IAMCR - International Association for Media and Communication Research

Those listed under "Emerging Themes" are not official IAMCR Sections or Working Groups. IAMCR has agreed to provide them with a place in its website as a means of promoting constructive discussions and fostering their further development.

Emerging Theme on Crisis Communication

The aim of the emerging theme on crisis communication is to provide a forum at IAMCR conferences for scholars researching the mediation of political and economic crisis and ‘scandals’, wars and catastrophes, disasters and risks, combining global and local perspectives. The aim is to be a meeting point for communication scholars working both with journalism studies and communication management.

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. As an emerging theme we hope to stimulate fruitful discussions about threat-image constructions and the consequences for democracy and civil rights.

Emerging Theme Leaders:

Sigurd Allern [Contact]
Ester Pollack [Contact]