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Editorial

Journalism and Media: A New Journal to Expand Knowledge in a Dynamic Field

Department of Communication Sciences, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Universitat Jaume I de Castelló, 12071 Castelló de la Plana, Spain
Submission received: 16 December 2020 / Accepted: 16 December 2020 / Published: 19 December 2020
A new journal is always a challenge and an opportunity. It is also good news for the field. In this difficult year, Journalism and Media begins its journey with the desire to serve the scholarly community but also society. Against the pessimism and devastation caused by the pandemic, we start on this path with the aim of expanding knowledge about an area central to modern societies.
Journalism and Media is a new peer-reviewed, open access journal with the highest standards of quality, available for all communication scholars. With a broad scope, it focuses on the social, economic, political and cultural dimensions of journalism and the media, with a special interest in their latest developments and transformations. As such, it addresses a diverse range of issues relating to this field with an interdisciplinary and international vocation. It aims to publish papers about key issues and enhance theoretical, methodological and empirical innovation in this area. The journal covers a broad range of topics as news production and consumption, political communication, journalistic culture and performance, media management and business models, media and democracy, social media and digital journalism, among others. Our Editorial Board includes prominent scholars who are leaders in their field and who come from different parts of the world, bringing experience and diversity. I am very grateful to all of them for their commitment and involvement with this new adventure. I am sure that, with their help and advice, we can build together an innovative and rigorous journal that meets the highest standards of excellence.
Our journal is also committed to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals to promote prosperity while protecting the planet. In particular, we feel concerned by the goals oriented towards quality education, gender equality, the reduction of inequalities and the promotion of just, peaceful and inclusive societies. With our work, from the hands of authors, reviewers, readers and our Editorial Board, we aim not only to expand knowledge of media and journalism, and its impact on society, but also to make the world a better place.
Our mission is to engage with the academic debates around the field of Communication. This area is impressively dynamic due to the technological disruption and its social centrality. Today our everyday life is moulded by media and digital technologies. We live in a context of deep mediatization in which all elements of our social world are intricately related to digital media and their underlying infrastructures (Couldry and Hepp 2017). Media and digital platforms have positioned themselves as indispensable intermediaries of a growing number of human practices, generating a platformization of society (van Dijck et al. 2018). In this context, media have become pervasive, shaping the entire scope of social domains and playing a fundamental role in the transformation of culture and society. Indeed, they are one of the main drivers of social change. Their power to shape everything speaks to the importance and necessity of their study.
Research on media and communication has grown a lot in recent decades both in quantity and quality. Our field has reached maturity despite its recent trajectory. Therefore, it can generate rigorous, relevant and innovative contributions that address journalism and media challenges, problems and advances, on the one hand, and help us understand the society in which we live, on the other. This is the type of research that we seek and want for this new journal. Be rigorous and relevant. This is the way.
In the first stage of our journey, I want to encourage scholars in the field of Communication to consider Journalism and Media as an outlet for their work. Submissions will be peer reviewed and processed as quickly as possible to ensure early dissemination combined with the power of open access to reach a wide audience. Manuscript proposals are essential for any journal, particularly for a new one like ours. For this reason, I would like to have the complicity and the commitment of our academic community (Editorial Board, Guest Editors, authors, reviewers and readers) to promote this project. Only if we all join forces can we make it grow and make its service to our field more efficient and significant. Together is the word.
It is with great honour that I have accepted the invitation to become the Editor-in Chief of this new journal. I hope that this journey, which is beginning now, is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery, as Cavafy said in his Ithaca poem.

Funding

This research received no external funding.

Conflicts of Interest

The author declares no conflict of interest.

References

  1. Couldry, Nick, and Andreas Hepp. 2017. The Mediated Construction of Reality. Cambridge: Polity Press. [Google Scholar]
  2. van Dijck, José, Thomas Poell, and Martijn de Waal. 2018. The Platform Society: Public Values in a Connective World. New York: Oxford University Press. [Google Scholar]

Short Biography of Author

Journalmedia 01 00012 i001Andreu Casero-Ripollés is a Full Professor of Journalism and Political Communication and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Universitat Jaume I de Castelló (Spain). Previously, he was the head of the Department of Communication Sciences and director of Journalism Studies. He holds a degree from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and a Ph.D. from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He is a member of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans. He was a visiting researcher at the University of Columbia (United States), Westminster (UK), UNESP in Brazil, Université Paris 8 (France), and Universitie degli Studi di Milano Bicocca (Italy). His research interests include journalism, political communication, social media, digital journalism, social influence, and digital media. He has published articles in journals such as Information, Communication & Society, International Journal of Press/Politics; Journalism, American Behavioral Scientist, International Journal of Communication, and Journalism Practice, among others.
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Casero-Ripollés, A. Journalism and Media: A New Journal to Expand Knowledge in a Dynamic Field. Journal. Media 2020, 1, 177-178. https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/journalmedia1010012

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Casero-Ripollés A. Journalism and Media: A New Journal to Expand Knowledge in a Dynamic Field. Journalism and Media. 2020; 1(1):177-178. https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/journalmedia1010012

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Casero-Ripollés, Andreu. 2020. "Journalism and Media: A New Journal to Expand Knowledge in a Dynamic Field" Journalism and Media 1, no. 1: 177-178. https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/journalmedia1010012

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