IAMCR is pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 Urban Communication Awards: Miao Chu (Xi’an Jiaotong University, China) and Connie Yuan (Cornell University, USA), Hui Wong (McGill University, Canada) and Krishna Priya, (Mizoram University, India).
The event took place on 18-19 April, 2025 in Shanghai, China. It was organised by the School of Media and Communication at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) and sponsored by IAMCR. The theme of the forum was Intelligent Transformation and Communication Innovation.
The Political Communication Research Section issued its April newsletter including updates on Singapore 2025, the latest calls for papers, job opportunities, and publications that might be of interest to the section's members.
The Gender and Communication Section has released its April newsletter, featuring a call for session chairs, an interview to Carolyn M. Byerly, and the 4th International Intersex Forum. Read it here.
On 11 March 2025, the Political Economy Section hosted a webinar to launch the book "Intersectionality, Political Economy, and Media" by Carolyn Byerly. The webinar explained the logic of integrating feminist theory, critical race theory, and critical political economy theory. Watch the recording here.
The Gender and Communication Section has released its February newsletter, featuring a call for session chairs and reviewers for IAMCR 2025, as well as other updates of interest to section members. Read it here.
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
Edited by IAMCR member Mausumi Bhattacharyya and Rajib Shaw, this book provides a thorough coverage of different topics related to climate change, disaster resilience and gender.
Written by IAMCR member By I. Arul Aram, this book examines the nuances of how the media conveys environmental issues, drawing on scientific facts and documenting grassroots realities, and influencing popular perceptions.
Edited by IAMCR member Jaka Primorac and Bård Kleppe, Miikka Pyykkönen, David Wright, this book gathers evidence and case studies from various parts of Europe and across the different sectors that comprise the creative industries, including the visual and performing arts, popular music, the platform economy, and film.
Written by Brett Caraway, this book explores the various schools of thought which have endeavored to understand the interactions between technological development, economic growth, and the movement of material and energy through biological and social systems.