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Welcome to IAMCR
The International Association for Media and Communication Research - IAMCR - is the preeminent worldwide professional organisation in the field of media and communication research.
Its members promote global inclusiveness and excellence within the best traditions of critical scholarship in the field.
IAMCR aims to support and develop media and communication research throughout the world. It particularly encourages the participation of emerging scholars, women and those from economically disadvantaged regions.
As President, and on behalf of all my IAMCR colleagues, I welcome you to our association and encourage you to join us.
Professor Janet Wasko
President, IAMCR [Contact]
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Members' books
Scandalous! The Mediated Construction of Political Scandals in Four Nordic Countries
S. Allern & E. Pollack (eds.)
The purpose of this book is to spotlight the way in which political scandals in four Nordic countries have been launched, directed, dramatized and interpreted through different genres of journalism – in an interactive tug-of-war between editors and various political actors.
News institutions help to build political careers – and to tear them down. A mediated scandalization process can make the path from power to powerlessness, from a top position to exclusion, very short.
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