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Schiller and Smythe Awards News
The IAMCR Prizes in Memory of Herbert I. Schiller and Dallas W. Smythe are awarded to students and young scholars every two years.
IAMCR Prize in Memory of Herbert I. 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.
IAMCR Prize in Memory of Dallas W. 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.
2011 Smythe and Schiller Awards Winners Announced
IAMCR announced the winners of the Schiller and Smythe Awards at its 2011 Annual Conference in Istanbul.
The Herbert I Schiller award is named after a communication scholar whose critical studies of international communication and of the political economy of information substantially opened up intellectual debate within the U.S. academy and beyond, beginning in the late 1960s. Dallas Smythe's critical studies of the political economy of media have been foundational in that branch of study. Both of them were long-time activists withn IAMCR.
Schiller Award 2013
The IAMCR Prizes in Memory of Herbert I. Schiller and Dallas W. Smythe are awarded to students and young scholars for outstanding papers accepted for IAMCR conferences. The 2013 Schiller Award will be made at the 2013 conference for a paper accepted for the Dublin conference. The deadline for submission for the award is 1 May 2013. The Smythe Award will be presented at the 2014 conference.
Schiller and Smythe Awards 2011
The IAMCR Prizes in Memory of Herbert I. Schiller and Dallas W. Smythe are awarded to students and young scholars every two years. They will be next awarded at IAMCR's 2011 Congress in Istanbul.
The deadline for submissions to the 2011 edition of the Schiller and Smythe awards was 1 May 2011.
2008 Smythe and Schiller Awards winners announced
IAMCR announced the winners of the Smythe and Schiller Awards at its 2008 Congress in Stockholm on 23 July.
Sara Bannerman received the IAMCR Prize in Memory of Dallas W. Smythe for her contribution "Berne Buster: Canada and the Berne Convention, 1887-1908" and Cho-wen Chu was awarded the IAMCR Prize in Memory of Herbert I. Schiller for the paper "A comparative Review of Media Globalization in China and Taiwan".
Schiller and Smythe Awards 2008
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.
Schiller and Smythe Awards 2006
IAMCR announced the winners of the Schiller and Smythe Awards at its Annual Conference in Cairo on 26 July.
Stijn Joye was awarded the IAMCR Prize in Memory of Herbert I. Schiller for his paper "Raising Awareness in a Digital Society: The case of IPS Flanders", and Felicity Brown received the IAMCR Prize in Memory of Dallas W. Smythe for her contribution "Rethinking the Role of Surveillance Studies in the Critical Political Economy of Communication".
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Media Interventions
Edited by Kevin Howley
New book by IAMCR member
This collection of essays, the first book-length treatment of its kind, explicates the concept of “media interventions” defined as activities and projects that secure, exercise, challenge or acquire media power for tactical and strategic action.
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