Online journals on media topics
Many scholarly journals in Media studies are now being published as electronic journals; the Library has converted many of its existing paper copy subscriptions to the online versions. This means that University of Adelaide staff and students can search for and read individual articles online and can access them at any time on the web.
All electronic journals are listed in the Library Catalogue. If you see the words Library Location: Use link to e-resource following the name of the journal, click on the title to bring up the full Catalogue record for the journal. There you'll find a heading Link to e-Resource: followed by a link to connect you to the electronic version of the journal.
A listing of e-journals that this Library subscribes to in the general subject area Journalism & Communications is available from our University of Adelaide Library E-Journals A-Z web page. You'll find the journals are listed under three separate sub-headings: Communication & Mass Media; Journalism; and Radio & TV Broadcasting.
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Australian online media-related journals available through the Library Catalogue.
Here is a list I have compiled of online Australian media-related journals to which we subscribe, with a link to the Catalogue record for each title:
- Australian screen education
- no. 29, Winter 2002 -
Also available in paper format
Changed title to: Screen education
- Continuum: the Australian journal of media and cultural studies
- Vol. 1 (1987) -
Also available in paper format
- Metro
- Subtitle: media & education magazine. Published in Melbourne by the Association of Teachers of Film and Video.
Number 99 (1994) -
Also available in paper format
- Screen education
- Number 36 (Autumn 2004) -
Also available in paper format
Earlier title: Australian screen education
E-journals available on the web
I've compiled this list of online media-related journals which will inevitably be incomplete. Suggestions for additions or advice that a journal in my list is no longer available are always welcome. Please email me at alan.keig@adelaide.edu.au.
- AJETS: Australian Journal of Emerging Technologies and Society
- AJETS is a multi-disciplinary journal, focusing on the complex relationship between science and technology and their wider socio-cultural contexts. AJETS is designed as a forum for informed discussion and debate about the role of technology in society, drawing on a variety of viewpoints from all branches of the social and behavioural sciences and humanities.
- Counterblast: the ejournal of Culture and Communication
- Counterblast is a publication of the Department of Culture and Communication at New York University. It publishes articles and reviews exploring a variety of cultural disciplines, including media analysis, history, art, architecture, music, and other significant channels of communication. Forthcoming issues will feature topic-specific themes as well as current events, and we plan to expand the website to include web art projects.
- Crossings-Electronic Journal of Art and Technology
- Crossings is a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary academic journal, published by Trinity College, Dublin, that aims to explore the areas where technology and art intersect. Papers are encouraged on any topic related to art, technology or the philosophical issues raised by attempts to bridge the gap between art and science.
Technology is a moving target, and the 21st-century euphoria over the developments in media, communications and technology is fuelling the pace of change. Crossings attempts to place a multitude of ideas and observations of our accelerated human society within theoretical frameworks with a longer life-expectancy than individual technologies and media fads. Its aim is long-term: to interpret and to generalise, and to make observations that can help us understand the world and what it means to be human not only now and in five years but also in fifty years or more.
- Culture Machine
- Culture Machine, with the subtitle Generating research in culture and theory, is a series of new experiments in culture and theory. Culture Machine is currently taking the form of an international electronic journal. Acting as additions or supplements to the e-journal are the Culture Machine Reviews section and the Culture Machine InterZone.
The aim of Culture Machine is to seek out and promote the most provocative of new work, and analyses of that work, in culture and theory from a diverse range of international authors and is particularly concerned to promote research which is engaged in the constitution of new areas of inquiry and the opening of new frontiers of cultural and theoretical activity.
- electronic book review
- ebr is an electronic book review, an online forum allowing critical writers to present their work on the Internet. We are committed to reviewing (literally, seeing again) every aspect of book culture - fiction, poetry, criticism, and the arts - in the context of emerging media. At the same time, ebr is a review of electronic books, promoting translations and transformations from print to screen, and covering literary work that can only be read in electronic formats.
- FAF: fineart forum: art + technology net news
- fineArt forum aims to exhibit the work of emerging international, Australian Indigenous, Asia Pacific and local artists in its online gallery. I think it has ceased publication: Issue 2 in 2004 seems to be the last one.
- fibreculture: internet theory+criticism+research
- Fibreculture Journal is a peer reviewed international journal that explores the issues and ideas of concern and interest to both the Fibreculture network and wider social formations. The journal encourages critical and speculative interventions in the debate and discussions concerning information and communication technologies and their policy frameworks, network cultures and their informational logic, new media forms and their deployment, and the possibilities of socio-technical invention and sustainability.
- Film-Philosophy
- An online journal that is devoted to film and philosophy, Film-Philosophy, based in Great Britain, facilitates dialogue among individuals who are enthused about the philosophy of film and the discussion of philosophical issues in films. Features in-depth explorations of a wide variety of cinematic topics and a lively email response and argument arena for film studies scholars and serious cinema fans.
- First Monday: peer reviewed journal on the internet
- An information oasis, where contributions are read, meditated upon, edited, re-written before posting to the Internet and its many users. That's the basic idea of First Monday. A place where you can find contributions about the Internet from experts and colleagues around the world. Each issue contains five to six full-length articles, plus regular features such as interviews and reviews. In each issue, you'll find articles about the Internet and the Global Information Infrastructure. We will follow the political and regulatory regimes affecting the Internet. We will examine the use of the Internet on a global scale, by analyzing economic, technical, and social factors that potentially affect the Internet. We will analyze the research and development of Internet software and hardware. There will also be reports on the use of the Internet in specific communities, and the content of the Internet.
- Game Studies: the International Journal of Computer Game Research
- Game Studies is a crossdisciplinary journal dedicated to games research, web-published several times a year. Our primary focus is aesthetic, cultural and communicative aspects of computer games.
Our mission - To explore the rich cultural genre of games; to give scholars a peer-reviewed forum for their ideas and theories; to provide an academic channel for the ongoing discussions on games and gaming.
- kamera.co.uk
- kamera.co.uk is a UK-based website dedicated to covering arthouse, independent and world cinema. Our aim is to provide intelligent and well-written features and reviews on a site that is easily accessed and updated regularly.
- M/C: Media/Culture
- M/C - Media and Culture was founded in 1998 as a place of public intellectualism, analysing and critiquing the meeting of media and culture. Our publications and other activities serve as a point of crossover between the popular and the academic - we take seriously the need to move ideas outward, so that our debates may have some resonance with wider political and cultural interests.
Publications:
- M/C Journal (which began in July 1998 as "M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture") is a fully blind peer-reviewed academic journal, but also remains open to submissions and responses from anyone on the Internet. Each issue is organised around a one word theme, and is edited by one or two editors with a particular interest in that theme. The editors change for each issue. Each issue has a feature article which engages with the theme in some detail, followed by several shorter articles.
- M/C Reviews, which launched in September 1998, is a companion piece to M/C Journal. It is neither simply a sub-section, nor completely independent of it; you, the reader, decide how you want to see it. Most of the reviews published here are informed by the culture-critical perspective of M/C and the disciplines of media and cultural studies, but you don't need to take notice of this fact; if you do, however, you'll find that they frequently tie in with debates represented in greater length in M/C Journal. Articles in M/C Reviews are published as they come to hand; since culture is an ongoing process, so should be the reviews.
- PLATFORM: Journal of Media and Communication
- A biannual open-access online postgraduate publication, founded by the Media and Communications Program, School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne in November 2008.
'This new postgraduate journal, PLATFORM, is refereed by an international board of established and emerging scholars working across diverse paradigms in Media and Communication. It is planned to develop it as an international journal.
PLATFORM aims to encourage sharing and support within and across Media and Communication postgraduate communities worldwide. As such, we warmly invite you to participate in this journal - as a reader, author, reviewer, and/or editor. If you would like to be involved, please contact the Editors at platformjmc@gmail.com.'
- PMC: Post Modern Culture
- Founded in 1990 as an experiment in scholarly publishing on the Internet, Postmodern Culture has become the leading electronic journal of interdisciplinary thought on contemporary cultures, publishing the work of such noted authors and critics as Kathy Acker, Charles Bernstein, Bruce Robbins, bell hooks, and Susan Howe. PMC combines high scholarly standards with broad appeal for non-academic readers. As an entirely web-based journal, PMC can publish still images, sound, animation, and full-motion video as well as text.
Published by Johns Hopkins University Press with support from the University of California, Irvine, and the University of Virginia.
- Realtime+Onscreen
- RealTime is a free Australian national arts tabloid published bi-monthly six times a year and also available freely on the web. It covers all areas - film, digital, performance, dance, visual arts, music/sound.
- Rhizome.org: Connecting art and technology
- Rhizome is an online platform, published by the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, for the global new media art community. Our programs support the creation, presentation, discussion and preservation of contemporary art that uses new technologies in significant ways. We foster innovation and inclusiveness in everything we do.
- Rouge
- Online film/cinema journal, published twice a year since 2003.
- SCAN: Journal of Media Arts Culture
- Scan is a refereed on-line journal devoted to the media arts and culture, hosted by the Media Department at Macquarie University, Sydney. Its approach is inter-disciplinary, as is its subject matter. Scan draws on media studies, cultural studies, media law, information and technology studies, fine arts and philosophy. Scan considers developments in new media, digital art, screen arts, music and audio arts, as well as the culture enveloping these practices and technologies.
Scan is concerned with both the aesthetics and the political economy of media arts, as practised in both new and traditional media forms, and will be published electronically three times a year. Each issue will be thematic, comprising 6-10 articles, with a maximum word-length of 6,000 words.
Our very own Patrick Crogan co-edited the first issue, Ludic moments.
- Scope: online journal of film studies
- Scope is a fully peer-reviewed online journal edited by staff and students in the Institute of Film & Television Studies at the University of Nottingham. It is published three times a year, in February, June and November. Established in 1999, the journal changed to its current format after five years of continuous publication. All issues dated between May 1999 and November 2004 are now available in our Archive. The first issue of the new series appeared in February 2005.
As our title suggests, Scope provides a forum for discussion of all aspects of film history, theory and criticism. Given contemporary film studies' varied concerns, it is our belief that we can best serve our readers interests by promoting as wide a range of approaches and critical methodologies as possible.
- Senses of Cinema
- Senses of Cinema is an online journal devoted to the serious and eclectic discussion of cinema. We believe cinema is an art that can take many forms, from the industrially-produced blockbuster to the hand-crafted experimental work; we also aim to encourage awareness of the histories of such diverse forms. As an Australian-based journal, we have a special commitment to the regular, wide-ranging analysis and critique of Australian cinema, past and present.
Senses of Cinema is primarily concerned with ideas about particular films or bodies of work, but also with the regimes (ideological, economic and so forth) under which films are produced and viewed, and with the more abstract theoretical and philosophical issues raised by film study. As well, we believe that a cinephilic understanding of the moving image provides the necessary basis for a radical critique of other media and of the global 'image culture'.
We are open to a range of critical approaches (auteurist, formalist, psychoanalytic, humanist...) and encourage contributors to experiment with different forms of writing (personal memoir, academic essay, journalistic report, poetic evocation...).
- VJ Theory
- This project intends to develop a community actively discussing and reflecting on philosophy and theory related with Vjing and realtime interaction. It is apparent, during workshops and discussions at Festivals and symposia, that practitioners of both VJing and Interactive Installations will quickly move on from problems with the practicalities of production to more complex ideas of how and why the process has, for example, significance for the viewer. There is a lack of written texts on the philosophies and theories related with VJing and realtime interaction.
This project and the associated book [The VJ Book: Inspirations and Practical Advice for Live Visuals Performance. Edited by Paul Spinrad, Feral House, 2005] aim to bring together work by some of the foremost practitioners and academics in the field. We aim to produce a body of work which, for the first time, will adress these theoretical issues and place the practices of VJing and Interactive Installation, into a useful context.
The website is a growing collection of articles, references and art projects in collaboration with contributors from the book and the growing community.
 This page was created and is maintained by Alan Keig
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