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IAMCR invites the submission of abstracts of papers and proposals for panels for IAMCR 2019, to be held from 7 to 11 July, 2019 at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. The deadline for submission is 8 February 2019.
IAMCR recently became a founding member of the “Global Alliance for Social and Behaviour Change Communication – Building Informed and Engaged Societies”, a new network with a mission to: “Advance the scale, quality, impact, and sustainability of communication for development, media for development, social change, and behavioural change strategies.”
Denis McQuail, a truly foundational figure in our field, passed away in June 2017. A special session was held a year later, at IAMCR's 2018 conference, to formally acknowledge and celebrate his scholarly work, his notable character, and his enduring contribution to media and communications research.
Janet Wasko, president of IAMCR, sent a letter to IAMCR members and IAMCR 2018 participants on 19 July, officially beginning the transition from Oregon to Madrid, host city of IAMCR 2019.
IAMCR's 2018 conference is now over. It took place in Eugene, Oregon with the central theme of Reimagining Sustainability: Communication and Media Research in a Changing World. IAMCR 2019 starts 7 July in Madrid, Spain.
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The Palgrave/IAMCR Series: Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research has issued a call for proposals for edited collections and manuscripts for 2018/19.
IAMCR will host a panel at the annual conference of the International Communication Association (ICA) in Prague. The panel will focus on the theme of IAMCR's own 2018 conference, Reimagining Sustainability: Communications and Media Research in a Changing World. Meet us on Friday, May 25, 9:30-10:45.
We will be sending a series of "Oregon Updates" to IAMCR members and IAMCR 2018 participants. This fourth update was sent on 2 May, 2018.
We will be sending a series of "Oregon Updates" to IAMCR members and IAMCR 2018 participants. This third update was sent on 11 April, 2018.
This combined “Oregon Update” and IAMCR newsletter was sent on 26 March to IAMCR members and people with papers accepted for presentation at the 2018 conference. It includes news about the programme, registration, and where to stay as well as news from IAMCR.
More than 1,450 papers and panels have been accepted for presentation at IAMCR 2018. You can download the abstracts of any particular section or working group or all of the accepted abstracts.
We will be sending a series of "Oregon Updates" to IAMCR members and IAMCR 2018 participants. This first update was sent on 26 February, 2018.
It is with great sadness that IAMCR informs its members of the passing of Professor Dipak De following a bout with cancer. Dipak was a longtime member and supporter of the association, having served as a member of the International Council and of the Finance Committee, where he arranged the association's annual audit over a span of several years. In 2015 Dipak was awarded the association's distinguished contribution award.
Dipak's son, Debraj De wrote this letter to the members of IAMCR and...
Este mensaje de la presidenta de IAMCR Janet Wasko fue enviado hace poco a todos los miembros individuales e institucionales de la asociación. La presidenta destaca las actividades de IAMCR en 2017, presenta los planes para 2018, agradece a los miembros por su sostenido apoyo a la asociación y los invita a renovar su membresía para 2018.
This message from IAMCR president, Janet Wasko, was recently sent to all IAMCR individual and institutional members. It highlights IAMCR's activities in 2017, presents plans for 2018, thanks members for their continuing support and invites them to renew their membership for 2018.
Following each annual conference, IAMCR conducts an online survey of participants to evaluate how we did and to learn how to make future conferences better. A total of 1,256 participants were invited to complete the survey for the 2017 conference and 637 (51%) responded. Respondents came from 53 of the 67countries represented at the conference.
Durante el congreso de IAMCR 2017 en Cartagena, miembros de los directivos de IAMCR (Asociación Internacional de Estudios en Comunicación Social) y de la Asociación Latinoamericana de Investigadores de la Comunicación (ALAIC) mantuvieron una reunión para discutir las actividades actuales y las futuras acciones a emprender entre las dos entidades.
During IAMCR’s Cartagena conference, members of the boards of IAMCR and the Latin American Communication Researchers Association (ALAIC) held a meeting to discuss current and future joint activities. English and español.