IAMCR invites the submission of abstracts for its 2025 conference to be held in Singapore from 13 to 17 July 2025 hosted by the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University. The theme of the conference is Communicating Environmental Justice: Many Voices, One Planet.
28-29 March, 2025 - IAMCR will co-sponsor an International Symposium for PhD students and early-career scholars in China. The event is co-organized by Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) and the Communication University of China (CUC). Submission deadline 15 December 2024.
5 December, 2024 - The Publications Committee hosted the second in its round table series on open access. The webinar explored the practical aspects of open access publishing from the point of view of those at the center of our existing system - academic publishers. Watch the recording here.
The Participatory Communication Research Section's November newsletter is out! This issue includes news about IAMCR 2025, its call for papers, a call for reviewers and PCR members' updates and publications. Read it here.
At its general assembly during the 2024 conference, IAMCR approved the establishment of four new working groups: the Communication, Social Justice and Democracy Working Group, the Inclusive Communication and People with Disabilities Working Group, the Multimodal Communication Research Working Group, and the Organisational Communication Working Group.
17 April, 2025 - The Digital Divide Working Group in collaboration with the Mass Media Research Group at the University of Sharjah (UAE) invites submissions for a research symposium on "Digital Capital and Political Power" to be held on 17 April 2025 at the University of Sharjah. The deadline for submissions is 20 January 2025.
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
By Nico Carpentier and Jeffrey Wimmer, this book is a theoretical reflection on the intersection of democracy and media through a constructionist lens.
This book, edited by Daniel Biltereyst and Ernest Mathijs, brings together contemporary and historical views on censorship, covering fifteen countries, including Argentina, France, Turkey, Japan and the United States.
By Daya Thussu, this book highlights the growing importance of digital communication in legitimizing and promoting the geopolitical and economic goals of leading powers. The ideas and arguments advanced in it privilege a reading of geopolitical processes and examples from the perspective of the global South.
By Raymond Archee and Myra Gurney, this book explains key communication concepts and effective strategies that students will use to communicate in their professional lives, no matter what career they ultimately choose.