IAMCR - International Association for Media and Communication Research

Need the address of the Japanese professor you met during the panel on Media, History and Globalization at last year’s Paris conference? Looking for a researcher in the Philippines with an interest in Diaspora and media? Want to know who else is a member of IAMCR in your country? Or who the members of the International Communication Section are?

If you’re a member of IAMCR you can easily find answers to all of the above and more by logging into the website and searching the membership database.

The database, accessible to all IAMCR members, is one of a number of online services offered by IAMCR. Some of the others are:

Membership directory: You can download the IAMCR membership directory, with contact and other information of all members. Only logged in members can access the searchable database or the directory. While you are logged in, please check your own information (click on My profile in the Member’s menu) to make sure your information appears correctly in the directory. Institutional members should also check the data in My institution.

All visitors to the site can consult a list of members of any section or working group. Simply open the section or working group page and click on Members of (name of section or WG). Non-members only see the name, institution and country of each member while logged-in IAMCR members get contact and other information for any member by clicking on View profile.

IAMCR History is a new addition to the website. There you will find the booklet that Cees Hamelink and Kaarle Nordenstreng produced for IAMCR’s 50th anniversary and personal statements of some of the founders and early members. The booklet is currently available as a PDF but will soon be posted in a more accessible html format.

Click on Congress in the main menu for the latest news on preparations for Stockholm 2008. From there you’ll be able to access information about the congress, various pre-conferences being prepared, the Schiller and Smythe awards, and the upcoming elections, including the candidate statements in English, French and Spanish. Of course there is also a direct link to the Stockholm 2008 website where you’ll be able to get even more information about the programme, food and accommodation, etc.

A listing of Open Access Journals and an events Calendar are two new services that can be found under Resources in the main menu.

The first is a collection of some 35 journals in the field that are freely available online. New journals are being added as we discover them. If you know of others, please send them to Alvaro Mailhos.

The events Calendar is the site’s newest addition. It displays official IAMCR events, events that IAMCR supports, and events of interest to the global media and communication research community. To have your own events added, send an email to Alvaro Mailhos.