medien & zeit – Kommunikation in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart is an interdisciplinary journal that welcomes contributions addressing theories, methods and issues of communication research in all its diversity and seeks to reflect these from a historical perspective. Since 1986, medien & zeit is being published by the Working Committee for Historical Communication Research (AHK) in Vienna, Austria.
medien & zeit provides a forum for the examination of the dynamics of political, economic, legal and sociocultural conditions, organizational forms, modes, patterns, contents, effects and consequences of mediated communication in the past as well as in the present. It emphasizes a focus on development, constants and changes in communication. Furthermore, it aims to reflect the variety of intellectual traditions in the field of communication and media history and to promote the dialogue between them as well as with current streams of communication sciences.
The “Open Issue”, the first edition of which was published mid-2017 (http://medienundzeit.at/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/mz-2-2017-digital.pdf), was established within the general scope of medien & zeit as a new format that complements the regular issues dedicated to a specific topic with invited contributions and thematically focused calls for papers. Contrary to this approach, the “Open Issue” is open to all topics of current communication and media history research and commits itself to international standards of quality assurance for scientific publications. Thus, it gives researchers in the field of communication and media history the possibility to publish articles within the scope of medien & zeit that might not fit the topics of already planned regular issues.
In 2018, the “Open Issue” invites you to contribute articles in german or english language from the whole range of historical communication and media sciences. Articles can present scientific results as well as discuss methodological and theoretical questions and concepts of historical communication science. The submitted article has to be an initial publication, not published or designated to be published elsewhere. After being checked for formal criteria and an initial examination of the content, each submission to the “Open Issue” will be reviewed by at least two reviewers, who are recommended by the advisory board of medien & zeit, in the course of a blind peer review process.
Submissions are possible until 30 April 2018 in the form of full papers (anonymized, 45,000 characters including spaces, notes and literature; Open Office or MS Word documents), with a removable cover page (containing name and contact information of the author), formatted according to the style sheet of medien & zeit (http://medienundzeit.at/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/MZ-Stylesheet.pdf), via e-mail to call@medienundzeit.at. Review results and information regarding the publication are to be expected until May 2018. The “Open Issue” will be published in autumn 2018.