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.
The Inclusive Communication and People with Disabilities Working Group recently organised two webinars on inclusive communication, bringing together leading scholars to advance international discussions on inclusivity, accessibility, and equity in media and communication research. Watch the recordings here.
The Music, Audio, Radio and Sound Working Group has released its January newsletter with a call for papers and call for reviewers for IAMCR 2025, and the Christchurch 2024 report.
The recording of the webinar "Democracy and media: Reflections from around the world" hosted by the Communication, Social Justice and Democracy Working Group is now available here. The webinar reflects on the intersection of democracy and media in India, Indonesia, Turkey and Brazil.
The Health Communication Working Group has released its January newsletter with a tribute to Professor Warren Feek, a recap on Christchurch 2024, a call for reviewers for IAMCR 2025 and news of interest to its members.
28-29 March, 2025 - IAMCR will co-sponsor an International Symposium for PhD students and early-career scholars in China. The event is co-organized by Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) and the Communication University of China (CUC).
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.