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IAMCR and the Middle East and North Africa: Questions of Place, People, and Paradigms

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This chapter reviews IAMCR-Middle East and North Africa (MENA) relationships from 1970 to the present by examining meeting places, influential scholars, and paradigmatic approaches to media and communication research. Constraints to MENA scholars’ participation in IAMCR are shown to have been resulted from geopolitics, the value accorded to media and communication research by MENA academic institutions, and from internal association approaches to the region.

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    Naomi Sakr

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  1. Political Science, Philipp’s University of Marburg, Marburg, Hessen, Germany

    Jörg Becker

  2. Media and Communications Dept., London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

    Robin Mansell

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Sakr, N. (2023). IAMCR and the Middle East and North Africa: Questions of Place, People, and Paradigms. 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_25

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