Mass Communication and Society is an
interdisciplinary journal that offers a macro-sociological approach of the
field and analyses media production at a societal level. Many of its articles
discuss the role that journalists and news play on society, focusing on themes such
as objectivity, credibility, identity, newsroom sociology, news organizations
and the journalistic social role around the world.
The journal is now accepting submissions for a special
issue called “Future of Mass Communication Theory and Research in a Changing
Communication Environment” that will invite us to reexamine the current conceptualizations
and theories. New technologies are blurring the boundaries between mass and
interpersonal communication and undermining key concepts in the field.
The call for papers emphasizes that “making all
forms of communication mobile and shifting control from encoders (media organizations)
to decoders (audiences) through social media and the Internet challenges
notions of social control and our current models of persuasion and media
effects. “
Here are three interesting articles that caught
my attention:
Reich, Z., & Hanitzsch, T. (2013). Determinants of
Journalists' Professional Autonomy: Individual and National Level Factors
Matter More Than Organizational Ones. Mass Communication and Society, 16(1), 133-156.
Anderson, W., & Lowrey, W. (2007). What factors influence
control over work in the journalism/public relations dynamic? An application of
theory from the sociology of occupations. Mass Communication & Society, 10(4), 385-402.
Pingree, R. J., Brossard, D., & McLeod, D. (2014).
Effects of Journalistic Adjudication on Factual Beliefs, News Evaluations,
Information Seeking, and Epistemic Political Efficacy. Mass
Communication and Society,
(just-accepted).
Mass Communication and Society is a peer-reviewed journal and publishes 6 issues per year. It encourages articles that not only focus on the field of journalism itself but also corporate a wide variety of perspectives and disciplines such as sociology, philosophy, history, law and psychology. According to the Journal Citations Report, this journal is ranked 30th out of 72 in the social science category with an Impanct Factor of 0,94.
ReplyDeleteThere are three articles that interested me:
Kim, S., Kim, H., & Oh, S. H. (2014). Talking about Genetically Modified (GM) Foods in South Korea: The Role of the Internet in the Spiral of Silence Process1. Mass Communication and Society, (just-accepted).
Lovejoy, J., Cheng, H., & Riffe, D. (2010). Voters' attention, perceived effects, and voting preferences: Negative political advertising in the 2006 Ohio governor's election. Mass Communication and Society, 13(5), 487-511.
Camaj, L. (2014). Need for Orientation, Selective Exposure and Attribute Agenda Setting Effects. Mass Communication and Society, (just-accepted).