An online Extraordinary General Assembly of IAMCR will be held on Monday 9 February 2026 to consider proposed amendments to the IAMCR Statutes and to share an update on preparations for IAMCR 2026 in Galway.
The Communication, Social justice and Democracy (CJD) Working Group shares updates on its January 2026 online meeting, calls for participation in upcoming conferences, and recent publications by its members.
On 29 January, 2026, the Political Economy and the Popular Culture Sections hosted a panel discussion on East Asian Media Culture in the Age of Digital Platforms, focusing on the convergence of popular culture and digital platforms in the East Asian context. Watch the recording here.
On 26 January 2026, the Music, Audio, Radio & Sound Working Group hosted a webinar exploring how global music streaming platforms are reshaping music production, distribution, and consumption across different contexts. Watch the recording here.
The Gender and Communication Section has released its December 2025 newsletter, featuring a call for proposals, a call for reviewers, an interview with Haohan Yuan and more.
The Participatory Communication Research Section has issued its December newsletter featuring the CfP for IAMCR2026, a call for participation at the conference, and updates from members. Read it here.
IAMCR books
Public Communication in Freefall is the latest title in the Palgrave/IAMCR book series Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research. It examines the challenges facing political communication in the 2020s, drawing on and critically updating Jay Blumler’s work to explore what publicness and democracy mean.
Edited by Sudeshna Roy (2025)
This book delivers an authoritative exploration of a variety of critical conflicts in the world and a spectrum of approaches to peace communication.
Members' books
Written by IAMCR member Massimo Ragnedda and Maria Laura Ruiu this book introduces the concept of the Inequality Regime of AI. The authors trace a profound transition from inequalities of participation to inequalities of prediction.
Written by IAMCR member Des Freedman, this book provides an accessible introduction to the key characteristics of capitalism and illustrates how they shape and distort our media and communications landscapes.
Written by IAMCR member Dechun Zhang, this book examines how government propaganda and everyday online activity shaped China’s digital nationalism in response to the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Edited by: IAMCR member Muhammad Jameel Yusha'u his book is the first scholarly work dedicated to examining the complex relationship between artificial intelligence and communicating the UN Sustainable Development Goals.