Proposed journals for your research

When you write academic essays you are expected to consult primary sources, such as books and journal articles, to support the points you are making. Academic essays require research, not only to learn more about what you’re studying and writing about, but also to provide evidence that reinforces your arguments.

The following list was created by Lynn Clark, Assistant Research Professor in Communication at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her criterion for ranking the journals can be found at her website: http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~clarkl/gradstudents.htm#journals

Communication Journals:

1. Communication Research
2. Public Culture
3. Journal of Communication
4. Communication Theory
5. Journal of Broadcast and Electronic Media
6. Media, Culture, and Society
7. Critical Studies in Media Communication
8. Journalism and Mass Communication
9. Communication Monographs
10. European Journal of Communication
11. Cultural Studies
12. Media Studies Journal
13. Javnost - The Public
14. Journal of Communication Inquiry

Sociology journals that publish media studies

1. Symbolic Interaction
2. Contemporary Sociology
3. Sociology of Religion
4. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
5. Review of Religious Research
6. Youth & Society
7. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography


Promising new journals/too new to rank:

New Media & Society
Popular Communication
Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies
Journal of Media and Religion
Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies

Other journals of interest:

Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies
Emergences: Journal for the Study of Media and Composite Cultures
Feminist Media Studies
Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television
Information, Communication & Society
Journalism Studies
Media History
Quarterly Review of Film and Video
The Howard Journal of Communications
Popular Music & Society
Popular Music
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

Hope this helps your research over Easter.

Have a good break!