International Communication Section

The antecedents of the International Communication Section go back to 1968 when the IAMCR Executive Committee in its meeting in Ljubljana decided to found a new section named ‘International Understanding’. It was formalised as a Section at the Warsaw conference in 1978. At present it is one the largest Sections of the association.

In the International Communication Section we are proud of our diversity and the truly international character that motivates us. We welcome the participation of colleagues from all over the world who wish to present the results of their research on national, inter-regional and international issues that have to do with all subjects of communication, including journalism, political communication, globalisation and other inter-cultural forms of expression. The comparative analysis of the media is an instrument to analyse the strengths and weaknesses of different countries and geo-political regions. In this sense, we welcome comparative studies of the media’s role in foreign policy-making, the (often complex) relationship between citizens and the media in different continents, media ethics and the relationship of media policies to political and governmental authorities – with a special focus on environmental problems and how they are presented by the media in different parts of the world.

This section also considers the role of the media in constructing a sense of community across borders, including the development of virtual communities and the uses of new media, their implications for citizens and societies and the objectives they pursue in order to achieve a better world. You are welcome to send your abstracts to our section in English, French, and Spanish.

To strengthen all of the above, this section collaborates with the journal “Global Media and China”.Updated, September, 2018

Chair: Sudeshna Roy (Marquette University, Wisconsin, USA) [Contact]
Vice chair: Pınar Aslan (Uskudar University, Türkiye) [Contact]
Vice chair: Anilesh Kumar (Beijing Normal University - Hong Kong Baptist University, China) [Contact]

See the list of all current members of the International Communication Section. 

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East and West workshop 2022 - CfP

The International Communication Section, jointly with the Centre for Advanced Internet Studies in Bochum, Germany and the School of Communication of Hong Kong Baptist University, will host the workshop "Power, Control and Cyber Governance: Discourse from the East and the West" to be held 12-13 July 2022 in Bochum, Germany and online.

IAMCR 2015: International Communication Section - CfP - Deadline 9 February

The International Communication Section of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) invites submissions of abstracts for papers and panel proposals for the IAMCR 2015 conference to be held in Montreal, Canada, from 12th to 16th July 2015.  The deadline for proposal submissions is 9 February 2015.

Istanbul 2011 - International Communication Section Call for Papers

The International Communication Section of the IAMCR invites research proposals on the conference theme -Cities, Creativity, Connectivity- within and/or across national borders. In the heavily networked world of today, terms such as "international" and "global" have acquired renewed and new meanings, practices, status, and power relations in the media and communication arenas.  Connections and divisions suggested by the conference theme are both old (as in metropolis-colony) and new (for example, the new global cities and related media connections at every level, institutional and individual).

Braga 2010 - International Communication Section Call for Papers

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International Communication Section
IAMCR Conference 2010, 18-22 July, Braga, Portugal
Communication and Citizenship: Rethinking Crisis and Change

Citizenship is best understood through communication. It is membership, identity, belonging, policy, process, work, and activism. Citizenship addresses the core concepts of the ‘national’, the ‘international’ and the ‘global’. The International Communication Section of the IAMCR invites proposals (individual and panel submissions) on citizenship, media and communication within and/or across national borders. We also invite submissions on the more general areas of interest to the section listed below.

Mexico 2009 – International Communication Section Call for Papers

The International Communicationn Section invites proposals for the 2009 IAMCR annual conference, to be held at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico and Centro de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias en Ciencias y Humanidades in Mexico City, Mexico, July 21st to July 24th.

Papers on the conference theme of Communication and Human Rights as well as papers pertaining to the general areas of interest to the International Communication Section will be considered.

Stockholm 2008 - International Communication Section Call for Papers

The International Communication Section Section invites submissions related to the theme of the IAMCR 2008 Congress – Media and Global Divides. The theme is of significance to many areas of interest to the International Communication Section. As media technologies, economies, policies, practices, and culture have spread globally, and at exponential rates in the last twenty years or so, so too have the creations of differences of many kinds, and in many domains.

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