IAMCR - International Association for Media and Communication Research

IAMCR announced the winners of the Schiller and Smythe Awards at its 2011 Annual Conference in Istanbul.

The Herbert I Schiller award is named after a communication scholar whose critical studies of international communication and of the political economy of information substantially opened up intellectual debate within the U.S. academy and beyond, beginning in the late 1960s. Dallas Smythe's critical studies of the political economy of media have been foundational in that branch of study. Both of them were long-time activists withn IAMCR.

The IAMCR Prizes in Memory of Herbert I. Schiller and Dallas W. Smythe are awarded to students and young scholars every two years. They will be next awarded at IAMCR's 2011 Congress in Istanbul.

The deadline for submissions to the 2011 edition of the Schiller and Smythe awards was 1 May 2011.

IAMCR announced the winners of the Smythe and Schiller Awards at its 2008 Congress in Stockholm on 23 July.

Sara Bannerman  received the IAMCR Prize in Memory of Dallas W. Smythe for her contribution "Berne Buster: Canada and the Berne Convention, 1887-1908" and Cho-wen Chu was awarded the IAMCR Prize in Memory of Herbert I. Schiller for the paper "A comparative Review of Media Globalization in China and Taiwan".

The IAMCR Prizes in Memory of Herbert I. Schiller and Dallas W. Smythe are awarded to students and young scholars every two years at the IAMCR General Meeting. They will be next awarded at IAMCR's 2008 Congress in Stockholm.

The deadline for submissions to the 2008 edition of the Schiller and Smythe awards is 16 May 2008.