Volume 9, Number 1 of The Political Economy of Communication is now available. The peer-reviewed and open access journal is published under the auspices of the IAMCR Political Economy Section. Submissions for Volume 9.2 and 10.1 in 2022 are now being received.

IAMCR has organised six webinars since the launch of its Webinar Series in March 2021. In this article, Dr. Andrea Medrado, IAMCR vice president and coordinator of the IAMCR webinar series, talks about the experience of organising the webinars and the importance of opening channels for engagement and participation in addition to the association’s annual conference.

The Participatory Communication Research Section issued its October newsletter, including information about the upcoming webinar “The evolution of popular communication”, and an overview of the section's participation in IAMCR 2021.

07 October, 2021 - The Participatory Communication Research Section sponsored a webinar to present the book "The Evolution of Popular Communication in Latin America”. Watch it at the IAMCR Webinars Channel on Vimeo.

15 October 2021 -The Gender and Communication Section organised the webinar "Digital ethnographies, intersectionality and interdisciplinarity: Feminist methodologies from quantitative to participatory methods and queer research in the Covid- 19 age". Watch the recording here.

Hosted by Tsinghua University with pre-conferences organised by Xi'an Jiaotong - Liverpool University, IAMCR 2022 will be held from 11-15 July, 2022. Watch these videos prepared by the hosts presenting the conference theme Communication Research in the Era of Neo-Globalisation: Reorientations, Challenges and Changing, and the unique settings that will surround IAMCR 2022.