Manuscript Submissions Guidelines:

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Critical Studies in Media Communication provides a home for scholarship in media and mass communication from a cultural studies and critical perspective. It particularly welcomes cross-disciplinary works enriching debates among various disciplines, critical traditions, methodological and analytical approaches, and theoretical standpoints. CSMC publishes scholarship about media audiences, representations, institutions, technologies, and professional practices. It includes work in history, political economy, critical philosophy, race and feminist theorizing, rhetorical and media criticism, and literary theory. It defines media inclusively, to embrace newspapers, magazines, books and other forms of print, as well as cable, radio, television, film, and new media technologies such as the Internet. Manuscripts should be analytical and interpretive (i.e., not merely descriptive) and should make an important, substantive contribution to existing or emerging bodies of knowledge.

All submissions should be made online at the Critical Studies in Media Communication Manuscript Central site to facilitate rapid accessibility of your work to the reviewers. New users should first create an account. Once a user is logged onto the site submissions should be made via the Author Centre.

Free article access: Corresponding authors can receive 50 free reprints, free online access to their article through our website (www.informaworld.com) and a complimentary copy of the issue containing their article. Complimentary reprints are available through Rightslink® and additional reprints can be ordered through Rightslink® when proofs are received. If you have any queries, please contact our reprints department at reprints@tandf.co.uk

CSMC adheres to a policy of blind, peer review. In order that authorship remains completely blind, author name(s) must appear only on the title page, references to any author's prior work must be masked, and internal identifications in the text must be avoided. Manuscripts that have already appeared in any other published form or are under review at any other journal cannot be considered.

Manuscript and reference style must adhere to the fifth edition (2001) of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association and should not exceed 9,000 words including references, notes, figures, and tables. Upon notification of acceptance, authors must ? by NCA policy ? assign copyright to NCA and authors must provide copyright clearance for any copyrighted materials. Authors must provide camera-ready copy of any artwork, tables, or figures.

Manuscripts must be submitted in 12-point font through Manuscript Central. The title page must list the article's title, professional identification and address of the author(s), and phone, fax, and e-mail of the corresponding author. A cover letter should also include a history of the manuscript, indicating whether it has been presented at a conference or is derived from a thesis or dissertation; and acknowledgments of all contributors to the manuscript. A page containing the title and an abstract of no more than 200 words should also be submitted.

Queries may be addressed to Eric King Watts, Editor-elect 2008, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Department of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB# 3285, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3285; or (919) 962-4961. Direct email to: csmc@unc.edu.

The editor for 2007 is Linda Steiner who can be reached by email at: lsteiner@jmail.umd.edu.