IAMCR Newsletter - April 2022

Registration

Registration for the online conference will be free for all IAMCR members and will take place at two different times. When you can register depends on whether or not you will submit a paper to Online Conference Papers.

If you are submitting a paper to Online Conference Papers you will be automatically registered at the same time you upload your paper – until 7 June. If the paper has more than one author, only the author submitting the paper will register at this time. 

If you are not submitting a paper your registration period opens on 27 June, two weeks before the conference.

If you do not register for the conference you will still be able to watch plenary sessions and some special sessions, but only registered members will have access to most of the conference proceedings.

IAMCR 2022 Chinese national activities and hybrid side events

Due to continuing complications related to COVID-19, in the host country and around the world, IAMCR 2022 remains, as initially planned, an online conference. 

The conference’s initial plans also included a face-to-face national hub at Tsinghua University in Beijing and hybrid pre-conferences at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou. Participation in the face-to-face events was to be restricted to residents of mainland China. 

"No travel events"

News

IAMCR Webinar Series

The IAMCR webinar series began as a new initiative in 2021, with the aim of keeping IAMCR members connected and engaged with regular dialogue outside of the main conference. Eight webinars have already been held and the recordings are available on the IAMCR Webinars Channel on Vimeo.

Continuing with this initiative, two book launch webinars are planned for June by the Communication Policy & Technology section (7 June) and the Journalism Research & Education section (20 June). More details will be announced soon. Visit https://iamcr.org/webinars for updates and to access the recordings of past webinars. Webinars are open and free of charge to all IAMCR members.

Section and Working Group elections

Several of IAMCR's sections and working groups will hold online elections in 2022. They are:

• Crisis, Security and Conflict Communication Working Group
• Ethics of Society & Ethics of Communication Working Group
• Global Media Policy Working Group
• Media Production Analysis Working Group
• Political Economy Section
• Rural Communication Working Group

The call for candidates has been issued and the deadline to submit candidacies is 29 April 2022. Eligible members of IAMCR and of the section or working group, are able to stand for a position and to vote. Read more >>

Co-sponsorships

• 8 March, 2022 - IAMCR's Gender and Communication Section and the Delhi Metropolitan Education Media School marked International Women's Day with the webinar Inspiring Women - Global Faces / Gendered Media Space: Shattering the Glass Screen. Read more >>

• 10 - 13 March, 2022 - The "Dhaka Media Summit 2022" included an IAMCR Ambassadors' session on The Future of Journalism and its Implications to Journalism Education with Faculty Ambassadors Leah Jerop Komen (Kenya), Luís António Santos (Portugal), Uma Shankar Pandey (India) and Brian Pindayi (Zambia). The session was moderated by Jude William Genilo, Faculty Ambassador in Bangladesh. Read more >>

• 12-13 July, 2022 – 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 in Bochum, Germany and online. Read more >>

• Roundtables in 2022 and 2023 - Three roundtables on the topic titled Global South Perspectives on International Migration, Diasporas and Mobility in the Post-digital Era will be organized by the Diaspora and Media Working Group, with the individual roundtables focusing on Africa and Asia (in 2022) and Latin America (in 2023). Read more >>

New ambassadors

The IAMCR Executive Board (EB) extends a warm welcome to our six newly appointed PhD ambassadors: Jeremiah M. Nganda (Kenya), Priyanka Sachdeva (India), Gizem Canalp (Cyprus), Xudong Weng (China), Victor C. Eze (Nigeria) and Nicole Stewart (Canada), and our newly appointed faculty ambassador, Shahla Adnan (Pakistan). The EB also congratulates Uma Shankar Pandey for continuing as a faculty ambassador in India.  Meet the ambassadors >>

Clearinghouse for Public Statements

IAMCR’s Clearinghouse for Public Statements issued two statements in recent months. The first one in support of CIESPAL, the International Center for Higher Communication Studies for Latin America, whose funding by the government of Ecuador has been progressively cut, by signing a petition requesting that Ecuador’s president, Guillermo Lasso, intervene in support of CIESPAL. The petition was successful and funding was restored for 2022.

The second statement was issued in solidarity with workers at Brazil’s national public service broadcaster, the Empresa Brasil de Comunicação (EBC), in its fight to safeguard the Brazilian people’s right to public broadcasting reflecting the interests of society, consistent with Brazil’s Federal Constitution.

Find out more about Clearinghouse activities here >>