[Commlist] Call for Submissions: Journal of Media Ethics

# Call for Submissions: Journal of Media Ethics

The Journal of Media Ethics has revised its aims and scope and welcomes 
submissions. Questions should be directed to the editor, Ryan Thomas 
((ryan_thomas /at/ wsu.edu)). The journal does not require authors to pay to 
publish.

* * Aims & Scope

The Journal of Media Ethics publishes empirical studies and 
theoretical-philosophical essays on all matters pertaining to media 
ethics. The goal of the journal is to provide a forum for rigorous and 
theoretically informed analyses of issues relevant to the ethical 
conduct of media actors, whether at micro (e.g., individual, 
psychological, interpersonal), meso (e.g., organizational, communal), or 
macro (e.g., institutional, societal, international) levels.

The journal takes an expansive view of “media,” incorporating not just 
the traditional media professions of journalism, advertising, and public 
relations, and so on, but any personal or professional context involving 
mediated communication that raises ethical questions. These contexts 
include, for example, social media platforms, artificial intelligence, 
mobile media, popular culture and entertainment media, documentary 
filmmaking, corporate communications, political campaigns, propaganda, 
health communication, virtual reality, and partisan media.

The journal takes a similarly pluralistic approach to epistemology and 
methodology, maintaining that no single discipline, tradition, ethical 
perspective, or paradigm has a monopoly on well-conceived and
illuminating work.

* * What We Publish

The Journal of Media Ethics publishes a variety of types of original 
research, reflecting its commitment to both humanistic and social 
scientific modes of inquiry. All submissions are expected to have a 
strong foundation in ethics theories and concepts and must offer a clear 
theoretical contribution that advances knowledge in media ethics.

Published work generally falls into one of the below categories:

· Theoretical-philosophical research (i.e., “theoretical essays” that 
advance a theory-driven normative or philosophical argument).

· Quantitative empirical research (e.g., surveys, experiments, content 
analyses) that makes a theoretical contribution.

· Qualitative empirical research (e.g., observations/ethnographies, 
in-depth interviews, focus groups, textual analyses) that makes a 
theoretical contribution.

· Historical research that makes a theoretical contribution.

· Mixed- or multi-method empirical research (i.e., research that 
integrates two or more of the methods listed above) that makes a 
theoretical contribution.

Research makes a theoretical contribution when it advances, refines, or 
challenges existing theory by developing new concepts, distinctions, 
relationships, or explanatory accounts that deepen understanding of a 
phenomenon or problem. Such contributions may arise through empirical 
analysis (whether using qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods), 
historical inquiry, or philosophical argumentation. In all cases, the 
work must advance scholarly conversations on the topic or question at 
hand in a meaningful way, informing how scholars ought to understand, 
explain, or evaluate the issue at hand.

Topically and conceptually, the journal publishes scholarship on matters 
that include, but are not limited to:

· Ethical dilemmas and ethical decision-making by media professionals 
and other media actors.

· Organizational and institutional contexts that define, shape, and 
constrain ethical decision-making.

· Professional responsibility and accountability, including the systems, 
norms, and practices through which they are defined and evaluated across 
contexts.

· Moral development, moral reasoning, and the moral psychology of media 
actors.

· Global media ethics, including empirical comparative studies and 
theoretical work examining similarities and differences across global 
contexts.

· Ethical issues raised by media technologies.

· The historical development of ethics theory, ethics codes, and 
professional standards as they pertain to media fields.

· The intersection of media ethics and media law, including public 
policy and media governance issues that involve or raise ethical questions.

· Normative foundations of public and political discourse (e.g., 
civility, community, consensus, deliberation, disagreement, partisanship).

· Power, inequality, and justice in media ethics, including issues of 
race, gender, sexuality, class, disability, and marginalization in media 
practices and representations.

· Ethical dimensions of media production, labor, and precarity, 
including working conditions, professional autonomy, and responsibility 
within changing media industries.

· Platform governance and corporate responsibility, including the 
ethical implications of content moderation, algorithmic curation, and 
data practices.

· Media ethics in crisis, conflict, and risk contexts, including 
journalism and communication related to war, disaster, public health, 
and climate change.

· Ethical issues in visual, immersive, and emerging media forms, 
including photography, video, gaming, virtual reality, and synthetic or 
generative media.

· Issues related to the teaching of media ethics, as well as ethical 
questions arising in media education and professional training more broadly.

· Methodological and empirical approaches to studying media ethics.

· Theoretical, conceptual, and methodological connections between media 
ethics and the wider field of philosophy, including other areas of 
applied ethics (e.g., bioethics, business ethics, data ethics, medical 
ethics, research ethics).



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