Media and Communication

Editors-in-Chief:
Epp Lauk
Raul Reis

"...a forum for new and challenging ideas in the field that focus on the transformation of media and communication and its social and cultural relevance in a globalized world."

This an international, open access, peer reviewed journal dedicated to a wide variety of basic and applied research in communication and its related fields. It aims to provide a research forum on the social and cultural relevance of media and communication processes.

Launched in 2013 and available online only, Media and Communication (MaC) is published when the editors believe there is a critical collection of articles to publish. It is not known as quarterly or semiannual, but as timely. The roster of editors and scholarly reviewers who have been assembled by the publisher of MaC represent more than a dozen countries and languages. It is their responsibility not only to review manuscripts, but also to solicit quality scholarship within their geographic region.

MaC is concerned with the social development and contemporary transformation of media and communication and critically reflects on their interdependence with global, individual, media, digital, economic, and visual processes of change and innovation. Contributions ponder the social, ethical, and cultural conditions, meanings, and consequences of media, the public sphere, and organisational as well as interpersonal communication and their complex interrelationships. The journal focuses on the application and advancement of qualitative and quantitative methods of media and communication research but also encourages scholars to submit manuscripts that introduce innovative and alternative theoretical perspectives.

MaC presents up-to-date international research results stressing, but not being restricted to, topics of media and professionalism in public communication, mass media and politics, participatory communication processes, systems and cultures. It is open to proposals for special issues, commentaries, book reviews, and extended review essays.