More than 1,400 papers and panels were confirmed for presentation at IAMCR 2017. We prepared a book with the abstracts scheduled for presentation within each section and working group.
Willemien Calitz is a PhD student at the University of Cape Town in South Africa currently researching China-Africa and the media. She was awarded an IAMCR travel grant to present two papers: "Influences on South African and Chinese journalists covering China’s human rights and sustainable development record" to the Emerging Scholars Network and "...
Trang Pham is a resident of Vietnam and PhD candidate at the University of Calgary. She received a travel grant to present her paper, "Vietnam’s Broadband Internet - Farmers’ Agency vs. Public Discourse: A Case Study to Extend Social Construction of Technology Theories in the South" to the Communication Policy and Technology Section at IAMCR's...
The International Forum for Communication Law and Ethics (Foro Internacional de Ética y Derecho de la Información - FIEDI) has published an ebook, Cross-border Journalism and Human Dignity, with the proceedings of its 2017 conference, organised in Cartagena, Colombia as an IAMCR pre-conference in cooperation with IAMCR's Law Section.
The Discursive-Material Knot
By Nico Carpentier - This book acknowledges the importance of discourse studies, in having produced a better understanding of the socio‐political role of frameworks of intelligibility, and of materialism theory in highlighting the importance of the agentic role of materials.
With only a few days to go, this message, with last-minute tips for travel to Cartagena and preparations for IAMCR 2017, was sent to all registered participants of IAMCR 2017 on Wednesday 12 July. Se envió tambien en español.