The antecedents of the International Communication Section go back to 1968 when the IAMCR Executive Committee in its meeting in Ljubljana decided to found a new section named ‘International Understanding’. It was formalised as a Section at the Warsaw conference in 1978. At present it is one the largest Sections of the association.
In the International Communication Section we are proud of our diversity and the truly international character that motivates us. We welcome the participation of colleagues from all over the world who wish to present the results of their research on national, inter-regional and international issues that have to do with all subjects of communication, including journalism, political communication, globalisation and other inter-cultural forms of expression. The comparative analysis of the media is an instrument to analyse the strengths and weaknesses of different countries and geo-political regions. In this sense, we welcome comparative studies of the media’s role in foreign policy-making, the (often complex) relationship between citizens and the media in different continents, media ethics and the relationship of media policies to political and governmental authorities – with a special focus on environmental problems and how they are presented by the media in different parts of the world.
This section also considers the role of the media in constructing a sense of community across borders, including the development of virtual communities and the uses of new media, their implications for citizens and societies and the objectives they pursue in order to achieve a better world. You are welcome to send your abstracts to our section in English, French, and Spanish.
To strengthen all of the above, this section collaborates with the journal “Global Media and China”.
Updated, September, 2018
Chair: Karen Arriaza Ibarra (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain) [contact]
Vice chair: Deqiang Ji (Communication University of China, Beijing, China) [contact]
Vice chair: Kateryna Kasianenko (Sydney, Australia) [contact]
See the list of all current members of the International Communication Section. For more information about a given member, go to https://iamcr.org/members-contact (accessible only to IAMCR members).
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IAMCR's International Communication Section invites proposals for IAMCR 2023, to be held in Lyon, France, from 9 to 13 July (Lyon23) with an Online Conference Papers (OCP23) component from 26 June to 5 July. The deadline for submission is 9 February 2023, at 23.59 UTC.
The International Communication Section, jointly with the Centre for Advanced Internet Studies in Bochum, Germany and the School of Communication of Hong Kong Baptist University, will host the workshop "Power, Control and Cyber Governance: Discourse from the East and the West" to be held 12-13 July 2022 in Bochum, Germany and online.
A Special Section on “Trends and Perspectives on Digital Platforms and Digital Television in Europe” has just been published in Volume 16 (2022) of the International Journal of Communication, an open-access online academic journal: https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc.
IAMCR's International Communication Section invites the submission of proposals for papers and panels for IAMCR 2022, which will be held online from 11 to 15 July 2022. The conference will also have a national hub at Tsinghua University in Beijing. The deadline for submission is 9 February 2022, at 23.59 UTC.
IAMCR's International Communication Section invites the submission of proposals for single papers and multi-paper sessions (the online conference equivalent of a panel in a face to face conference) for IAMCR 2021, which will be held online from 11 to 15 July, with a regional hub in Nairobi, Kenya. The deadline for submission is 9 February 2021, at 23.59 UTC.
The IAMCR International Communication Section will be holding online elections in 2020 for the positions of one Chair and two Vice-Chairs. The deadline to submit candidacies is 10 June 2020.
IAMCR's International Communication Section invites the submission of abstracts of papers and proposals for panels for the 2020 conference of the association, which will be held from 12 to 16 July, 2020 at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.
The International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) will hold its annual conference from 20-24 June 2018 at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon, USA.
IAMCR's International Communication Section is organising a conference, Digital Services in the Audiovisual World: Markets, Boundaries and Policies, to be held 12 July at the Communication School of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Campus Praia Vermelha in Brazil.
The International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) will hold its annual conference from 16-20 July, 2017 in Cartagena, Colombia.
Chair and vice-chair openings for the International Communication Section of the IAMCR. The voting will take place on Saturday, July 30th, at 11:00 am in Room L T 8.
Deadline for nominations: 13 July 2016, midnight Eastern Standard Time, US (05:00 GMT)
The International Communication Section of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) invites submissions of abstracts for papers and panel proposals for the IAMCR 2016 conference to be held in Leicester, UK, from 27th to 31st July
The International Communication Section of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) invites submissions of abstracts for papers and panel proposals for the IAMCR 2015 conference to be held in Montreal, Canada, from 12th to 16th J
Call for Proposals - IAMCR 2014The International Communication Section of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) invites submissions of abstracts for papers and panel proposals for the IAMCR 2014 conference to be held from 15 to 19 July, 2014 in Hyderabad.
Conference website: http://iamcr2014.org/
The International Communication Section of the IAMCR invites submissions of abstracts for papers and panel proposals for the next annual IAMCR conference to be held from 25-29 June 2013 at Dublin City University, Ireland.
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Annual Conference of the Theme: ‘SOUTH-NORTH CONVERSATIONS’ |
The International Communication Section of the IAMCR invites submissions of abstracts for papers and panel proposals for the next annual IAMCR conference to be held from July 15-19, 2012 at the Howard College Campus of the University of KwaZulu Natal (UKZN) in Durban, South Africa.
The deadline for submissions is February 14, 2012. We request you to read this CFP in full, and note all details and requirements regarding submissions.
The International Communication Section of the IAMCR invites research proposals on the conference theme -Cities, Creativity, Connectivity- within and/or across national borders. In the heavily networked world of today, terms such as "international" and "global" have acquired renewed and new meanings, practices, status, and power relations in the media and communication arenas. Connections and divisions suggested by the conference theme are both old (as in metropolis-colony) and new (for example, the new global cities and related media connections at every level, institutional and individual).
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International Communication Section |
Citizenship is best understood through communication. It is membership, identity, belonging, policy, process, work, and activism. Citizenship addresses the core concepts of the ‘national’, the ‘international’ and the ‘global’. The International Communication Section of the IAMCR invites proposals (individual and panel submissions) on citizenship, media and communication within and/or across national borders. We also invite submissions on the more general areas of interest to the section listed below.
The International Communicationn Section invites proposals for the 2009 IAMCR annual conference, to be held at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico and Centro de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias en Ciencias y Humanidades in Mexico City, Mexico, July 21st to July 24th.
Papers on the conference theme of Communication and Human Rights as well as papers pertaining to the general areas of interest to the International Communication Section will be considered.
EXTENDED DEADLINE: 15 FEBRUARY 2008!
The International Communication Section Section invites submissions
related to the theme of the IAMCR 2008 Congress – Media and Global
Divides. The theme is of significance to many areas of interest to the
International Communication Section. As media technologies, economies,
policies, practices, and culture have spread globally, and at
exponential rates in the last twenty years or so, so too have the
creations of differences of many kinds, and in many domains.