Literature Reviews & Research Trends
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Publication Date: 1977 - to date- [print] "Publishes state-of-the-discipline literature reviews and essays. It is both highly international and interdisciplinary in scope, with authors and chapters representing the broad global interests of the International Communication Association."- Communication Research Trends byPublication Date: 1995 - to date, eJournal and print- Extended review essays on themes in contemporary scholarly work in all aspects of communication, often with emphasis on human values and religious questions
- Journalism and Communication Monographs byPublication Date: 1999 to date, electronic only- "Serves the AEJMC membership and scholars and readers in adjacent fields by publishing original, scholarly works that are too long or too short as articles or too specialized for book form. One of the goals of the monograph series has been to publish scholarly work from the entire field, whether the methodology was historical, legal, behavioral, or critical. The journal will seek to provide a venue for scholarly works, particularly those that provide a critical or applied synthesis of significant scholarship, that speak to the broader field of journalism and mass communication, seeking to establish Monographs as a readily available resource for understanding and advancing theory, methodology, and/or practice."
- The Review of Communication byPublication Date: 2001 to date, electronic only- Focus: Scholarship that advances the discipline of communication through the study of major themes that cross the disciplinary sub-fields