Calls for Papers
Communication Studies
Call for Manuscripts
2011 Special Issue: 'Race Matters' in the Obama Era
Mark P. Orbe, Guest Editor
Submission Deadline: October 28, 2010
Barack Obama's improbable journey from Illinois State Senator to President of the United States of America has been documented through an abundance of national and international media outlets. The historical significance of his election is undeniable and provides a valuable opportunity to explore the realities of race in the U.S. For instance, some see President Obama's rise to the highest office in the land as evidence of a 'postracial America;' others critically examine how his election has exposed the degree to which public perceptions remain steeped in racialized realities. Regardless of one's perspective(s), one thing is certain: President Obama's election represents a moment in time that begs for scholarly analysis in regards to "who we are, where we've been, and what the emergence of a leader like Obama can tell us about our culture, our politics, and our future" (Asim, 2009, p. 3).[1] Consequently, the 2011 Special Issue of Communication Studies is dedicated to explorations of 'race matters' in the Obama era.
Authors are invited to submit manuscripts that explore how communicating about race has been affected by President Obama's election. Potential topics may include (but are not limited to) the following: explorations of public perceptions, analyses of various mass media, rhetorical analyses of public commentaries, examinations of interpersonal and intergroup relations, studies that focus on issues of race and identity, as well as essays focusing on teaching about race. Ultimately, the special issue seeks to produce a volume where communication scholars can draw from a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to analyze explicit and implicit messages about race and what they reveal about current realities regarding race relations in the U.S.
The guest editor for the special issue is Mark P. Orbe, Western Michigan University, School of Communication, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49009; (269) 387-3132. All manuscripts must be prepared in accordance to the 6th edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association or the 15th edition of the Chicago Style Manual, and should contain no more than 7500 total words (including tables, references, endnotes, and appendices). An electronic file of the manuscript, prepared for blind review as a WORD document, and a separate file with title of the manuscript, author contact information, brief author bio, and manuscript history (if applicable) should be submitted to orbe@wmich.edu no later than October 28, 2010. Additional journal guidelines are available at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/rcstauth.asp.
Journal of Children and Media - Call for Papers
Special Issue, Volume 4 issue 4, December 2010:
Media policy for children: International perspectives
Guest Editor: Amy Jordan, The Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania;
ajordan@asc.upenn.edu
The central presence of media in the lives of children and adolescents has led many societies to seek strategies to encourage access to potentially beneficial content (such as educational television programs) and technologies (such as broadband internet access). At the same time, governments often put in place policies to restrict access to content they fear might be harmful to youth development (such as pornography or unhealthy food advertising).
This special issue of the Journal of Children and Media is designed to offer a cross-cultural perspective on children's media policy. How do different countries discuss and treat the regulation of media to "protect" or "enrich" children?
Journal of Intercultural Communication Research - Call for Papers
The Journal of Intercultural Communication Research (JICR), a publication of the World Communication, focuses on quantitative and qualitative research related to intercultural communication. JICR publishes manuscripts that report on the interrelations between culture and communication within a single nation/culture or across nations/cultures. Authors are invited to submit manuscripts by hard copy or electronic attachment to be considered for publication in volumes 37-39 (2008-2010). Three copies of hard copy submissions should be sent to Jerry L. Allen, Editor, Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, Department of Communication, University of New Haven, 300 Boston Post Road, West Haven, CT 06516 USA.
Electronic attachments in Word format may be sent to jlallen@newhaven.edu.
The International Journal on Media Management - Call for Papers
The International Journal on Media Management publishes original research and scholarship on the management aspects of the media and communication industries. The content is both interdisciplinary, combining a number of different academic disciplines (strategy, technology, marketing, finance, etc.) and multisectoral, exploring the interrelationship between developments in related industries. While the journal is open to all methodological approaches, all submissions are expected to be theoretically grounded.
For more information on submitting a manuscript, visit www.mediajournal.org or www.tandf.co.uk/journals/HIJM and go to "Instructions for Authors."
Free Article
Staking a Claim for Social Responsibility:
An Argument for the Dual Responsibility Model,
Terry Adams-Bloom and Johanna Cleary
(Volume 11, Issue 1, 2009)
Available until February 28, 2010 at: www.tandf.co.uk/journals/HIJM. Click on the NEWS AND OFFERS button.
Call for Papers for Special Issue of Information, Communication & Society on Religion and the Internet: The Online-Offline Connection
Guest Editors: Heidi Campbell & Mia Løvheim
In particular this special issues aims to explore the relationship between online and offline forms of religious practice and community. Key questions include:
- What is truly unique about the performance of religion online?
- How is the practice and conception of religion online connected to offline practices, communities and institutions?
- In what ways does religion online reflect trends seen offline in religious culture and practice?
- How do these transformations connect with issues of globalization and glocalization?
Journal of Family Communication
Call for Papers: Research in Family Communication and Culture
Guest Editors Lynn H. Turner, Marquette University and Richard West, Emerson College
The Journal of Family Communication is pleased to announce a call for a special issue devoted to research in family communication and culture. This special issue seeks to provide an outlet for exemplary research examining the intersections of culture and communication within the family. We invite submissions of well-researched and theoretically grounded papers.
Read the full call for papers here.
The International Journal on Media Management
Call for Papers
The International Journal on Media Management publishes original research and scholarship on the management aspects of the media and communication industries. The content is both interdisciplinary, combining a number of different academic disciplines (strategy, technology, marketing, finance, etc.) and multisectoral, exploring the interrelationship between developments in related industries. While the journal is open to all methodological approaches, all submissions are expected to be theoretically grounded.
For more information on submitting a manuscript, visit www.mediajournal.org or www.tandf.co.uk/journals/HIJM and go to "Instructions for Authors."
FREE ARTICLE
Staking a Claim for Social Responsibility: An Argument for the Dual Responsibility Model
(Volume 11, Issue 1, 2009)
Available until February 28, 2010 at: www.tandf.co.uk/journals/HIJM
Click on the NEWS AND OFFERS button.
Text and Performance Quarterly
A forthcoming special issue of TPQ, entitled Sombodies(') in School, promises to be unique in bringing together perspectives and contexts heretofore unconsidered, with an added emphasis on the ways performance studies enhances our theoretical and practical understanding of the complex processes and effects of schooling bodies, as well as a pedagogy oriented toward acting otherwise.
Journal of Applied Communication Research
A special issue of Journal of Applied Communication Research, focussing on Communication and Distance, is now available. This issue showcases the current research within the field of personal relationships and communication, particularly relating at a distance. The articles provide a look into some of the different populations affected by American involvement in international conflict, difficulties in sustaining long-distance romantic ties, maintaining two households, and advances in technology.
If your institution subscribes to the journal you will be able to read the articles here.
Technical Communication Quarterly - Special Issue
Assessing Computer-Mediated Communication
The past two decades have seen dramatic changes in the content of technical communication courses. Some of the earliest of these changes have included designing print documents and Web sites as well as creating poster presentations that once would have required the assistance of professional graphic designers. More recent innovations include wikis, electronic portfolios, online instructional videos, and digital narratives that illustrate processes or concepts.
Given the widespread interest in helping students work in these new forms of technical communication, it seems ironic that there has been virtually no talk of assessment, either the summative assessment that helps students see why their work has received a particular grade or - still more important - the formative assessment that helps students see what they are doing well and what they need to do in order to improve.
Consequently, we are issuing a call for proposals for articles on the assessment of computer-mediated communication for a special issue of Technical Communication Quarterly. As the first paragraph suggests, we are defining the term computer-mediated broadly, to include everything from Web sites to wikis to digital narratives and possibly forms of computer-mediated communication we have not anticipated.
In reviewing responses to this call for proposals, we will be looking for submissions that do the following:
- Enable formative as well as summative assessment, using language and concepts that have heuristic value - i.e., giving students guidance without minimizing the complexity of the composing process;
- Draw on concepts from visual and online rhetoric as well as print rhetoric;
- Show how assessment of innovative texts (wikis or videos, for example) relates to a larger conception of literacy that guides the assessment of more conventional texts;
- Blend theory and practice, not only offering a theoretical framework for assessment but also showing how that framework can guide on-going classroom assessment.
If you are interested in contributing to this issue, please send a proposal that outlines your proposed contribution to Susan Katz (Susan_Katz@ncsu.edu) or Lee Odell (odellc@rpi.edu) no later than March 15, 2010. Feel free to e-mail ahead of time to inquire about ideas or to volunteer as a reviewer.
Schedule
Proposals due: March 15, 2010
Notification of acceptance: April 30, 2010
Complete draft of accepted articles (30 pages, double-spaced, including figures and list of works cited): October 31, 2010
Scheduled publication of special issue: Winter 2012
TCQ also continually accepts manuscripts to be considered for publication in its regular issues. The journal publishes peer-reviewed articles reporting research on technical communication in academic, scientific, technical, business, governmental, and related organizational or social contexts. We publish research informed by a wide range of interpretive and empirical methodologies. TCQ is the official journal of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing.
For more information on the organization or the journal, visit www.tandf.co.uk/journals/HTCQ
Special Issue of Communication Studies
Discourse of the Middle East: Communication, Culture, Media
Special issue editor: Mehdi Semati (Northern Illinois University)
Submission Deadline: March 1, 2010
Submissions are invited for a special issue of Communication Studies offering a communicative inquiry into the (re)emergence of 'the Middle East' in the Western/Northern political and cultural imaginaries. Among the factors that have contributed to this (re)emergence are the following:
- the end of the Cold War and its bipolar geopolitical framework
- the role of the region's energy resources in the world economy
- the possibility of a new nuclear arms race in the Middle East
- regional conflicts and Euro-American involvements therein
- the Euro-American Middle East foreign policies
- the terrorism complex
- immigration and population movements
- globalization
- the proliferation of media in the Middle East
- the flow and contra-flow of media and cultural forms to and from the region
- the explosion of communication technologies and digital networks worldwide
- growing middle classes and their demands in the region
- domestic cultures and global youth cultures
- the proliferation of Western media outlasts with insatiable appetite for content in the form of commentary, analysis, op-eds and controversies
- the rise of religious fundamentalisms worldwide
- the expansion of social movements and their global audiences
- a more vociferous local and global constituency for issues in gender and human rights
On the one hand, communication media and cultures, and communication technologies have played their role in these developments and their respective political, cultural and ideological frameworks. On the other, these developments have contributed to the formation of the Western political and cultural imaginaries in which "the Middle East" is an intelligible and constructed object in various discourses.
This special issue is devoted to the exploration of these discourses, their epistemological and ontological formations and histories, the politics of their formations and the functions they might perform in a variety of domains. Here the concept of "discourse" is deployed broadly, inviting contributions from diverse intellectual, methodological and disciplinary affiliations and orientations that have contributed to communication and cultural studies. Regardless of their orientations, the contributions are expected to address the literatures and problematics of concern to communication, media and cultural studies. The aforementioned list of developments, as they relate to such problematics, suggests a range of topics of interest to this special issue.
Queries regarding the special issue may be directed to guest editor Mehdi Semati (msemati@niu.edu) or journal editor Kimberly Powell (commstudies@luther.edu).
Submission guidelines:
Manuscripts must be prepared in accordance with the most recent edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association or the Chicago Manual of Style. Submissions should contain no more than 7500 words total (including tables, references, endnotes, and appendices). Send an electronic file of the manuscript prepared for blind review in MWord or rtf and a separate file with author contact information, title of the manuscript, and brief author bio to commstudies@luther.edu. Additional journal guidelines are available at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/rcstauth.asp.
New to Routledge
Celebrity Studies
Routledge are delighted to announce the publication of Celebrity Studies from 2010!
Celebrity Studies edited by Su Holmes (University of East Anglia, UK) and Sean Redmond (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) is a journal that focuses on the critical exploration of celebrity, stardom and fame. It seeks to make sense of celebrity by drawing upon a range of (inter)disciplinary approaches, media forms, historical periods and national contexts. Celebrity Studies aims to address key issues in the production, circulation and consumption of fame, and its manifestations in both contemporary and historical contexts, while functioning as a key site for academic debate about the enterprise of celebrity studies itself. Alongside the primary articles, the journal will include a 'blog' section devoted to shorter observations, debates or issues in celebrity culture, in conjunction with book reviews and conference reports.
Special Issue Call for Papers
Back in the Spotlight: Ageing and Female Celebrity
Michael Jackson: Celebrity, Death & the King of Pop
Text and Performance Quarterly - Special Issue: SomeBodies(') in School
Guest Editors: Leda Cooks, University of Massachusetts, Amherst and John T. Warren, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Performance studies scholars have brought keen insights into the ways the roles of student, teacher, and even the spaces of schools are embodied differently, with different consequences for identities and communities. Performance studies scholars have contributed a great deal to critical pedagogy, focusing on the ways bodies learn and unlearn in schools; scholars have looked at the ways race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, disability, and class are intertwined and situated in schooled performances. Critical pedagogical scholars, too, have focused on schooling as sites of socialization and have frequently called for a stronger role for performance studies especially in imagining transformative and liberatory forms of pedagogy. Performance Studies is uniquely situated to explore the places where school(ing) and bodies come together - with theoretical approaches and methodologies that offer those interested in education and the possibilities for democracy and social justice a way to move beyond the often limited and limiting frameworks of critical and postmodern theories and toward spaces for imagination and boundary crossing.
This special issue of TPQ promises to be unique in bringing together perspectives and contexts heretofore unconsidered, with an added emphasis on the ways performance studies enhances our theoretical and practical understanding of the complex processes and effects of schooling bodies, as well as a pedagogy oriented toward acting other-wise. Our focus in this issue is on schools and schooling as institutionalized sites of education where bodies are in/re/de-formed in the process of teaching and learning. We are interested in the possibilities that performance can bring to a critical pedagogy of the body, of bodies of (in)difference, desire and resistance - with a particular bent toward social change and social justice.
Submissions from a variety of perspectives to performance inquiry are encouraged. We are especially interested in essays that examine issues of enfleshment, resistance, bodies, desire, and/or performative pedagogy. Informed by the already rich foundation generated by communication, performance studies and critical pedagogy scholars, essays should extend both the theoretical, methodological, and epistemological conceptions of research at these intersections while also creating spaces for imagining interrogations and interventions in systems of domination. Especially welcome are essays that examine dislocated bodies, institutionalized bodies, trained/ritualized bodies, evaluated bodies, and/or resistant/trangressive bodies. We invite authors also to consider sites of hybridity and liminality within as well as external to the U.S., such as the "American" universities and schools throughout the world, ELL classrooms, online education programs, schooling under occupation, etc. Research can be interdisciplinary, embracing performance ethnography, performative writing, autoethnography, critical race theory, feminisms, queer theory or other critical methods/theories that enhance and enrich our understandings of performance, the body, and schooling.
Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 7th ed. (2009). To facilitate the blind, peer review process, no material identifying the author(s) of submitted manuscripts should appear anywhere other than the title page, which should include: (a.) the title of the paper, (b.) the author's name, position, institutional affiliation, address, telephone, and fax numbers, and email address; (c.) any acknowledgments, including the history of the manuscript if any part of it has been presented at a conference or derived from a thesis or dissertation; (d.) a close word count. The first page of the manuscript itself should include the title of the paper, an abstract of 100 words, and a list of five suggested key words. Manuscripts should be double-spaced throughout and should be no longer than 9000 words, inclusive of notes and reference matter.
Please submit an electronic copy in RTF or Word format to leda@comm.umass.edu and to jtwarren@siu.edu by 15 March 2010. Questions can also be addressed to the guest editors at their email(s) above.
Critical Studies in Media Communication
Over the last two decades critical communication and media scholars have argued that social spaces, material conditions, and semiotic practices form the texture of our political horizons. Critical Studies in Media Communication will publish a special issue in 2010 drawing on the theme Space, Matter, Mediation, and the Prospects of Democracy.
Journal of Mass Media Ethics - Call for Papers for 10th Colloquium
Who Can and Should Watch the Watchdog in the Twitter Age?
Media Ethics 2000 Colloquium, founded by Brigham Young University, is preparing for its 10th colloquium, which will take place in April, 2010, in St. Louis. The 2010 colloquium, Who Can and Should Watch the Watchdog in the Twitter Age?, provides a venue for mass media scholarship examining a variety of accountability issues and tools ranging from journalism reviews to news councils to ombudsmen to public/civic journalism to media critics to ethics codes, etc.
Colloquium submissions should be normative, focusing on ethics and theory as opposed to media criticism or individual case studies. Potential colloquium fellows are invited to submit proposals of no more than 1,000 words. As many as nine team proposals will be selected by the Colloquium Steering Committee. Proposals can be submitted either by an individual scholar or by a pair of scholars. Should a proposal submitted by an individual be accepted, the colloquium steering committee will help determine another appropriate scholar to work with the person submitting the proposal. In past colloquia, fellows pairings have embraced diversity, including, for instance, having one scholar in a team being more "seasoned" and the other scholar being new to media ethics, or having one scholar being an academician with the other contributor being from the media or another profession (law, for example), having team members from two different disciplines, or having a pair of individuals from different nations or cultures.
The proposal deadline is Nov. 1, 2009. Proposals should be submitted electronically to William A. Babcock at wbabcock49@gmail.com. Acceptance notices will be sent out in November.
Final papers of no more than 8,000 words (including references and footnotes) are due no later than March, 2010. The colloquium will pay travel, room and board expenses for all fellows. The Journal of Mass Media Ethics will have the right of first refusal for all presented colloquium papers, and upon publication each author will receive a $500 honorarium.
This year's Colloquium is co-sponsored by Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture
Special Issue: Coloring the Environmental Lens: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Cinema, New Media, and Just Sustainability Volume 5, Issue 1 (2011)
Guest editors: Salma Monani, Gettysburg College; Belinda Chiu, Duke University; Carlo Arreglo, University of California-Berkeley.
We are seeking manuscript submissions on the role of cinema and new media in engaging environmental issues from the perspectives of traditionally marginalized groups (specifically socio-economically depressed groups and racial and ethnic minorities in the American and global context). We deliberately conceive cinema broadly (as its Greek root suggests) to include various moving images - documentary and fictional film, video, television - and are also interested in new media such as video games, internet video shorts, blogs and online gaming.
Chinese Journal of Communication
The editors of Chinese Journal of Communication, Paul S.N. Lee (editor); Francis Lee (associate editor); Louis Leung (associate editor); Jack Linchuan Qiu (associate editor) and Clement Y.K. So (associate editor), from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, are currently seeking papers.
Volume 2, 2009, 3 issues per year
For details on how to submit an article, visit the Special Edition Emerging Media and Challenges in Chinese Communities call for papers (PDF) or alternatively visit the journal's website.
Social Semiotics
The editors of Social Semiotics are currently seeking papers.
For details on how to submit an article view the Call for Papers.
Journal of Intercultural Communication Research
Editor: Jerry L. Allen - University of New Haven, USA
Volume 38, 2009, 3 issues per year
To submit an article to the journal click here.
Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture
Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, now in its third year of publication is looking for high quality papers on a continuous basis in order to build a strong and highly cited publication.
This title explores how humans communicate about and within both natural and cultural environments. To provide a sample of the work we are publishing, we are offering free access to view a number of "Editor's Choice" papers.
All paper for submission should be made via Environmental Communication's Manuscript Central site.
Information Communication & Society
Technical Capital and Social Inequalities.
Information, Communication & Society will be publishing a special issue which aims to explore systematic ways of conceptualising relations between technologies and inequalities, which transcend their analytical separation. It is widely recognised that information and communication technologies are implicated in the diverse forms of social inequality, however, there are currently few good ways of exploring this interface analytically.
Read the full call for papers.
Quarterly Journal of Speech
The Quarterly Journal of Speech has a new editorial policy and the Editor continues to seek submissions which reflect this new focus. The journal publishes articles and book reviews of interest to those who take a rhetorical perspective on the texts, discourses, and cultural practices by which public beliefs and identities are constituted, empowered, and enacted.
Read the new editorial policy.
Communication Monographs and the Journal of Applied Communication Research
The Editors of Communication Monographs and the Journal of Applied Communication Research are creating a joint forum and co-operatively publishing essays addressing the question 'Has communication research made a difference?'
Four scholars have been invited to begin the discussion and we are currently inviting persons to read and respond to the four original essays and further extend the discussion of the topic.
Submit your response to the debate. Read the call for papers here.
Text and Performance Quarterly
Text and Performance Quarterly is pleased to announce a special issue on Emergent Poetics co-edited by Heidi Rose and Jim Ferris. In this issue we hope to tackle the reach, range, and relevance of embodied and mediated poetics as realized in multiple contemporary contexts. Performance studies is specially situated to address interdisciplinary approaches to poetics.
Read the full call for papers here.
Journal of Intercultural Communication Research
The Journal of Intercultural Communication Research is accepting manuscripts.
To read the full Call for Manuscripts, click here.
Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies
The Editor Elect, Dr. J. Macgregor Wise (Arizona State University, USA), is now accepting submissions to published from 2010 onwards and would like to share the journal's new Editorial Policy with you.
Click here for more information.
Submit your manuscript using Manuscript Central.
Text and Performance Quarterly
Review of Communication
Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies
Editors Elect Now Inviting Submissions
From 2010, three of the National Communication Association titles will have new Editors. The Editors Elect are now accepting submissions for their journals, to be published from 2010 onwards, and would like to share their new editorial policies with you.
Text and Performance Quarterly
Review of Communication
Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies
Electronic News
Electronic News is a quarterly journal devoted to advancing knowledge and understanding of news as disseminated through electronic media platforms. The journal invites submissions of original research that examine the content, practice, and administration of radio, television, the internet, and related areas.
Submissions must be clearly applicable to the practice of electronic journalism and must be written for an audience that includes both academicians and practitioners.
Submitted work is evaluated according to the quality of its conceptualization, research execution, and the lasting contribution it will make to electronic news studies.
Submissions and questions for the editors regarding actual submissions may be addressed to C.A. Tuggle at catuggle@unc.edu.
For full information on submitting a manuscript, please click here.
Journal of Family Communication
The Journal of Family Communication is a quarterly journal that publishes articles on all aspects of communication within and about families. In addition to empirical reports, theoretical essays, and review essays, the journal includes articles pertaining to applied family communication, family communication pedagogy, and reviews of other scholarly and teaching resources.
The journal welcomes superior scholarship from diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives from communication scholars and interdisciplinary researchers focused on issues of communication, language, and social interaction.
Manuscripts can be sent electronically to the Editor, Dr. Caryn E. Medved, at jfc@baruch.cuny.edu.
For full information on submitting a manuscript, please click here.
Communication Education
The Editor of Communication Education, Melanie Booth-Butterfield, is currently inviting submissions in the form of both articles and major reviews.
Read the Instructions for Authors here.
Read the Call for Major Reviews here.
Communication Teacher
Communication Teacher, a quarterly teaching resource, is now soliciting manuscripts. Two types of manuscripts will be considered for publication in the journal. First, as in the past, instructional activities that can be conducted in either the K-12 or college classroom will be considered. Second, a new addition, manuscripts focused on communication education assessment in either the K-12 or college classroom will be considered.
Chinese Journal of Communication
The Chinese Journal of Communication (CJoC) is a new venture of scholarly publication aimed at elevating Chinese communication studies along theoretical, empirical, and methodological dimensions, while contributing to the understanding of media, information, and communication phenomena around the world.
Critical Arts: A Journal of South-North Cultural Studies
A publication of the UNISA
Critical Arts has been publishing since 1980. A number of integrated theoretical trajectories and ongoing debates have emerged during the intervening period. Submitting authors are requested to familiarise themselves with these themes. For example, Critical Arts prefers analyses which interrogate essentialist ideas rather than simply assuming them. We prefer it if current authors address and critically engage discussions previously published in the Journal, in their own analyses. For example, the question 'What is African cinema?' is a recurring one.
Critical Arts publishes the work of established scholars and is also geared to opening spaces for new, young and dynamic authors, whose emerging work is of critical and theoretical significance. Amongst our authors (and in the book series) are MA and PhD students whose work is often theoretically refreshing, conceptually innovative and critically challenging. Critical Arts provides a platform for such students who need to find their niche within the research and publishing community.
Read the full call for papers here.
Communicatio: South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research
A publication of the UNISA
Editor: Prof. Pieter J. Fourie, University of South Africa (UNISA), S. Africa
Communicatio focuses on and seeks to publish original research articles of the highest standard and of special interest on South African and African communication contexts in the fields of:
- communication theory and philosophy
- media and cultural studies
- organisational and management communication
- visual communication
- intercultural communication
- advertising and marketing
- developmental communication
- political communication
- new media (policy and social implications)
- international communication.
Read the full call for papers here.
Journalism Practice and Journalism Studies
Future of Journalism Conference, 9th and 10th September 2009
The second Journalism Practice and Journalism Studies conference to be hosted by the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies and supported by Routledge, Taylor and Francis, will focus on the topic: The Future of Journalism. We invite contributions from the international community of scholars of journalism studies as well as journalism practitioners, journalism educators and trainers, media executives, trade unionists and media regulators.
Proposals for Papers are invited on the following broad themes:
- The Future of Journalism: Perspectives from different countries/continents);
- The Future of Journalism: New media technologies, blogs, citizen journalism and UGC;
- The Future of Journalism: Business trends and developments;
- The Future of Journalism: Implications and developments for journalism practice;
- The Future of Journalism; Broadcast and print journalism;
- The Future of Journalism; the employment, education and training of journalists;
- The Future of Journalism; Journalism ethics.
Titles and abstracts for papers (250 words max) and proposals for panels of related papers, should be emailed (by 9 January 2009) to Bob Franklin at journalismstudies@press.uk.net. Please indicate which of the seven key themes listed above your paper addresses. All abstracts and papers will be reviewed by a panel of specialists and members of the Editorial Board. A selection of papers will be published as special issues of Journalism Practice and Journalism Studies in April 2010. At the 2007 Future of Newspapers conference, 65 of the 110 submitted papers were presented at Conference and 27 were published in Journalism Practice and Journalism Studies.
Read the full Call for Papers.
The Review of Communication
New Editorial Policy
From 2010, The Review of Communication will be edited by Ronald Arnett, Duquesne University, USA. From this time the journal will have a new editorial policy.
Please click here for more information.