[ecrea] MeCCSA PGN - seeking editors, authors and peer reviewers

For the attention of all postgrads/early career researchers (please pass 
this email on if you know one),



Networking Knowledge - the Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network – 
is seeking expressions of interest from prospective editors, authors and 
peer reviewers.





Guest Editors:



The journal publishes specifically-themed guest edited issues throughout 
the year. The journal is now calling for prospective guest editors who 
are interested in editing collections of articles on a theme of their 
choice. This will include conceiving the theme and its parameters, 
seeking and selecting authors of 5-8 articles through both commissioning 
and an open call for papers, managing the peer review process, 
copy-editing articles and contributing a short editorial introduction to 
the finished collection. Guest editors will be supported throughout the 
process by the Journal Editor, who will also prepare the final articles 
for online publication.



This is a valuable opportunity for PG researchers to gain experience of 
all aspects of peer-reviewed journal publication, as well as developing 
interaction with peers who have similar research interests. Teams of two 
or three Guest Editors are acceptable, as well as individuals. Themes 
can be drawn from any aspect of the subject areas covered by MeCCSA. 
They should represent a cutting-edge and specific research focus, but be 
open enough to accommodate a range of disciplinary, methodological 
and/or geographical areas.



As a guide, some previous special issues have focused on:



•Time and Technology in Popular Culture, Media and Communication

•Branding TV: Transmedia to the Rescue

•Protest and the New Media Ecology



And our forthcoming issues will be on:



•Mediatizing Gaza

•Digital Comics

•Selfies

•New Perspectives on Cinematic Spectatorship and Digital Culture

•New Approaches to Music Listening



Proposals should be no more than 500 words and include:



•A provisional title for the collection

•The proposed theme, including a brief explanation of existing relevant 
research and what the collection will seek to contribute

•Brief examples of potential contributors (to be commissioned) and 
article topics (to be included in a call for papers)

•Name(s), institution(s) and e-mail address(es) for the prospective 
guest editor(s)





Articles:



As well as guest editors of themed issues, Networking Knowledge is now 
also seeking material for open submission.



Such articles, interviews, reviews and conference reports are to be 
published in standard issues. These pieces will be firstly screened by 
the Journal Editor for relevance and suitability, then peer reviewed by 
two members of our PG advisory board. Submissions can be on any of the 
broad subject areas covered by MeCCSA. Abstracts of no more than 150 
words can, in the first instance, be e-mailed to the journal editor. The 
editor will then inform the author if a formal submission will be 
relevant and suitable. Alternatively, full submissions can be sent 
unsolicited to the journal editor.



More detailed author guidelines are available here: 
http://ojs.meccsa.org.uk/index.php/netknow/about/submissions#authorGuidelines







Peer Reviewers:



The journal is also looking for experts across all areas of media, 
communications and cultural studies to join its advisory board of peer 
reviewers. As a member of the advisory board, you will get hands-on 
experience of the peer reviewing process and be part of this dynamic and 
multi-disciplinary journal. All postgraduate and early career 
researchers who would like to be involved in encouraging cutting edge 
and high standard scholarship in this open access online journal are 
invited to volunteer.



Members of the advisory board are required to write a single page report 
on articles that relate to their specific research interest(s) and make 
a recommendation as to its suitability for publication. It is a 'double 
blind' process so both authors and reviewers remain anonymous.



If you are interested, please send the following information to the 
Journal Editor:



•Your name

•Your institutional affiliation/s (if applicable)

•Your position (e.g. PhD candiate, lecturer, etc.)

•Your current e-mail address/es

•3-6 key words or phrases identifying your areas of expertise (no need 
to mention ‘media, ‘communications’ or ‘culture’!)



NB. those who are already members of the advisory board, please contact 
the editor to update contact details and areas of expertise if they’ve 
changed recently.



Expressions of interest in editing a special issue, contributing an 
article or other material, or joining the advisory board of the journal, 
should be sent to the Journal Editor, Simon Dawes, at (simondawes0 /at/ gmail.com)



We’d be grateful if other members on the list could make their PG 
students aware of these opportunities. If you would like any further 
information, please don't hesitate to contact me.



Many thanks.

Simon Dawes

Simon Dawes
Université Paul Valéry - Montpellier 3
http://smdawes.wordpress.com/
Journal Editor, Networking Knowledge - the Journal of the MeCCSA PGN
http://ojs.meccsa.org.uk/index.php/netknow
Editorial Projects & Website Manager, Theory, Culture & Society and Body 
& Society
http://theoryculturesociety.org/



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