Executive Board

Executive Board

Janet Wasko, President

Janet Wasko is the Knight Chair for Communication Research at University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon, USA. She received a Ph.D. in Communication Research at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, and has been a member of IAMCR since 1978, serving as the Head of the Political Economy Section from 2002-2009.

She is the author, co-author or editor of 19 books. The most recent collection is The Handbook of Political Economy of Communications (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), edited with Graham Murdock and Helena Sousa. Her research and teaching focuses on the political economy of media, especially the political economy of film, as well as issues relating to democracy and media.

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Pradip Thomas, Vice President

Pradip Ninan Thomas is Co-Director, Centre for Communication & Social Change, University of Queensland.

His research interests include communication and social change, religion and media and the political economy of communication. He is written widely in these areas.

 

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Aimée Vega, Vice President

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 Aimée Vega Montiel is Researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Center of Interdisciplinary Research in Sciences and Humanities. Ph.D. in Journalism and Communication Studies, Autonomous University of Barcelona. She has been member of IAMCR since 2005. She was the Chair of the 2009 IAMCR Conference. She has served as member of the Scholarly Review Committee (2010-present), Co-Chair of the Gender and Communication Section (2010-2012) and Co-Chair of the Task Force (2010-2012).
She is specialist in feminism and communication and she is particularly interested in women’s human rights, media and communication. She has published in these areas.

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Maria Michalis, Secretary General

 

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Nico Carpentier, Treasurer

Nico Carpentier is Associate Professor at the Communication Studies Department of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB - Free University of Brussels) and Lecturer at Charles University in Prague. He is also treasurer of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR).

His theoretical focus is on discourse theory, his research interests are situated in the relationship between media, journalism, politics and culture, especially towards social domains as war & conflict, ideology, participation and democracy. His most recent publications include the following books Understanding Alternative media (co-authored with Olga Bailey and Bart Cammaerts) (2007); Discourse Theory and Cultural Analysis. Media, Arts and Literature (eds.)(2008); Trans-reality television. The transgression of reality, genre, politics and audience (eds.)(2010) and Media and Participation. A Site of Ideological-Democratic Struggle (2011).

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Annabelle Sreberny, Past President

My academic base is the Centre for Media and Film Studies at the School of Asian and African Studies (SOAS), part of the University of London. Our remit is to study developments in media, communication and film in the non-Western world.

For over thirty years, since before the revolution of 1979, I have been working on Iran and its mediated cultural environment, with particular interest in processes of democratization and participation, especially for women. I'm currently working on a book on Iranian blogging, Blogestan, to be published by I. B. Tauris Publishers. I also interested in the broader developments in the media landscape of the Middle East and am on the editorial board of the new Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication.

I have a strong interest in diasporic formations and am involved in a major AHRC-funded research project within its "Diasporas" programme that focuses on the BBC World Service as a cultural contact-zone between diasporas and homes (www.open.ac.uk/socialsciences/diasporas/ )

I continue to work in the area of globalization and culture, and am particularly interested in how macro-level and micro-level proccesses impact upon each other. I also continue to think about international news flows and actors and the role of mediated representation in diplomacy.

Have a look at www.soas.ac.uk/mediaandfilm/staff/

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Bruce Girard, Technical secretariat (non-voting)

Bruce Girard is the director of Fundación Comunica. Comunica is IAMCR's virtual secretariat, taking care of membership and strategic communications. Girard's current research interests include community media, pro-poor telecommunications policy and regulation, civil society participation in policymaking and the use of ICTs by rural radio stations in developing countries.