Critical Studies in Media Communication
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Critical Studies in Media Communication, published in March, June, September and December, focuses exclusively on the range of critical perspectives which help define the expanding area of mediated communication research.
Critical Studies in Media Communication provides an academic forum for interpretive approaches to mass communication theory and research. Several specialized journals represent particular critical traditions, but CSMC seeks to enrich the broad debate among them and shape the parameters of this genre.
It welcomes essays from the Frankfurt School and critical philosophy, political economy, rhetorical and media criticism, literary theory and semiotics, feminist scholarship, cultural studies, and pragmatism. Manuscripts may contribute original research, analyze an existing body of knowledge, or work on the theoretical frontiers. But each article must in its own way develop a thesis and seriously reflect on the relevant issues involved. All standard and innovative methodologies are welcome, though descriptive material without a critical frame is inappropriate.
[edit] Aim and Scope
Critical Studies in Media Communication provides a home for scholarship in media and mass communication from a cultural studies and critical perspective. It particularly welcomes cross-disciplinary works that enrich debates among various disciplines, critical traditions, methodological and analytical approaches, and theoretical standpoints.
CSMC publishes scholarship about media audiences, representations, institutions, technologies, and professional practices. It includes work in history, political economy, critical philosophy, race and feminist theorizing, rhetorical and media criticism, and literary theory. It takes an inclusive view of media, including newspapers, magazines and other forms of print, cable, radio, television, film, and new media technologies such as the Internet. Manuscripts should be analytical and interpretive (i.e., not merely descriptive) and should make an important, substantive contribution to existing or emerging bodies of knowledge.
Unless specifically indicated otherwise, articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, including screening by the editor and review by at least two anonymous referees.
[edit] Editor
Eric King Watts, 2008-2010
