The new Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly new submission length
and theory requests are below the signature information.

 

Professor E-K. Daufin, Ph.D.

Department of Communications

Alabama State University

915 South Jackson St.

Montgomery, AL 36101-0271

334.229.6885

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Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly is published by AEJMC, and
while it attracts scholarship and draws readership from outside the
association, its origin within the ninety-three-year-old association
helps explain what Quarterly has become.  The association is made up of
3,400 members, seventeen divisions, and ten interest groups.  Within
those divisions and interest groups are scholars at different stages of
their research careers, actively pursuing a broad and varied range of
scholarly topics, employing diverse methods and working within a number
of paradigms.

 

Not surprisingly, the many studies submitted to and published in
Quarterly reflect that diversity and range of activities: historical,
legal, qualitative, and social science inquiries that examine the many
forms and processes of journalism and mass communication, and that may
vary across individual, organizational, institutional, or societal
levels of analysis.

 

Indeed, by some standards the success of a publication serving the field
is its ability to present the best work representing all of those many
interests and approaches.  Distinctive individual pieces collectively
reflect the field.

 

At the same time, Quarterly can serve a role of presenting scholarship
that cuts across specialties, makes connections, and encourages
interdisciplinarity, and that addresses broad issues, themes, and
theories in the field.  In each issue, in fact, we invite scholars to
employ "a variety of methods and theoretical perspectives," to
"challenge the boundaries of communication research," and to guide
readers "to new questions, new evidence, and new conclusions."  

 

The importance of this mission statement has been reaffirmed and
emphasized by the discussions that followed the release of the
recommendations of the Task Force on the Status and Future of AEJMC
Publications.  To this end, the editors of Journalism & Mass
Communication Quarterly are committed to publishing such theory-building
work, whether it takes the form of an inductive process of creating
theoretical propositions from existing scholarship, or develops through
a deductive approach; whether it represents theory-building within a
"narrow" area (risk communication, media economics, agenda setting,
etc.) or cuts across such areas; and whether it emerges from a social
science or critical paradigm.   

 

Similarly, we remain committed to our goal of publishing manuscripts
that examine the relationship of our research methods to our theories or
that provide historical perspective on the field.  The Spring 2003 issue
challenged readers and contributors to make Quarterly "the venue for
submissions examining both basic and sophisticated methodological
questions."

  

In order to serve the diversity of scholarly methods and approaches in
our field, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly has recently added
additional pages per volume to permit more flexibility in manuscript
length and to expand the book review section. Quarterly has expanded the
traditional 5,000-word manuscript guideline to 6,000 words for
manuscripts not employing tabular material.  At the same time, we have
adopted a process used by several leading journals: manuscript reviewers
will be asked to offer an assessment of a manuscript's
length-to-contribution "ratio."  If reviewers recommend shortening or
lengthening a piece, that recommendation will inform the editor's
decision and any revision process.   

 

The Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly editors hope the increased
word limit for non-quantitative manuscripts will encourage the
submission of more theory-building and methodology-oriented manuscripts
that cut across the boundaries of communication research.  As in the
past, Quarterly will continue its process of rigorously reviewing all
manuscripts and will continue to welcome studies addressing important
topics of journalism and mass communication from the diverse interests
and approaches that mark our field.