IAMCR - International Association for Media and Communication Research

The Community Communication Section focuses on communication that originates, circulates and resonates with communities, broadly defined. It seeks to advance research on the objectives, practices and dynamics of community communication expressed across all types of media and symbol systems and formed around locality, politics, socio-economics, language, ethnicity, gender, or other interests and intersections. This Section welcomes both theoretical and applied research, as well as research conducted at both micro and macro levels of analysis.

Chair: Per Jauert (*) [contact]
Vice-chair: Ellie Rennie [contact]
Vice-chair: Gabriele Hadl [contact]

(*) Section Head

This Section encompasses research on issues of media access, participation and reception; media projects undertaken by marginalised and under-represented groups; the development and support of public and community-based media institutions and infrastructures; the production and distribution of community and alternative media; and theoretical contributions to the research, evaluation and the practice of community communication.

Members of the Community Communication Section.