Objectives

IAMCR’s mandate is set out in its formal statutes (available on the Structure and Organisation page of this website). Its principal objectives are to:

• Provide a forum where researchers and others involved in media and communication can meet and exchange information about their work; 
• Encourage the development of research and systematic study, especially in areas of media production, transmission and reception, in the contexts in which these activities take place and in those subjects and areas where such work is not well developed; 
• Stimulate interest in media and communication research; 
• Disseminate information about research and research needs – not only to researchers but also to those working in the various media and others responsible for communication policies; 
• Seek to improve media and communication research, policy and practice, especially from international and interdisciplinary perspectives, with attention to their ethical nature, and to exchange information on practices and conditions that would improve the quality and ethics of media and communication practice and media and communication research; 
• Guarantee, at every level of the Association, the diversity that characterizes the global academic community of media and communication scholars, to ensure their respectful and balanced presence, and to actively strengthen the academic communities which have been underrepresented;
• Contribute, by means of appropriate research, to the development and improvement of the education and training of journalists and other media professionals and to PROMOTE and DEFEND the FREEDOM AND independence of their work;
• Defend the professional interests of academic media and communication researchers, to help the improvement of their training, and to PROMOTE and DEFEND the FREEDOM AND independence of academic work in Media and Communication research.