[ecrea] KOME Call for Papers

call for papers

KOME, a peer-reviewed Open Access journal published by the Hungarian
Communication Studies Association is currently seeking articles for its
2017-2018 issues. The journal aims to create a platform for an innovative
interdisciplinary discourse in the field of communication and media
studies, with a focal point on pure communication inquiry.


Since its formation, there has been a wide debate on the (in)famous first
axiom of pragmatics, which states, "one cannot not communicate." Questions
of whether the subsuming of any and all kinds of information processing in
a category called “communication,” results in a viable approach towards
actions performed by various entities, or simply suits in the flow of the
inflation of concepts so precious concerning human existence and
co-existences are rarely answered, if even posed in the field of
communication and media studies. Nowadays, applied communication research
does not seem to care much about the fact that no research on
communication and media can be carried out without having preconceptions
about the nature of the phenomenon constituting its object. Which,
considering their disciplinal boundaries, would be perfectly acceptable if
not only a marginal fraction of theories, serving as the basis for that
research had linked their assertions on communication to the preconceived
notions that determine the demarcation of the domain of communication and
media studies through the selection and organization of different
perceptions in a given intellectual framework.

The unidentified nature of such preconceptions is relevant not exclusively
in metatheories but it may also make the adequacy of a given theory
questionable in additional research, which results in a situation where
these theories cannot provide a general answer to a couple of the most
basic questions, namely, “what is communication,” “what is media,” “who is
able to communicate,” etc. Therefore, KOME welcomes research and
discussions with an eye toward defining and theorizing communication and
the media, and invites authors to submit manuscripts exploring basic
questions of the field with plausible reasoning, but regardless of the
theoretical framework or the chosen methodology.

For submission send your paper to the
Editorial Office

Please follow KOME's instructions for authors.

DEADLINES: We accept submissions on a rolling basis, although it is best
to submit by the end of March to be reviewed for Summer issues and by the
end of September to be reviewed for Winter issues.

http://komejournal.com/call-for-papers.html

















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