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The International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) has posted the final list of candidates running for elected positions in IAMCR and their election statements in English, French and Spanish are now available on the website.

Click here to go to the IAMCR elections 2008 webpage.
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[20-25 July 08] A number of LIRNE.NET members and associates will participate in the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) conference to be held in Stockholm, Sweden, which will focus on the theme “Media and Global Divides“.

Hopeton Dunn, senior researcher for DIRSI will lead the co-ordination of the CP&T Section’s 18 panel sessions and will also present findings from the DIRSI Mobile Opportunities survey for Jamaica.

This is the final IAMCR conference of Professor Robin Mansell’s presidency of the organisation.

Click here to go to the IAMCR Media and Global Divides Congress website.

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Professor Robin Mansell, Head of the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics (LSE), will conduct a colloquium entitled “Communication and Technology: What’s New?” at the LIRNEasia office in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The colloquium will focus on the inter play between communications and the technology that supports it.

Click here to download Mansell’s paper, Communication and Technology: What’s new? in .pdf format.

Click here to download Mansell’s presentation.

Click here to read LIRNEasia’s blog summary of the colloquium.

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The Communications Policy and Technology Section of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) invites proposals on the theme of Media and Global Divides, for the 26th Annual Research Conference, to be held at Stockholm University, Sweden, 20-25 July 2008.

Economic, gender, age, racial and social divides have typified global society from ancient times to the present, and are frequently reflected in conventional media representations and output. These traditional divides often re-emerge in the context of New Digital Media, at the centre of which are the Internet, Web 2.0 applications and Next Generation Networks. The CPT Section is inviting further and deeper research and reflections on social context, policy implications and solutions to the related issues.

Click here to go to the IAMCR conference website.

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[23-25 July 07] A number of LIRNE.NET members and associates were at the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) conference at UNESCO headquarters in Paris from 23-25 July. They included Robin Mansell (president of IAMCR), Bruce Girard and Alvaro Mailhos from Comunica, Divakar Goswami, formerly of LIRNEasia, François Bar who is working closely with DIRSI and Sean Ó Siochrú, a close collaborator of Comunica. Both François and Seán were at the Montevideo LIRNE.NET meeting.