[Commlist] Applications invited for Role of Associate Editor

As Specialty Chief Editors of the Frontiers in Communication ‘Political 
Communication Section’, we are inviting applications for the role of 
Associate Editor.
The Political Communication section fosters boundary breaking, 
interdisciplinary and innovative scholarship, both theoretical and 
empirical, that helps expand and deepen our understanding of the 
interactions between social, political and communication processes. 
Further details can be found below this email. The Political 
Communication Section was established a year ago, is developing well, 
and we are now in a position to expand our range of Associate Editors.

Frontiers Associate Editors are high impact researchers and recognized 
leaders in their field, with a strong publication record in 
international, peer-reviewed journals and with a recognized affiliation. 
They are typically associate professor level or higher, or an equivalent 
position of equal standing in their field. (see below for more details 
regarding role).

Associate Editors are also encouraged to submit their own inaugural 
articles and develop a  ‘Research Topic’ reflecting their own research 
interests. Research Topics work as a kind of open-ended special issue, 
allowing the development of a substantial body of articles focused on a 
key research area.
If you are interested, please contact us with brief CV and we will be 
delighted to consider your suitability for an Associate Editor role. 
Please email us at (Piers.robinson /at/ propagandastudies.ac.uk) and/or 
(d.miller /at/ bristol.ac.uk).

We look forward to hearing from you.

Dr Piers Robinson and Professor David Miller
Speciality Section Chief Editors ‘Political Communication’, Frontiers 
in Communication
(Piers.robinson /at/ propagandastudies.ac.uk) (d.miller /at/ bristol.ac.uk)

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Special Section Political Communication: Scope

In the age of ubiquitous internet-based digital communication and 
substantial economic, social and political upheavals, understanding the 
relationships between political change and communication processes is 
essential to understanding, explaining and evaluating the world around 
us, as well as attempting to change it.

The Political Communication section fosters boundary breaking, 
interdisciplinary and innovative scholarship, both theoretical and 
empirical, that helps expand and deepen our understanding of the 
interactions between social, political and communication processes. Its 
express goal is to enable critical and progressive research, which 
challenges orthodoxies and expands intellectual inquiry by moving 
thinking beyond existing paradigms, ideological boundaries and status 
quo orientated research agendas.
This section draws particularly on the fields of media and communication 
studies, political science / international relations and sociology. It 
will provide space for scholars that explore the relationship between 
communication and class, race, gender and sexual identity, as well as 
how these intersect with government (at any level), the nation state, 
imperialism, international relations, corporate/capitalist power and 
indeed the activities of social movements – from both above and below. 
Our reach is genuinely global and seeks to address issues surrounding 
political communication and major issues including conflict, inequality 
and environmental crisis and their consequences in all parts of the 
world. We encourage all forms of critical and progressive political 
communication scholarship especially that which helps to expand the 
boundaries of existing mainstream political communication research.

We welcome ground-breaking scholarship in the following areas:

• the role of propaganda, persuasion and influence activities and their 
impact upon democracy;
• progressive normative theory which seeks better ethically grounded 
approaches to persuasion and influence;
• the role of communication in policy and political processes both via 
mass media and through direct communications – specifically through 
examinations of lobbying and associated processes;
• the politics and sociology of science, health and environmental 
communications and their interactions with expertise;
• the role of communication in social movements and the communicative 
and strategic activities of social movements;
• news media coverage of political affairs with a focus on identifying 
and explaining media performance and its relationship to power and the 
exercise of power;
• the impact of new media technologies, including the internet, social 
media and independent/alternative media on the public sphere, both at 
national and global levels;
• the political economies of media industries;
• political-economic and empirical work on marketing, advertising and 
related communicative industries, including on consumerism;
• progressive normative theory which seeks to improve political 
journalism and the capacity of news media industries to facilitate 
democracy;
• strategies to improve both media literacy amongst publics, in 
particular developing critical awareness of media bias and propaganda 
activities;
• considerations of methods in researching and analysing political 
communications processes and indeed how communication intersects with 
the material, the real and with extra-communicative / discursive actions 
and activities.

Associate Editor Role:

Associate Editors make an initial assessment to ensure a manuscript fits 
within the scope of the specialty and is scientifically robust. They 
invite reviewers and directly oversee the interaction between the 
reviewers and Authors during the collaborative peer-review process. 
Based on the reviewers’ recommendations, and ensuring all quality, 
validity and ethical standards have been met, Associate Editors make the 
final decision on acceptance or recommend a manuscript for rejection to 
the Specialty Chief Editors.

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