IAMCR - International Association for Media and Communication Research

IAMCR's 2010 Conference was held 18-22 July 2010 in Braga, Portugal. The more than 1,200 abstracts accepted for presentation are now available for download from IAMCR's website in PDF format. Abstracts are organised by their respective Sections and Working Groups.

Click here to consult the abstracts.

IAMCR conferences enjoy a very warm and informal atmosphere, providing the opportunity for researchers to talk and discuss with emerging scholars, professors and experienced academics.

Subba Rao GM -an IAMCR travel grant recipient- tells us about his first experience with an IAMCR conference, both from the human and academic perspectives.

Walys Becerril was one of eleven young people from low-income countries to receive a scholarship to help defray the costs of attending and presenting a paper at IAMCR's 2010 conference in Braga, Portugal.

This was Walys' second time at an IAMCR conference – the first was in 2009 when she was one of the many volunteer students who contributed to the success of the conference in Mexico.

Follow IAMCR's 2010 conference online whether or not you are in Braga with the Twitter hashtag #iamcr2010, via IAMCR's Facebook Page, the IAMCR 2010 Facebook Event page and the conference's blog.

If you are are blogging from the IAMCR Conference, or know of someone who is, send the URL to amailhos[AT]iamcr.org and we'll add it to a conference blogs list.

Just in time for the conference we have introduced some changes to IAMCR's website. We added a column on the right where we can add modules to highlight activities and content on the site and elsewhere.

The draft of the General Assembly Agenda is now available. The event will take place in the Auditorium B1 (CP 2) at 4.30pm, 22 July, right before the Closing Ceremony.

At last count there were 982 participants registered for this year's Congress in Braga, Portugal. If you haven't already done so, visit the conference website and register online. Register by 25 June and save EUR 50 off the full registration fee.

IAMCR/Panos London Joint Plenary in Braga

This year IAMCR is sharing an open plenary session with Panos London. The session will share and discuss three case studies from Africa that will demonstrate innovations, challenges and opportunities for creating spaces to improve citizenship through communications.

The session’s objective is to provide a platform for collaborative thinking and projects in communication and citizenship for African practitioners and theorists.

With support from UNESCO, IAMCR has been able to offer five travel grants of USD 2,500 to defray the cost of participation of researchers from Least Developed Countries and Small Developing Island States at this year's conference in Braga, Portugal. The awards offered to researchers from Bangladesh, Cuba, Ethiopia, Nepal and Yemen who will prepare and present papers at the conference.

The papers will be presented within the programmes of the Commnication, Policy and Technology Section and the Environment, Science and Risk Working Group.

IAMCR has awarded six travel grants worth up to US$2,000 each to members who will be attending and presenting papers at the 2010 Conference in Braga, Portugal, 18-22 July 2010. The grants will go towards offsetting the cost of participating in the conference.

All of the awardees are from low-income countries, and have abstracts accepted for presentation at the conference.