National Communication Journals  

Communication and Critical/ Cultural Studies

Focuses on social, political, and cultural practices from the standpoint of communication. It promotes critical reflection on the requirements of a more democratic culture by giving attention to subjects such as, but not limited to, class, race, ethnicity, gender, ability, sexuality, polity, public sphere, nation, environment, and globalization.

Communication Education

Articles in CE focus primarily on the role of communication in the instructional process and teaching communication in traditional academic environments. However, manuscripts related to teaching communication or the role of communication in the instructional process in non-traditional settings (e.g. training in business, health, and legal settings) are strongly encouraged.

Communication Monographs

Often considered the flagship journal of NCA. The journal is not restricted to particular theoretical or methodological perspectives. Manuscripts reflecting diverse issues, scholarly modes of inquiry, and innovative thinking about the ways in which communication is shaped and functions in human interaction are welcome.

Communication Teacher

Two types of manuscripts will be considered for publication in the journal.  First, as in the past, instructional activities that can be conducted in either the K-12 or college classroom will be considered.  Second, a new addition, manuscripts focused on communication education assessment in either the K-12 or college classroom will be considered.

 Critical Studies in Media Communication

As the journal title implies, this journal is devoted to publishing works related to critical studies in media communication.  Perhaps the best way to get a feel for whether or not your article would fit with this journal is to review several recent issues of the journal. That is a good idea for any journal submission.

Journal of International and Intercultural Communication

scholarship for an international readership on international and intercultural communication from a range of theoretical, conceptual and methodological perspectives. It invites manuscripts that not only address pressing issues in multiple regions, multilingual communities, social, political, and cultural practices from the standpoint of communication, but it also push the boundaries of contemporary work in international/intercultural communication. 

Journal of Applied Communication Research

Manuscripts reflecting diverse issues, scholarly modes of inquiry, and innovative thinking about the ways in which communication is shaped and functions in human interaction are welcome. Devoted to publishing articles which study actual communication situations or whose results can be applied to the solution of communication problems

Quarterly Journal of Speech

QJS invites research that is original, significant, and designed to further understanding of the processes of human communication, particularly in its rhetorical and cultural dimensions. Essays in the journal generally consider the theory and criticism of situated discourse in its various forms and venues, including the oral and written, public and private, direct and mediated, historical and contemporary.

The Review of Communication

Its scope have been extended to reviews of essays covering multiple publications bearing a common theme or issue, which will be the basis for exploration and comment on a wide range of contemporary research and writing within the field. It also includes extended analyses of single books, brief summaries, and a listing of recently-published books in communication.

American Communication Journal

Journal of the American Communication Association. It is a completely online, blind-reviewed publication, dedicated to the conscientious analysis and criticism of significant communicative artifacts. Appreciating the diversity of research agendas and methodologies in the study of communication, the Co-Editors and Editorial Board of ACJ welcome submissions on any topic related to the discipline.

Text and Performance Quarterly

Invites scholarship that explores and advances the study of performance as a social, communicative practice; as a technology of representation and expression; and as a hermeneutics. Manuscripts addressing performance and the performative from a wide range of perspectives and methodologies, including the historical, rhetorical, feminist, ethnographic, psychological/psychoanalytic, political, and aesthetic are welcome.  

  

Howard Journal of Communication

Culture, ethnicity, and gender influence multicultural organizations, mass media portrayals, interpersonal interaction, development campaigns, and rhetoric. Dealing with these issues, The Howard Journal of Communications, is a quarterly that examines ethnicity, gender, and culture as domestic and international communication concerns.

  

  

  

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