With barely three weeks to go, planning is now in high gear for another
exceptional IAMCR conference, to be held in Istanbul, Turkey, July
13-17, under the theme Cities, Creativity, Connectivity.
The
conference will be attended by close to 1000 registered academics and
researchers, participating in some 340 concurrent panel sessions and 24
poster sessions. While the majority of attendees will be established
scholars from Europe and North America, Istanbul will also see
participation from a strong contingent of experienced scholars from the
developing countries and a large number of emerging scholars, young
researchers and students from all continents. . Read more >
Keep Abreast!
Participants
at IAMCR 2011 will be exposed to, and be entertained by a range of
social events, optional tours and special activities, details of which
are available on the conference website. The Local Organizing Committee
(LOC) led by Deniz Bayrakdar, Levent Soysal and Banu Baybars-Hawks, has
been pulling out all stops to ensure that the experience in Istanbul
will be second to none!
Be sure to keep abreast of all activities by also visiting the IAMCR website. You are also urged to remain active with us on both Facebook and Twitter, where the IAMCR's work and developments relating to the Conference will constantly be showcased and monitored.
If you use Twitter, use the hashtag #iamcr2011 and if you post photos or videos on a social networking site, consider using iamcr2011 as a tag so colleagues can find them.
How
should IAMCR responsibly approach the crisis of carbon emissions and
climate change? Should we even stop meeting? How should we balance the
extreme urgency of planetary climate change policy inside our own zone
of influence within our own Association, with existing IAMCR
priorities, statutes and commitments? Are they compatible? What are the
immediate steps we can and must take on this issue? And the next steps
after those?
Read excerpts
from some recent exchanges among International Council Members on this
world-historic challenge, likely the most important issue ever to face
the Association. We need to ask ourselves how does this link to the
question of fees, global South participation, conference access for
emerging scholars, scholars in precarious employment, graduate
students? Are there any Internet-based solutions? Read more >
In early March 2011, John Downing, IAMCR Vice-President, invited
members of the extended International Council mailing list to submit
their thoughts on the future role of the IC. He wrote:
“…while the IC is clearly a good
idea, its actual policy-intervention procedures could really do with
sharpening up, not least in the Internet age."
Read more >
Briefings on the Contemporary Media Situation
As we prepare
to celebrate IAMCR's 2011 conference in Istanbul this issue of the
newsletter offers two briefings on contemporary Turkey's media
situation. The first examines the general industrial structure while
the second reviews cinema and politics in contemporary Turkey.
We include these contributions from two Turkish university experts in
order to give IAMCR participants a basic sense for the media scenario
in Turkey at the present time. The dynamic processes underway in Turkey
are crucial vectors within developments in the so-called 'Middle East',
and media of many kinds are at the heart of these changes. These two
briefings will give non-Turkish participants some basic knowledge and
hopefully will enable and stimulate fruitful discussions with our
Turkish colleagues regarding their mediascape.
Hakan
Tuncel from Izmir University of Economics, Faculty of Communication,
provides us with an overview of Turkey's vibrant media industry. In
this piece he analyzes the evolution of Turkish media in recent
years Read more >
Cinema
and Politics: Turkish Cinema and the New Europe covers a wide range of
essays by scholars from different corners of Europe like England,
Italy, Serbia and Turkey and is enhanced with contributions from the
USA. The themes mainly focus on films, directors and producers of the
old European space and beyond. Read more >
Communication and Citizenship: Rethinking Crisis and Change
The title of this book, Communication and Citizenship: Rethinking
Crisis and Change, was the general theme of IAMCR's 2010 Conference
hosted by the Communication and Society Research Centre of the
University of Minho in Braga, Portugal in July 2010. The book is a
collection of the conference's plenary addresses on the general theme
in the hope that their publication will keep the debate alive. Read more >
The Handbook of Global Media and Communication Policy
R. Mansell and M. Raboy (Eds)
New IAMCR Book Series
The
first of a series of three handbooks co-published by IAMCR and
Wiley-Blackwell, The Handbook of Global Media and Communication Policy
offers insights into the boundaries of this field of study, assesses
why it is important, who is affected, and with what political,
economic, social and cultural consequences.
The series, which includes The Handbook of Media Audiences by Virginia
Nightingale (ed.), and The Handbook of Political Economy of
Communications by Janet Wasko, Graham Murdock, and Helena
Sousa (eds.), is edited by Annabelle Sreberny, President of IAMCR and
Director
of Studies in Global Media and Post-National Communication at School of
Oriental and African Studies in London. Read more >
This document by John Sinclair (Australia) is a considered reflection on the earlier intervention by Professor Gabriel Kaplún
(Uruguay) on the problems and prospects of multiple language use for
our future conferences. Please read both in preparation for informed
discussion with all colleagues at our upcoming conference, and let us
know your practical responses. The Association has been looking at this
issue for nearly two years now, and difficult as it is, we need to
frame an honest and effective and affordable policy. We can't do it
without your input. Read more >
The
IAMCR Emerging Scholars’ Network serves all emerging scholars: MA and
PhD students, post-docs, new professors, and anyone who feels newer to
academia. It was founded in 1998. Created as an informal network, it is
now a full-fledged IAMCR section, with representatives in the
International Council of the association. Read more >
IAMCR 2.0
If you have information to share, a question, or a topic you want to discuss, visit IAMCR's IAMCR's Facebook page and share it with our more than 1,900 "fans" (undoubtedly more than 2,000 by the time IAMCR 2011 begins). There is also an event page for the 2011 conference. You can also join IAMCR on Twitter and subscribe to the IAMCR Announcements list.
Whether you'll be with us in Istanbul or not, keep up-to-date with activities by visiting the IAMCR website and keeping an eye the Facebook event page. If you're "tweeting" from Istanbul use #iamcr2011 as hashtag, and if you post pictures or videos to social networking sites like flickr ort Youtibe, use iamcr2011 as a tag
IAMCR
members are invited to announce their recently published books and book
chapters to the IAMCR community and website visitors. Information is
published in the Members' Books section of the website and highlighted
books appear on the front page.
A selection of the most recent appears below. Visit the Members' Books page for more >
Media/Society: Industries, Images, and Audiences (4th Ed)
David Croteau, William Hoynes and Stefania Milan
The Handbook of Global Media and Communication Policy
Robin Mansell and Marc Raboy (eds.)
New Media Technologies and User Empowerment
Jo Pierson, Enid Mante-Meijer & Eugène Loos (eds.)
Campaign Communication and Political Marketing
Philippe Maarek
Foundations of Critical Media and Information Studies
Christian Fuchs
Media matters in the cultural contradictions of the "information society" - Towards a human rights-based governance
Divina Frau-Meigs
The Production of Modernization: Daniel Lerner, Mass Media, and 'The Passing of Traditional Society'
Hemant Shah
After the Czars and Commissars: Journalism in Authoritarian Post-Soviet Central Asia
Eric Freedman & Richard Shafer (eds.)
News 2.0
Martin Hirst
Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media
John H. D. Downing (ed.)
Political Economy of Media Transformation in South Africa
A. Olorunnisola and K. G. Tomaselli (eds.)
Penser la Société de l'Écran. Dispositifs et usages
Divina Frau-Meigs
Global Advertising, Attitudes, and Audiences
Tony Wilson
Trials of Engagement - The Future of US Public Diplomacy
Ali Fisher & Scott Lucas (eds.)
The Geopolitics of Representation in Foreign News: Explaining Darfur
Bella Mody
IAMCR 2010 Plenary Addresses Published
IAMCR and Wiley-Blackwell Book Series 
Emerging Scholars Network 
