Communication and Social Change

By Thomas Tufte

- This work provides essential insights to students and scholars of media and communications, as well as anyone concerned with the practices and processes that lead to citizenship, democracy and social justice.

UK Election Analysis 2017: Media, Voters and the Campaign
- Once again IAMCR members from Bournemouth have produced an edited volume analysing the recent UK election only 10 days after the event. UK Election Analysis 2017: Media, Voters and the Campaign, joins their previous works providing early reflection and insights on the UK election of 2015, the Brexit referendum of 2016, and the US election of 2016.

The first International Forum of Communication Law and Ethics, (known as FIÉDI for its Spanish acronym), was held this past July in Leicester, UK as an IAMCR preconference co-organized in collaboration with IAMCR’s Law Section. This book, published through the UCM e-Prints platform of the Complutense University of Madrid and with the collaboration of the University’s Cyberlaw Clinic, is a result of the preconference.

By Sara Bannerman

- This book connects copyright history to current problems, issues and events in copyright and access to knowledge.

English translation of title: "The 2014 European Elections Political Communication: For or against Europe?"
Edited by Philippe J. Maarek -

Le présent ouvrage montre que la communication politique des partis antigouvernementaux, d’une violence inhabituelle envers l’Union Européenne, a fortement influé sur l’agenda politique ultérieur.

By Terry Flew, Petros Iosifidis, Jeanette Steemers (Eds.)

- This book shows that the nation-state never left and is still a force to be reckoned with.

Edited by Richard C. Vincent and Kaarle Nordenstreng
This book is meant for the students and scholars of international communication and development, political economy, and international relations. It is also a resource for members of governments and NGOs, as well as advocates of human rights and grassroots communication.

Edited by John A. Lent and Michelle A. Amazeen -
This book serves as a guidepost to those wishing to understand the difficulties facing critical researchers and how others have been able to navigate through these challenges. It is noteworthy that 10 of the 12 key thinkers presented in this book are members of IAMCR.

By Bart Cammaerts, Michael Bruter, Shakuntala Banaji, Sarah Harrison, Nicholas Anstead -

The book reveals that most young people are far from apathetic about democracy but rather they are critical of current representative democratic systems and the political elites who appear to run them.

Between control and emancipation

Editors: Lina Dencik & Oliver Leistert

This book critically interrogates the relationship between social media and protest from an interdisciplinary perspective, examining the multiple ways in which we need to politicize and contextualise commercial social media platforms, in particular with regards to their use for the purposes of anti-systemic and progressive protest movements.

Edited by Leif Kramp, Nico Carpentier, Andreas Hepp, Ilija Tomanić Trivundža, Hannu Nieminen, Risto Kunelius, Tobias Olsson, Ebba Sundin and Richard Kilborn
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How do journalism, the various representations and public spheres of European cultures and societies change?

Maria Immacolata Vassallo de Lopes and Guillermo Orozco Gómez, Coordinators -

The present Yearbook celebrates 10 years of the OBITEL and its special topic is Gender Relations in Television Fiction.

By Guy Lachapelle & Philippe J. Maarek (eds.)

The Internet and "social media" may initially have been understood as just one more instrument politicians could employ to manage without political parties. However, these media cannot be reduced to being a tool available solely to politicians.

By Mohamed Zayani

Based on extensive fieldwork, in-depth interviews with Internet activists, and immersive analyses of online communication, this book draws our attention away from the tools of political communication and refocuses it on the politics of communication.

By Colin Chasi

This book begins to offer the foundations of an African theory of communication, applicable to the crisis of HIV/AIDS.