This Working Group has a special interest in religious aspects of communication. It seeks to foster international cooperation in the field, discussion and exchange of ideas, and common research projects.
This Working Group considers important topics around the interaction between religion and the media, including: images of religion in mass media; news coverage of religion; film and religion; the impact of media and communication on religious communities; religious media; and religious public relations. In addition, the working group has an interest in theological approaches to the mass media - ancient and modern; and in communication theories and religion.
Chair: Yoël Cohen (School of Communication, Ariel University, Israel) [contact]
Vice-Chair: Krishna Sankar Kusuma (AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, India) [contact]
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IAMCR's Religion and Communication Working Group invites submissions for IAMCR 2024, which will be held in Christchurch, New Zealand, from 30 June to 4 July 2024. The deadline for submission is 7 February 2024, at 23.59 UTC.
The Religion and Communication Working Group (REC) will be holding online elections for one chair and one vice-chair position, for the term 2023 - 2027. The deadline to submit candidacies is 17 May.
IAMCR's Religion and Communication Working Group 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.
IAMCR's Religion and Communication Working Group 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 2021, at 23.59 UTC.
The Religion and Communication Working Group (REC) will be holding online elections for one Vice-chair position, for the term 2021 - 2025. The deadline to submit candidacies is 16 May.
IAMCR's Religion and Communication Working Group 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.
IAMCR's Religion and Communication Working Group 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 IAMCR Religion & Communication working group will run elections for the election of the chair and vice-chair.
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.
The International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) will hold its annual conference from 16-20 July, 2017 in Cartagena, Colombia.
The Religion, Communication & Culture Working Group of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) invites proposals for papers to be presented at the annual IAMCR conference from 27 -31 July, 2016 at the Universi
Formerly the Media, Religion & Culture group, the Religion, Communication & Culture working group invites proposals for papers to be presented at the annual conference for the International Association for Media & Communication Research at the Universit
We invite proposals for papers to be presented at the annual conference for the International Association for Media & Communication Research at the University of Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India, from 15th-19th of July 2014.
The Media, Religion & Culture Working Group invites proposals for papers to be presented at the annual conference for the International Association for Media & Communication Research (IAMCR) at Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland from 25th-29th of June 2013. The website address of the Dublin conference is: http://iamcr2013dublin.com.
The IAMCR conference will be held under the general theme, Crises, ‘Creative Destruction’ and the Global Power and Communication Orders. The conference theme centres on whether and how the current economic crisis and its attendant gales of "creative destruction" may serve to reshape the geo-political and communication orders. Will this crisis prompt or enable multi-dimensional change in the prevailing forms and modes of mediated communication on the one hand, and in global power structures and control processes on the other?
The Media, Religion and Culture (MRC) Working Group invites proposals for papers to be presented at the annual IAMCR conference at the University of KwaZulu Natal (UKZN), in Durban, South Africa in July 2012.
International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR)Media and the Connectivity in Cities Shaping New Relations with the Religious
Citizenship continues to be practiced, to evolve, and to be qualified by the mix of media, religion & culture, usually at implicit levels. It is not always clear, though, how religion serves in a communicative role, especially in the mass media. The IAMCR Media, Religion and Culture Working Group invites proposals for papers exploring clarifications of the religious as a context for civil participation and responsibility both more generally and also focused on the conference theme: "Communication and Citizenship: Rethinking Crisis and Change".