Members of the Popular Culture Section are interested in the (academic) intersections that the study of popular culture evokes. Embracing insights from various disciplines such as cultural studies, media studies, gender and queer studies, literary studies, and theatre studies, the Section engages with multifarious perspectives and the richness of popular culture as a field of study. From exploring hip hop fandom to conducting a political economic analysis of the television industry, the Section is interested in all facets of popular culture. Popular culture analysis is seen as a ‘pivotal arena of struggle over the distribution and deployment of resources for self-understanding and social agency’ (Whannel & Murdock, 2023, p. 67)*.
The Section aims to be an inclusive and welcome environment to discuss all aspects of popular culture, with specific attention to the critical edge inherent to the political character of old and new challenges posed by popular culture, such as (widening) social inequalities, sustainable futures, and digital innovations.
Chair: Tonny Krijnen (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands) [contact]
Vice-Chair: Yongliang Gao (Communication University of China) [contact]
Vice-Chair: Florian Vanlee (Ghent University, Belgium) [contact]
See the list of all current members of the Popular Culture Section.
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* Whannel, G. & Murdoch, G. (2023). Popular Culture and IAMCR. In: Becker, J. & Mansell, R. (Eds.) Reflections on the International Association for Media and Communication Research. Many Voices, One Forum, (pp. 55- 69). Palgrave.
IAMCR's Popular Culture Working Group 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.
This message was sent to all members of the Popular Culture Working Group on 22/09/2023. It includes a link to the minutes of the working group's business meeting held in Lyon on 13 July 2023.
The Popular Culture Working Group (POP) will be holding online elections for one chair and two vice-chair positions, for the term 2023 - 2027. The deadline to submit candidacies is 17 May.
IAMCR's Popular Culture Working Group 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 Popular Culture Working Group 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.
IAMCR's Popular Culture Working Group 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 Popular Culture Working Group 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 Popular Culture Working Group will run its business meeting at IAMCR 2019 in Madrid. See the meeting's agenda.
The IAMCR Political Economy Section will run elections for a newly created vice chair position during its business meeting at IAMCR 2019 in Madrid.
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 International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) will hold its annual conference from 16-20 July, 2017 in Cartagena, Colombia.
The Popular Culture Working Group of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) invites submissions of abstracts for papers and panel proposals for the 2016 IAMCR conference to be held from 27 -31 July, 2016 in Leicester,
The Popular Culture Working Group invites papers and panel proposal for submission for the IAMCR 2015 Conference in Montreal, Canada (12th to16th July 2015).
The Popular Culture Working group invites papers and panel proposal for submission for the 2014 IAMCR Conference in Hyderabad. The conference theme is: REGION AS FRAME: POLITICS, PRESENCE, PRACTICE.
The Popular Culture Working Group invites submissions at this year’s IAMCR annual conference, to be held in Dublin, Ireland from 25-29 June 2013. The Working Group is seeking papers that explore popular representations of the conference theme Crises, 'Creative Destruction' and the Global Power and Communication Orders. A list of possible topics have been suggested by conference organizers and can be found in the general call on the IAMCR website http://iamcr.org/cfp.
The Popular Culture Working Group looks forward to the next IAMCR Conference and invites submissions (both individual proposals and collective panels) for the 2012 conference to be held at the Howard College Campus of the University of KwaZulu Natal (UKZN) in Durban, South Africa, 15-19 July.
The conference will be held under the general theme, 'South-North Conversations'. The theme reflects the asymmetry of global communication flows, but without implying the negatives that usually accompany discussions of the 'digital divide'. The theme also calls for balanced and empowering narratives that do not regard those in ‘the South’ as victims primarily in need of handouts from the more affluent. The general conference theme is therefore highly relevant for the working group which concerns itself with the intersections between cultural practices, collective representations and the inscription of social inequalities.
The Popular Culture Working Group of the International Association for Media and Communication Research ( IAMCR) announces its call for papers for the 2011 academic conference to be held at Kadir Has University in Istanbul, Turkey, from July 13 to 17, 2011.
The general theme of the conference is 'Cities, Creativity, Connectivity'.
The Working Group for Popular Culture of the International Association for Media and Communication Research invites submissions for the IAMCR Congress in Braga, Portugal (July 18-22, 2008). The theme of the 2010 conference is 'Communication and Citizenship: Rethinking Crisis and Change'.
The Working Group provides a forum for researchers into the manifold relationships between popular cultural practices and the media. Working from a broadly conceived production of culture perspective, the analytical focus of the working group is on the ways in which the symbolic elements of culture are shaped by the systems within which they are created, distributed, evaluated, taught, and preserved. (Peterson).
The Popular Culture Working Group of the International Association for Media and Communication Research announces its call for papers for the IAMCR Congress in Mexico City, Mexico, (July 21-24, 2009). The conference theme for the 2009 Congress is “Human Rights and Communication."
Web details for the conference are available at: http://www.iamcr2009mexico.unam.mx/english/welcome.html
EXTENDED DEADLINE: 15 FEBRUARY 2008!
The Popular Culture Working Group of the International Association for Media and Communication Research announces its call for papers for the IAMCR Congress in Stockholm, Sweden (July 20-25, 2008). The conference theme for the 2008 Congress is "Media and Global Divides."