Journals & Blogs of Interest
- Advertising & Society Review
- "…will be fostering interdisciplinary scholarship about advertising and its relation to society, culture, history, and the economy by publishing top quality articles and essays." (U Iowa on-campus only or through proxy server off campus)
- American Quarterly
- "The journal promotes a broad, humanistic understanding of American culture and encourages cross-disciplinary work. …The official publication of the American Studies Association." (U Iowa on-campus only or through proxy server off campus)
- Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities
- Free contents alerting service, instructions for authors, tables of contents
- Arab Media & Society
- In addition to tracing developments in Arab media outlets and technologies, the journal is also concerned with the changing content of media in the Middle East. Our articles address both the producers of media content (journalists, media professionals, celebrities) and the consumers of that content (audiences), as well as considering relationships between the two.
- Arethusa
- "…literary and cultural studies of the ancient world and of the field of classics that combine contemporary theoretical perspectives with more traditional approaches to literary and material evidence." (U Iowa on-campus only or through proxy server off campus)
- Australian Humanities Review
- Bad Subjects
- Political Education for Everyday Life
- boundary 2
- "Extending beyond the postmodern, boundary 2 approaches problems of literature and culture from a number of politically, historically, and theoretically informed perspectives." (U Iowa on-campus only or through proxy server off campus)
- Camera Obscura
- "…innovative feminist perspectives on film, television, and visual media." (U Iowa on-campus only or through proxy server off campus)
- Canadian Journal of Communication
- Cinema Journal
- Recent scholarship by members of the Society for Cinema Studies (U Iowa on-campus only or through proxy server off campus)
- Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies
- First issue due out 2004. Editor: Robert L. Ivie
- Configurations
- Published by the Society of Literature and Science "devoted to the
study of discourse pertaining to the theories and practices of science, technology
and medicine, Part of the Johns Hopkins Muse project of journals made available
to subcribers online.
(U Iowa on-campus only or through proxy
server off campus)
- CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
- A WWWeb Journal A peer-reviewed quarterly of new work in comparative literature, comparative cultural studies, and communication and media studies.
- Colibri - (Utrecht University)
- Commonwealth: Essays and Studies
- Publishes critical studies concerning post-colonial literatures in English. Abstracts and bios only
- Communication Review, The
- Context XXI
- Internet Forum for Literature, Art & Social Affairs (In Deutsch, Engllish, Français , etc.)
- Continuum
- A thematically based cultural studies journal. The primary focus of the journal is upon screen media; but our understanding of 'media' also includes publishing, broadcasting and public exhibitionary media such as museums and sites
- Critical Inquiry
- a forum for critical exchange and scholarly debate in all areas of the arts and humanities.
- Criticism.com
- CTheory
- culturefront Online
- The quarterly magazine of the New York Council for the Humanities
- Cultronix
- Cultural Critique
- "…a forum for international and interdisciplinary explorations of intellectual controversies, trends, and issues in culture, theory, and politics.." (U Iowa on-campus only or through proxy server off campus)
- Cultural Logic: An electronic journal of Marxist theory and practice
- Cultural Matters
- The online journal of the Cultural Studies Ph.D. Program at George Mason University.
- Culture Machine
- "…is a series of new experiments in culture and theory. In the first instance, Culture Machine has taken the form of an international electronic journal, a series of research groups, and related symposia."
- Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry:
- An International Journal of Comparative Cross-Cultural Research Submission information and Tables of Contents going back to 1995
- differences
- "…focuses on how concepts and categories of difference--notably but not exclusively gender--operate within culture." (U Iowa on-campus only or through proxy server off campus)
- disClosure - A Journal of Social Theory
- Tables of contents of past issues and calls for papers only. Editors are graduate students involved with the Committee on Social Theory at the University of Kentucky.
- Discouse
- "…explores a varriety of topics in contemporary cultural studies, theories of media and literature, and the politics of sexuality, including questions of language and psychoanalysis." (U Iowa on-campus only or through proxy server off campus)
- Drain: A Journal of Contemporary Art and Culture
- "Drain is a refereed online journal published biannually. The journal seeks to promote lively and well-informed debate around theory and praxis. Each issue of Drain will have a specific concept that it explores. We are especially keen to publish pieces that connect the conceptual framework of each issue to themes such as globalization, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, capitalism and new technologies, as well as ethical and aesthetic concerns."
- The Edge: The E-Journal of Intercultural Relations
- "TheEdge is an online academic journal which focuses on the study of intercultural interaction. TheEdge strives to be innovative and interdisciplinary in nature."
- Electronic Book Review
- Enculturation
- A Journal for Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture
- Ends and Means
- Journal of the University of Aberdeen Centre for Philosophy Technology and Society
- Ethical Space
- The International Journal of Communication Ethics
- First Monday
- Foreign Body - Deconstruction Online
- Foucault Studies
- First issue to be published November 2004. ". . .the journal will invite submission of material that not only deals with his work directly but also material that critiques, updates and augments his claims across very diverse geographical, disciplinary and historical domains. Just to name a few of the areas which will be covered: power, politics, law, history, social and cultural theory, sexuality, race, religion, gender studies, psychoanalysis, philosophy, architecture, education, health studies, management studies, media studies."
- Frontiers
- "…women's history, cultural theory, literature, essays, art, criticism and pedagogical approaches." (U Iowa on-campus only or through proxy server off campus)
- Genders
- Essays about gender and sexuality in relation to social, political, artistic and economic concerns.
- Howard Journal of Communication
- Links to current online issue sample
- In[ ]Visible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Studies
- Images: A Journal of Film and Popular Culture
- Intercultural U: Online Community of Interculturalists
- "Intercultural U (IU) is an online community of people from around the world who are interested in intercultural relations."
- J-Spot: Journal of Social and Political Thought
- Journal of Communication Inquiry
- "The Journal of Communication Inquiry emphasizes interdisciplinary inquiry into communication and mass communication phenomena within cultural and historical perspectives." Table of Contents & submission guidelines only.
- Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture
- Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory
- Journal of Health Communication
- Link goes to current online sample issue
- Journal for MultiMedia History
- Journal of Mundane Behavior
- "scholarly journal devoted to the study of the "unmarked" -- those aspects of our everyday lives that typically go unnoticed by us, both as academics and as everyday individuals."
- Journal of Nonverbal Behavior
- Submission information and Tables of Contents beginning with the year 2000 issues.
- Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies
- Left Curve
- an artist-produced critical magazine
- Logos
- "A Journal of modern Society & Culture. Logos is a quarterly journal of modern culture, politics and society that features articles on the arts, politics, culture, the social sciences and humanities as well as original fiction and poetry. Logos seeks to foster a critical dialogue on modern politics, culture and society through both intellectual and aesthetic lenses."
- M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture
- Media International Australia - incorporating Culture and Policy Journal
- TOCs & abstracts only
- Moscow Art Magazine
- Russian illustrated "dedicated to the problems of contemporary art and culture."
- Moving Image Source
- Articles by leading critics and scholars, an international Calendar, and a Research Guide to online resources.
- n.paradoxa: the only international feminist art journal
- Negations: an interdisciplinary journal of social thought
- NMEDIAC: The Journal of New Media & Culture
- Peer-reviewed papers and audiovisual pieces which contextualize encoding/decoding environments and the discourses, ideologies, and human experiences/uses of new media apparatuses.
- Other Voices: An (e)Journal of Cultural Criticism
- "Other Voices is an independent, award-winning, electronic journal of cultural criticism published at the University of Pennsylvania. Founded in March 1997, Other Voices regularly publishes provocative essays, interviews, roundtable discussions, lecture transcriptions, audio lectures, multimedia projects, translations and reviews in the arts and humanities."
- Perforations
- Contemporary life and technology
- PMC MOO.
- The on-line magazine, Postmodern Culture , set up this MOO for researchers to come and talk about theory and practice.
- Polygraph: An International Journal of Culture and Politics
- A peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal affiliated with the Literature Program of Duke University.
- PopMatters
- international magazine of cultural criticism
- Postmodern Culture
- (U Iowa access only or with UIowa ID number)
- PRETEXT Electra(Lite)
- "an X-tension of the print ("pulp") version of PRE/TEXT: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory"
- Public Culture
- Interdisciplinary journal of cultural studies, published for the Society for Transnational Cultural Studies by the Duke University Press
- Reconstruction
- A cultural studies journal dedicated to fostering an intellectual community composed of scholars and their audience, granting them all the opportunity and ability to share thoughts and opinions on the most important and influential work in contemporary interdisciplinary studies.
- Rhetoric Review
- Riding the Meridian
- "…To seek out and support new forms of literary art utilizing Internet technology and new theories."
- S.P.A.M.
- The journal of The Society for the Prevention of Art Monstrosities. A somewhat different art magazine, from Australia.
- Science as Culture
- Articles and papers available on-line but the link is not obvious - click on the colored ball to get articles.
- Screening the Past: An international, refereed, electronic journal of visual media and history
- Sebeokean: Swedish Electronic Journal for Communication
- As of the issue 3/96 part of the material will be in English
- Space and Culture
- A cross-disciplinary journal which fosters the publication of reflections on a wide range of socio-spatial arenas such as the home, architecture, urbanism and geopolitics.
- SPRAwL
- "SPRAwL is an electronic journal centering on design, architecture, urbanism and technology in the new city. The primary focus of SPRAwL is the examination of issues related to information, communications and transportation technologies in the developing metropolitan centers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries."
- Surfaces
- Sycamore: A Journal of American Culture
- (Tables of Contents only)
- Symploke: A comparative literature and theory journal
- Techné: Journal of the Society for Philosophy and Technology
- Text of artilces from 1995 through 1999 available in both printable Adobe Acrobat format (.pdf) and as Web pages.
- |T|e|l|e|c|i|n|e|: The Journal of New Media Authoring in the Digital Domain
- Theory Culture & Society
- Not much there yet, but abstracts look promising
- TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies
- "TOPIA is a journal for current research in cultural and Canadian studies for scholars who share a concern with cultures, nationalities, technologies, environments, identities and the politics of space and time."
- Tympanum: A Journal of Comparative Literary Studies
- Undercurrent: An online journal for the analysis of the present
- U-Turn E-zine
- Women and Language
- Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory
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