IAMCR - International Association for Media and Communication Research

The IAMCR Prizes in Memory of Herbert I. Schiller and Dallas W. Smythe are awarded to students and young scholars every two years at the IAMCR General Meeting. They will be next awarded at IAMCR's 2008 Congress in Stockholm.

The deadline for submissions to the 2008 edition of the Schiller and Smythe awards is 16 May 2008.

Herbert Schiller

The Herbert Schiller prize was established at IAMCR's Singapore Conference to celebrate Herbert's lasting contribution to communications scholarship and to remember his work in helping to establish IAMCR as a open, hospitable and vital space of debate, as one of the founders of the Political Economy Section and as Vice President of the Association.

Herbert embodied the very best traditions of intellectual life, as a scholar, as an influential writer, as an engaged critic and public orator, and above all, as an inspirational teacher who encouraged younger scholars to develop work that challenges accepted orthodoxies and centers of power and opens up new questions for analysis and debate.

Prize Criteria

A paper which combines scholarly excellence with a commitment to developing and extending the critical, innovative and engaged spirit that characterised Herbert Schiller’s own contribution to communications analysis.

Rules

• Papers may be submitted by students and junior scholars associated with any section or working group of IAMCR who are under the age of 35 at the time the paper is submitted.
• Papers are limited 7,000 words.
• Papers must be based on work that has not already been published or firmly committed elsewhere.

• Papers should be submitted in electronic form to the Chair of the Herbert Schiller Award Panel.
• The closing date for submissions is 16 May 2008. Send your submissions to iamcr [at] lse.ac.uk – clearly indicate you are applying for the Schiller award.
• An award will not necessarily be made; decisions will be made by the Herbert Schiller Award Panel and will be final.
• If an award is made, the author(s) will be notified about 3 weeks before the conference.
• The award comprises a cash prize of USD 1,000 as a contribution towards participation in the Cairo conference, together with a commemorative plaque marking the winner’s achievement.

• Graham Murdock, Chair and IAMCR Member
• John Downing, IAMCR Member
• Divina Frau-Meigs, IAMCR Vice-President
• Katherine Sarikakis, IAMCR Member

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Dallas Smythe

Professor Dallas Smythe was a founder of the field of political economy of communication and a leading scholar and influence in national and international communication policy. Trained as an economist, Smythe's professional career included appointments at the Department of Labor and the Federal Communication Commission in the United States, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Regina. He was Professor of Communication at Simon Fraser University, Canada from 1976 till his death in 1992.

Dallas Smythe was an active member of IAMCR. He established the Communication Satellites Section which later became known as the Communication Policy & Technology Section and he was an active participant in the Political Economy Section.

In recognition of his work, the Dallas Smythe Memorial Endowment Fund was established in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University in 1992 “to further the understanding of communication studies,” through an invited lecture series and related activities.

Criteria

Criteria for award of a prize to an author(s) of a paper accepted for presentation at the major biannual IAMCR conferences:

• A paper for which an award is made will be deemed to make a contribution to furthering the understanding of communication studies from a critical perspective and be grounded in some way in the tradition of the study of the ‘political economy of communication’.
• A paper for which an award is made will be deemed by the Smythe Award Panel to be of a high scholarly standard.

• Papers may be submitted by students and younger scholars associated with any section or working group of IAMCR.
• Papers submitted for consideration by the Smythe Award Panel must be submitted by 16 May 2008 at iamcr [at] lse.ac.uk indicating clearly you are applying for the Smythe award.
• An award will not necessarily be made at every conference.
• If an award is made, the author(s) will be notified within 3 weeks of the start of the conference.
• The award will normally be in the amount of US$ 500.

• Robin Mansell, IAMCR President
• Annabelle Sreberny, Vice-President
• Vincent Mosco, IAMCR member
• Janet Wasko, IAMCR Political Economy Section Head
• Yuezhi Zhao, IAMCR member

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Contributions

An IAMCR prize fund has been created and you can contribute to either or both funds from the Online Fee Payment section of this website.