Communication and Media Studies

"Big Data & Society (BD&S) is an Open Access peer-reviewed scholarly journal that publishes interdisciplinary work principally in the social sciences, humanities and computing and their intersections with the arts and natural sciences about the implications of Big Data … This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)."- from journal homepage.

"Communication, Culture & Critique (CCC) publishes high-quality, original scholarship utilizing a diversity of critical approaches to place questions of power, inequality, and justice at the center of empirical and theoretical inquiry. CCC prioritizes qualitative scholarship that engages with wider historical, economic, cultural, and political dynamics. We are particularly interested in providing a space for scholarship on, by, and/or about people and topics underrepresented in academic publishing. While we anticipate receiving many submissions from scholars in the U.S. and other western contexts, the journal is also committed to publishing scholarship from authors around the globe, particularly from the global South." from About page.

"Communication processes are a fundamental part of virtually every aspect of human social life. Communication Research publishes articles that explore the processes, antecedents, and consequences of communication in a broad range of societal systems. Although most of the published articles are empirical, we also consider overview/review articles. These include the following: mass media, interpersonal, health, political, entertainment, advertising/persuasive communication, new technology, online, computer-mediated and mobile, communication, organizational, intercultural, group and family"- from journal description webpage

Published by the Universidad de Navarra, full text articles are in English. Covers a wide range of topics and issues.

"Digital Communications and Networks publishes rigorously peer-reviewed, high quality original articles and authoritative reviews that focus on communication systems and networks. All articles are published fully Open Access on ScienceDirect."- from About the journal.

"Human-Machine Communication focuses on the theory and practice of communication with and about digital interlocutors, which may take the form of artificial conversation entities, artificially intelligent software, embodied machine communicators (robots), and technologically-augmented persons (cyborgs), as well as on communication in the context of machine spaces (virtual and augmented realities) and human-machine configurations. Additionally, the journal will publish contributions that shed light on the relationship between human and machine, as constructed through discourse and interaction."- publisher description.

Earlier title was: Harvard international journal of press politics
Peer-Reviewed

"This wide-ranging interdisciplinary journal looks at the social, ethical, economic, managerial and political implications of the internet. Recent issues have focused on metaverse, interpretable AI, digital health, online and mobile gaming, the sharing economy, and the dark side of social media." from publisher website.

"As the premier journal devoted to the development of advertising theory and its relationship to practice, The Journal of Advertising serves as a public forum where ideas about advertising can be expressed and debated. The journal covers all research related to the various types of advertising, giving special attention to research dealing with the economic, political, social, and environmental aspects of advertising, and methodological advances in advertising research. Other topics of interest recently covered include the assessment of advertising effectiveness, advertising ethics, and global issues surrounding advertising."- journal description

"The Journal of Communication (JOC) is the flagship journal of the International Communication Association and an essential publication for all communication specialists and policy makers. The Journal of Communication concentrates on communication research, practice, policy, and theory, bringing to its readers the latest, broadest, and most important findings in the field of communication studies. Journal of Communication also features an extensive book review section, and the symposia of selected studies on current issues."- from About the journal webpage.

"Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (JCMC) is a fully open-access scholarly journal. Its focus is social science research on communicating with computer-based media technologies. Within that general purview, the journal is broadly interdisciplinary, publishing work by scholars in communication, business, education, political science, sociology, psychology, media studies, information science, and other disciplines. Acceptable formats for submission include original research articles and meta-analyses of prior research."- from About the journal webpage.

"Mobile Media & Communication is a peer-reviewed forum for international, interdisciplinary academic research on the dynamic field of mobile media and communication. Mobile Media & Communication draws on a wide and continually renewed range of disciplines, engaging broadly in the concept of mobility itself.
The journal embraces both quantitative and qualitative approaches to the study of mobility in communication, but above all aims toward state-of-the-art methodology. While the center of gravity lies in social sciences and humanities, the journal is open to research with technical, economic, and design aspects, provided they help to enlighten the social dimensions of mobile communication."- publisher description.

"New Media & Society engages in critical discussions of the key issues arising from the scale and speed of new media development, drawing on a wide range of disciplinary perspectives and on both theoretical and empirical research. This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)."- from journal homepage.

"Communication Theory is an international forum publishing high quality, original research into the theoretical development of communication from across a wide array of disciplines, such as communication studies, sociology, psychology, political science, cultural and gender studies, philosophy, linguistics, and literature."- publisher description.

"Media, Culture & Society provides a major international forum for the presentation of research and discussion concerning the media, including the newer information and communication technologies, within their political, economic, cultural and historical contexts. The journal is interdisciplinary, regularly engaging with a wider range of issues in cultural and social analysis. Its focus is on substantive topics and on critique and innovation in theory and method. "-publisher description.

"The Public Relations Review is the oldest journal devoted to articles that examine public relations in depth, and commentaries by specialists in the field. Most of the articles are based on empirical research undertaken by professionals and academics in the field. In addition to research articles and commentaries, The Review publishes invited research in brief, and book reviews in the fields of public relations, mass communications, organizational communications, public opinion formations, social science research and evaluation, marketing, management and public policy formation."-publisher description.