IAMCR - International Association for Media and Communication Research

   
International Association for Media and Communication Research
Asociación Internacional de Estudios en Comunicación Social
Association Internationale des Études et Recherches sur l'Information et la Communication
   
IAMCR is the worldwide professional organisation in the field of media and communication research. Its members promote global inclusiveness and excellence within the best traditions of critical research in the field. 
  
IAMCR 2012 Call for Proposals - Deadline 14 February

erythrina_caffraThe International Association for Media and Communication Research invites submissions of abstracts for papers and panel proposals for the 2012 IAMCR conference to be held from July 15-19, 2012 at the Howard College Campus of the University of KwaZulu Natal (UKZN) in Durban, South Africa.

The conference will be held under the general theme, 'South-North Conversations'. The theme reflects the asymmetry of global communication flows, but without implying the negatives that usually accompany discussions of the 'digital divide'. The theme also calls for balanced and empowering narratives that do not regard those in ‘the South’ as victims primarily in need of handouts from the more affluent.
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IAMCR 2012: An overview of conference plans

Howard College CampusAll roads lead to Durban in South Africa from July 15 to 19 when academic experts, researchers and emerging scholars from all continents will assemble for five rigorous days of discourse and analysis at the 2012 edition of the IAMCR Annual Conference series.

Up to a thousand delegates, from Africa, Europe, Asia, North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Australasia, will descend on the Howard College Campus of the University of KwaZulu Natal in the coastal city of Durban, marking the first time that the Association will be hosting one of its conferences in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Wikileaks @ IAMCR 2011: Lessons and Perspectives

wikileaks_logoA pair of well-attended Special Sessions were held at IAMCR 2011 Conference which examined the implications of WikiLeaks for the field of media and communications. The first session, entitled 'Lessons from/for WikiLeaks: Perspectives from Media and Communications', offered perspectives from both practitioners and academics regarding WikiLeaks and the wider issues the project poses to the field of media and communications.

The two sessions served as a springboard for an edited volume which will feature contributions from participants involved in both panels More details on this edited collection will be released soon.
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The Politics of Naming

asrebernyIAMCR President, Annabelle Sreberny, writes about the theme of IAMCR 2012: South-North Conversations

Names are political. Calling your child Ronald, Osama or Facebook is meaningful. City streets are often renamed after political upheavals or to memorialise significant events.  There is also a long history of discursive struggle about how to refer to the planet that we inhabit, especially in the post-World War Two context.

The “Third World” was coined in the 1950s. It was adopted politically to signify a plague on both the hegemonies – Western and sovietised!  It became connected to the Non-Aligned Movement,  triggering the naming of the other two worlds. When the Berlin Wall fell, so did the tripartite ‘worlds’ and a new period of American hegemony seemed to be ushered in on the wings of globalization.
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Uprising: The Internet's Unintended Consequences

uprising_the_internet_s_unintended_consequencesMarcus Breen

New book by IAMCR member

Utilizing a transdisciplinary approach, Uprising examines the way transgressive knowledge circulates in places and spaces where communication regulation has been removed. In doing so, the book offers a new approach to proletarianization. It is based on the theory that the deregulation of the digital infrastructure allows transgressive knowledge to be mobilized in ways that remake political economy.

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