Asian Cinema is a peer-reviewed seminal journal, which was published from 1995 by the Asian Cinema Studies Society under the stewardship of Professor John Lent. From 2012 Asian Cinema has been published by Intellect as part of our film studies journal portfolio. The journal currently publishes a variety of scholarly material – including research articles, interviews, book and film reviews and bibliographies – on all forms and aspects of Asian cinema. The journal’s broad aim is to advance understanding and knowledge of the rich traditions of the various Asian cinemas, thereby making an invaluable contribution to the field of film studies in general.
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Australian Journalism Review publishes articles on a broad range of perspectives relating to journalism research, practice and education. Its emphasis is on original theoretical, empirical and applied research, but it also provides opportunities to canvass perspectives on current debates on research, practice and education through commentary pieces on specific topics. This double-blind peer-reviewed journal is published twice annually, with the second edition each year focused primarily on a theme and supplemented by a small selection of broader-ranging papers.
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We all wear clothes. We are all therefore invested at some level in the production and consumption of clothing. This journal intends to embrace issues and themes that are both universal and personal, addressing (and dressing) us all. Increasingly, as we all become accomplished semioticians, clothing becomes the key signifier in determining social interaction and behaviour, and sartorial norms dictate socio-cultural appropriateness.
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Explorations in Media Ecology, the journal of the Media Ecology Association, accepts submissions that extend our understanding of media (defined in the broadest possible terms), that apply media ecological approaches, and/or that advance media ecology as a field of inquiry. As a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary publication, EME welcomes contributions embracing diverse theoretical, philosophical and methodological approaches to the study of media and processes of mediation.
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The International Journal of Food Design is the first academic, peer-reviewed journal entirely dedicated to food design research and practice. This journal is a platform for researchers and practitioners operating in the various disciplines that contribute to the understanding of food design. The editors are particularly interested in pushing the boundaries of research that connect aspects from culinary arts, hospitality, food science and culture from across various disciplines, such as design theory, design education, design history and industrial design.
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The International Journal of Music in Early Childhood is an interdisciplinary forum directed at the empirical study of music in early childhood, or pre-birth to age 8. The journal welcomes research-based contributions from fields, such as music education, music therapy, community music, psychology, ethnomusicology, anthropology, sociology, history, philosophy, childhood studies and social work, that are concerned with diverse aspects relating to music in the lives of young children. IJMEC publishes original research reports, best practice papers, case studies of specific programs, critical literature reviews, and book/media reviews. Areas covered will include young children's development, in and through music, pedagogical theories and tools for practitioners and researchers, early childhood music education policy, and music therapy for infants and young children. Contributors to the journal explore music in settings such as daycares, preschools and other educational spaces, as well as within families, peer groups and the community
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The Journal of African Media Studies (JAMS) is an interdisciplinary journal that provides a forum for debate on the historical and contemporary aspects of media and communication in Africa. It hereby aims to contribute to the on-going re-positioning of media and cultural studies outside the Anglo-American axis. JAMS interprets media in a broad sense, incorporating not only formal media such as radio, television, print, internet and mobile telephony but also considers articles on "informal", "small" or "indigenous" media such as music, jokes and theatre. All articles are double-blind peer-reviewed in order to maintain the highest standards of scholastic integrity.
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The Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research (JAMMR) is a refereed academic publication dedicated to the study of communication, culture and society in the Arab and Muslim world. It aims to lead the debate about the rapid changes in media and society in that part of the world. This journal is also interested in diasporic media like satellite TV, radio and new media, especially in Europe and North America. The journal serves a large international community of academics, researchers, students, journalists, policy makers and civil society organizations in the West as well as the Arab and Muslim countries.
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The Journal of Design, Business & Society is a cross-disciplinary peer-reviewed scholarly journal that publishes high-quality academic papers that examine design from qualitative, quantitative, visual or applied research perspectives. Our mission is to promote transdisciplinary approaches to research in design, and we are interested in studies that examine design in all its multifaceted forms, and from a range of platforms – whether they are social, environmental, commercial or educational in nature. We are also interested in receiving manuscripts on research in design that are coming from non-design areas, such as business, marketing, management, health, social social sciences and environmental sciences.
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This peer-reviewed journal explores the digital media landscape, with an emphasis on structures, institutions, markets and governance, publishing content ranging from critical work on technology, industry and regulatory convergence, to emerging wider socio-cultural and political questions such as the application of online networks, the rise of cloud computing and the Internet of Things.
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The Journal of Environmental Media (JEM) explores the role of digital screen culture and new media in shaping environmentally themed content and activism, communicating environmental data and impacting social perceptions of the environment. JEM is a scholarly platform aimed at bridging work in environmental studies, digital culture studies, environmental justice, infrastructure and materiality studies, STS, media anthropology and environmental communication, covering a range of environmental issues such as climate change, environmental racism, energy infrastructures, biodiversity, climate migration and e-waste. We promote work that engages with diverse methodological and disciplinary approaches, bringing social science research into dialogue with environmental humanities, screen studies and intersectional social theory, in order to investigate a broad landscape of media forms and practices including smart technology, machine learning, popular media and streaming services, social media platforms and new developments in augmented reality and virtual reality.
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Journal of Fandom Studies is an interdisciplinary double-blind peer-reviewed journal, first published by Intellect in 2012. This journal offers scholars from around the globe a dedicated publication that promotes current scholarship into the fields of fan studies and audience studies. JFS focuses on the critical exploration of key issues within a wide range of disciplines and fan cultures; engages with text, performance, history, material culture and a variety of media; and fosters new areas of enquiry that take us beyond the bounds of current scholarship.
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The Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds (JGVW) is an international, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the study of games and playful practices across media platforms and genres. It is a leading forum for interdisciplinary dialogue within game studies, focusing primarily on theory and criticism of games, the intersection of media, game design and gaming culture, and the performative and transformative dimensions of games and virtual worlds. The journal is open to diverse research approaches including: theoretical, empirical/ethnographical, creative and pedagogical methods, as well as submissions from essayists and reviewers. We are particularly interested in inter- or multi-disciplinary contributions that connect scholars across multiple discourses
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The Journal of Greek Media & Culture is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal that aims to provide a platform for debate and exploration of a wide range of manifestations of media and culture in and about Greece. The journal adopts a broad and inclusive approach to media and culture with reference to film, photography, literature, the visual arts, music, theatre, performance, as well as all forms of electronic media and expressions of popular culture. While providing a forum for the close analysis of cultural formations specific to Greece, JGMC aims to engage with broader methodological and theoretical debates, and situate the Greek case in global, diasporic and transnational contexts. The journal aims to set the foundations for a sustained and serious engagement with Greek culture and media that will not only enlighten particular manifestations, but will have methodological relevance and implications that extend beyond its specific field of study. Greek culture can thus become a ‘limit case' that tests the value and rigour of critical positions in the debate around Europe's cultural unity and diversity, and instigates important theoretical and methodological enquiries around media and cultural exchange and interaction.
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The Journal of Music, Technology and Education explores the issues concerning the use of technology in music education at all levels and across genres such as composition, musicology, performance and music production. It is the only journal specifically dedicated to the educational aspects of music technology and the technological aspects of music. Peer-reviewed, with an international editorial board, JMTE aims to draw its contributions from a broad community of educators, researchers and practitioners who are working closely with new technologies in the fields of music education and music technology education.
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The main aims of the Journal of Popular Music Education are to define the parameters of the field and disciplines of its readership and contributors (especially with regard to other journals in popular music and music education), this being an emerging field of scholarship and practice. The other principal aim is to disseminate excellent critique and other forms of scholarship (e.g. phenomenological) in and related to the field. The journal has an inclusive, global reach. ‘Education’ and ‘popular music’ are terms that we expect to be stretched and problematized through rigorous examination from multiple international perspectives.
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The Journal of Screenwriting explores the nature of writing for the screen in its broadest sense. It showcases original thinking around screenwriting history, theory, practice and pedagogy, with a truly international perspective and outlook. The journal encourages a broad range of approaches to studying screenplays and the screenwriting profession, drawing on methodological traditions from creative practice, cultural and media studies, history, and industry/production studies, to name just a few. The journal is also open to submissions that take the form of ‘industry insights’ and ‘pedagogy papers’, encouraging a wide range of voices and interests to help build and shape the field of screenwriting studies. The journal also prides itself on mentoring new voices within the field and collaboratively written articles that assist in this endeavour are welcomed.
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This journal is designed to foster new relations, strengthen existing ones and offer a new space in which received models of writing in creative practice can be explored and surpassed. By questioning the purposes of writing in creative practice we invite a rich variety of aims, approaches and styles. Hence, where some journal issues are likely to be characterised by images rather than words, others may adopt a strongly practice-oriented, philosophical, critical or even fiction-based approach. Whether you are a practitioner, a theorist or a conference organizer wishing to guest-edit a special edition, please contact us. Ultimately, we are interested in writing that functions ‘as’, or that operates ‘for’, or ‘in’ practice, whether this practice is art, craft, designing or performance. This raises issues of procedure. As academics, we are accustomed to an individual-centred assessment system designed to monitor and uphold ‘standards’, rather than help us to co-create a better world. We welcome good writers, but we also wish to support practitioners whose quality of thought surpasses their current skills as authors. Thus in cultivating a co-authoring network, our aim is to replace our current double-blind reviewing system. We are aware of the risks this may bring. Please let us know what you think.
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To provide an intellectual hub for the International Society of Metal Music Studies and a vehicle to promote the development of metal music studies; To be the focus for research and theory in metal music studies – a multidisciplinary (and interdisciplinary) subject field that engages with a range of parent disciplines, including (but not limited to) sociology, musicology, humanities, cultural studies, geography, philosophy, psychology, history, natural sciences;
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Punk & Post-Punk is a Scopus-indexed journal for academics, artists, journalists and the wider cultural industries. Placing punk and its progeny at the heart of inter-disciplinary investigation, it is the first forum of its kind to explore this rich and influential topic in both historical and theoretical terms. PUNK is a peer-reviewed academic journal aimed at the international communities engaged with punk and post-punk subcultures. It explores the music, fashion, art, politics and culture of punk that were established during the mid-to late 1970s and subsequently developed through the ensuing years and decades.
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Short Fiction in Theory & Practice is an interdisciplinary journal celebrating the current resurgence in short-story writing and research. Looking at short fiction from a practice-based perspective, it explores the poetics of short-story writing, adaptation, translation and the place of the short story in global culture. All submissions are peer-reviewed. Contributions are welcome from individuals who do not consider themselves academics, and may take the form of personal commentaries, reflections, interviews and reviews, as well as conventional essays. We are pleased to consider proposals from those publishing or promoting the short story, as well as from short-story writers.
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Studies in Costume & Performance aims to encourage, generate and disseminate critical discourse on costume and the relationship between costume, performance and wider concerns. It considers costume as a symbiotic articulation of the body of the performer which is visual, cultural, political, material, temporal and performative. Past and current practice is considered through the 'reading' of the costumed body as a communication of embodied narratives. Whether performed live, mediated through a screen, or encountered in an archive, costume embodies and reflects not only the performance, but also societies, cultures and communities.
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Studies in Musical Theatre provides a forum to debate a wide range of texts that articulate the musical together with the theatrical. This peer-reviewed journal brings together a variety of critical approaches to contribute to the discussion surrounding live performance, the development and form of musical theatre and its value as a cultural product in theory and practice. Here, you will find a wealth of writing encompassing everything from opera to film musical to pop video.
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The Soundtrack is a multi-disciplinary, double-blind peer-reviewed journal that brings together research in the area of music and sound in relation to film and other moving image media, including television, games and installations. A complex cultural, technological, industrial and artistic phenomenon, sound-with-moving image is a rich area for analysis, investigation and speculation. We encourage writing that is accessible to audiences from a diversity of intellectual backgrounds and disciplines as well as providing a forum for practitioners to discuss and describe their work. The Soundtracks aim is to nurture this new and expanding area of academic investigation in dialogue with soundtrack producers of all kinds.
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The International Journal of Community Music is concerned with all aspects of community music. This double-blind peer-reviewed journal aims to provide opportunities for exploring international dimensions of community music practice and research, thereby contributing to the theory and practice of participatory music making.
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Critical Studies in Men's Fashion examines the multi-faceted dimensions of men's appearance. It uses the holistic definition of dress as a means of examining the tangible and intangible aspects of creating and maintaining appearance. This journal is the first to exclusively focus on men's dress and topics of gender, identity, sexuality, culture, marketing and business will be discussed. Men's dress and fashion have been side-lined in scholarship, and this journal provides a dedicated space for the discussion, analysis, and theoretical development of men's appearance from multiple disciplines. All articles are double-blind peer-reviewed in order to maintain the highest standards of scholastic integrity. Theoretical and empirical scholarship in the form of original articles, manuscripts, research reports, pedagogy, and media reviews are welcome.
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Animation Practice, Process & Production is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal presenting, analysing and exploring how animation is created and shown. Animation encompasses a huge variety of practices, many of them unacknowledged or underexplored. This journal attempts to bring all types of animation to the fore and to present insight and analysis about the practice, process and production of such work.
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Applied Theatre Research profiles contemporary, innovative, unorthodox and radical practice of drama and theatre. Topics explored in this global, peer-reviewed journal include theatre in political debate, social action and dissent; theatre for development; youth theatre; theatre in schools and educational settings; theatre in therapeutic settings; theatre in prisons; theatre in health education and awareness; theatre in human services, such as aged care and hospitals; and theatre in business, commerce and conferences.
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Art & the Public Sphere provides a new platform for academics, artists, curators, art historians and theorists whose working practices are broadly concerned with contemporary art’s relation to the public sphere. APS aims to establish a critical relationship to traditional and conventional debates about public art and art in the public sector and the public realm. The double-blind peer-reviewed journal presents a crucial examination of contemporary art’s link to the public realm, offering an engaged and responsive forum in which to debate the newly emerging series of developments within contemporary thinking, society and international art practice.
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The journal Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education strives to promote and share pedagogic research in art, design and communication disciplines. This peer-reviewed journal encompasses creative disciplines taught in a range of higher education contexts, including Art Schools, Colleges and Universities. The journal focuses on the pedagogies associated with all aspects of creative practice education – from theory and practice to online elements of studio-based courses. In its commitment to the enhancement of learning and teaching methods through research, the journal offers detailed accounts of specific research projects. By using the findings of these enquiries, contributors reveal the potential value of new educational strategies and stimulate the advancement of creative teaching methods.
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The Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies (CJCS) aims to provide an international discussion forum for critical thought and study. CJCS is committed to publishing research and scholarship on the analysis of media and culture. The journal pays attention to original research, particularly but not exclusively, related to the Catalan cultural and media systems. CJCS’s approach is multidisciplinary, publishing articles dealing directly or through a comparative frame with media and communication history, media and cultural policies, audience and reception studies, cultural and national identity, media discourses, intercultural communication, sport and media, language and media language uses, new media and the Internet, gender studies, cinema, popular culture, media and cultural industries, public relations, advertising, tourism and cultural heritage.
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Choreographic Practices operates from the principle that dance embodies ideas and can be productively enlivened when considered as a mode of critical and creative discourse. This peer-reviewed journal provides a platform for sharing choreographic practices, inquiry and debate. Choreographic Practices explores the expanded field of choreography. The journal emphasizes processes and practices over products, and is focused on work at the borders and edges of what is known, understood or assumed. We publish essays, documentation, blogs in print, visual essays, dialogues, interviews and debate, and welcome submissions throughout the year.
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Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty (CSFB) engages analytically, critically and creatively with fashion and/or beauty. At times lumped together conceptually into ‘the fashion-beauty complex’, this journal acknowledges the problems associated with collapsing these terms, such as: (a) the conflation of fashion and beauty, concepts which encompass varying degrees and types of agency, change and dynamism; (b) the implicit reinforcement of white hegemonic femininity (and hence, the exclusion of masculinities, people of colour, older adults, differentially abled individuals, and queer and transgender subjectivities); and (c) the blurring of distinct industries. At the same time, the body is the centrepiece of fashion and beauty alike – in cultural representation as well as in everyday life. CSFB seeks to foster more diverse and inclusive ways of understanding the embodiment of aesthetics and politics. It does so by dismantling hegemonic assumptions and propelling fresh theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of fashion and/or beauty.
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Dance, Movement & Spiritualities explores the relationship between spirituality, dance and movement. This peer-reviewed journal disseminates the ideas and findings of practitioners and researchers who are actively and creatively working with spirituality. The journal offers a diverse platform for scholars working within and across the fields of dance studies, theology/religious studies, anthropology, ethnography, sociology, health studies, dance movement psychotherapy, and dance histories. Dedicated to cross-dialogue and the potential inventive perspectives interdisciplinary collaboration generates, the journal aims to progress the academic study of spirituality in dance studies.
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Design Ecologies foregrounds the inextricable connection between human communication and ecological accountability in architectural design. This burgeoning field has the potential to become a far-reaching discipline, bonding a community that crosses over into and out of architecture, environment, interaction, urbanism, and performing arts and communication.
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Drama Therapy Review (DTR) is published in partnership with the North American Drama Therapy Association (NADTA). Drama Therapy Review documents and disseminates research on the relationship between drama, theatre and wellness. The aim of this journal is to encourage scholarship about drama therapy theory and practice, facilitate interdisciplinary dialogue and provide a forum for lively debate in the field. DTR profiles and critically reflects upon current and emerging practices involving the therapeutic uses of improvisation, playwriting, directing and performance in health, educational, community, organizational and theatre contexts.
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The East Asian Journal of Popular Culture is the leading academic peer-reviewed journal for scholars, teachers and students from around the world interested in the popular culture of East Asia. In recent decades, East Asian popular culture has attracted increasing attention within academia and beyond. The East Asian Journal of Popular Culture is one manifestation of this, serving as an important forum for academic debate over popular cultural phenomena throughout the region and their social and political ramifications. The journal's scope embraces all aspects of popular culture in East Asia as well as the cultural interplay between East Asia and the wider world. Encompassing work on genres from film to music, art to translation and fashion to tourism; the journal offers a forum where multidisciplinary work can come together in new and exciting ways. We welcome original scholarship related to all aspects of East Asian popular culture from creation to dissemination and beyond. We also offer a space for shorter reviews or reports of cultural events and activities, and for reviews of scholarship in any language related to East Asian popular culture.
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Fashion, Style & Popular Culture is a peer-reviewed journal specifically dedicated to the area of fashion scholarship and its interfacings with popular culture. It was established to provide an interdisciplinary environment for fashion academics and practitioners to publish innovative scholarship in all aspects of fashion and popular culture relating to design, textiles, production, promotion, consumption and appearance-related products and services. Articles related to history, manufacturing, aesthetics, sourcing, marketing, branding, merchandising, retailing, technology, psychological/sociological aspects of dress, style, body image, and cultural identities, as well as purchasing, shopping, and the ways and means consumers construct identity as associated to Fashion, Style & Popular Culture are welcomed.
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Global Hip Hop Studies (GHHS) is a peer-reviewed, rigorous and community-responsive academic journal that publishes research on contemporary as well as historical issues and debates surrounding hip hop music and culture around the world, twice annually. The journal provides a platform for the investigation and critical analysis of hip hop politics, activism, education, media practices and industry analyses as well as manifestations of hip hop culture in all four of the classic elements (DJing/turntablism, MCing/rapping, graffiti/street art and b-boying/b-girling/breaking and other hip hop dances), the under-examined realms of beatboxing, fashion, identity formation, hip hop nation language (HHNL) and beyond.
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Hospitality & Society is an international multidisciplinary social sciences journal focusing on academic perspectives on hospitality (however broadly conceived and applied), and exploring hospitality's connections with wider social and cultural processes and structures. Hospitality & Society aims for a balance of theory and application, however it is ultimately concerned with developing theoretical perspectives and insights related to hospitality. The journal welcomes submissions from various disciplines and aims to be an interactive forum expanding frontiers of knowledge and contributing to the literature on hospitality social science.
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English being a lingua franca of the international academic world, much of the most influential – not least as it is the most visible – literature has been produced in the English speaking world. Indeed, access to a global readership is premised on the submission to academic journals of texts written in English. However, over the years a meaningful corpus of fashion studies has developed in other regions that have just as much of a tradition as Anglophone countries in costume, clothing, and fashion practice as well as in the study of social and cultural phenomena. But this corpus is not written in English and, because of language obstacles, has not reached an international audience. Scholars who are not English speakers and have neither the time nor the resources to produce texts in that language may be excluded from current debates on fashion, clothing and appearance. The richness of their material can go unacknowledged, which can only deprive the field of Anglophone fashion studies of significant findings and insights. This is at odds with both the global nature of the fashion system and the call, in much contemporary academia, for the fostering of international networks and research.
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The International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics (MCP) is a peer-reviewed journal aiming at analysing social and cultural communication processes with an interdisciplinary approach. MCP pays attention to contemporary issues striving to encourage academic responses to pressing world events, offering policy-oriented thinking. The content focus is critical, in-depth analysis and engaged research of the intersections of communication and media studies, sociology, politics, economics and cultural studies with the aim of keeping academic analysis in dialogue with the practical world of communications, culture and politics.
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The International Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development (TMSD) supports new philosophies on technology and development, their relationship to globalization, and the problems of world poverty and environmental degradation. The double-blind peer-reviewed journal explores global, social, economic and environmental conditions in relation to shifts in technology and market paradigms.
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Adaptation, or the conversion of oral, historical or fictional narratives into stage drama has been common practice for centuries. In our own time the processes of cross-generic transformation continue to be extremely important in theatre as well as in the film and other media industries. This double-blind peer-reviewed journal explores how adaptation, and the related areas of translation and intertextuality, continues to have a central place in our culture with a profound resonance across our civilisation.
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The Journal of African Cinemas will explore the interactions of visual and verbal narratives in African film. It recognizes the shifting paradigms that have defined and continue to define African cinemas. Identity and perception are interrogated in relation to their positions within diverse African film languages. The editors are seeking papers that expound on the identity or identities of Africa and its peoples represented in film. The aim is to create a forum for debate that will promote inter-disciplinarity between cinema and other visual and rhetorical forms of representation.
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The Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies aims to bridge the gap between media and communication research and actors with a say in media production, i.e. broadcasters, newspapers, radio, Internet-based media outlets, etc. It is devoted to research with an applied angle in which a clear link is made between the prevalent theories and paradigms media and communication scholars work with, and the real world where media and communication activities take place.
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The Journal of Arts & Communities is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal that seeks to provide an inclusive platform for the critical examination of practices which may be described as community, socially engaged or participatory arts. This encompasses a field of work defined for this purpose as incorporating active, creative collaboration between artists and people in a range of communities, and within communities themselves. The journal takes a cross-artform and interdisciplinary approach, including work created through performance, theatre, visual arts, crafts, writing, moving image and digital media. By documenting otherwise ephemeral work and encouraging contributions from under-represented cultures and communities, the journal aims, in part, to embrace a diversity of voices and function as an archive of these practices.
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The Journal of Contemporary Painting (JCP) combines peer-reviewed scholarship, particularly that emerging from practice-based research, with new writing and visual essays by academics and practitioners. Research essays will complement reviews and interviews that are responsive to current debates in painting and related art practices. The Journal is aimed at a broad readership encompassing academics, critics, writers, artists, curators and the gallery-going public. JCP responds to the territory and practice of contemporary painting in its broadest sense, treating painting as a context for discussion and exploring its sphere of influence, rather than defining it as a medium specific debate. The Journal combines a thematic approach with an open call, each issue opening up and problematising different facets of contemporary painting. As well as contributions to current debates on contemporary art, the Journal also publishes archival texts alongside current responsive articles allowing new debates to emerge, based on the premise that the contemporary cannot be understood without a self-reflexive knowledge of history.
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The Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices (JDSP) is an international refereed journal published twice a year. It has been in publication since 2009 for scholars and practitioners whose research interests focus on the relationship between dance and somatic practices, and the influence that this body of practice exerts on the wider performing arts. In recent years, somatic practices have become more central to many artists work and have become more established within educational and training programmes. Despite this, as a body of work it has remained largely at the margins of scholarly debate, finding its presence predominantly through the embodied knowledge of practitioners and their performative contributions
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The Journal of Illustration provides an international forum for scholarly research and investigation of a range of cultural, political, philosophical, historical, and contemporary issues, in relation to illustration. This peer-reviewed journal encourages new critical writing on illustration, associated visual communication, and the role of the illustrator as maker, visualizer, thinker, and facilitator, within a wide variety of disciplines and professional contexts.
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The Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies provides a peer-reviewed forum for scholarly and practice-based engagement with voice as a phenomenon of communication and performance, and a methodology or metaphor for analysis. Through an interdisciplinary negotiation of philosophy, practice and pedagogy, the journal draws from such disciplines as cultural studies, performance studies, inter-culturalism, linguistics, visual culture, musicology and somatics.
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The Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies covers disciplines including the humanities and social sciences, and subjects such as cultural studies, history, literature, film, anthropology, politics and sociology. Each issue of this publication aims to establish a balance between papers on New Zealand and papers on the South Pacific, with a reports and book reviews section included.
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This peer-reviewed journal provides in-depth exploration of the cultural aspects of urban life and the representation of cities in cultural products. It explores the intersection of humanities and social sciences, including essays that balance individual cultural/artistic product(s) with social-science urban approaches.
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Performing Ethos (PEET) aims to uncover and explore key ethical issues facing theatre and performance today. With an emphasis on experimental, intercultural and interdisciplinary performance methodologies, PEET promotes a dynamic interchange between scholarship and performance practice, providing a forum for research from a range of perspectives, including theatre, performance, dance, digital culture, popular entertainment, social studies and politics. Acknowledging that ethical issues are contextually determined, the journal aims to facilitate debate about how ethics are expressed, experienced, and practised, across a range of contexts and environments.
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Philosophy of Photography (POP) is an international peer-reviewed journal published six monthly in the spring and autumn. The journal's aim is to provide a forum for theoretical and critical debate of issues arising from the historical, political, cultural, scientific and critical matrix of ideas, practices and techniques that constitute photography as a multifaceted and changing form. In a contemporary context characterised by its diversity and rapid rate of transformation, the conjunction of ‘philosophy' and ‘photography' in the journal's title is intended to provoke reflection on the ways in which existing and emergent discourses might engage with each other to inform our understanding of the photographic.
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Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture is a double-blind peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to the study of representations and expressions of queerness in its various forms. It aims to publish cutting-edge scholarship on noteworthy topics at the intersection of media/popular culture and queerness in gender/sexuality. Its contents are international in scope and represent a wide variety of disciplines, with a particular emphasis on perspectives and approaches from the humanities, social sciences, and the arts.
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Radio Journal publishes critical analyses of radio and sound media across a variety of platforms, from broadcast to podcast and all in between. Articles focus on both historical and contemporary issues in sound-based journalism and media studies. We look for work that explores the production, circulation and reception of radio and creative soundwork, and encourage a wide range of international and interdisciplinary perspectives. Radio Journal welcomes scholarship from early career researchers as well as internationally renowned scholars. It also publishes reviews of recent publications in the field of radio and sound studies.
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Short Film Studies is a peer-reviewed journal designed to encourage research by new and established scholars and critics that reflects both the historical importance and the increasing prominence and diversity of short films in today’s media landscape.
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Studies in Comics aims to describe the nature of comics, to identify the medium as a distinct art form and to address the mediums formal properties. The emerging field of comics studies is a model for interdisciplinary research and this peer-reviewed journal welcomes all approaches and methodologies. Its specific goal, however, is to expand the relationship between comics and theory and to seek to articulate a theory of comics
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Studies in South Asian Film & Media hopes to build a space for critical media theory and practice, engage scholars, activists and media practitioners in dialogue, clarify the relationship between culture and politics, and highlight South Asia as a vantage point from where the contemporary integration of the globe may be understood. Analytical and theoretical perspectives that are critical, interdisciplinary and global, and which combine an awareness of of aesthetics with insights from the humanities and social sciences to explain how subjectivities and publics are produced in specific historical contexts, are especially welcome.
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Technoetic Arts focuses upon the juncture between art, technology and the mind, drawing from academic research and often unorthodox approaches. Technoetic Arts is a peer-reviewed journal that explores the juncture of art practice, technology and the human mind, opening up a forum for trans-disciplinary speculative research.
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The Journal of Visual Political Communication (formerly known as The Poster) is devoted to the exploration of political forms of persuasive visual communication. How can we understand the use of images in todays political communication, and in particular the changes that have been taking place with the rapid growth of channels of distribution? In order to fully grasp the significance of imagery in political communication, we believe that it is imperative to maintain a historical and cultural perspective, and to combine a variety of methodologies. We encourage interdisciplinary approaches to visual political communication, including qualitative, quantitative and experimental studies, exploring the aesthetic expressions, the political content and the intended and empirical effect on the public. We are looking for research contributions of a theoretical nature or from a practice-based perspective, and from novel combinations of the two. The journal seeks to provide significant insights into the role of visuals within the political communication environment across the world
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Transitions aims to provide a platform that explores and investigates the complexities of transient migration and to map the experiences of the growing number of transient migrants as they engage and interact with communities that are linked both to their home and host nations. The journal seeks to look at the ways in which transient migration affects individuals and communities in this transitional yet significant period. Its scope includes, but is not limited to, themes of belonging, identity, networks, nation, culture, religion, race and ethnicity, gender and memory while incorporating the roles played by various platforms to facilitate these themes such as media, politics, policy, economy and the creative industries.
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Journal of Global Diaspora and Media (GDM) is a peer-reviewed journal that provides a platform to theorize the complexities of the notion of diaspora and investigate the representations of diaspora people in the diasporic media and mainstream media from an interdisciplinary approach. The journal explores the roles played by the media to project the diaspora voices and facilitate their engagement and interaction with communities, agencies and governments at home and host nations.
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The Journal of Alternative & Community Media (JOACM) publishes research that helps explain the shifting media environment, and the ways in which people use alternative forms of media and communication. Issues of concern to the journal include the nature and distribution of media power; access to and participation in media; media practices of communities and social movements; and the possibilities of emerging technologies and new media.
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The scope of Visual Inquiry is broad and is aimed at facilitating a wide spectrum of perspectives. It is essentially a medium for engaging the rich and multifaceted process of learning and teaching art that takes place in the classroom, studio, and beyond. However, the seriousness of the journal is not outweighed by making critical topics accessible and readable to a large constituency of readers. It is a forum of reflection on the process of creating and teaching art. It embraces teaching art in a variety of contexts, engages art appreciation experiences, shares scholarship in teaching artistry, and celebrates the rich traditions of art making and teaching.
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The Journal of Class and Culture is a provocative theoretical and empirical intervention into debates concerning class and culture. We reject and challenge the rendering of class as an archaic concept and engage with class as a dynamic category actively shaped by the changing demands of capitalism.
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Luxury Studies: The In Pursuit of Luxury Journal (IPOL) will provide invaluable insight into the luxury supply chain, enhancing the impact of research within the area of luxury. The new knowledge generated by the journal will have a direct impact on how luxury is defined and contribute to the understanding of a wide range of academic and industry-related issues.
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International Journal of Sustainable Fashion & Textiles is a peer-reviewed academic publication and the world’s first ongoing subscription journal dedicated to the area of sustainability and ethics in the fashion and textiles industry. Its principal objectives are to provide a platform for the advancement of sustainable fashion and textiles innovation, raise awareness of the environmental and social issues and disseminate how sustainable solutions can be implemented.
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The Journal of Gulf Studies is a peer-reviewed academic publication which aims to create a comprehensive academic platform for research on the Gulf region (Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Oman) and its neighbouring countries, such as Yemen, Iraq and Iran. The journal will address four key areas of research on the region: history of the Gulf, culture and society, politics and security, and energy and economics, in addition to the role of mass media in these four strands. This journal is expected to become a significant contribution to the academic discipline centred on the region, as it recognizes the academic gap and growing need for area studies. With a strong network of scholars studying the region, the journal will combine two robust elements: area studies and interdisciplinary studies. A comprehensive research agenda will compile the most pressing questions the global community has on the region, and it will be approached with critical examination and study.
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The International Journal of Disney Studies is the interdisciplinary home of the emerging field of Disney studies. Through Disney studies scholars analyse the international media conglomerate that is a cornerstone in our understanding of global culture and wider societal issues and processes. The journal publishes empirical and theoretical peer-reviewed articles that focus on the Walt Disney Company, its intellectual properties and products thereof and their relationship with culture and society. As an international and interdisciplinary journal, we welcome original articles that are diverse in theoretical lenses and approaches, perspectives, methods, fields and industries.
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Dramatherapy Journal (DJ) is an established international journal that presents the most recent developments in the field of dramatherapy theory, practice, and research, and promotes the advancement of the profession worldwide. It provides a platform for dynamic dialogues with related disciplines whilst encouraging critical, open, diverse and creative thinking. From 2024 onwards DJ will be published as Diamond Open Access. The journal is funded by the British Association of Dramatherapists (BADth). It will not charge APCs or submission fees, and all content can be accessed via the Intellect Discover platform free of charge.
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