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.

The Participatory Communication Research Section regularly issues newsletters with information of interest to its members. The December issue includes an announcement about the section´s change in composition and the recently launched call for papers for IAMCR 2022.

IAMCR stands in solidarity with workers at Brazil’s national public service broadcaster, the Empresa Brasil de Comunicação (EBC), in its fight to safeguard the Brazilian people’s right to public broadcasting.

IAMCR invites the submission of proposals for papers and panels for IAMCR 2022, which will be held online from 11 to 15 July 2022. The conference will also have a national hub at Tsinghua University in Beijing. The deadline for submission of proposals is 9 February 2022, at 23.59 UTC.

18-19 November, 2021 - IAMCR co-sponsored the 13th International Media Readings in Moscow "Mass Media and Communications 2021" organised by the Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University, featuring six rounds of thematic sessions, 28 sessions with nine special panel sessions and two plenary sessions.