Nominations are now open for candidates for IAMCR’s Executive Board (president, two (2) vice presidents, secretary general and treasurer), and twenty-five (25) members of the International Council. Nominations close on February 5, 23:59 UTC.
IAMCR welcomes the new Executive Board of the Asociación Latinoamericana de Investigadores de la Comunicación (ALAIC - Latin American Association of Communication Researchers) elected during ALAIC's general assembly on 7 November.
IAMCR will make several awards and grants available to its members in 2021: the UCF/IAMCR Urban Communication Research Grant, the IAMCR 2021 award in memory of Stuart Hall, and the Climate Communication Research Award.
Nominations are now open for candidates for IAMCR’s Executive Board (president, two (2) vice presidents, secretary general and treasurer), and fifteen (15) members of the International Council. Nominations close on March 17, 2020, 23:59 UTC.
The Election Committee will issue a call for candidates for members of the Executive Board (President, Vice Presidents, Secretary General and Treasurer), and fifteen (15) members of the International Council on 17 February 2020. This article provides information about the electoral procedures that will be followed.
The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), celebrating its 61st session at UN Headquarters in New York from 13-24 March, has selected gender and media as its review theme for its 62nd session in 2018. The 2018 review will examine the “participation in and access of women to the media, and information and communication technologies and their impact on and use as an instrument for the advancement and empowerment of women”.
IAMCR Vice-president Aimée Vega has been elected to chair the Global Alliance on Media and Gender. Carolyn Byerly, an IAMCR member, will serve as chair of the Alliance’s Research Committee.
IAMCR is co-sponsoring the seventh annual “What is…?" conference. The 2017 version will focus on What is life and how is life mediated? It will take place at the University of Oregon in Portland, Oregon, USA from 6-8 April, 2017.
In a message sent to all IAMCR members on 14 June, the Election Committee announced the results of elections for the association's Executive Board and International Council. Janet Wasko was reelected president and will be joined on the Executive Board by 2 vice-presidents, Graham Murdock and Aimée Vega, a secretary general, Gerard Goggin and a treasurer, Anthony Moretti. Fifteen members were elected to the International Council, which is made up of the 15 elected members plus the heads of IAMCR's 15 thematic sections.
On the occasion of International Women's Day, IAMCR will once again join UNESCO and the Global Alliance on Media and Gender (GAMAG) in the annual Women Make the News (WMN) initiative. This year's theme is Gender Equality in the Media is Sustainable Development: Gender Equality in the Media by 2030.
The Election Committee has issued a call for candidates for members of the Executive Board (President, Vice Presidents, Secretary General and Treasurer), and fifteen (15) members of the International Council. This article provides information about the electoral procedures that will be followed.
An IAMCR conference on news literacy, organized by the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Surendranath College for Women, Kolkata, India was held on January 18, 2016. An initiative of Dr. Uma Shankar Pandey, IAMCR's ambassador in India, the conference was attended by more than 150 participants from all parts of India.
The IAMCR Task Force for GAMAG will actively participate at both the International Development Cooperation Meeting on Gender and Media and the First GAMAG General Assembly, to be held at Palais des Nations, Geneva, 7-10 December.
Anti-Austerity and Media Activism is an IAMCR 2016 pre-conference that will seek to highlight the connections between austerity and the media and, in particular, to highlight the role of communications in fostering anti-austerity movements.
A recent survey of IAMCR members sought to gauge interest in whether the association should take a more active role defending academic freedom and promoting better employment standards in the field. The high level of support encountered makes the relaunch of the Committee for the Improvement of Academic Life, with a mandate to work on these issues, both timely and important.
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, UK. The conference theme is Memory, Commemoration and Communication: Looking Back, Looking Forward.
IAMCR's Executive board has named the first four members of the association's Ambassador Network. They are from Bangladesh, India, Portugal and Southern Africa (covering Botswana, Malawi, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe).
IAMCR's Executive Board, with the approval of the International Council, established a Clearinghouse for Public Statements in July 2015. The Clearinghouse mission is to help with responding to and making public statements.
The 2016 conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) will be held at the University of Leicester in the UK from July 27-31, 2016. The date coincides with the 50th anniversary celebrations of Leicester's Department of Media and Communication, founded in 1966 as the Centre for Mass Communication Research.
IAMCR is cooperating with the Centre for Interdisclipinary Research in Science and Humanities of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) to organise the International Forum on Gender, Media, ICTs, and Journalism: 20 years after the Beijing Action Platform. The forum will be held in Mexico City on May 27 and 28.
On the occasion of International Women's Day, IAMCR will once again join UNESCO and the Global Alliance on Media and Gender (GAMAG) in the annual Women Make the News (WMN) initiative. This year's theme is: Yes we must! Reaching Gender Equality in the Media by 2030.
IAMCR was represented at the first meeting of the International Steering Committee of the Global Alliance for Media and Gender (GAMAG) by its president, Janet Wasko, and vice-president, Aimée Vega.
IAMCR participated in a special issue of the Journal of Latin American Communication Research (JLACR) about international academic cooperation and dialogue.
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IAMCR will participate in the First European Forum on Media and Information Literacy, a joint effort with UNESCO and the European Commission, within the framework of the Global Alliance for Partnerships in Media and Information Literacy (GAPMIL).
On 8 March 2014, a group of research assistants from Istanbul's Marmara University Faculty of Communication issued a statement to protest against the decision to expel two research assistants, Dr. Figen Algul and Can Ozbasaran from the Faculty, to penalise eight research assistants with a promotional suspension for 24 months and to implement a wage-cut in one case. These measures were taken in response to the research assistants joining the strike action organised by KESK (the Confederation of Public Workers’ Union) in June, which was related to the Gezi Park protests. The Higher Education Council of Turkey (YOK) still needs to confirm the expulsion.
IAMCR participated in the UNESCO Global Forum on Media and Gender, held in Bangkok, Thailand, December 2-4, 2013. Janet Wasko, IAMCR president, Aimée Vega, vice-president, were there and prepared this short report. IAMCR will continue to engage with the emerging Global Alliance for Media and Gender.
Institutional members of IAMCR can now name up to ten (10) PhD students as members of the Association at no additional cost. IAMCR president, Janet Wasko, says the new policy is good for everyone: “Institutional members gain visibility and provide a service to their students, the students get the experience of being part of a worldwide professional association that can help expand their networks and their horizons, and IAMCR will benefit from the injection of new ideas and perspectives that are essential to keeping the association vital.”
With support from the Media Program of the Open Society Foundations, IAMCR is offering up to five grants for research conducted by young and emerging scholars. IAMCR's Global Media Policy Working Group, Emerging Scholars Network and Communication Policy Task Force will oversee, administer and award the grants.
IAMCR's next conference will be held in Hyderabad, India from July 15-19, 2014. Usha Raman, a member of the Hyderabad Local Organising Committee, provided information on the conference theme, location and the host institutions during the closing plenary of IAMCR's Dublin conference.
Visit the conference website at IAMCR2014.ORG
On 29 June 2013 IAMCR organised a special session at its IAMCR Dublin conference to commemorate Karol Jakubowicz.
Karol was a communications scholar and a longtime friend of IAMCR and many of its members. He passed away last April 28.
The session was entitled Remembering Karol Jakubowicz: Scholar, Policymaker and Friend, and included statements from Jo Bardoel, Epp Lauk, Kaarle Nordenstreng, Jan Servaes, Brenda Dervin, François Heinderyckx and Tarlach McGonagle.
IAMCR President, Janet Wasko, sent a letter to Antonis Samaras, Prime Minister of Greece, regarding the sudden closure of the public service broadcaster, ERT. In her letter she underlined the importance of public service media in democratic societies and urged the prime minister to "immediately reverse this decision, allowing Greek and other affected citizens living in the country and abroad to receive independent and quality information in this important period in Greek history."
As is customary, IAMCR will host a special panel at the International Communication Association (ICA) annual conference. This year's panel will focus on the theme of IAMCR's own conference that begins in Dublin on 25 June, a short distance and a few days away.
“Crises, ‘Creative Destruction’ and the Global Power and Communication Orders”, the Dublin theme and the title of the panel, centres on whether and how the current economic crisis and its attendant gales of "creative destruction" may serve to reshape geo-political and communication orders.
The IAMCR Executive Board and International Council will consider proposals for hosting and organization of future IAMCR conferences from 2015 onwards. Expressions of interest should be submitted to the Executive Board by June 17, 2013. IAMCR conferences are major opportunities to show the know-how and promote the activities of the organizing institution(s) and to foster the energy and creativity around a large international project.
It is with deep sorrow that we report the death of Polish professor and journalist Karol Jakubowicz, who passed away April 28th.
Karol was an active IAMCR member for many years and contributed greatly to our meetings and discussions. He was a leading expert on European media and held many prominent positions. He led committees on media issues at the Council of Europe and UNESCO, and served as Director of the Polish Television. Karol was also an adviser on broadcast media laws to governments, NGOs and international organizations, including the Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media.
We are currently discussing a memorial session commemorating Karol's work at the IAMCR Dublin conference.
On the occasion of International Women’s Day (8 March), IAMCR joins UNESCO and other international and regional media organizations to launch the annual Women Make the News (WMN) initiative, under the theme “Towards a Global Alliance on Media and Gender”.
We are inviting editors-in-chief of newspapers, radio, television on and offline to join UNESCO’s initiative, and to produce special supplements/programmes on these topics and/or to entrust women journalists and reporters with editorial responsibility for the newsroom for a limited period over the duration of the WMN initiative.
The Political Economy Section of IAMCR is establishing a new journal with the first issue to be published on 1 May 2013. Political Economy of Communication will be an online open access academic publication.
The journal will publish peer reviewed articles that are delivered within the Political Economy section's sessions at IAMCR conferences. The journal is also open, in special cases, to ground-breaking contributions from non-section members.
The results of the elections for IAMCR's Executive Board and for the elected members of the association's International Council have been announced. The International Council also includes one representative of each of the association's fifteen sections. Their names will be announced later.
The new Executive Board and International Council held their first meetings on 20 July.
ECREA, IAMCR and ICA have launched a joint online inventory of communication associations worldwide. All communication associations are invited to create an entry in the database.
As more associations make themselves known, the database will gradually grow into the first ever searchable database of communication associations. At this stage, the database is publicly accessible and can be navigated either by browsing or using keywords.
The "Mapping Communication Associations" website is hosted by Université Libre de Bruxelles and can be found here.
Every year IAMCR sponsors a panel at the conference of the International Communication Association (ICA).
This year ICA's conference was held in Phoenix, Arizona from 24 to 28 May and the IAMCR panel was held on Friday 25 May with the title "Critical approaches to Communication and Community".
The Legal Committee of IAMCR was requested by the International Council and the President to draft the changes in the statutes and the by-laws needed to enact Electronic Voting for the IAMCR Executive Board and the elected members of the International Council in the future. The President of IAMCR, Annabelle Sreberny, will bring these changes to the General Assembly in Durban.
IAMCR and the Urban Communication Foundation offer an annual prize for the best paper by an IAMCR member that critically addresses issues in urban communication. This year's prize will be awarded at IAMCR's conference in Durban, South Africa to an original paper which shows scholarly excellence in critical and innovative engagement with issues in urban communication.
The deadline for submission of papers for the 2012 prize is 10 June.
In recent years free, on line journals, many of them open access and peer-reviewed, have begun to both challenge and complement traditional academic publishing. This is a welcome development and IAMCR is developing a resource on its website with links to journals in the field of media and communications. Unless otherwise mentioned, these journals are not affiliated with IAMCR.
On the occasion of International Women’s Day (8 March), IAMCR joins UNESCO and other international and regional media organizations to celebrate the annual Women Make the News (WMN) initiative. WMN is a global policy advocacy initiative aimed at promoting gender equality in the media.
The theme for this year, Rural women’s access to media and information, seeks to underscore and stimulate knowledge exchange on: the importance of policies in favour of access to media and information in rural communities, particularly for women; and good practices undertaken by public service broadcasters, commercial and community media, and NGOs.
It's time for IAMCR members to renew their membership for 2012. All individual and institutional members should have received an email recently reminding them that their 2012 membership fees are due.
If you aren't yet a member, join online and become part of the worldwide professional organisation in the field of media and communication research.
The International Association for Media and Communication Research invites submissions of abstracts for papers and panel proposals for the 2012 IAMCR conference to be held from July 15-19, 2012 at the Howard College Campus of the University of KwaZulu Natal (UKZN) in Durban, South Africa.
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 deadline for submissions is February 14, 2012.
IAMCR Secretary General, Hopeton Dunn, has been reappointed for a second five-year term as chairman of the Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica, the regulatory body for radio, television, and cable TV in Jamaica.
In addition to his position with IAMCR, Professor Dunn is director of the Telecommunications Policy and Management programme at the Mona School of Business, University of the West Indies (UWI) and professor of Communications Policy and Digital Media at the UWI.
News article: Dunn reappointed Broadcasting Commission chairman, Daily Gleaner (Jamaica), 4 November 2011.
In 2011, IAMCR offered a travel grant to a student of the University of Minho -host of IAMCR's 2010 conference.
Read below Carla Cerqueira's account of the 2011 conference and how it provided her with an ideal framework for networking opportunities and cultural experiences.
Participants at the International Communications Association's (ICA) 2011 annual conference are invited to the IAMCR panel Critical Approaches to Communication @ the Center which will take place on Friday, 27 May, 15:00-16:15, at Paine Room.
We, the members of the Executive Board of the International Association for Media and Communication Research, based in six different countries, wish to state our support for the restoration of free public communication and the move to an authentic democracy for all Egyptian and Tunisian citizens, as for the citizens of other nations who suffer from the violent repression of these rights.