The Gender and Communication Section has released its February newsletter, featuring a call for session chairs and reviewers for IAMCR 2025, as well as other updates of interest to section members. Read it here.
The Inclusive Communication and People with Disabilities Working Group recently organised two webinars on inclusive communication, bringing together leading scholars to advance international discussions on inclusivity, accessibility, and equity in media and communication research. Watch the recordings here.
The Music, Audio, Radio and Sound Working Group has released its January newsletter with a call for papers and call for reviewers for IAMCR 2025, and the Christchurch 2024 report.
The recording of the webinar "Democracy and media: Reflections from around the world" hosted by the Communication, Social Justice and Democracy Working Group is now available here. The webinar reflects on the intersection of democracy and media in India, Indonesia, Turkey and Brazil.
The Health Communication Working Group has released its January newsletter with a tribute to Professor Warren Feek, a recap on Christchurch 2024, a call for reviewers for IAMCR 2025 and news of interest to its members.
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).
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
Written by IAMCR member Anastasia Denisova, this book explores the urgent challenges of communicating climate change in the media. It goes to the very heart of what makes humans care about stories enough to act.
Edited by IAMCR members Nelson Ribeiro and Barbie Zelizer, this critical and timely collection argues for the centrality of propaganda in discussions about the contemporary media landscape and its informational ecosystems.
This memoir, completed just before longtime IAMCR member Vincent Mosco’s sudden death, chronicles the last half century of research, activism and teaching in critical communication, technology and society from the perspective of one of its pioneering figures.
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.