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This chapter discusses the establishment of an IAMCR Section focusing on communication technology in the context of rapidly changing policy environments. It highlights Dallas W. Smythe’s role in establishing a Satellite Section and how IAMCR expanded its research horizons in the 1980s. It also examines the implications of communication technologies and the association’s efforts to acknowledge research communities in countries beyond the Global North in its programs and activities.
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Emphasis added by author. The mission in 1957 was to create “une association internationale des études et recherches sur l’information, chargée de promouvoir à travers le monde le développement de l’étude scientifique des problèmes relatifs aux moyens d’information.” Minutes and Statutes, 18–19 December 1957, Paris.
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See archived Presidential Letters during the 1980s at https://iamcr.org/node/10510. Accessed 15 June 2022.
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The author was an IAMCR member from 1978 to 1990.
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TPRC is now The Research Conference on Communications, Information, and Internet Policy. See http://www.tprcweb.com/. Accessed 15 June 2022.
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General Assembly Minutes of 20th Meeting, 21 August 1996, Sydney, Australia.
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LIRNEasia at https://lirneasia.net/; ResearchICTAfrica at https://researchictafrica.net/. Both Accessed 15 June 2022.
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Melody, W.H. (2023). Media Technologies and Globalization Arrive at IAMCR. In: Becker, J., Mansell, R. (eds) Reflections on the International Association for Media and Communication Research. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16383-8_8
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