IAMCR Singapore 2025 Communicating Environmental Justice

13-17 July 2025
Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information / Nanyang Technological University

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Zhuhai, China, 19–20 August. Organised by Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University and co-sponsored by IAMCR, the Interactive Narratives Conference 2025 explores "Narrative Convergence: Technology and Culture," examining how emerging media, AI, and storytelling practices intersect with cultural identity.
The 2025 FAO/IAMCR Rural Communication Services Awards winners are: Subekti W. Priyadharma (Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia), Mohammad Sahid Ullah (University of Chittagong, Bangladesh), and Li Zhang (Tsinghua University, China).

The Political Communication Research Section issued its June newsletter, where you can find updates on IAMCR Singapore, LATAM and Section Paper Awards, job postings, call for papers and recent publications from our members.

The draft schedule of IAMCR 2025 is now available for consultation. It currently only shows parallel sessions, primarily the paper presentation sessions of our thematic sections and working groups.

The voting period for the Sections and Working Groups heads election has ended. We would like to thank all of the candidates who expressed their willingness to serve as a section or working group officer and also to all who voted. See the results here.

IAMCR is pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 Urban Communication Award: Miao Chu (Xi’an Jiaotong University, China) and Connie Yuan (Cornell University, USA), Hui Wong (McGill University, Canada) and Krishna Priya, (Mizoram University, India).

IAMCR books

By Chikezie E. Uzuegbunam, Children and Young People’s Digital Lifeworlds is the 22nd title in the Palgrave/IAMCR book series Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research. The book explores the ways in which adolescents in Nigeria domesticate technology and the role of digital gatekeepers such as parents, guardians, and teachers in their digital lifeworlds.

By Aliaa Dakroury, The Instant World Report focuses on Canada's pioneering role in shaping the international understanding of the right to communicate, particularly through the Canadian Telecommission Studies of 1969. The 23rd title in the Palgrave/IAMCR book series Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research.

Members' books

This book by IAMCR member Claire Konkes analyses how news and other media contribute to our expectations and hopes for the role of law during environmental conflict.

Written by IAMCR member Anastasia Denisova, this book explores the urgent challenges of communicating climate change in the media. It goes to the very heart of what makes humans care about stories enough to act.

Edited by IAMCR members Nelson Ribeiro and Barbie Zelizer, this critical and timely collection argues for the centrality of propaganda in discussions about the contemporary media landscape and its informational ecosystems.

This memoir, completed just before longtime IAMCR member Vincent Mosco’s sudden death, chronicles the last half century of research, activism and teaching in critical communication, technology and society from the perspective of one of its pioneering figures.