On 18 November 2025, the Political Economy Section hosted a webinar to discuss World War and World Peace in the Age of Digital Capitalism. The session explored key ideas from the book and invited reflection on violence and peace in the context of global digital capitalism. Watch the recording here.
The Gender and Communication Section has released its October newsletter, featuring an interview with GEN cherished member Dr. Eni Maryani from Indonesia, a call for reviewers, a report on the GEN business meeting and more. Read it here.
IAMCR 2026 will be hosted by the University of Galway in Ireland, from 28 June to 2 July 2026 with the conference theme Peripheries and Connections: Media, Communication, and Transformation. Watch this short video highlighting the city’s vibrant culture, stunning landscapes, and warm hospitality.
On 11 and 12 November, the Participatory Communication Research and Community Communication and Alternative Media Sections hosted a two-day webinar on the theme "Problematising Participatory Communication and Transformation". Watch the recordings here.
Deadline: 30 November 2025 - The Organisational Communication Working Group calls for chapters exploring environmental justice through organisational communication, including how institutions, stakeholders, and technologies shape sustainable practices, ethical dialogue, and climate-related decision-making.
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.
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
Co-authored by Marína Urbániková, Klára Smejkal, Iveta Jansová and Lenka Waschková Císařová this book explores the state and future of public service media (PSM).
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.