We are pleased to announce that the new issue of the Global Media Journal Indian Edition is online at www.manipal.edu/gmj
The topic for the next issue is “Development Communication and Globalization: Developing New Discourses.”
The GMJ thereby invites media scholars, media professionals, and graduate students to submit scholarly articles, critical essays, graduate research, book reviews and opinion pieces that are related to media business.
The journal: The first issue of Global Media Journal, devoted to exploring the world of communication, was launched online in fall of 2002. Since then, this groundbreaking publication has steadily and firmly established itself as a journal to address diverse interests of students, teachers, scholars, researchers, and institutions engaged in international activities, particularly communication.
Global Media Journal publishes works that assess existing media structures and practices, such as global media concentration, globalization of TV genres, global media and consumer culture, the role of media in democratic governance and global justice, propaganda, media reception and cultural practice, commercialization of news, new media technologies, media regulations, regional media, alternative media, and other timely issues.
Global Media Journal has Indian, Arabic, English, Chinese, Spanish, African, Australian, Mediterranean, Polish, Turkish and Persian editions. The online Indian edition was inaugurated in November 2005. It is advised by an editorial board of prominent International Communication scholars from throughout the world. It publishes refereed papers, media analysis, and book reviews. It also offers an opportunity to graduate students to publish their work.
Global Media Journal is published bi-annually and is hosted by the Department of Communication and Creative Arts at Purdue University Calumet, Hammond, Indiana, USA. It is also the official publication of the Global Fusion Consortium (http://www.globalfusion.siu.edu). It publishes a selected number of refereed and non-refereed papers presented at the annual conference of GFC. However, views expressed in this Journal are not necessarily endorsed by the editors and/or Purdue University Calumet.
The Editor and Managing Director of GMJ is Prof. Yahya Kamalipour of Purdue University, Department of Communication and Creative Arts. The editor of the Indian edition of GMJ is Prof. Buroshiva Dasgupta, former director, Manipal Institute of Communication, Manipal University, Manipal- 576104.
Deadline: Contributors are expected to send their articles on or before November 30, 2008.
