Media Technologies and Globalization Arrive at IAMCR
William H. Melody · 2023
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.