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The Community Communication Section focuses on communication that originates, circulates and resonates with communities, broadly defined. It seeks to advance research on the objectives, practices and dynamics of community communication expressed across all types of media and symbol systems and formed around locality, politics, socio-economics, language, ethnicity, gender, or other interests and intersections. This Section welcomes both theoretical and applied research, as well as research conducted at both micro and macro levels of analysis.

Chair: Per Jauert (*) [contact]
Vice-chair: Ellie Rennie [contact]
Vice-chair: Gabriele Hadl [contact]

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This Section encompasses research on issues of media access, participation and reception; media projects undertaken by marginalised and under-represented groups; the development and support of public and community-based media institutions and infrastructures; the production and distribution of community and alternative media; and theoretical contributions to the research, evaluation and the practice of community communication.

Members of the Community Communication Section.

In memory of Professor Ole Prehn

ole_prehn_ Ole Prehn was honoured and remembered by Per Jauert at the opening plenary of the Mexico Conference. He was further honoured by Nicholas W. Jankowski at a session titled "Trends in Community Communication Research – A memorial session for Ole Prehn" held at the Community Communication Section.

Click on the links below to read these tributes:

- In Remembrance of Ole Prehn - By Per Jauert

- Remembering Ole Prehn - By Nicholas W. Jankowski

Click here to read condolence messages, memories and stories about Ole.

Braga 2010 - Round Table Policies for Community Communication Call for Papers

The Community Communication Section and the Global Media Policy Working Group invite paper proposals for a roundtable on 'Policies for Community Communication'. The purpose of the roundtable is to discuss the policy situation for diverse types of grassroots-based, civil society-oriented and self-organised media, from community radio to blogs, and to distill a policy agenda.
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Braga 2010 - Community Communication Section Call for Papers

braga_2010 The general theme for IAMCR’s 2010 conference is 'Communication and Citizenship: Rethinking Crisis and Change'. The Community Communication Section is calling for papers that investigate the relationship between community or alternative media, empowerment, social policy and citizenship.

Community media projects have traditionally sought to provide access to under-represented groups. Recent research has highlighted that these practices contest and redefine conventional notions of ‘citizenship’.

Stockholm 2008 - Community Communication Section Call for Papers

Stockholm 2008 - Community Communication Section Call for Papers EXTENDED DEADLINE: 15 FEBRUARY 2008!

IAMCR’s Community Communication section is the premier international forum for community and alternative media studies. This is the place for research on media practices that differ significantly from government and market-dominated paradigms. These media originate, circulate and resonate from the sphere of civil society, yet may interact with both state and market. Community media serve specific cultural or geographic communities. The field includes do-it-yourself media, media for social change, and a wide range of non-governmental and non-commercial practices using all kinds of communication technologies.