On 29 January, 2026, the Political Economy and the Popular Culture Sections hosted a panel discussion on East Asian Media Culture in the Age of Digital Platforms, focusing on the convergence of popular culture and digital platforms in the East Asian context. Watch the recording here.
On 26 January 2026, the Music, Audio, Radio & Sound Working Group hosted a webinar exploring how global music streaming platforms are reshaping music production, distribution, and consumption across different contexts. Watch the recording here.
The Gender and Communication Section has released its December 2025 newsletter, featuring a call for proposals, a call for reviewers, an interview with Haohan Yuan and more.
The Participatory Communication Research Section has issued its December newsletter featuring the CfP for IAMCR2026, a call for participation at the conference, and updates from members. Read it here.
IAMCR invites the submission of abstracts for its 2026 conference, to be held from 28 June to 2 July 2026 in Galway, Ireland, hosted by the University of Galway. The deadline for submission is 3 February 2026 at 23:59 UTC.
Two new e-books from IAMCR’s Visual Culture Working Group explore how arts, technologies, and digital media shape today’s global cultures, examining algorithms, images, and audiences through creative, critical, and interdisciplinary perspectives.
IAMCR books
Edited by María T. Soto-Sanfiel and Virpi Salojärvi
This book redefines how we understand journalism in today’s emotionally charged world, bringing together 60 leading scholars from across five continents to investigate how emotion shapes journalism theory, production practices, content, and audience engagement.
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.
Members' books
Written by IAMCR member Neil Thurman this book explores the multifaceted dynamics of media change across technologies and societies.
Written by IAMCR members Lars Willnat, David H. Weaver and Cleveland Wilhoit this book offers a timely, comparative portrait of journalism during a period of crisis for both the nation and the news media.
Written by IAMCR member Jörg Becker this book explores the early political and intellectual development of Richard Sorge, drawing on 43 of his previously unpublished journalistic articles from 1920–1922.
Written by IAMCR member Massimo Ragnedda and Maria Laura Ruiu this book introduces the concept of the Inequality Regime of AI. The authors trace a profound transition from inequalities of participation to inequalities of prediction.