Sadia Jamil and Bruce Mutsvairo have been named as the new co-editors of IAMCR's Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research book series. They will take over from outgoing editors Claudia Padovani and Marjan De Bruin, who have been editing the series since its inauguration in 2014.
IAMCR’s International Council, Executive Board and the Council's Legal Committee have prepared a series of amendments of the IAMCR statutes. The proposed amendments will be placed on the agenda of the IAMCR General Assembly which will be held online on 16 July 2022.
The Political Communication Research Section issued its first newsletter with information of interest to its members. During the coming months, the section heads will primarily share relevant information about the upcoming online conference.
The Environment, Science & Risk Communication Working Group regularly issues newsletters with information of interest to its members. The current issue includes information about IAMCR 2022, a pre-conference event, awards and a call for papers for a special issue of Science Communication.
IAMCR will make several awards and grants available to its members in 2022. They include:
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.
Sadia Jamil and Bruce Mutsvairo have been named as the new co-editors of IAMCR's Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research book series. They will take over from outgoing editors Claudia Padovani and Marjan De Bruin, who have been editing the series since its inauguration in 2014.
IAMCR’s International Council, Executive Board and the Council's Legal Committee have prepared a series of amendments of the IAMCR statutes. The proposed amendments will be placed on the agenda of the IAMCR General Assembly which will be held online on 16 July 2022.
The Political Communication Research Section issued its first newsletter with information of interest to its members. During the coming months, the section heads will primarily share relevant information about the upcoming online conference.
The Environment, Science & Risk Communication Working Group regularly issues newsletters with information of interest to its members. The current issue includes information about IAMCR 2022, a pre-conference event, awards and a call for papers for a special issue of Science Communication.
IAMCR will make several awards and grants available to its members in 2022. They include:
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 books

Media Governance: A Cosmopolitan Critique

Edited by Sarah Anne Ganter and Hanan Badr, Media Governance: A Cosmopolitan Critique is the 19th title in the Palgrave/IAMCR book series Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research. The book offers a critical map to navigate the field of media governance.

Communicology of the South

Edited by Carlos F. Del Valle Rojas and Francisco Sierra Caballero, this is the 18th title in the Palgrave/IAMCR book series Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research. The book explores how communication confronts power, property and the market in Latin American cultures.

Members' books

A Century of Repression

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.

The Wireless World

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.

Creating Chaos Online

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. 

The Algorithmic Distribution of News

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