About the Journal
Paranalar Journal of Communication Infrastructure and Culture (PJCIC) is a peer-reviewed academic journal. PJCIC is committed to advancing rigorous, original scholarly research in the field of communication, with a particular emphasis on the relationships among communication infrastructure, cultural formation, media systems, digital technologies, and societal transformation.
PJCIC encourages submissions of manuscripts addressing contemporary issues such as media power, digital platforms, cultural representation, political discourse, public communication, technological change, and the social reinforcement of communication systems in local, national, transnational, and global contexts. PJCIC particularly values work that addresses questions of inequality, participation, governance, access, identity, ethics, and the cultural consequences of mediated communication.
Journal Scope
PJCIC publishes original, high-quality manuscripts in the following areas, but not limited to:
- Critical Communication Studies. Research that examines communication as an arena for power, ideology, hegemony, resistance, identity formation, and social change.
- Digital Media and Platform Studies. Studies on digital media ecosystems, social media platforms, algorithms, datafication, digital labor, platform governance, and platform-based communication.
- Media Representation and Cultural Studies. Analysis of media texts, cultural practices, symbolic structures, and political representations related to gender, class, race, ethnicity, religion, youth, and popular culture.
- Political Communication and Public Discourse. Research focuses on political messages, campaigns, democratic communication, public opinion, polarization, activism, propaganda, misinformation, and the transformation of public space.
- Communication Strategy and Public Relations. Contributions examine organizational communication, public relations, crisis communication, reputation management, advocacy, stakeholder relations, and strategic narratives.
- Media Literacy and Audience Studies. Studies that explore audience reception, media interpretation, participation, digital literacy, critical literacy, user engagement, and media education.
- Communication Technology and Society. Research on the social applications of communication technologies, including infrastructure, access, inequality, surveillance, ethics, artificial intelligence, and socio-technical transformation.
Types of Manuscripts Accepted
- Original research articles
- Contextual and theoretical papers
- Critical essays
- Book reviews, which will be considered by the editor
Publication Frequency:
Published twice a year in June and December. Special issues focusing on emerging trends are published periodically.
Publication Fees
PJCIC provides immediate open access to its content based on the principle that the free availability of research to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. There are no submission fees or Article Processing Charges (APCs) for published work.
Archiving
PJCIC uses the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries, enabling them to build permanent archives of journals for preservation and restoration.
Copyright Notice
Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY), which allows others to share the work with acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal
