Sections and Working Groups
IAMCR has 15 thematic sections and 18 working groups. Members can join up to three (3).
Sections and Working Groups are responsible for most of the content of IAMCR conferences. Their heads receive proposals, manage the evaluation process, and structure their programmes. Additionally, some Sections and Working Groups publish books or journals or organise online and face-to-face events outside of the main conference. Several Sections and Working Groups host pages on Facebook and other social media, while others send occasional bulletins or newsletters to keep in touch with their members during the year. Find the links to join your Section or Working Group in social media, to the most recent newsletters, and to the journals they collaborate with, here.
For more information about a particular section or working group, click on its name below or in the column to the right of this page.
Sections:
- Audience - AUD
- Communication Policy & Technology - CPT
- Community Communication and Alternative Media - CAM
- Emerging Scholars Network - ESN
- Gender and Communication - GEN
- History - HIS
- International Communication - INC
- Journalism Research and Education - JRE
- Law - LAW
- Media, Communication and Sport - MCS
- Media Education Research - MER
- Mediated Communication, Public Opinion & Society - MPS
- Participatory Communication Research - PCR
- Political Communication Research - POL
- Political Economy - POE
Working Groups:
- Comic Art - COA
- Communication in Post- and Neo-Authoritarian Societies - CPN
- Crisis, Security and Conflict Communication - CRI
- Diaspora and Media - DIM
- Digital Divide - DID
- Environment, Science & Risk Communication - ESR
- Ethics of Society & Ethics of Communication - ETH
- Global Media Policy - GMP
- Health Communication - HEC
- Islam and Media - ISM
- Media Production Analysis - MPA
- Media Sector Development - MSD
- Music, Audio, Radio and Sound - MAR
- Popular Culture - POP
- Public Service Media Policies - PSM
- Religion and Communication - REC
- Rural Communication - RUC
- Visual Culture - VIC