Martin, Fiona

For 18 years IAMCR has been my window to the diversity of the scholarly world and I am honoured to be nominated for the first time to the Council.  

As a scholar of new media technologies and a former distance educator I will work with my colleagues to ensure IAMCR has sustainable remote meeting and conferencing strategies, accessible to all. We need these to address not just COVID-19 travel restrictions, but also our ongoing impact on climate change. 

I am also committed to research that enhances the rights and safety of communications and media workers internationally and leads to better media policy and law. My books include Sharing News Online: commendary cultures and social media ecologies (2019, Palgrave Macmillan) and Mediating the Conversation (2021, Routledge). My collaborative research includes the Australian Research Council-funded Platform Governance: Rethinking internet regulation as media policy, the Facebook-funded Regulating Hate Speech in the Asia Pacific and the UNESCO-funded International Center for Journalists’ Online Harassment Project.  I currently serve as Vice President Research of the Journalism Research & Education Association of Australia, and as a member of the International Relations Committee of the International Association of Women in Radio and Television.

Nominated by Siobhan McHugh, University of Wollongong, Australia