The Gender and Communication Section has issued its July 2023 newsletter including information about IAMCR2023 activities, past and future events and publications that might be of interest to its members. Read it here.

The Participatory Communication Research Section regularly issues newsletters with information of interest to its members. The July 2023 issue includes information about IAMCR 2023, the programme, business meetings, and awards.

IAMCR is pleased to announce the winners of the 2023 Urban Communication Award: Sandra Jeppesen (Lakehead University Orillia, Canada), Mingjun Zhao and Yongliang Liu (Tsinghua University, China), María Isabel Norena Wiswell (UNIMINUTO, Colombia) and Maria Helena Botero Ospina (Universidad del Rosario, Colombia).

IAMCR is pleased to announce the winners of the 2023 Climate Change Communication Award: Manoj Kumar Das and Subha Das Mollick (Sikkim University, India), Joseph Gotte (Universite Paris-Est-Creteil, France) and Julia Cope (Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania, USA).

The voting period for the Sections and Working Groups heads election has ended. We would like to thank all of the candidates who expressed their willingness to serve as a section or working group officer and also to all who voted. See the results here.

IAMCR is pleased to announce that the 2023 Prize in Memory of Dallas W. Smythe will be awarded to Tianyang Fu (University of Chicago, US), Christopher Petersen (Lakehead University Orillia, Canada) and Guo Xiaoxin (School of Culture and Media, Central University of Finance and Economics, China).

IAMCR books

We are pleased to announce the release of the seventh title in the Global Handbooks in Media and Communication Research series, co-published by Wiley and IAMCR. Edited by Yoel Cohen and Paul A. Soukup, The Handbook of Religion and Communication provides a contemporary view of the intertwined relationship of communication and religion.

Edited by Sarah Anne Ganter and Hanan Badr, this is the 19th title in the Palgrave/IAMCR book series Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research. The book offers a critical map to navigate the field of media governance.

Members' books

By Surbhi Dahiya, this book uses a longitudinal case study approach to analyze key digital media startups in the Indian journalism industry today.

Edited by Emmanuel K. Ngwainmbi and Levi Zeleza Manda, this book provides the theoretical and historical context of the practice, guidelines, and tools for covering health, pandemics, sanitation, education, and development in Africa.

Launched during a special session of IAMCR's recent conference in Lyon, the 34 chapters of "Reflections on the International Association for Media and Communication Research: Many Voices, One Forum" offer numerous reflections on the Association's first 65 years.

By Pradip Ninan Thomas, this volume provides an introduction to some of the issues and challenges related to platform regulation and the conundrums and paradoxes involved.