Dear friends and colleagues, the programme for this year's OURMedia event has been finalized. You can find it here: http://www.iamcr.org/2013/OURMedia_IAMCR_Pre-conference.pdf. The event ‘Dealing with Crisis: Community, Alternative, Citizens’ and Social Media in Times of Change’ is a pre-conference to the annual IAMCR conference, and it is organised by OURMedia, the Community Communication section of IAMCR, Dublin Community Television, and the Community Radio Forum of Ireland (CRAOL), in collaboration with the Global Media and Social Change division of the ICA. The pre-conference will be held June 24-25, with Day 1 at the wonderful City Wall space in central Dublin and Day 2 at Dublin City University where the main IAMCR conference will be held. The programme also includes an evening event on June 24 at Liberty Hall, one of the most iconic buildings in Dublin. Our programme features a range of academic research papers dealing with the pre-conference theme, along with panels, video presentations and workshops that will be of interest to both scholars and local media activists and practitioners. The pre-conference organising committee has involved scholars from the Community Communication section working closely with our Dublin friends from the Dublin City Community Media Forum, Dublin Community Television and other local groups. The pre-conference is free and does not require registration. We hope to see many IAMCR participants at the event, as well as other members of the OURMedia network. Best, Arne