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Calls for Papers
This page provides information about current calls for papers for conferences, journals, book chapters and books of interest to the global media and communication research community. To have your own events added, send us an email...
The International Association for Media and Communication Research invites paper proposals addressing various themes on Communication and Media Studies for the 2009 Conference, which will be held at the Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco-UNAM, between July 21-24 2009. This conference aims at bringing together scholars and researchers to present their works and exchange ideas under the general theme “Human Rights and Communication".
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In this section IAMCR members can announce their recently published books and book chapters to the IAMCR community and website visitors. If you are a member of IAMCR and would like to have your recent books or book chapters listed, send us an email...
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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 us an email...
Click on Agenda to see a listing of all upcoming events. Events in green are IAMCR events. Those in blue are external events of interest to the media and communication research community.
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For details and pricing, please contact Annabelle Sreberny, IAMCR Vice President and Editor of the newsletter.
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Newsletter
The IAMCR Newsletter is an electronic publication for members of the International Association for Media and Communication Research.The newsletter is edited by IAMCR Vice-Presidents Aimée Vega and Pradip Thomas with the assistance of Comunica.
Aimée Vega edits the Spanish- language texts and translation is by Amelia Arreguín (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México).
Send material for inclusion in the newsletter and/or posting on the website to news [at] iamcr.org.
The most recent issue of the newsletter is emailed to IAMCR members only. Past issues are available online for the general public.
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Producing the Internet: Critical Perspectives of Social Media

Tobias Olsson, editor
Should contemporary media culture be understood as a culture that offers unprecedented freedom for producing participators – so-called “produsers”? Or should it rather be understood as a culture in which various forms of user participation in fact are conditioned, or even manufactured, by organized, professional producers?
