The Community Communication and Alternative Media Section focuses on media that originates, circulates and resonates from the sphere of civil society. It seeks to advance research on the objectives, practices and dynamics of community, alternative and citizens' media, including issues of localism, politics, socio-economics, language, ethnicity, gender, or other interests and intersections. Our concerns include issues of media access, participation and reception; media projects undertaken by marginalized and underrepresented groups; development and support of community-based media institutions and infrastructures; communication practices by social movements; innovative forms of media activism; interactions between classic community and new social media; alternative forms of journalism; and theoretical contributions to the research, evaluation and practice of community communication.
Co-Chair: Andrew Ó Baoill (School of English and Creative Arts, National University of Ireland Galway) [contact]
Co-Chair: Vinod Pavarala (UNESCO Chair on Community Media / University of Hyderabad, India) [contact]
Vice chair: Amparo Cadavid (School of Communication, UNIMINUTO, Colombia) [contact]
Vice chair: Juan Ramos Martín (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia) [contact]
See the list of all current members of the Community Communication and Alternative Media Section.
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The Community Communication and Alternative Media Section (CAM) will be holding online elections for one co-chair and one vice-chair positions, for the term 2024 - 2028. The deadline to submit candidacies is 16 April.
IAMCR's Community Communication and Alternative Media Section invites submissions for IAMCR 2024, which will be held in Christchurch, New Zealand, from 30 June to 4 July 2024. The deadline for submission is 7 February 2024, at 23.59 UTC.
The Community Communication and Alternative Media Section (CAM) will be holding online elections for one co-chair and one vice-chair positions, for the term 2023 - 2027. The deadline to submit candidacies is 17 May.
IAMCR's Community Communication & Alternative Media Section invites proposals for IAMCR 2023, to be held in Lyon, France, from 9 to 13 July (Lyon23) with an Online Conference Papers (OCP23) component from 26 June to 5 July. The deadline for submission is 9 February 2023, at 23.59 UTC.
IAMCR's Community Communication & Alternative Media Section 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 is 9 February 2021, at 23.59 UTC.
The Community Communication and Alternative Media Section issued its January 2021 newsletter including information about the upcoming conference, recent publications and other topics of interest to its members. Read it here.
IAMCR's Community Communication and Alternative Media Section invites the submission of proposals for single papers and multi-paper sessions (the online conference equivalent of a panel in a face to face conference) for IAMCR 2021, which will be held online from 11 to 15 July, with a regional hub in Nairobi, Kenya. The deadline for submission is 9 February 2021, at 23.59 UTC.
IAMCR's Community Communication and Alternative Media Section invites the submission of proposals for single papers and multi-paper sessions (the online conference equivalent of a panel in a face to face conference) for IAMCR 2021, which will be held online from 11 to 15 July, with a regional hub in Nairobi, Kenya. The deadline for submission is 9 February 2021, at 23.59 UTC.
The IAMCR Community Communication and Alternative Media (CAM) Section will be holding online elections in 2020 for one co-Chair and one Vice-chair positions. The deadline to submit candidacies is 10 June 2020.
IAMCR's Community Communication and Alternative Media Section invites the submission of abstracts of papers and proposals for panels for the 2020 conference of the association, which will be held from 12 to 16 July, 2020 at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.
The IAMCR Community Communication and Alternative Media Section (COC) will be holding elections during the business meeting at the upcoming conference in Madrid, Spain.
The International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) will hold its annual conference from 20-24 June 2018 at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon, USA.
The 2017 IAMCR conference in Cartagena was particularly successful for the Community Communication and Alternative Media Section (COC). We enjoyed a large, diverse and very lively program.
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The International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) will hold its annual conference from 16-20 July, 2017 in Cartagena, Colombia.
The IAMCR Community Communication Section will hold elections for its section head team during the section business meeting at the upcoming conference in Leicester (27-31 July 2016). We are looking for candidates to fill up to 2 positions as section chair or co-chair, and up to 2 positions as section vice-chair.
The IAMCR Community Communication Section invites submissions of abstracts for papers and panel proposals for the 2016 IAMCR conference to be held 27-31 July 2016 in Leicester, UK. The deadline for submissions is February 15, 2016.
The IAMCR Community Communication Section invites submissions of abstracts for papers and panel proposals for the 2015 IAMCR conference to be held 12-16 July 2015 in Montreal. The deadline for submissions is February 9, 2015.
Call for PapersThe IAMCR Community Communication Section invites submissions of abstracts for papers and panel proposals for the 2014 IAMCR conference to be held from July 15-19 at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre, Hyderabad, India.
An OURMedia event in collaboration with the Community Communication Section of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), the Global Communication and Social Change Division of the International Communication Association (ICA), the Community Radio Forum of Ireland (CRAOL), and Irish community media activists.
Dublin, IRELAND - JUNE 24-25, 2013
The IAMCR Community Communication Section invites submissions of abstracts for papers and panel proposals for the 2013 IAMCR conference to be held from June 25-29 at Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland.
The deadline for submissions is January 28, 2013.