[Commlist] Call for Papers: International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics

Call for Papers: International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics


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https://www.intellectbooks.com/international-journal-of-media-cultural-politics#call-for-papers 
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Media and cultural politics have never mattered more.

The institutions, systems, and frameworks through which societies govern 
communication, culture and public life are under pressure from every 
direction simultaneously. Regulatory regimes are being stress-tested by 
platform power, generative AI, economic fragility and the organised 
targeting of journalists. Cultural industries are being restructured by 
streaming economies, intellectual property battles and the politics of 
representation. Democratic publics are navigating information 
environments shaped by algorithmic systems whose governance remains 
deeply contested.

These are not technical problems awaiting technical solutions. They are 
political problems — questions of power, rights, accountability and the 
conditions under which democratic societies reproduce themselves. They 
demand sustained, rigorous, interdisciplinary scholarly attention.

TheInternational Journal of Media and Cultural Politics exists to 
provide exactly that.

We welcome submissions on - but not limited to:

  *

    Platform governance and algorithmic power

  *

    Regulation, accountability, and the political economy of digital
    infrastructure. Content moderation, algorithmic curation, platform
    liability. The governance of AI systems and their implications for
    public communication.

  *

    Press freedom and the safety of journalism

  *

    The legal, economic, and technological conditions shaping
    independent journalism globally. Threats to reporters — physical,
    legal, economic, digital. The gendered dimensions of journalist
    safety. The structural conditions of investigative and public
    interest reporting.

  *

    Cultural governance and the politics of production

  *

    Public service media, creative industry regulation, streaming
    economies, intellectual property. Who produces culture, who
    distributes it, who is structurally excluded from it. The politics
    of representation across media forms.

  *

    Hate speech, disinformation, and information integrity

  *

    Regulatory frameworks across jurisdictions. The governance of
    harmful content and its consequences for freedom of expression.
    Disinformation ecosystems, their political uses, and democratic
    responses.

  *

    Geopolitics and media sovereignty

  *

    Transnational platform power and national regulatory capacity.
    Communication infrastructure as geopolitical terrain. Comparative
    media governance across regions and political systems.

  *

    Youth, children, and digital governance

  *

    Children’s rights in digital environments. Platform design, data
    governance, and media literacy. The regulatory frameworks shaping
    young people’s communicative lives.

  *

    Cultural politics of identity, voice, and recognition

  *

    Who speaks, who is heard, who is silenced — and through what
    institutional arrangements. The politics of representation,
    diversity, and cultural citizenship across media and communication
    systems.

On Method:

The journal is methodologically pluralist without reservation. We 
publish quantitative and qualitative research, legal and policy 
analysis, political economy, cultural studies, discourse analysis, 
ethnography, computational approaches, and historical inquiry. We 
welcome single-country studies and comparative research, theoretical 
contributions and empirical investigations, work from the Global North 
and the Global South.

What we ask of all submissions is rigour, originality, and genuine 
engagement with the political dimensions of media and cultural life. We 
particularly welcome research that crosses disciplinary boundaries and 
that keeps academic analysis in honest dialogue with the lived world it 
studies.

Research notes, policy commentaries and book review essays are welcomed 
alongside full research articles.

Submission Information:

The International Journal of Media and Cultural Politicsis a 
double-anonymised peer-reviewed journal published by Intellect, indexed 
in Scopus and Web of Science ESCI, and entering its twenty-first year of 
publication.

Submissions are made through the journal’s online submission system 
<https://submission.pubkit.co/publisher/29/journal/399/login>.

Full author guidelines are available in the Notes for Contributors 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/asset/103174/1/IJMCP_NFC_MAR_26.pdf>.

All articles submitted should be original work and must not be under 
consideration by other publications.


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