The Participatory Communication Research Section regularly issues newsletters with information of interest to its members. The January 2022 issue includes a reminder about the abstract deadline for IAMCR Beijing 2022, a call for reviewers for the IAMCR Beijing 2022 abstracts, and a call to join the PCR Facebook Group.

IAMCR is initiating the Presidential PhD Research Webinars to open up channels for greater engagement and participation, keep IAMCR's vibrant and collegial spirit, foster membership engagement outside of the main conference times, and provide more visibility for the research that early-stage scholars do.

The Islam and Media Working Group is pleased to announce that three awards for outstanding papers will be offered to members of the working group presenting papers at the online conference IAMCR Beijing 2022.

The Gender and Communication Section has released its December 2021 newsletter including information about forthcoming events, the call for papers for IAMCR 2022, and publications that might be of interest to the section's members.

This one-day virtual symposium focuses upon the specific non-Western context of digital political communication and women. While much research has been undertaken and published upon the use and impact of social media, largely by male politicians and policymakers in the West, there has been a paucity of similar investigations elsewhere in the world.

IAMCR invites proposals for papers and panels for IAMCR2022, to be held online from 11 to 15 July, 2022, with a national hub at Tsinghua University in Beijing and other events in China, online, and around the world. The deadline for submission of proposals is 9 February 2022, at 23.59 UTC.