Reflections on the International Association for Media and Communication Research: Many Voices, One Forum

ISBN-13: 9783031163821 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 518 str.

Jörg Becker; Robin Mansell

Opis

Throughout its 65-year history, the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) has sought to facilitate international exchanges and research collaborations among academics and journalists in the field of media and communication. ​ Created during a time of strong ideological tension following World War II in 1957 and with the support of UNESCO, the contributors to this edited collection highlight how the IAMCR and its members shaped the field of media and communications research. From its beginnings focusing on the mass media, including the press and journalism education, today the Association attracts researchers and practitioners who undertake critical analysis of contemporary media and communications, including online platforms and their governance. Consistent themes throughout the Association’s history have been its concern with human rights, law, culture and the political economy of the media and communication industries. Not content simply to understand developments in the media and communications field around the world, the Association’s membership has sought to ‘change the world’ through its published research and its participation in global, regional, national and local policy debate and practice.This volume is organised in four parts following an introduction authored by editors who are active members of IAMCR. Part I highlights eight prominent scholarly traditions of research which have attracted the interest of scholars from around the world as well as the way the Association has sought to be inclusive of early career scholars. Part II offers seven chapters which bring to light the political struggles of a membership seeking to engage in scholarship across the East – West divide and to contribute to global debates aimed at fostering an inclusive, fair and equitable international information and communication order through engagement with United Nations sponsored initiatives. Part III turns to accounts of the way members from selected countries and regions have contributed to the Association’s scholarly work. The last part highlights the significant scholarly and institution-building contributions of James Halloran, IAMCR’s President from 1972 to 1988 and other prominent contributors to the study of culture and the political economy of media and communications

Spis treści

1. Introduction.- 2. Dialectical Imagination: Frankfurt School and IAMCR.- 3. Contested Critique: The Political Career of the Political Economy Section.- 4. Popular Culture and IAMCR.- 5. IAMCR’s Engagement with Participatory Communication.- 6. IAMCR’s Legacy in Scholarship on Religion.- 7. Women, Gender, Feminism: Status, Scholarship, and Advocacy.- 8. Media Technologies and Globalization Arrive at IAMCR.- 9. IAMCR Emerging Scholars Network.- 10. The Latin American Critical Tradition of Communication Research and the Early Years of Participation in IAMCR, 1960-1990.- 11. Germany in IAMCR.- 12. IAMCR as Seen by the Secret Service from East-Germany (GDR).- 13. IAMCR Members under the Microscope of Romania’s Securitate: A Preliminary Study.- 14. The MacBride Report: Critical Scholarship and the Report’s Value to Future Generations.- 15. The MacBride Round Tables: In Pursuit of Equality, Plurality, and Diversity.-16. IAMCR and the World Summit on the Information Society.- 17. Lessons from the Non-Aligned Movement and NWICO for the Age of Data: Revisiting a Historical Struggle for Informational Sovereignty.- 18. Cultural Diversity at UNESCO and ITU/WSIS: 50 years of Milestones (1980-2020).- 19. IAMCR and Russia.- 20. IAMCR and the Development of Communication and Media Research in China.- 21. India and IAMCR: A Perspective.- 22. IAMCR and Pakistan.- 23. IAMCR and the Caribbean Region: Rethinking Our Thinking-Understanding the Epistemic Effects of Colonialism in Higher Education.- 24. Brazil in History and in the Present: IAMCR and the Participation of Brazilians.- 25. IAMCR and the Middle East and North Africa: Questions of Place, People, and Paradigms.- 26. IAMCR and Africa: Harmonizing Discourses of History, Hegemony, and Hope.- 27. France: Complex Relations with IAMCR Marked by Significant Changes from the mid-1960s.- 28. IAMCR, My Affable Companion in Slovenia’s Journey from Yugoslavia to Europe.- 29. George Gerbner and the Anti-Fascist Tradition of Communication Research.- 30. Dallas W. Smythe and Détente at IAMCR.- 31. Herbert I. Schiller.- 32. Perspectives on Communications Research: An Exchange.- 33. Stuart Hall and IAMCR.- 34. My Work with James Halloran.

O autorze

​Jörg Becker is Professor of Political Science at Marburg University in Germany. He was Guest Professor for Political Science and/or Communication Research at universities in Roskilde, Denmark, Beirut, Lebanon, Hongkong, and Innsbruck, Austria. He was IAMCR International Council Member, 1984-1992.

Robin Mansell is Professor of New Media and the Internet in the Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science with specialisms in digital governance and the political economy of communication. She was IAMCR President 2004-2008.

 

Blurb

Established in 1957, the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) has facilitated international exchanges and research collaborations among academics, journalists, and other practitioners, addressing media and communication problems and influencing theory and practice through research and participation in global, regional, national, and local debate. The chapters focus on prominent areas of research that have attracted the interest of scholars; political struggles of a membership engaged in research across East and West, global North and global South divides; selected country and regional contributions to the association; and reflections on significant scholarly and institution-building contributions to the association by George Gerbner, James Halloran Stuart Hall, Herbert I. Schiller, and Dallas W. Smythe. Readers will find a history of an academic professional organisation and insights into the controversies, conflicts, failings, and achievements of IAMCR members who developed the field of media and communication research and journalism practice.