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 Communication Journal: A publication of the American Communication Association "a completely online, blind-reviewed publication, dedicated to the conscientious analysis and criticism of significant communicative artifacts."
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)
Argumentation: "an international and interdisciplinary journal that gathers academic contributions from a wide range of scholarly backgrounds and approaches to reasoning, natural inference and persuasion: communication, classical and modern rhetoric, linguistics, discourse analysis, pragmatics, psychology, philosophy, formal and informal logic, critical thinking, history and law."
Argumentation and Advocacy: "the flagship publication of the American Forensic Association, invites scholarly submissions concerning any dimension of argumentation studies, including but not limited to contemporary or historical argumentation theory, informal logic, pragma-dialectics, interpersonal arguing, culture and argument, public and political argument, legal argument, and forensics and pedagogy."
Australian Humanities Review: "Australian Humanities Review welcomes contributions from scholars working in all disciplines of the humanities, including literary and film studies, cultural and media studies, gender studies, history, politics, philosophy, sociology and anthropology. Please note that we do not publish poetry or creative writing."
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: "The objective of the Canadian Journal of Communication is to publish Canadian research and scholarship in the field of communication studies. In pursuing this objective, particular attention is paid to research that has a distinctive Canadian flavour by virtue of choice of topic or by drawing on the legacy of Canadian theory and research. The purview of the journal is the entire field of communication studies as practiced in Canada or with relevance to Canada."
Cinema Journal: Recent scholarship by members of the Society for Cinema Studies (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.

Commonwealth: Essays and Studies: Publishes critical studies concerning post-colonial literatures in English. Abstracts and bios only
Communication Abstracts: "Coverage includes not only communication literature but also literature in other disciplines that is relevant to communication researchers. Communication Abstracts Online also covers the international literature in film studies, the role of technology in human communications, risk communication, crisis communication, and public opinions."
Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies: "a journal founded in 2004 that publishes scholarship for an international readership on communication as a theory, practice, technology, and discipline of power. The journal features critical inquiry that cuts across academic boundaries to focus on social, political, and cultural practices from the standpoint of communication. It promotes critical reflection on the requirements of a more democratic culture by giving attention to subjects such as, but not limited to, class, race, ethnicity, gender, ability, sexuality, polity, public sphere, nation, environment, and globalization."
Communication Education: "a journal for scholarship on discourse and instruction. Published continuously for over 50 years, it includes original empirical, critical, historical, and theoretic studies bearing on the intersections of communication, instruction, and human development. It encompasses diverse disciplinary, conceptual, and methodological perspectives, especially research in the following areas:"
Communication Monographs: "reports original, theoretically grounded research dealing with human symbolic exchange across the broad spectrum of interpersonal, group, organizational, cultural and mediated contexts in which such activities occur. The scholarship reflects diverse modes of inquiry and methodologies that bear on the ways in which communication is shaped and functions in human interaction."
Communication Quarterly: "a scholarly, academic journal sponsored by the Eastern Communication Association (ECA) publishes refereed manuscripts extending the understanding of human communication. Communication Quarterly is philosophically committed to an eclectic approach and to the publication of high quality articles."
Communication Research Reports: ''Studies in the general areas of interpersonal, intercultural, life-span, nonverbal, small group, organizational, instructional, health, persuasive, mass, political, and computer-mediated communication are appropriate."
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)

Continuum Journal of Media & Cultural Studies: "The journal editors are interested in papers investigating the relationship between media texts and wider questions of culture. Particular areas of interest include the formation of communities, publics and nations; questions of taste and value; international mediascapes; policy, industry and academic interventions; issues around the disciplinary status of history, media studies, cultural studies, philosophy and visual arts; and questions around technologies, identities and cultures"
Critical Inquiry: a forum for critical exchange and scholarly debate in all areas of the arts and humanities.
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."
Criticism.com
CTheory

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
Electronic Journal of Communication/La Revue Electronique de Communication: "EJC/REC is devoted to the study of communication theory, research, practice, and policy. Manuscripts reporting original research, methodologies relevant to the study of human communication, critical syntheses of research, and theoretical, philosophical, and pedagogical perspectives on communication are welcome."
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
European Journal of Communication: "is interested in communication research and theory in all its diversity, and seeks to reflect and encourage the variety of intellectual traditions in the field and to promote dialogue between them. The Journal reflects the international character of communication scholarship and is addressed to a global scholarly community. Rigorously peer-reviewed, it publishes the best of research on communications and media, either by European scholars or of particular interest to them."
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: "Culture, ethnicity, and gender influence multicultural organizations, mass media portrayals, interpersonal interaction, development campaigns, and rhetoric. Dealing with these issues, The Howard Journal of Communications, is a quarterly that examines ethnicity, gender, and culture as domestic and international communication concerns."
Human Communication Research: "Major topic areas for the journal include language and social interaction, nonverbal communication, interpersonal communication, organizational communication and new technologies, mass communication, health communication, intercultural communication, and developmental issues in communication."

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."
International Journal of Communication: "an online multi-media, academic journal that adheres to the highest standards of peer review and engages established and emerging scholars from anywhere in the world. The International Journal of Communication is an interdisciplinary journal that, while centered in communication, is open and welcoming to contributions from the many disciplines and approaches that meet at the crossroads that is communication study."

J-Spot: Journal of Social and Political Thought
Journal of Applied Communication Research: "publishes original scholarship that addresses or challenges the relation between theory and practice in understanding communication in applied contexts. All theoretical and methodological approaches are welcome, as are all contextual areas."
Journal of Communication: "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 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: a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal, published bimonthly. It presents the latest development in the field of health communication including research in risk communication, health literacy, social marketing, communication (from interpersonal to mass media), psychology, government,
policy-making, and health education around the world.
Journal of Intercultural Communication: "The goal of the journal is to promote research but also education and training in the area of intercultural communication. The journal is an outgrowth of the activities of NIC – the Nordic Network for Intercultural Communication."
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.
Open Communication Journal, The: "an online journal which publishes original research articles, reviews and short articles in all areas of communication sciences and communication studies. The Open Communication Journal, a peer reviewed journal, aims to provide the most complete and reliable source of information on current developments in the field. The emphasis will be on publishing quality articles rapidly and freely available to researchers worldwide."
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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