Special issue call for papers on – Media, Democracy and Culture in Central and Eastern Europe: Global Trends, Local Arenas

Global Media and Communication is an international refereed journal launched as a key forum for articulating critical debates and developments in the continuously changing global media and communications environment.

As a pioneering platform for the exchange of ideas and multiple perspectives, the journal addresses fresh and contentious research agendas and promotes an academic dialogue that is fully transnational and transdisciplinary in its scope.

With a network of ten regional editors around the world, the journal will offer a global source of material on international media and cultural processes. Special features will include interviews, reviews of recent media developments and digests of policy documents and data reports from a variety of countries.

Global Media and Communication is essential and exciting reading for academics, researchers and students engaged in the international aspects of: communication studies, media studies, cultural studies, anthropology, telecommunications, sociology, politics, public policy, migration and diasporic studies, economics, geography/urban studies, transnational security and international relations.

"With today's expanded and upgraded networks, the need to probe and explicate relations between communications systems and political-economic power has never been greater. Global Media and Communication promises a welcome venue for expert analyses of these profound changes in structure, policy, and cultural practice." Dan Schiller University of Illinois at Urbana, USA

"Global Media and Communication provides a platform for a rigorous debate on global media at an absolutely crucial moment in their development. Congratulations to the editors for creating this fascinating new journal." Damian Tambini University of Oxford, UK

Electronic Access:

Global Media and Communication is available electronically on SAGE Journals Online at http://gmc.sagepub.com