29-30 May, 2025 - Galway, Ireland - The Community Communication and Alternative Media Section is organising a face-to-face conference in Galway, Ireland, to explore how critical engagement with media can foster more inclusive, equitable societies. The submission deadline is 15 April.

Collaborative Change: Towards Inclusive Rural Communication Services is a collaboration between the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and IAMCR. It showcases the work of IAMCR's Rural Communication Working Group and the FAO/IAMCR Rural Communication Services Research Awards.

On 17 January, the newly created Inclusive Communication and People with Disabilities Working Group held a webinar exploring inclusive communication from the point of view of those with visible and invisible disabilities, broadly conceived. Watch the recording here.
On 9 January 2025 the Political Economy Section, along with guest panelist Peichi Chung (Chinese University of Hong Kong), delivered an interactive workshop to help scholars prepare abstracts for the 2025 Singapore Conference. The session covered topics such as evaluation criteria, reviewer roles, and the abstract selection process.
The recording of the webinar hosted on 13 December 2024 by the Communication Policy & Technology (CPT) Section and the National Institute of Science in Informational Disputes and Sovereignties (INCT DSI, Brazil) is now available. The session explored the complexities of digital sovereignty from a Global South perspective.

The Gender and Communication Section has released its December newsletter, featuring a call for topics, abstracts and reviewers for IAMCR 2025, funding opportunities, a report of the October business meeting, recent publications, and other updates of interest to section members. Read it here.

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

Edited by IAMCR members Anna Gladkova and Elena Vartanova, together with Shi-xu, this book looks at the rise of new digital divides and reveals how these inequalities affect cross-cultural communication from a cultural discourse studies perspective.

Edited by IAMCR member Abiodun Salawu and Kehinde Oyesomi, this volume highlights the benefits of using African languages in marketing communications, including increased understanding and resonance with the target audience.

Collaborative Change: Towards Inclusive Rural Communication Services is a collaboration between the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and IAMCR. It showcases the work of IAMCR's Rural Communication Working Group and the FAO/IAMCR Rural Communication Services Research Awards.

By Nico Carpentier and Jeffrey Wimmer, this book is a theoretical reflection on the intersection of democracy and media through a constructionist lens.