IAMCR - International Association for Media and Communication Research

2010 membership renewal campaign

IAMCR has launched its annual membership renewal campaign with messages sent to all individual members and institutional correspondents who have not yet renewed their membership for 2010.

We are also inviting new members. IAMCR membership is for the calendar year (January to December) but if you join now, your membership will be valid until December 2010.

Current IAMCR members can pay their fees by logging into their accounts here and selecting PAYMENT from the MEMBER'S MENU.

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UNESCO's 35th General Conference

A short report

As a member of the Swedish Delegation for the 35th UNESCO General Conference, IAMCR member Ulla Carlsson participated in the Communication and Information Commission.

Governance, freedom of expression, communication for development, journalism, media literacy and media development indicators were on the agenda.

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ICA 2010 CFP - Deadline reminder

The deadline for submission for ICA's Annual Conference in Singapore June 22-26, 2010 is November 6, 2009 (Friday, 11:00 pm EST).

The theme for 2010 ICA Annual Conference is 'Matters of Communication: Political, Cultural & Technological Challenges'. The 2010 ICA Conference submission site is live and ready for submissions. Please access the site by clicking here.

IAMCR members can attend the conference, paying the reduced ICA member fees, even if they are not ICA members.

IAMCR Publications Committee Reports

Two reports from IAMCR's Publications Committee are now available for download.

The first is the 2008-2009 activity report prepared for the Mexico conference and the second is a report arising from the Mexico conference, where we had interesting discussions about IAMCR's publication activities. The latter report outlines some ideas for future developments to be considered by the IAMCR constituency.

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IAMCR New Facebook Page

IAMCR started a Facebook 'group' a few months ago, which very quickly gained over 300 members.

Facebook has changed over the past few months and its new 'pages' are more flexible and offer much better opportunities to keep in touch with people and to keep everyone informed of IAMCR and other activities. So we need you to migrate to IAMCR's new page - or, in Facebook jargon, please become a Fan here.

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Keywords: IAMCR’s intervention at ICA 2009

Annabelle Sreberny,
SOAS, University of London
President, IAMCR

As part of the collegial relations between IAMCR and ICA, the two associations now stage a panel at the other’s conference.  The ICA conference was held in May 2009 in Chicago. 

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Following IAMCR

In addition to the website,  the announcements list and the RSS feed, which have been available for a number of years, IAMCR has added two new ways of following and participating online in the association's activities and debates – Twitter and Facebook .

IAMCR members and the communications research community at large are invited to join in and contribute to IAMCR's online presence.

IAMCR 2010 to be held in Portugal

IAMCR's Executive Board and International Council have selected the University of Minho , Braga, Portugal to host IAMCR's 2010 conference. Tentative dates are from 18-22 July, 2010.

Details about the Portugal conference will be announced during this year's conference in Mexico.

IAMCR, ICA & ECREA Journal Survey

IAMCR is participating with two other major organizations in the field, the International Communication Association (ICA) and the European Communication research and Education Association (ECREA), in what promises to be a very interesting transnational survey of academic journals.

The survey will be conducted through a multilingual on-line questionnaire.

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IAMCR twitter feed launched

Follow our tweets via IAMCR's Twitter feed to keep up-to-date with the latest IAMCR news and activities.

The Twitter feed complements other communication and information services including this website and the IAMCR announcements mailing list. News alerts about IAMCR's upcoming conference in Mexico, various campaigns that IAMCR is involved in and other relevant events and activities will be posted on the new feed.