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Crisis Communication

The Crisis Communication Working Group aims at providing a forum for scholars researching the mediation of political and economic crisis and 'scandals', wars and terrorism, disasters, catastrophes and risks, combining global and local perspectives. We adopt a broad understanding of crisis communication with theoretical contributions from different perspectives and disciplines and hope to stimulate fruitful discussions about threat-image constructions and the consequences for democracy and civil rights. This means that we avoid a more narrow-eyed public relations perspective concerned with offering 'best practice' advice for commercial corporations. Today studies on the field are conducted in many different disciplines, media- and communication studies and journalism studies being among them.

Within the IAMCR the academic debate about these topics has been going on in many different sections and working groups. We think the field of crises communication will benefit from having a common meeting point for communication scholars working both with journalism studies and political communication..

Chair: Ester Pollack [Contact]
Vice-Chair: Sigurd Allern [Contact]


IAMCR 2012 - Crisis Communication Working Group Call for Papers

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The Crisis Communication Working Group of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) invites submissions for the IAMCR 2012 conference to be held in Durban, South Africa, July 15-19, 2012. The conference will be held at the Howard College Campus of the University of KwaZulu Natal (UKZN).

Deadline for submission of abstracts and panel proposals (300-500 words) is February 14, 2012.
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Istanbul 2011 - Crisis Communication Working Group Call for Papers
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The Working Group on Crisis Communication invites proposals for papers and panels to be presented at the 2011 International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) Conference in Istanbul, Turkey, July 13-17, 2011. The theme for the 2011 conference will be 'Cities, Connectivity and Creativity'.

Papers from the full range of crisis communication research will be considered.
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Braga 2010 - Emerging Theme on Crisis Communication Call for Papers

braga_2010The Emerging Theme on Crisis Communication invites proposals for papers to be presented at the 2010 International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) Conference in Braga, Portugal, July 18-22, 2010. Papers from the full range of crisis communication research will be considered.

Key themes will include:

  • Rhetorical communication strategies in a digital age
  • Real pandemics and 'media pandemics'
  • The role of new social media in crisis communication
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