[Commlist] Call for Papers: Journal of Amateur Cinema & Media

Intellect is pleased to present our newest journal, Journal of Amateur 
Cinema & Media! Due to be published in 2028.

Call for Papers: Inaugural Issue of Journal of Amateur Cinema & Media

To view the full call click here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-amateur-cinema-and-media#call-for-papers 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-amateur-cinema-and-media#call-for-papers>

The Journal of Amateur Cinema & Mediais the first academic journal 
dedicated to a wide-ranging and methodologically rigorous analysis of 
amateur cinema and media cultures. It is a peer-refereed scholarly 
journal acting as a robust platform for interdisciplinary scholarship 
and creative perspectives on the history and role of amateur cinema and 
media in shaping global cultures and communication.

The journal is published twice a year and serves as a forum for original 
research engaging with historical, technological, theoretical, 
geographical, archival, and practice-led research and curatorial 
frameworks, including user-generated media, VR and AI.

The journal actively encourages dialogues across pertinent media 
platforms and specific methodologies while aiming to periodically host 
guest-edited issues responding to urgent theoretical and methodological 
agendas.

As amateur media continues to reshape contemporary cultures, the journal 
welcomes work from established scholars with longstanding expertise in 
the field as well as from those bringing fresh perspectives to most 
urgent issues. This guarantees that the published scholarship is as 
inclusive, dialogic, and globally informed as the field demands.

The editors welcome:

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    Full-length articles (8000 words, including references)

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    Research projects overviews (5000 words)

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    Interviews (3000 words)

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    Conference and festival reports (2500–3000 words)

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    Review essays of books or films (3000 words)

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    Commented archival documents and projects (5000 words)

Prospective contributors are required to consult the resources on 
Intellect’s Information for Journal Editors and Contributors 
(https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-editors-and-contributors 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-editors-and-contributors>) 
before uploading their submission electronically via Pubkit 
<https://submission.pubkit.co/publisher/29/journal/1458/login>.

Manuscripts must adhere to the word count limit and style guidelines 
before they will be accepted for peer review. Word count limits include 
the main submission, keywords, abstract, title, author bio, contact 
details and bibliography.  Submissions should use Harvard referencing 
and be formatted in Times New Roman, 12pt. For complete style 
guidelines, please see Intellect Style 
Guide:https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-editors-and-contributors#style-guide 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-editors-and-contributors#style-guide>.

Please use the following naming convention for your file: ‘Article 
foretitle_Date submitted’ (e.g., ‘Cinema and the Self_Oct 26’). Please 
ensure you anonymize the text file itself, as this will be sent to peer 
reviewers. The identifying data you add to the fields in the submissions 
system will be stored securely and will not be shared.

It is the author’s responsibility to secure written permission from 
copyright holders for reproducing images, tables, figures or text 
extracts. Copyright permissions must be obtained before the journal is 
submitted for production. See Intellect’s Rights & Permissions FAQs for 
more information: https://www.intellectbooks.com/faqs#rights 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/faqs#rights>

Scholarly articles will be anonymously peer reviewed. All writings 
should propose a central idea or thesis argued through a discussion of 
the work under review. All articles submitted should be original work 
and must not be under consideration by other publications.

The deadline for complete submissions for the inaugural issue is 15 
January 2027.

Journal contributors will receive online access to the full issue in 
which their article is included upon publication. Print copies of the 
journal may also be purchased by contributors at a 25% discount.

Use of AI

Disclosure of authors’ use of AI is required for peer review of and 
publication in this journal. The editors reserve the right to determine 
if AI-technology use is appropriate or permissible as regards a 
submitted manuscript or published article. For full details, see 
Intellect’s ‘Acceptable Use of Artificial Intelligence in Research and 
Publishing’: 
https://www.intellectbooks.com/asset/3294/intellect-ai-policy-for-editors-etc-version-1.2.pdf 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/asset/3294/intellect-ai-policy-for-editors-etc-version-1.2.pdf>

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    Authors must declare any use of AI that assists in the critical
    thinking or development of the argument or for any engagement with
    others’ scholarship. If AI technologies are used in developing a
    manuscript or the research it reports, its use must be described in
    detail (its purpose, how it was used, how it shaped the argument,
    analysis or conclusions, and how the use of AI content was reviewed
    and verified by the authors). This use of AI should be disclosed to
    the editors at the time of submission and in the body of the
    manuscript in a ‘Methodology’ section. It is the author's
    responsibility to verify that all texts are accurately cited.

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    Prohibited uses of AI include using it to create, alter or
    manipulate original research data and results. AI technologies must
    not be used for any function linked to the authorship of research
    (i.e. any aspect of the content of the manuscript for which an
    author can be reasonably held accountable).

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    AI support need not be declared if it was used for the purposes of
    checking grammar, spelling and improving the readability of the
    article. Translation tools may be used as well, but these should be
    verified by the author and, if the author is not fluent in the
    languages involved, by a person fluent in the source language and
    target languages and who can verify the accuracy of the translation
    beforesubmission. Citation tools such as Zotero may be used, but it
    is the author's responsibility to verify the accuracy of all quotes,
    page numbers and citations.

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    Peer review and editing: Reviewers and journal editors will not use
    AI for any substantive review tasks when reading, reviewing or
    editing submitted manuscripts.

Editor-in-Chief

Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes

University of Cambridge, UK

(acm /at/ intellectbooks.com) <mailto:(acm /at/ intellectbooks.com)>


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