

The Participatory Communication Research Section regularly issues newsletters with information of interest to its members. The January 2024 issue includes information about IAMCR 2024, a call for reviewers, and the upcoming PCR head elections. Read it here.


IAMCR will be offering several awards and grants for members participating in our 2024 conference. These include the Urban Communication Award, the Climate Change Communication Award and the award in memory of Annabelle Sreberny.


IAMCR invites member PhD students to lead a Presidential PhD Research Webinar on a topic of their choice. The webinar provides an opportunity to showcase your work, foster collaboration, and benefit from IAMCR's support. Apply by 22 January 2024.
IAMCR books
Edited by Jack Linchuan Qiu, Shinjoung Yeo and Richard Maxwell (2025)
This book provides a global perspective on labor and technology, exploring resistance, solidarity, and alternatives in digital capitalism.
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.
Members' books
This book by IAMCR member Claire Konkes analyses how news and other media contribute to our expectations and hopes for the role of law during environmental conflict.
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.