Communication, Culture & Critique
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Context and pre-Call for Papers – please note that the submission process
for the journal will be via the online system at Manuscript Central.
However, this is not quite live (expected around the middle of July), so
this pre-CFP is to alert you to the fact that CC&C is being launched, so
you might think about writing something now for submitting to the Journal
when the real CFP comes out next month.
Communication, Culture & Critique (CC&C) is ICA’s latest publication and
the first new journal to emerge from the Association for more than a
decade. CC&C will provide an international forum for critical,
interpretive, and qualitative research examining the role of communication
and cultural criticism in today's world. The journal welcomes high
quality research and analyses from diverse theoretical and methodological
approaches from all fields of communication, media and cultural studies.
Sites for enquiry include all kinds of text- and print-based media, as
well as broadcast, still and moving images and electronic modes of
communication including the internet and mobile telephony.
Communication, Culture & Critique welcomes contributions examining
the role of communication from all theoretical perspectives and using all
forms of inquiry. As well as ‘traditional’ scholarly research and theory-
focused articles, we also welcome shorter research notes and commentaries,
together with reviews (books, films, DVDs) - see below for separate CFP
for the ‘Comments, Crits and Notes’ section.
Whilst CC&C has no interest in perpetuating the unhelpful binary
of quantitative/qualititative in terms of the kinds of submissions it will
accept, the journal will specifically encourage scholarship which is
critically informed, methodologically imaginative and careful in its
exposition and argument. We believe that by providing a new outlet for
critical, interpretive and qualitative work, our contributors will push
the boundaries of considering the role that communication and culture play
in our local and global world.
We expect to publish well-argued, rigorous and thoughtful work
which asks more questions than it answers. We aim to provide a lively
forum for debate, dialogue and doubt. In the coming years, we will be
inviting contributions on topical themes and encouraging interdisciplinary
and cross-over work which uses innovative approaches and methods to cast
new light on some of the urgent issues facing our planet. Bringing a
critical lens to the social, cultural and political dimensions of our
media-saturated world is a crucial task in which the academy must engage
if we are to be of any real use to the societies in which we work and
play. We must recognize the salience of geography on communication flow,
the importance of gender on lived experience, the place of poverty in the
knowledge society and the historical antecedents of contemporary events,
if our work is to have any real meaning for or influence in the lives of
real people in the real world. If you would like further information about
contributing to the journal, please contact me by email.
Karen Ross
Editor
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Call for Comments, Crits & Notes
Informed opinion, in the form of commentary, has always enlivened critical
and cultural studies, whether focused on a current issue or something long
debated. We are therefore seeking short commentaries and critiques to
complement the longer articles to be published in CC&C, so as to ensure a
lively mix of content and format. These short-order pieces should be no
longer than 1500 words and should take the form of an op-ed piece rather
than a scholarly article. However, if your contribution includes
references to published works or media texts these should be cited
appropriately. We also welcome research notes on work-in-progress: these
notes should be no longer than 3000 words. I look forward to receiving
your comments, crits or research notes in due course. If you would like to
discuss a possible contribution to the CC&N section, please get in touch
with me by email, as below.
Carolyn M. Byerly
Associate Editor, Comments, Crits and Notes
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