IAMCR - International Association for Media and Communication Research

It's time for IAMCR members to renew their membership for 2012. All individual and institutional members should have received an email recently reminding them that their 2012 membership fees are due.

If you aren't yet a member, join online and become part of the worldwide professional organisation in the field of media and communication research.

The 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.

The deadline for submissions is February 14, 2012.

IAMCR Secretary General, Hopeton Dunn, has been reappointed for a second five-year term as chairman of the Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica, the regulatory body for radio, television, and cable TV in Jamaica.

In addition to his position with IAMCR, Professor Dunn is director of the Telecommunications Policy and Management programme at the Mona School of Business, University of the West Indies (UWI) and professor of Communications Policy and Digital Media at the UWI.

News article: Dunn reappointed Broadcasting Commission chairman, Daily Gleaner (Jamaica), 4 November 2011.

In recent years free, on line journals, many of them open access and peer-reviewed, have begun to both challenge and complement traditional academic publishing. This is a welcome development and IAMCR is developing a resource on its website with links to journals in the field of media and communications.

In 2011, IAMCR offered a travel grant to a student of the University of Minho -host of IAMCR's 2010 conference.

Read below Carla Cerqueira's account of the 2011 conference and how it provided her with an ideal framework for networking opportunities and cultural experiences.

Participants at the International Communications Association's (ICA) 2011 annual conference are invited to the IAMCR panel Critical Approaches to Communication @ the Center which will take place on Friday, 27 May, 15:00-16:15, at Paine Room.

We, the members of the Executive Board of the International Association for Media and Communication Research, based in six different countries, wish to state our support for the restoration of free public communication and the move to an authentic democracy for all Egyptian and Tunisian citizens, as for the citizens of other nations who suffer from the violent repression of these rights.

The UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) is holding an open consultation as part of its five-year review of implementation and follow-up to the World Summit on the Information Society.

In an extraordinary meeting on 6 December, 2010, the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development (UNCSTD) decided to create a Working Group on Improvements to the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) with a membership made up only of government representatives.

It's time for IAMCR members to renew their membership for 2011. All individual and institutional members should have received an email recently reminding them that their 2011 membership fees are due.

If you aren't yet a member, join online and become part of the worldwide professional organisation in the field of media and communication research.