The Gender and Communication section has issued its April 2023 newsletter including information about events and publications that might be of interest to its members. Read it here.
IAMCR is saddened to learn of the passing of Binod Agrawal on 28 March 2023. Binod had a long and active association with IAMCR. He will be missed by his many friends and colleagues.
On April 3rd, 2023, the Emerging Scholars Network hosted a workshop for early career media and communication scholars focused on research methods, entitled “Reflections on Research Methods for Media and Communication Scholars". Watch the recording here.
We are thrilled to announce that IAMCR 2023 has received an outstanding number of abstract submissions from authors in 90 countries. More than 2,800 asbtracts were submitted by authors for presentation both online (OCP23) and in Lyon (Lyon23) and almost 1,000 for online presentation only.
The Gender and Communication section has issued its February 2023 newsletter including information about events and publications that might be of interest to its members. Read it here.
The Political Communication Research Section issued its February newsletter with the latest calls for papers, jobs and networking opportunities, publications, and events that might be of interest to the section's members.
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.