Submission of mss: New Media and Society now accepts online submissions only. Manuscripts should be submitted via the journal website: http://newmediaandsociety.com
Authors are instructed to fill in a registration form; on completion, manuscripts can be uploaded. In the event of difficulty, authors may contact Steve Jones via email [sjones@uic.edu].
For the purposes of blind refereeing, full name of each author with current affiliation and full address/phone/fax/email details plus short biographical note should be entered separately on the site and not included in the manuscript itself. Please include a statement confirming that all authors have agreed to the submission and that the article is not currently being considered for publication by any other print or electronic journal. Owing to the broad range of subject matter, authors are also encouraged to separately supply the names of one or more potential referees. Please include those in the 'Comments to the Editor' section, and if possible please include potential referees' email addresses.
Format of mss: Each manuscript should contain:
(i) title page with full title and subtitle (if any). For the purposes of blind refereeing, full name of each author with current affiliation and full address/phone/fax/email details plus short biographical note should be supplied on a separate sheet. Owing to the broad range of subject matter, authors are encouraged to supply the names of one or more potential referees.
(ii) abstract of 100-150 words
(iii) up to 10 key words
(iv) word count -- suggested target is about 8000 words, inclusive of all text (title, abstract, references, etc.). Text to be clearly organized, with a logical hierarchy of headings and subheadings, and quotations exceeding 40 words to be displayed and indented, in the text.
(v) end notes, if necessary, should be signalled by superscript numbers in the main text and listed at the end of the text before the references
(vi) references should follow Harvard style whereby they are cited in the text by author and date with a full alphabetical listing (examples below) at the end of the article:
Books and articles in books
Livingstone, S. and P. Lunt (1994) Talk on Television: Audience Participation and Public Debate. London: Routledge.
Murdock, G. (1998) 'Thin Descriptions: Questions of Method in Cultural Analysis', in J. McGuigan (ed.) Cultural Methodologies, pp. 178-92. London: Sage.
Journals
Calabrese, A. and M. Brochert (1996) 'The New Canals of Amsterdam: An Exercise in Local Electronic Democracy', Media, Culture & Society 18(2): 249-68.
Papers
Frissen, V. and P. Yves (1997) 'Never Mind the Gap: Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in ICT-User-Research. The Case of Busy Households', paper presented at 6th EMTEL Conference, Barcelona, 7-9 November.
Website
Garton, L., C. Haythornthwaite and B. Wellman (1997) 'Studying Online Social Networks', Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 3(1), URL (consulted Feb. 1998): http:/jcmc.huji.ac.il/vol3/issue1/
Tables: tables should be typed (double line-spaced) on separate sheets and their position indicated by a marginal note in the text. All tables should have short descriptive captions with footnotes and their source(s) typed below the tables.
Illustrations: all line diagrams and photographs are termed 'Figures' and should be numbered consecutively and given short descriptive captions. Line diagrams should be presented as camera-ready copy or as EPS files (all fonts embedded) or TIFF files (with LZW compression) for scanning. Photographs should preferably be submitted as clear, glossy, unmounted black and white prints with a good range of contrast or as TIFF files (with LZW compression, resolution x 2 line screen, e.g. 266 dpi for 133 line screen output).
Authors are responsible for obtaining permissions from copyright holders for reproducing through any medium of communication any illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere.
Style: use a clear readable style, avoiding jargon. If technical terms or acronyms must be included, define them when first used. Use non-racist, non-sexist language and plurals rather than he/she.
Spelling: UK or US spelling may be used.
Punctuation: use single quotation marks with double quotes inside single quotes. Present dates in the form 1 May 1998. Do not use points in abbreviations, contractions or acronyms (e.g. AD, USA, Dr, PhD)
Revised disk: on acceptance of your manuscript for publication, authors will be asked to supply a further disk (IBM-compatible or Mac) of the final version. PC format graphics files should be supplied as TIFF or EPS files.
Proofs and offprints: authors will receive proofs of their articles and be asked to return corrections to the publisher
within 3 weeks or as advised. Authors will receive electronic offprints of their article and a complimentary journal copy. A maximum of 5 journal copies will be supplied for multi-authored articles. These will be supplied to the main author.
Books and other documents or media for review should be sent to:
David W. Park
Lake Forest College
555 N. Sheridan Road
Lake Forest, IL 60045-2399 USA
[email park@lfc.edu]
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