate Josephi came to media and communication via a circuitous route, starting at history and literature, teaching briefly in both, chairing Australia’s premier literary festival, doing radio for many years, and arriving at full-time academia accordingly late. Her field of expertise is journalism, in particular the areas of journalism education and newsroom studies.

From 2002 – 2008 she chaired IAMCR’s Journalism Research and Education section (previously Professional Education section), before taking on the role of treasurer.

Personal profile at ECU School of Communication & Arts page

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Robin Mansell, Immediate Past President

Robin Mansell serves on the Executive Board as Past President  of IAMCR. She is Professor of New Media and Head of the Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science. She also directs the MSc in Communication, Information and Society. Her research focuses on the social, economic, and political issues arising from new information and communication technologies. She is a leading contributor to policy debates on the potential and risks associated with new media and the challenges presented by global inequality. Her publications include The Oxford Handbook of Information and Communication Technologies (Oxford University Press 2007).

http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/whosWho/robinMansell.htm

MSc Communication, Information and Society (Research)

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Bruce Girard, ex-officio member (non-voting)

Bruce Girard is the director of Fundación Comunica. Comunica is IAMCR's virtual secretariat, taking care of membership and strategic communications. Girard's current research interests include community media, pro-poor telecommunications policy and regulation, civil society participation in policymaking and the use of ICTs by rural radio stations in developing countries.