IAMCR - International Association for Media and Communication Research

Identity, Youth Culture and Ethnicity. Theoretical and Methodological Challenges
Ingegerd Rydin, Ulrika Sjöberg (Eds.)

New book by IAMCR members.

This book focuses on family, young people, ethnicity and the media in the context of increasing migration in contemporary Western societies. The book includes studies covering both media use and reception.

Culturas juveniles y educación
(Is education over? Youth culture and education)
Gabriel Kaplún

The book originates from teachers' discomfort with youth culture and suggests different ways for thinking and researching cultural and learning conflicts observed in high school classrooms. Faced with the classroom's loss of meaning for both teachers and students, this book tries to open paths for building new meanings starting from listening to the students, their worlds and cultures.

Will Knowledge Workers of the World Unite?
Vincent Mosco and Catherine McKercher

This book focuses on how traditional trade unions and new worker associations, many growing out of social movements, are coming together to address today’s crisis of organized labor. It documents the creative responses of high tech and cultural workers in the mass media, telecommunications, and computer industries.

Christian fundamentalism and communication in India
By Pradip Ninan Thomas

This book is the first in-depth cultural and social analysis of the growth of conservative forms of Christianity within the Protestant tradition in India and the many ways in which these new churches use the media.