IAMCR Handbook Series publications
The Global Handbooks in Media and Communication Research Series is co-published by Wiley and IAMCR. The series offers definitive, state-of-the-art handbooks that bring a global perspective to their subjects. These volumes are designed to define an intellectual terrain: its historic emergence; its key theoretical paradigms; its transnational evolution; key empirical research and case study exemplars; and possible future directions.
The series editors are Janet Wasko and Karin Gwinn Wilkins.
Calls for new handbook proposals are published on IAMCR's website, in the newsletter and circulated on our mailing lists
New text in IAMCR handbook series
The Handbook of Diasporas, Media, and Culture, edited by Jessica Retis and Roza Tsagarousianou, 2019
This innovative and timely book helps readers to understand diasporic cultures and their impact on the globalized world.
The Handbook of Development Communication and Social Change
Edited by Karin Gwinn Wilkins, Thomas Tufte, Rafael Obregon, 2014
This valuable resource offers a wealth of practical and conceptual guidance to all those engaged in struggles for social justice around the world. It explains in accessible language and painstaking detail how to deploy and to understand the tools of media and communication in advancing the goals of social, cultural, and political change.
The Handbook of Media Audiences
Edited by Virginia Nightingale, 2011
This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the complexity and diversity of audience studies in the advent of digital media.
"Admirably comprehensive and with original contributions from leading scholars in the field, this is a volume that everyone should have on their shelf."- Graham Murdock, Loughborough...
The Handbook of Political Economy of Communications
Edited by Janet Wasko, Graham Murdock and Helena Sousa, 2011
Over the last decade, political economy has grown rapidly as a specialist area of research and teaching within communications and media studies and is now established as a core element in university programmes around the world. The Handbook of Political Economy of Communications offers students and scholars...
The Handbook of Global Media and Communication Policy
Edited by Robin Mansell and Marc Raboy, 2011
Co-published by IAMCR and Wiley-Blackwell, this book offers insights into the boundaries of this field of study, assesses why it is important, who is affected, and with what political, economic, social and cultural consequences. It provides the most up to date and comprehensive collection of essays from top scholars in the...