new media & society

Welcome to the new media & society submission website for authors and reviewers. From here you can track the status of an already submitted manuscript, or review a manuscript that has been assigned to you.

new media & society engages in critical discussions of the key issues arising from the scale and speed of new media development, drawing on a wide range of disciplinary perspectives and on both theoretical and empirical research.

The journal welcomes contributions on:

Global and local dimensions of the relationship between media and social change
The individual and the social, the cultural and the political dimensions of new media
Contemporary as well as historical developments
Implications and impacts of, as well as the determinants and obstacles to, media change
Relationship between theory, policy and practice

Multidisciplinary perspective:   new media & society publishes from both the social sciences and the humanities and includes contributions from communication, media and cultural studies, as well as from sociology, geography, anthropology, economics and from the political and information sciences. Topics covered include (but are not limited to):

Digitalization and convergence
Interactivity and virtuality
Consumption and citizenship
Innovation, regulation and control
The cultures of the Internet
Patterns and inequalities of use
Community and identity in electronic space
Time and space in global culture and everyday life
The politics of cyberspace

Reviews:   new media & society includes a section in which books and other significant contributions to the field are reviewed.   This includes both essay length and shorter contributions. For more information about reviews please contact book reviews editor David Park (park ~at~ lakeforest.edu).


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