Members' books

Questioning what it means to ‘grow up digital’ in twenty-first century India, "Childscape, Mediascape: Children and Media in India" explores a variety of themes relating to children and the media landscape. Edited by IAMCR co-Vice president Usha Raman, and Sumana Kasturi.

Edited by Lee Artz, this book brings together leading scholars from multiple perspectives, in a serious dialogue about continuity and change in global media production and content. Featuring contributions by IAMCR members.

By Jonathon Hutchinson, this book draws on empirical and theoretical research to carefully identify and describe a number of unseen digital infrastructures that contribute to a predictive media production process through technologies, institutions and automation.

Edited by Maarit Jaakkola, this handbook aims to inspire and empower so that journalism educators can help both journalism students and working journalists do justice to one of the major issues of our times. Available as open access.

Edited by Eytan Gilboa, this book proposes a clear starting point for contemporary research into important areas of public diplomacy.

By Surbhi Dahiya, this book uses a longitudinal case study approach to analyze key digital media startups in the Indian journalism industry today.

Edited by Emmanuel K. Ngwainmbi and Levi Zeleza Manda, this book provides the theoretical and historical context of the practice, guidelines, and tools for covering health, pandemics, sanitation, education, and development in Africa.

By Pradip Ninan Thomas, this volume provides an introduction to some of the issues and challenges related to platform regulation and the conundrums and paradoxes involved.

By Justine Humphry, this book examines how mobile phones and the internet have become a vital part of the everyday lives of people experiencing homelessness.

Edited by Teresa Puente, Jessica Retis, Amara Aguilar and Jesus Ayala Rico, this book offers a critical and practical guide for journalists reporting on issues affecting the Latinx community.

Edited by Abiodun Salawu, Tshepang Bright Molale, Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed and Mohammad Sahid Ullah, this book brings together voices from the margins in underrepresented regions of the Global South, within the context of scholarship focusing on indigenous languages and development communication.

By Abdullah Alhuntushi and Jairo Lugo-Ocando, this book examines the main issues and challenges that science journalism faces in the MENA region while analyzing how journalists in these countries cover science and engage with scientists.

Edited by Gisela Gonçalves and Evandro Oliveira, this handbook brings together multidisciplinary and internationally diverse contributors to provide an overview of theory, research, and practice in the nonprofit and nongovernmental organization (NGO) communication field.

Edited by Joan Pedro-Carañana, Eliana Herrera-Huérfano and Juana Ochoa Almanza, this book examines communicative justice from the perspective of the pluriverse and explores how it is employed to work towards key pluriverse goals of environmental, cognitive, sociocultural, sociopolitical, and political economy justice.

Edited by Lina Dencik, Arne Hintz, Joanna Redden and Emiliano Treré, this book outlines the intricate relationship between datafication and social justice, exploring how societies are, will, and should be affected by data-driven technology and automation.

By Ralph Engelman and Carey Shenkman, this book offers an unprecedented and panoramic history of the use of the Espionage Act of 1917 as the most important yet least understood law threatening freedom of the press in modern American history.

By Simon J. Potter, David Clayton, Friederike Kind-Kovacs, Vincent Kuitenbrouwer, Nelson Ribeiro, Rebecca Scales, and Andrea Stanton, this book sets out a new research agenda for the history of international broadcasting, and for radio history more generally.

By Asta Zelenkauskaite, this open access book argues that affect-instilled arguments used in public deliberation in times of uncertainty, along with whataboutism constitute a playbook for chaos online. 

Edited by James Meese and Sara Bannerman, this volume explores how governments, policymakers and newsrooms have responded to the algorithmic distribution of the news. 

Edited by Jason Paolo Telles, John Charles Ryan and Jeconiah Louis Dreisbach, this book addresses the increasingly important subject of ecomedia by critically examining the interconnections between environment, ecology, media forms, and popular culture in the Southeast Asian region.

Edited by Philippe J. Maarek, this book presents a comparative perspective on different government communication strategies to COVID-19 around the globe.

By Christian Fuchs, this book explores how Humanism can help us to critically understand how digital technologies shape society and humanity, providing an introduction to Humanism in the digital age.

Edited by Panayiota Tsatsou, this collection offers an up-to-date examination of the role of digital inclusion in vulnerable people’s social inclusion.

Edited by Yonty Friesem, Usha Raman, Igor Kanižaj and Grace Y. Choi, this handbook showcases how educators and practitioners around the world adapted their routine media pedagogies to meet the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, which often led to significant social, economic, and cultural hardships.

Using southern Africa as a backdrop, and its liberation history, Jane Duncan examines what an anti-capitalist perspective on intelligence and security powers could look like.

Edited by Abiodun Salawu and Israel A. Fadipe, the first volume explores the nature, philosophies and genres of indigenous African popular music, while the second volume examines how African indigenous popular music is deployed in democracy, politics and for social crusades by African artists.

Edited by Katarzyna Kopecka-Piech and Mateusz Sobiech, this volume brings together an international team of authors to investigate a wide range of issues concerning the fundamental role of media technologies in shaping contemporary emotional life.

Edited by Louisa Ha and Lars Willnat, this book illustrates how professional and user-generated media can reduce international conflicts, foster mutual understanding, and transcend nationalism and ethnocentrism.

By Pradip Thomas, this book explores the role of both the public and private sectors in the shaping of information infrastructures in India.

In this book, Marc Raboy weaves together personal and family memoir with investigative journalism, exploring the parallels and determinative differences resulting from both character and circumstance.

Edited by Herman Wasserman and Dani Madrid-Morales, this book discusses the similarities and differences of disinformation in different regions and provides a broad thematic overview of the phenomenon as it manifests across the Global South. 

Edited by Jorge Vázquez-Herrero, Alba Silva-Rodríguez, María-Cruz Negreira-Rey, Carlos Toural-Bran and Xosé López-García, this book aims to explore the diverse landscape of journalism in the third decade of the twenty-first century, constantly changing and still dealing with the consequences of a global pandemic. 

A comprehensive critique of podcasting as a new medium and booming industry, and an expert insider analysis of storytelling podcasts, by award-winning narrative podcast producer and leading international audio scholar Siobhan McHugh. 

By Francesca Musiani and Ksenia Ermoshina, this book sets out to explore one of the core battlegrounds of Internet governance: the encryption of online communications.

Edited by Gauri D Chakraborty, this book details the work of 503 women who graduated from Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) between 1965-2016 through self narratives and bionotes on contribution in the media and entertainment industry.

Edited by Bhanu Bhakta Acharya and Shyam Sharma, this book explores key issues about the state of media and journalism practices of Nepal and situates them against the professional standards of global journalism and journalism education.

Edited by Bruce Mutsvairo and Nnamdi T Ekeanyanwu, this book investigates the transformations in Nigeria’s booming communication industry.

By Terry Flew, this book offers the most current research about how regulation of digital platforms can be achieved

Edited by Emmanuel K. Ngwainmbi, this book analyzes how social media and its networked communities have literally compromised individual and ethnic group identities.

By Maarit Jaakkola, this book examines how ordinary users review cultural products online, ranging from books to films and other art objects to consumer products.

By Lee Artz, this book showcases how transnational media operate in the contemporary world and what their impact is on film, television, and the larger global culture.

Edited by Surbhi Dahiya and Shambhu Sahu, this book offers an extensive and pioneering study of reporting for all the news beats, and news writing and editing.

By Sandra Jeppesen, this book is a behind-the-scenes investigation into how global activists use technology.

By Deepti Ganapathy, this book looks at the media’s coverage of Climate Change and investigates its role in representing the complex realities of climate uncertainties and its effects on communities and the environment.