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.
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.
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.