17–18 April 2026 - The School of Communication at Shanghai Jiao Tong University will host the second edition of the SJTU–IAMCR Emerging Media Forum. Co-sponsored by IAMCR, the forum will convene under the theme Creative Communication and Empowerment.. Submission deadline 23 February.
Volume 12, Issue 1 of The Political Economy of Communication journal is now available. This special guest-edited issue focuses on communication and climate issues.
An online Extraordinary General Assembly of IAMCR will be held on Monday 9 February 2026 to consider proposed amendments to the IAMCR Statutes and to share an update on preparations for IAMCR 2026 in Galway.
The Communication, Social justice and Democracy (CJD) Working Group shares updates on its January 2026 online meeting, calls for participation in upcoming conferences, and recent publications by its members.
On 29 January, 2026, the Political Economy and the Popular Culture Sections hosted a panel discussion on East Asian Media Culture in the Age of Digital Platforms, focusing on the convergence of popular culture and digital platforms in the East Asian context. Watch the recording here.
On 26 January 2026, the Music, Audio, Radio & Sound Working Group hosted a webinar exploring how global music streaming platforms are reshaping music production, distribution, and consumption across different contexts. Watch the recording here.
IAMCR books
Public Communication in Freefall is the latest title in the Palgrave/IAMCR book series Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research. It examines the challenges facing political communication in the 2020s, drawing on and critically updating Jay Blumler’s work to explore what publicness and democracy mean in a changing media and political environment.
Edited by Sudeshna Roy (2025)
This book delivers an authoritative exploration of a variety of critical conflicts in the world and a spectrum of approaches to peace communication.
Members' books
Authored by IAMCR member Minos-Athanasios Karyotakis, this book examines how and why societal actors may use different names to refer to the same territory. Karyotakis demonstrates the enormous symbolic power that the names of places can hold.
Democratising Spy Watching: Examines how public actors across Southern Africa have stepped in to oversee intelligence-driven digital surveillance where formal oversight mechanisms fall short. Co-edited by Jane Duncan, an IAMCR member, the book highlights public oversight as a critical response to expanding surveillance powers.
Mongrelisation: Reinterprets why diversity and inclusion matter by reclaiming the figure of the “mongrel” as a source of dignity and worth. By IAMCR member Colin Chasi, the book draws on African moral traditions such as Ubuntu and Maat to foreground hybridity, mixing, and crossing as central to human history and culture.
This book examines how sub-Saharan African journalists navigate secondary trauma from reporting violence and crises. Edited by IAMCR members Kealeboga Aiseng and Chikezie E. Uzuegbunam, it foregrounds care, resilience, and mental health in journalistic practice.