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 In recent years free, on line journals, many of them open access and peer-reviewed, have begun to both challenge and complement traditional academic publishing. This is a welcome development and IAMCR is developing a resource on its website with links to journals in the field of media and communications. Please send your suggestions for journals to include and help develop this service for IAMCR members and the media and communication research community at large. Please include the journal title, publisher, URL and a brief description. Click here to send suggestions and report broken or dead links. OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS 3CMedia: Journal of Community, Citizen's and Third Sector Media and Communication 3CMedia is a scholarly e-journal which aims to provide a forum for promoting, reporting and debating research in community-based, citizen's and 'third sector' media and culture. All papers published in 3CMedia have been subject to a process of blind peer review and many are based upon presentations made in the academic stream of the Community Broadcasting Association's Annual Conference. African Journal of Information & Communication Technology African Journal of Information and Communication Technology (AJICT) is a peer reviewed international journal providing a publication vehicle for coverage of topics of interest to those involved in computing, communication networks, electronic communications, information technology systems and bioinformatics. It is serving as an open source vehicle of the works of researchers in ICT world wide that hitherto would not be available to organisations outside and within the African sub-region. American Communication Journal The American Communication Journal is a completely online, blind-reviewed publication, dedicated to the conscientious analysis and criticism of significant communicative artifacts. Appreciating the diversity of research agendas and methodologies in the study of communication, the Co-Editors and Editorial Board of ACJ welcome submissions on any topic related to the discipline. The ACJ is an academic journal. As such, it is dedicated to the open exchange of information. For this reason, ACJ is freely available to individuals and institutions. Copies of this journal or articles in this journal may be distributed for research or educational purposes free of charge and without permission. However, commercial use of the ACJ website or the articles contained herein is expressly prohibited without the written consent of the editor. Belphégor est une revue internationale arbitrée de niveau universitaire, consacrée à l'étude des littératures populaires et de la culture médiatique. Elle est ouverte à toutes les approches critiques et encourage l'interdisciplinarité et les études comparatives. La mission de la revue est de stimuler la discussion, la recherche et les contacts entre chercheurs de tous horizons dans le domaine français, anglo-saxon, italien, allemand, espagnol et lusitanien. Canadian Journal of Communication The objective of the Canadian Journal of Communication is to publish Canadian research and scholarship in the field of communication. In pursuing this objective, particular attention is paid to research that has a distinctive Canadian flavour by virtue of choice of topic or by drawing on the legacy of Canadian theory and research. The purview of the journal is the entire field of communication studies as practiced in Canada or with relevance to Canada. Chasqui, "hombre que a través de los caminos llevaba el mensaje o la noticia de un confín a otro del imperio incáico". El texto imprescindible para la formación permanente del profesional de la comunicación social. Primicia en el análisis inquietante y serio de los medios y de los variados procesos de comunicación Chasqui se ha constituido en la primera revista de comunicación de la región por la calidad de sus contenidos (en ella escriben algunos de los más importantes comunicadores y comunicólogos de esta parte del mundo) y por la regularidad de sus ediciones. La revista está dirigida a estudiantes, docentes, investigadores, periodistas y profesionales de la comunicación y de otras áreas vinculadas a ella. Ciência da Informação (Portuguese) A revista Ciência da Informação é uma publicação quadrimestral de trabalhos inéditos relacionados com a ciência da informação ou que apresentem resultados de estudos e pesquisas sobre as atividades do setor de informação em ciência e tecnologia. Entende se por ciência da informação a área interdisciplinar concernente ao estudo dos fenômenos ligados à produção, organização, difusão e utilização de informações em todos os campos do saber. A atividade do setor de informação engloba componentes de vários outros setores e subsetores, como os da educação, cultura e pesquisa, telecomunicações e informática, nos seus aspectos relacionados à informação científica e tecnológica e à tecnologia da informação. Communications in Information Literacy (CIL) Communications in Information Literacy (CIL) is an independent, professional, refereed electronic journal dedicated to advancing knowledge, theory, and research in the area of information literacy. The journal is committed to the principles of information literacy as set forth by the Association of College and Research Libraries. CIL is also committed to the principles of open access for academic research. Community Informatics (CI) is the study and the practice of enabling communities with Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs). CI seeks to work with communities towards the effective use of ICTs to improve their processes, achieve their objectives, overcome the "digital divides" that exist both within and between communities, and empower communities and citizens in the range of areas of ICT application including for health, cultural production, civic management, e-governance among others. CI is concerned with how ICT can be useful to the range of traditionally excluded populations and communities, and how it can support local economic development, social justice and political empowerment using the Internet. CI is a point of convergence concerning the use of ICTs for diverse stakeholders, including community activists, nonprofit groups, policymakers, users/citizens, and the range of academics working across (and integrating) disciplines as diverse as Information Studies, Management, Computer Science, Social Work, Planning and Development Studies. Emerging issues within the CI field include: community access to the internet, community information, online civic participation and community service delivery, community and local economic development, training networks, telework, social cohesion, learning, e-health and e-governance. Comunicación y Sociedad (Spanish) Comunicación y Sociedad es una publicación semestral especializada en el área de la comunicación social. Constituye un medio de difusión de avances y resultados de investigación, así como de las teorías y metodologías afines. Cuadernos de Información (Spanish) Cuadernos de Información es una publicación bi-anual de la Facultad de Comunicaciones de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, que tiene como principal objetivo la divulgación del análisis y la reflexión crítica en los campos del periodismo, la comunicación audiovisual y las demás áreas de la comunicación aplicada, privilegiando aquellas investigaciones que aporten conocimiento nuevo y original. Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace The 'Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace' is a web-based, peer-reviewed scholarly journal. The first peer-reviewed issue was published in September 2007. The journal is focussed on social science research into cyberspace, while bringing psychosocial reflections of the Internet impact onto people and society. The journal is interdisciplinary, publishing works written by scholars of psychology, media studies, sociology, political science, and other disciplines. The Cyberpsychology Journal brings out original papers, as well as theoretical studies and research meta-analyses. Proposals for special issues are also welcomed. Democratic Comuniqué - Journal of the Union for Democratic Communications Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ) Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ), an open-access, peer-reviewed, digital journal covering all aspects of digital media in the humanities. Published by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO), DHQ is also a community experiment in journal publication, with a commitment to: experimenting with publication formats and the rhetoric of digital authoring, co-publishing articles with Literary and Linguistic Computing (a well-established print digital humanities journal) in ways that straddle the print/digital divide, using open standards to deliver journal content, and developing translation services and multilingual reviewing in keeping with the strongly international character of ADHO. eJjournalist. A refereed media journal This open access, scholarly journal contains refereed articles on journalism, new media, communications, graphics, websites and related issues. It seeks to aid journalism and communications educators, researchers and those concerned with media analysis. Each edition contains abstracts of articles, full versions of which may be downloaded as PDFs. Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries EJISDC focuses on the digital divide. Our aim is to situate contemporary trends in ICTs within a fully global context. Outside of North America, Western Europe, Australasia and Japan, diverse societies are making sense of technological advances in ways unique to their cultures and histories. Em Questão é uma publicação da Faculdade de Biblioteconomia e Comunicação da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. É dirigida a pesquisadores, professores, profissionais e estudantes das áreas de Informação e Comunicação e tem como objetivos: a) divulgar estudos e resultados de pesquisas nos campos da Informação e Comunicação e áreas afins; b) apresentar dossiês temáticos, reunindo a contribuição de especialistas nos respectivos campos. Fibreculture Journal is a peer reviewed international journal that explores the issues and ideas of concern and interest to both the Fibreculture network and wider social formations. The journal encourages critical and speculative interventions in the debate and discussions concerning information and communication technologies and their policy frameworks, network cultures and their informational logic, new media forms and their deployment, and the possibilities of socio-technical invention and sustainability. Other broad topics of interest include the cultural contexts, philosophy and politics of: information and creative industries, national and international strategies for innovation, research and development, education, media and culture, and new media arts. First Monday is one of the first openly accessible, peer–reviewed journals on the Internet, solely devoted to the Internet. First Monday is indexed in Communication Abstracts, Computer & Communications Security Abstracts, DoIS, eGranary Digital Library, INSPEC, Information Science & Technology Abstracts, LISA, PAIS, and other services. Flow’s mission is to provide a space where researchers, Global Media Journal (American Edition)
Global Media Journal (Global Editions) Global Media Journal: Mediterranean Edition The GMJ: Mediterranean Edition publishes articles in the broad field of cultural and critical communication studies with an emphasis on the role of communication in resolution of conflict and the promotion of peace. Glocal Times is a web magazine published three times a year by Malmö University’s Master in Communication for Development, based in Sweden. Adding to the international community of academics and practitioners initiated brought together by the ComDev international Master course as from 2002, Glocal Times tackles its contents from an interdisciplinary approach. First published in June 2005 and with ten (10) issues to date, the web magazine has become a relevant digital reference for the discussion and dissemination of issues concerning communication for development and social change as well as related fields. Recognized academic experts and practitioners from all over the world have contributed to the web magazine. Human Technology presents innovative, peer-reviewed articles thatexplore the issues and challenges surrounding the human role in allareas of our ICT-infused societies. The journal seeks to draw researchfrom multiple scientific disciplines with an eye toward how appliedtechnology can affect human existence or how it can, for instance,foster personal development and enhance research and development inindustry, education, communication and other fields. HumanTechnology's dynamic and forward-looking articles are intended for usein both the scientific community and industry and the journal does notset any limits regarding the specialization of its authors. Thejournal welcomes also difficult or controversial topics, and isinterested in publishing non-paradigmatic and non-traditional ideasthat meet the criteria for good scientific work. Informação & Informaçã (Portuguese) Revista do Departamento de Ciência da Informação Universidade Estadual de Londrina. A Revista Informação & Informação, iniciada em 1996, publica contribuições inéditas em Ciência da Informação, Arquivologia, Biblioteconomia e áreas de interface, buscando incentivar debate interdisciplinar acerca dos fenômenos concernentes à informação. Information Technologies and International Development (ITID) Informative, lively, and provocative, Information Technologies and International Development (ITID) focuses on the intersection of information and communication technologies (ICT) with international development. ITID aims to create a networked community of leading thinkers and strategists to discuss the critical issues of ICT and development, an epistemic community that crosses disciplines (especially technologists and social scientists), national boundaries, and the North and South hemispheres. The audience for ITID comes from academia, the private sector, NGOs, and government. It attracts readers interested in the "other four billion" – the share of the world population whose countries are not yet widely connected to the Internet nor widely considered in the design of new information technologies. INICIACOM : Revista Brasileira de Iniciação Científica em Comunicação Social (Portuguese) Periódico semestral - somente em formato eletrônico - de difusão do conhecimento produzido pela Rede Intercom Júnior, publicada pela Intercom - Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Inderdisciplinares da Comunicação. Inovcom : Revista Brasileira de Inovação Científica em Comunicação (Portuguese) INOVCOM - Revista Brasileira de Inovação Científica em Comunicação pretende divulgar as pesquisas que contenham resultados inovadores ou focalizem alternativas comunicacionais. Essa publicação, editada exclusivamente em formato digital, visa atender í demanda dos egressos dos cursos de graduação e estudantes dos cursos de especialização em Comunicação, bem como aos jovens profissionais atuantes no mercado de trabalho. Publicada pela INTERCOM - Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Comunicação - , em parceria com a Faculdade de Comunicação da Universidade de Marília - UNIMAR -, esta revista está aberta í contribuição de quantos pretendam oferecer contribuições para superar o “gueto acadêmico”, ampliando as pontes da cooperação entre a academia e o mercado, através das empresas midiáticas e das associações profissionais da comunicação. International Journal of Communication The International Journal of Communication is an online, multi-media, academic journal that adheres to the highest standards of peer review and engages established and emerging scholars from anywhere in the world. The International Journal of Communication is an interdisciplinary journal that, while centered in communication, is open and welcoming to contributions from the many disciplines and approaches that meet at the crossroads that is communication study. International Journal of Education and Development using ICT The International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology (IJEDICT) is an e-journal that provides free and open access to all of its content. IJEDICT aims to strengthen links between research and practice in ICT in education and development in hitherto less developed parts of the world, e.g., developing countries (especially small states), and rural and remote regions of developed countries. International Journal of Internet Science A peer reviewed open access journal for empirical findings, methodology, and theory of social and behavioral science concerning the Internet and its implications for individuals, social groups, organizations, and society. This journal is dedicated to explorations of the material and political dimensions of cultural practices: the means by which cultural objects and communities are produced, the historical contexts in which they emerge, and the regimes of knowledge or modes of social interaction to which they contribute. As the title suggests, Invisible Culture problematizes the unquestioned alliance between culture and visibility, specifically visual culture and vision. Cultural practices and materials emerge not solely in the visible world, but also in the social, temporal, and theoretical relations that define the invisible. Our understanding of Cultural Studies, finally, maintains that culture is fugitive and is constantly renegotiated. Journal of the European Institute for Communication and Culture - Javnost - The Public, an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed social and cultural science journal published by the European Institute for Communication and Culture in association with the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, addresses problems of the public sphere on international and interdisciplinary levels. It encourages the development of theory and research, and helps understand differences between cultures. Contributors confront problems of the public, public communication, public opinion, public discourse, publicness, publicity, and public life from a variety of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives. JCOM - Journal of Science Communication JCOM is an on-line journal on scientific communication. Since the world of communications and the scientific community are now undergoing a rapid, crucial and uncertain transition, JCOM is trying to become an interdisciplinary melting-pot capable of providing some theoretical guidelines for science communication. In JCOM , each article undergoes multidisciplinary peer-reviewing by experts belonging to different areas of competence such as science, communication and theory of communication. Journal of Communications (JCM) Journal of Communications (JCM) is a scholarly peer-reviewed international scientific journal published monthly, focusing on theories, methods, and algorithms in communications. It provide a high profile, leading edge forum for academic researchers, industrial professionals, engineers, consultants, managers, educators and policy makers working in the field to contribute and disseminate innovative new work on communications. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (JCMC) The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (JCMC) is a web-based, peer-reviewed scholarly journal. Its focus is social science research on computer-mediated communication via the Internet, the World Wide Web, and wireless technologies. Within that general purview, the journal is broadly interdisciplinary, publishing work by scholars in communication, business, education, political science, sociology, media studies, information science, and other disciplines. Acceptable formats for submission include original research articles, meta-analyses of prior research, synthesizing literature surveys, and proposals for special issues. The Journal of E-working (JOE) is an online, multi-disciplinary and peer-reviewed publication on E-working. It aims to enhance and accelerate communication among researchers and practitioners concerning the impacts of new working environments on individuals, businesses and society. The journal of e-working enables rapid publication, worldwide visibility and accessibility through indexing your work in more than 25 international repositories and library catalogs. Kommunikation@Gesellschaft (in German) Kommunikation@Gesellschaft (or k@g for short; founded in 2000) is an open access journal focussing on both theoretically and empirically grounded research on (old and new) communication media. Its main disciplinary approaches come from sociology, cultural anthropology and communication science. Recent articles featured, for example, the appropriation of mobile media by urban teenagers, didactical processes in computer games, or the self-regulation of "ebay entrepreneurs". In addition, several "special issues" are published, for example on practices of blogging or on Wiki research. Learning Inquiry is a refereed scholarly journal, devoted to establishing the area of “learning” as a focus for transdisciplinary study. The journal is a forum centered on learning that remains open to varied objects of inquiry, including machine, human, plant and animal learning as well as the processes of learning in business, government, and the professions, both in formal and informal environments. This journal is of importance to those interested in learning, understanding its contexts, and anticipating its future. The journal will also present special issues that identify the central areas of learning inquiry to provide focus for future research. Learning Inquiry strikes a balance between presenting innovative research and documenting current knowledge to foster a scholarly dialogue on learning that is independent of domain and methodological restrictions. Learning Inquiry is intended to be expansive and transdisciplinary in scope. We want to involve researchers, practitioners, and others in the discussion of learning in the broadest contexts. In doing this we are trying to develop a place for inquiry into learning across the disciplines. We hope this new location will enable a sharing of understandings of learning that is theoretically informed and pragmatically rich. MediaTropes is a transdisciplinary, peer-reviewed e-journal that seeks to breach boundaries, existing as a vigorous border hopper-alien in new cultural territories. It interrogates all frameworks, structures, and media, revealing the hidden ground of their effects. Included within this is not just a questioning of media themselves, but an examination of how information instantiated in media transforms and is transformed by their socio-cultural milieux. MedieKultur is a peer-reviewed journal of media and communications studies that encourages stimulating ideas, sound thinking and strong arguments without any dogmatic preference for certain schools of thought. The journal is aimed at scholars, teachers, students, and professionals. MedieKultur publishes research into mediated communication in all its various contexts: political, economic, cultural, historical, aesthetic, and social. MedieKultur is a multi-disciplinary journal and welcomes articles contributing to critical reflection and the further development of theory and method within media and communication studies. Nordic and Baltic Journal of Information and Communication Technologies (nb!ict) Nordicom Review, a refereed journal, provides a major forum for media and communication researchers in the Nordic countries. The semi-annual journal is addressed to the international scholarly community. It publishes the best of media and communication research in the region, as well as theoretical works in all its diversity; it seeks to reflect the great variety of intellectual traditions in the field and to facilitate a dialogue between them. Observatorio (OBS*) (Multilingual) Observatorio (OBS*) is an online, multimedia, academic journal that adheres to the highest standards of peer review and engages both established and emerging scholars worlwide. Observatorio (OBS*) is an interdisciplinary journal that welcomes contributions coming from and speaking to the many disciplines and approaches that meet at the crossroads that is Communication Studies, and is open to several publishing languages such as Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan, Galician, Italian, French, and English. Observatorio (OBS*) allows authors of a wide range of theoretical and methodological in the Communication Studies, from academia to the business-related world, to interact and publish in their own original languages without time-space publishing limitations and accessibility constraints. Palabra Clave es una publicación de la Facultad de Comunicación de la Universidad de La Sabana en la que participan profesores e investigadores. Palabra Clave es una revista con periodicidad semestral, arbitrada, indizada y registrada en diferentes bases de datos académicas y científicas. PRism PRISMA.COM é uma publicação on-line dedicada à investigação na intersecção da comunicação, informação, tecnologia e artes. É propriedade da unidade de investigação CETAC.COM (Centro de Estudos em Tecnologias, Artes e Ciências da Comunicação). PRISMA.COM publica: a) artigos de natureza teórica, ensaística ou de comentário e reflexão, bem como trabalhos monográficos nos domínios das Ciências, Artes e Tecnologias da Comunicação e da Informação; b) trabalhos de natureza empírica, privilegiando a sua natureza inter e transdisciplinar; c) Recensões críticas da literatura própria destes domínios; d) noticiário sobre actividades em curso ou a desenvolver, bem como entrevistas e outros materiais de carácter informativo e de divulgação nestas áreas do conhecimento. Research Letters in Communications Research Letters in Communications is devoted to very fast publication of short, high quality manuscripts in the broad field of communications. Revista Fronteiras : Estudos Midiáticos (Portuguese/English) A Revista Fronteiras pretende ser um espaço de discussão teórico-metodológico e análise centrado em temáticas diretamente relacionadas aos Processos Midiáticos, entendidos como o conjunto das práticas comunicacionais midiáticas, manifestas através de diferentes linguagens; sobredeterminadas pelos dispositivos técnicos: jornal, revista rádio, cinema, televisão, fotografia, publicidade, vídeo e outros processos de produção emergentes. Revista Latina de Comunicación Social (Spanish) Se pueden enviar a Revista Latina de Comunicación Social para su publicación artículos académicos relacionados con la Comunicación Social, que sean exclusivamente resultados de investigaciones sobre cualquier área de conocimiento de las Ciencias de la Información. Aparte se publicarán reseñas de libros, según el modelo de las que ya están publicadas. ORBIS focaliza su atención en temas de Ciencias Humanas, y campos afines como Comunicación, Psicología, Educación, lingüística. Orbis promueve la producción intelectual que contribuya directamente a la Convivencia y la Cultura de Paz. Publica artículos inéditos, estudios, reseñas, y documentos relacionados con las Ciencias Humanas y con especial interés en los temas de Cultura de Paz. La revista prefiere trabajos interdisciplinarios y en equipo, contribuciones que incluyan jóvenes investigadores. Scientific Journals International (SJI) Scientific Journals International (SJI) publishes peer-reviewed open-access journals for all disciplines. SJI mission is to give every researcher, writer or artist a fair consideration to be published. The academic, creative and scientific developments depend on the effective, rapid and efficient dissemination of information and ideas from all disciplines and at all levels. Signo y Pensamiento es una publicación semestral de carácter académico y científico de la Facultad de Comunicación y Lenguaje de la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana en Bogotá y del departamento de Comunicación, de la Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales, de la Seccional Javeriana en Cali, Colombia. Esta publicación está dedicada a la difusión de informes finales de investigación, reflexiones y avances teóricos, entrevistas, traducciones y reseñas críticas en torno a los temas de Comunicación, Información y Lenguaje. Pretende ser un foro de discusión y divulgación interdisciplinario de los aportes de docentes e investigadores interesados en realizar un acercamiento analítico y pluridimensional del fenómeno comunicacional. Transformations is a double blind peer reviewed electronic journal dedicated to the exploration of ideas, issues and debates emerging out of contemporary global culture. Transformations seeks to publish new writing that addresses the transformative processes of new technologies and mediating practices that change the way we think, feel and interact with others both in a contemporary and historical sense. Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture (WPCC) Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture (WPCC) is a peer-reviewed journal, published four times a year in hard copy and PDF format. WPCC recognises the interdisciplinary nature of the field of Media and Cultural Studies, and therefore deliberately encourages diverse methods, contexts and themes. FREE ONLINE ACCESS TO JOURNALS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Intellect is offering free online access to all its journals for institutions in the developing world. To see a full list of eligible countries click here... To take advantage of this offer institutions need to fill a form, and include the designated IP address range. Intellect can then set up online access to the IP address range provided. For a full list of Intellect journals, click here... |
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