IAMCR - International Association for Media and Communication Research

IAMCR announced the winners of the Smythe and Schiller Awards at its 2008 Congress in Stockholm on 23 July.

Sara Bannerman  received the IAMCR Prize in Memory of Dallas W. Smythe for her contribution "Berne Buster: Canada and the Berne Convention, 1887-1908" and Cho-wen Chu was awarded the IAMCR Prize in Memory of Herbert I. Schiller for the paper "A comparative Review of Media Globalization in China and Taiwan".

IAMCR announced the winners of the Schiller and Smythe Awards at its Annual Conference in Cairo on 26 July.

Stijn Joye was awarded the IAMCR Prize in Memory of Herbert I. Schiller for his paper "Raising Awareness in a Digital Society: The case of IPS Flanders", and Felicity Brown received the IAMCR Prize in Memory of Dallas W. Smythe for her contribution "Rethinking the Role of Surveillance Studies in the Critical Political Economy of Communication".