LibGuides: Communication & Multimedia Studies: Journals

Dive into the vibrant world of Communication and Media Studies through the extensive collection of scholarly journals available via FAU Libraries. These journals serve as invaluable repositories of cutting-edge research, critical analysis, and theoretical perspectives across a broad spectrum of topics within the field.

FAU Libraries provide access to various communication and media study journals covering mass communication, journalism, broadcasting, digital media, public relations, and more. From prestigious academic publications to industry-focused periodicals, these journals offer a wealth of knowledge and insight into contemporary issues, trends, and debates shaping the communication landscape.

Students, researchers, and faculty members can explore leading journals like Communication Research, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Media, Culture & Society, and Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, among many others. These journals feature peer-reviewed articles, empirical studies, theoretical frameworks, and critical reviews authored by renowned scholars and industry experts, providing a rich tapestry of perspectives and methodologies.

Whether you're delving into specific research topics, staying updated on emerging trends, or seeking inspiration for your academic pursuits, FAU Libraries' Communication and Media Study Journals offer an indispensable resource for deepening your understanding and engagement with the dynamic field of communication and media.

Communication Methods and Measures The aims of Communication Methods and Measures are to bring developments in methodology, both qualitative and quantitative, to the attention of communication scholars, to provide an outlet for discussion and dissemination of methodological tools and approaches to researchers across the field, to comment on practices with suggestions for improvement in both research design and analysis, and to introduce new methods of measurement useful to communication scientists or improvements on existing methods. Submissions focusing on methods for improving research design and theory testing using quantitative and/or qualitative approaches are encouraged. Articles devoted to epistemological issues of relevance to communication research methodologies are also appropriate. This journal welcomes well-written manuscripts on the use of methods as well as articles illustrating the advantages of newer or less widely known methods over those traditionally used in communication.
Communication Research Empirical research in communication began in the 20th century, and there are more researchers pursuing answers to communication questions today than at any other time. The editorial goal of Communication Research is to offer a special opportunity for reflection and change in the new millennium. To qualify for publication, research should, first, be explicitly tied to some form of communication; second, be theoretically driven with conclusions that inform theory; third, use the most rigorous empirical methods OR provide a review of a research area; and fourth, be directly linked to the most important problems and issues facing humankind. Criteria do not privilege any particular context; indeed, we believe that the key problems facing humankind occur in close relationships, groups, organizations, and cultures. Hence, we hope to publish research conducted across a wide variety of levels and units of analysis.
Digital Journalism Digital Journalism provides a critical forum for scholarly discussion, analysis and responses to the wide ranging implications of digital technologies, along with economic, political and cultural developments, for the practice and study of journalism. Radical shifts in journalism are changing every aspect of the production, content and reception of news; and at a dramatic pace which has transformed ‘new media’ into ‘legacy media’ in barely a decade. These crucial changes challenge traditional assumptions in journalism practice, scholarship and education, make definitional boundaries fluid and require reassessment of even the most fundamental questions such as "What is journalism?" and "Who is a journalist?" Digital Journalism pursues a significant and exciting editorial agenda including: Digital media and the future of journalism; Social media as sources and drivers of news; The changing ‘places’ and ‘spaces’ of news production and consumption in the context of digital media; News on the move and mobile telephony; The personalisation of news; Business models for funding digital journalism in the digital economy; Developments in data journalism and data visualisation; New research methods to analyse and explore digital journalism; Hyperlocalism and new understandings of community journalism; Changing relationships between journalists, sources and audiences; Citizen and participatory journalism; Machine written news and the automation of journalism; The history and evolution of online journalism; Changing journalism ethics in a digital setting; New challenges and directions for journalism education and training; Digital journalism, protest and democracy; Journalists’ changing role perceptions; Wikileaks and novel forms of investigative journalism.
Digital Journalism Launched in 2013, Digital Journalism is the premier outlet for advancing international research into digital journalism studies (DJS). The journal aims to maintain its position as a leader of cutting-edge journalism research, providing a critical forum to advance scholarship that intersects with numerous disciplines. The Digital Journalism editorial team welcomes interdisciplinary research in the forms of original articles (7000-9,000 words), conceptual articles (4,000 words, exl. references), review articles (8-000-12,000 words), and advancing methods articles (4,000 words, exl. references). The Digital Journalism editorial team publishes novel research from all corners of the world and is committed to excellence, relevance, and diversity. We employ the Digital Journalism Studies Compass (Eldridge, Hess, Tandoc & Westlund, 2019) in navigating the scholarly terrain.
Information Communication and Society Drawing together the most current work upon the social, economic, and cultural impact of the emerging properties of the new information and communications technologies, this journal positions itself at the centre of contemporary debates about the information age. Information, Communication & Society (iCS) transcends cultural and geographical boundaries as it explores a diverse range of issues relating to the development and application of information and communications technologies (ICTs), asking such questions as:
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (JMCQ) is the flagship journal of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). The journal provides leadership in developing theory, disseminating empirical research and introducing new concepts to its readership. It welcomes submissions from any AEJMC division or interest group. Because communication is a diverse field, articles address a broad range of questions using a variety of methods and theoretical perspectives. Both qualitative and quantitative approaches are welcome in this journal. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly challenges the boundaries of communication research, guiding its readers to new questions, new evidence, and new conclusions. While we welcome submissions focusing on particular areas or specialties, articles should be written in a style that is accessible to all communication scholars. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly is a member of the Committee of Publication Ethics (COPE).
Journal of Advertising The Journal of Advertising, is the premier journal devoted to the development of advertising theory and its relationship to practice. All research related to all types of advertising will be considered for publication. This includes advertising effectiveness, advertising ethics, global advertising issues, and methodological issues, along with the economic, political, social, and environmental aspects of advertising. Queries regarding the appropriateness of a topic and its fit with the scope of the Journal may be sent to the Editor by e-mail at jaeditor@missouri.edu prior to submission of a manuscript.
Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media Published quarterly for the Broadcast Education Association, the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media presents timely research articles about new developments, trends, and innovations in electronic and digital communication to advance scholarly discoveries and real-world solutions. The Journal invites original research submissions that examine a broad range of topics addressing audiences and media technologies, including technological, social, psychological, cultural, historical, political, economic, legal and policy dimensions. Scholarship that tests theory, extends knowledge and/or fosters innovative perspectives on issues of importance to interdisciplinary research, is particularly encouraged. The Journal is open to a diversity of theoretic paradigms and research methodologies.
Journal of Communication The Journal of Communication is the flagship journal of the International Communication Association and an essential publication for all communications 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. JoC publishes the best available scholarship on all aspects of communication. Since the journal seeks to be a general forum for communication scholarship, it is especially interested in research whose significance crosses disciplinary and sub-field boundaries.
Media, Culture & Society Media, Culture & Society provides a major international, peer-reviewed 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. It regularly engages 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. An interdisciplinary journal, it welcomes contributions in any relevant areas and from a worldwide authorship. Crosscurrents is a dialogic space within Media, Culture & Society for debate, critique and reflection on current issues in media and communications research and aims to stimulate discussion around emerging questions, trends, themes and concepts in the field. This involves providing an arena for critical engagement with theoretical and empirical developments and trajectories in research on media and its social, political economic and cultural contexts.
New Media & Society 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. The journal includes contributions on: the individual and the social, the cultural and the political dimensions of new media the global and local dimensions of the relationship between media and social change contemporary as well as historical developments the implications and impacts of, as well as the determinants and obstacles to, media change the relationship between theory, policy and practice
Political Communication Political Communication is an international journal, published quarterly, that features cutting-edge theory-driven empirical research at the intersection of politics and communication. Its expansive subject is the site of rapid changes and pressing policy concerns worldwide. The journal welcomes all research methods and analytical viewpoints that advance understanding of the practices, processes, content, effects, and policy implications of political communication. Regular symposium issues explore key issues in depth.