Focus and Scope

Journal Communication Spectrum: Capturing New Perspectives in Communication (JCS) is a blind peer-reviewed journal devoted to publishing research papers(fieldwork or textual studies), conceptual papers, and information concerning all aspects of communication, media studies, and cultural studies. It is a channel for discussing issues such as social media and online communication activities, public participatory communication, hospitality communication, gender and technologies, social, political, and sub-cultural movement, together with behavioural foundations of specific-interest communications, media engagement, and many other issues which provoke new perspectives in communication. The Journal will also consider papers in creativity studies, creativity ethics, creative design, creative media, creative industry, and creative economy in relation to both production, distribution and consumption of culture in the communications domain.

Published twice a year (in February and August), Journal Communication Spectrum follows a rigorous blind review process, in which reviewers and authors do not know each other, to ensure the objectivity of the assessment. Journal Communication Spectrum accepts manuscripts throughout the year in various fields and sub-fields of study for topics (but not limited to):

Communication Studies

• corporate communication, CSR, and public relations
• advertising, design, and creative communications
• journalism, broadcasting, and media management
• organizational, institutional, and industrial communication
• social and inter/cross-cultural communication
• governmental and political communication
• religion and spiritual communication
• health and family communication
• new media, cyberculture, and technological communication
• tourism, place, and environmental communication
• educational and developmental communication
• psychology of communication and love/intimacy studies

Media and Cultural Studies

• semiotics of communication, representation, and discourse studies
• political economy of communication, media, and sign
• law/ethics and the corruption of communication
• lifestyle, consumer culture, and brand studies
• media reception and audience studies
• gender communication, feminism, and queer studies
• fashion, food, game, and sports communication
• critical communication studies
• youth, film, visual culture, and music studies
• creative industry and creativity studies

... and other interesting topics related to communication, media and cultural studies

Section Policies

Articles

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

All papers in Journal Communication Spectrum: Capturing New Perspectives in Communication have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening, and double blind review by two anonymous reviewers.

In the review process, reviewers consider the correspondence of title, abstract, findings, discussion, and conclusions. In addition, reviewers also consider the novelty, scientific impact and references used in the paper.

All manuscripts sent to the Journal Communication Spectrum: Capturing New Perspectives in Communication will go through an initial review process by the Section Editor. The editor will check whether or not according to the scope of the journal, meet the author guidelines and academic quality standards. If not, the editor will ask the authors to refine the manuscript and resubmit. If appropriate, the article will go through the Double-Blind Review process, either by the internal or external peer reviewer. As soon as two or more anonymous peer reviewers complete their review, the editor decides to accept without revision, reject, or invite the author to submit revisions (major or minor) based on reviewers' recommendations. After the revision, the manuscript review process entered the second round. Editorial team members, according to their expertise, will do final review and decide whether to accept manuscript or not to begin the editing process. After going through copy and layout editing, as soon as possible, the manuscript is published (at least if there is a delay, we will announce the table of contents and metadata with the status "in-press").

If a Section Editor or Editorial Board member is the author or co-author of the manuscript submitted, the manuscript will be handled by other Section Editor or Editorial Board members without the author or co-author of the manuscript knowing. This rule is vital to ensure the objectivity of the review process. If there is a problem regarding the review process, chief editor will take over the editorial work and give the final decision.

Meanwhile, the time required for the review process varies depending on the time for reviewers to submit their review, the author's revisions, and the editor's decision. The editors can make decision at any time and will tell the author(s) whether the manuscript is required to make some revisions, accepted, or rejected. But usually, if the manuscript needs revisions, the authors are asked to send the change within two weeks. We also ask our reviewers to complete their review no later than two weeks. However, we give the possibility of additional time for authors and reviewers. For information regarding article submission and requirements, please see the JCS Author Guidelines.

Publication Frequency

Journal Communication Spectrum is published twice a year every February and August. Authors can submit their article anytime throughout the year. Submission Deadline on November 30 for the February-July issue, and May 31 for the August-January issue. Exceptional for the special issue.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...