[Commlist] Call for audio/visual essays for the Media Studies Journal

Call for audio/visual essays for the Media Studies Journal
Deadline 15 September 2026

Mediální studia / Media Studies calls for the submission of audio/visual 
essays for its first edition of 2027. As part of the journal’s 
innovation strategy, peer-reviewed audio/visual essays will complement 
the journal’s already-existing written text articles. The aim of this 
expansion is to strengthen academic multimodality, validate academic 
work that transcends hegemonic forms of academic knowledge sharing and 
benefit from the abilities that auditive and visual modes of 
communication create.

Authors are invited to submit their A/V essays (and contextualising 
statements) for peer review before 15 September 2026, to the journal’s 
submission site at https://ms.vedeckecasopisy.cz/

The genre of the academic A/V essay refers to formal and structured 
pieces of work with a clear narrative that creatively deploy 
audio/visual modes of communication. Subgenres include audiovisual 
essays, film essays, video essays, and sound essays. This implies that 
the A/V Section also (warmly) welcomes essays that are sound-based only.

The focus on academic A/V essays implies that the contributions 
themselves need to contain the characteristics of academic publications, 
for instance, in their vocabulary, in their attention to theory and 
methodology, and in the rigorous and systematic nature of their 
analysis. At the same time, the A/V Section will welcome contributions 
with hybrid affiliations to different fields, for instance, by 
articulating artistic and academic approaches, including A/V essays that 
integrates elements from literature, theatre, and dance. The A/V Section 
also strongly prefers contributions that creatively deploy the use of 
the audio/visual mode (avoiding A/V work with only academic lecturing). 
Finally, A/V essays can be in any language, but when languages other 
than English are used, English-friendly measures are required.

The A/V section has no thematic a prioris, as the usage of the 
audio/visual mode of communication renders it relevant. At the same 
time, A/V essays that deal with communication-related themes are 
particularly welcome. The target audience of the A/V Section thus 
remains an academically informed audience, which implies that the A/V 
Section will not publish contributions which are primarily aimed at 
reaching (larger) audiences outside academia, as part of a science 
communication strategy.

Mediální studia / Media Studies is an established academic journal that 
recently celebrated its 20th anniversary. Financed by the Institute of 
Communication Studies and Journalism, at Charles University’s Faculty of 
Social Sciences, the journal is diamond open access, and, in other 
words, does not charge publication fees and makes its publications 
freely available. The journal’s main editor-in-chief is Kateřina 
Turková, and the A/V Section’s editor-in-chief is Nico Carpentier. The 
A/V Section is affiliated with the Multimodal Communication Research 
(MCR) of the International Association for Media and Communication 
Research (IAMCR).

For questions, please contact Nico Carpentier at 
(medialnistudia.avessays /at/ fsv.cuni.cz).

More information can be found at the links below:

The journal website:
https://medialnistudia.fsv.cuni.cz/en/

The A/V Section webpage:
https://medialnistudia.fsv.cuni.cz/en/avessays/

The journal’s submission website:
https://ms.vedeckecasopisy.cz/

The detailed A/V essays submission guidelines:
https://medialnistudia.fsv.cuni.cz/en/detailed-av-submission-guidelines/

A/V essays submission deadline:
15 September 2026



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