RESOURCES

Journals: Communication, Media, Technology and Culture

  • Amodern / Amodern (will be) a peer-reviewed, international, open access scholarly journal devoted to the study of media, poetics, and culture. Its purpose is to provide a forum for interdisciplinary conversations about the role of media in the cultural practices of our time. The journal will be distinguished by its focus on poetics, particularly the unruly ways media and technology get deployed behind, beneath, and despite their instrumental functions.
  • 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.”
  • Canadian Journal of Media Studies / The Canadian Journal of Media Studies is a peer reviewed electronic journal which will provide a forum for research and discussion for both scholars and professional media workers pursuing interests in Canadian media issues.
  • Commposite / Fondée en mai 1997, COMMposite est une revue scientifique publiée électroniquement par de jeunes chercheurs francophones dans le domaine de la communication. COMMposite se consacre exclusivement au développement et au rayonnement de la relève, tout en assurant la qualité des articles publiés grâce à un processus de révision par les pairs.
  • Communication Review / The Communication Review seeks a synthesis of concerns traditional to the fields of communication and media studies. The journal’s heuristic division of the field into three analytical perspectives provides a natural structure for creating new knowledge across conventional disciplinary boundaries.
  • Configuration / “The official publication of the Society for Literature and Science, Configurations is the only journal devoted to the study of the discourse pertaining to the theories and practices of science, technology, and medicine.”
  • Cyborg Subjects: Discourses on Digital Culture / “We are an online journal and community discussion site that deals specifically with the disciplines of critical theory, art and media theory, Cultural Studies, literature, psychoanalysis, philosophy, as well as sociology and anthropology in general, specifically in its applications to digital culture and new media as well as contemporary political life.”
  • Evental Aestheticsc / “Evental Aesthetics (is) an international, online, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to philosophical perspectives on art.   Publishing three times per year, the journal invites experimental and traditional philosophical ideas on questions pertaining to art, music, and literature, as well as aesthetic issues in the non-artworld, such as everyday aesthetics and environmental aesthetics.”
  • Explorations in Media Ecology / “EME explores the relationships between media, technology, symbolic form, communication, consciousness, and culture. Its scope is interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary. Media ecology provides a rich philosophical, historical and practical context for studying our increasingly technological and mediated society and culture with an emphasis on historical context.”
  • Fiberculture / “serves wider social formations across the international community of those thinking critically about, and working with, contemporary digital and networked media.”
  • Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television / “The Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television is an interdisciplinary journal concerned with the evidence produced by the mass media for historians and social scientists, and with the impact of mass communications on the political and social history of the twentieth century.”
  • History and Technology / “serves as an international forum for research on technology in history. A guiding premise is that technology—as knowledge, practice, and material resource—has been a key site for constituting the human experience. In the modern era, it becomes central to our understanding of the making and transformation of societies and cultures, on a local or transnational scale. The journal welcomes historical contributions on any aspect of technology but encourages research that addresses this wider frame through commensurate analytic and critical approaches.”
  • Isis / “Since its inception in 1912, Isis has featured scholarly articles, research notes and commentary on the history of science, medicine, and technology, and their cultural influences.”
  • Journal for Cultural Research “Journal for Cultural Research is an international journal, based in Lancaster University’s Institute for Cultural Research. It is interested in essays concerned with the conjuncture between culture and the many domains and practices in relation to which it is usually defined, including, for example, media, politics, technology, economics, society, art and the sacred.”
  • Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media “Published quarterly for the Broadcast Education Association, the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media contains timely articles about new developments, trends, and research in electronic media written by academicians, researchers, and other electronic media professionals. The Journal invites submissions of original research that examine a broad range of issues concerning the electronic media, including the historical, technological, economic, legal, policy, cultural, social, and psychological dimensions. Scholarship that extends a historiography, tests theory, or that fosters innovative perspectives on topics of importance to the field, is particularly encouraged. The Journal is open to a diversity of theoretic paradigms and methodologies.”
  • Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians “The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (JSAH) is the leading architectural history journal that is published in the English language. The scholarly articles in JSAH are international in scope and focus on every period in the history of the built environment.”
  • Leonardo / “Established in 1993, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, a peer reviewed journal (ISSN No: 1071-4391), is the electronic arm of the pioneer art journal, Leonardo – Journal of Art, Science & Technology.”
  • Media, Culture & Society / “provides a major peer-reviewed, international forum for research and discussion on 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 champions research on substantive topics and critique and innovation in theory and method.”
  • Media Fields Journal / “Media Fields” encompasses research on representations of space in media, as well as on spatial and environmental characteristics of media forms and practices. We are interested in critical investigations of the many other dimensions of the term “field,” such as its methodological, disciplinary, and epistemological configurations. (Note: Each issue of Media Fields Journal is themed. Submissions should correspond to the themes of specific issues)
  • Media History / “Media History is an interdisciplinary journal which welcomes contributions addressing media and society from the fifteenth century to the present. Its perspective is both historical and international. It will explore all forms of serial publication in manuscript, print and electronic media and will encourage work which crosses the boundaries of politics, culture and communications. The journal includes contributions covering a wide area of Media History, and welcomes contributions from across the globe. Contributors are encouraged to submit illustrations where appropriate.”
  • Minerva / “Minerva is devoted to the study of ideas, traditions, cultures, and institutions in science, higher education, and research. It is equally focused on historical as well as present practices and on local as well as global issues. Moreover, the journal does not represent one single school of thought, but rather welcomes diversity within the rules of rational discourse.”
  • New Media and Society / “New Media & Society is a top-ranked, peer-reviewed, international journal that publishes key research from communication, media and cultural studies, as well as sociology, geography, anthropology, economics, the political and information sciences and the humanities. It is committed to high-quality research that explores the relationship between theory, policy and practice.”
  • Parrhesia / “Established in 2006, PARRHESIA: A JOURNAL OF CRITICAL PHILOSOPHY is dedicated to publishing the latest work on continental philosophy, along with new translations and interviews with contemporary thinkers.”
  • Platform / “PLATFORM: Journal of Media and Communication, a fully refereed, open access online graduate journal. Founded and published by the Media and Communications Program, School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne (Australia), PLATFORM was launched in November 2008.”
  • Public / “PUBLIC is a bi-annual interdisciplinary peer-reviewed art journal based in Toronto. It is committed to showcasing innovative ideas and exiting creative projects. Its mandate is to exist as an intellectual and creative forum, providing a space for in depth perspectives on the theoretical and critical issues that intersect with art and visual culture.”
  • Science, Technology and Human Values / For more than thirty years Science, Technology, & Human Values(STHV) has provided the forum for cutting-edge research and debate in this dynamic and important field. STHV is a peer-reviewed, bi-monthly, international, interdisciplinary journal containing research, analyses and commentary on the development and dynamics of science and technology, including their relationship to politics, society and culture. The journal provides you with work from scholars in a diverse range of disciplines across the social sciences.
  • Space and Culture: The Journal /is bringing together dynamic, critical interdisciplinary research in cultural geography, sociology, cultural studies, architectural theory, ethnography, communications, urban studies, environmental studies and discourse analysis.
  • Stream: is an open-access, peer-reviewed graduate e-journal for students in communication studies and cognate fields encompassing three over-overlapping ‘streams’ of concentration: culture, politics, and technology. It is published by the Communication Graduate Caucus at Simon Fraser University
  • The Journal of Transport History is a 50-year-old scholarly periodical. Fully peer reviewed, it aims to publish the best and most interesting international research about the transport past, its historicisation, and its diverse historical relations. Submissions are welcomed in transport, travel, tourism and mobility histories, including planning and policy.
  • Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology “Another electronic-only publication, Techné DLA published vol. 1, no. 1-2, in fall 1995. It is edited by Dr. Paul T. Durbin, from the Philosophy Department at the University of Delaware.”
  • Television and New Media / Television & New Media (TVNM), published bi-monthly, is an international journal devoted to the most recent trends in the critical study of television and new media. TVNM addresses questions of how issues of economics, politics, culture and power are enacted through television and new media forms, texts, industries, and contexts
  • TOPIA / “Areas of research relevant to TOPIA are: the historical, institutional, and aesthetic formation of Canadian culture; analysis of visual art, film, television, music, literature and popular culture in Canada; (…)”
  • Triple C / The Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society provides a forum to discuss the challenges humanity is facing in the information society today. It promotes contributions within an emerging science of the information society with a special interest in critical studies following the highest standards of peer review.
  • Transformations Journal / is an independent, double-blind peer-reviewed electronic journal addressing the transformative processes of new technologies and mediating practices that change the way we think, feel and interact with others both in a contemporary and historical sense. We welcome writing from the perspective of cultural theory, critical philosophy, aesthetics, media studies and other humanities approaches.
  • Wi / “Wi publishes the latest in Canadian mobilities research, encompassing disciplines such as design, engineering, computer science, communications and media studies.”

Other Useful Resources

  • Harvard’s STS Circle / “The STS Circle at Harvard is a group of doctoral students and recent PhDs who are interested in creating a space for interdisciplinary conversations about contemporary issues in science and technology that are relevant to people in fields such as anthropology, history of science, sociology, STS, law, government, public policy, and the natural sciences.”
  • Media Studies.ca / “Media-Studies.ca provides a Canadian perspective on the broad field of media ecology, primarily based on the influence of Canadian communications theorists. The site began as a resource for students of Media Studies at Vancouver Island University (formerly Malaspina U-C) in Nanaimo, BC, and is offered to the public for educational purposes.”
  • MIT Workshop: Sensing the Unseen / “Seeking to join more familiar attention to material culture with an innovative focus on immaterial culture, we pose the following questions: How should we describe the similarities and differences between that which is invisible and that which is as yet unvisualized, that which is unrepresented and that which is, perhaps, unrepresentable?”
  • Radical Cartography, by Bill Rankin, Assistant Professor of History of Science at Yale (07-2011)
  • Special Interest Group: Computers, Information and Society / “Founded in the mid-1980s, SIGCIS is the leading international group for historians with an interest in the history of information technology and its applications. Our annual lunch meeting takes place as part of the annual meeting of the Society for the History of Technology”
  • Society for Digital Humanities / “The Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs is a Canada-wide association of representatives from Canadian colleges and universities that began in 1986, founded as the Consortium for Computers in the Humanities / Consortium pour ordinateurs en sciences humaines”.


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