NCA Members have online access to all current and past journals through Taylor & Francis.
In partnership with Routledge/Taylor & Francis, NCA publishes 11 academic journals that provide the latest research in the discipline and showcase diverse perspectives on a range of scholarly topics.
Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies
Current Editor
Robin Boylorn, University of Alabama
Robin Boylorn, University of Alabama
About the Journal
Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies is a peer-reviewed journal founded in 2004 that publishes scholarship for an international readership on communication as a theory, practice, technology, and discipline of power. Read more.
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Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies is a peer-reviewed journal founded in 2004 that publishes scholarship for an international readership on communication as a theory, practice, technology, and discipline of power. Read more.
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Communication and Democracy
Formerly Known As: First Amendment Studies (2013-2021) and Free Speech Yearbook (1970 - 2012)
Current Editor
Kevin Johnson, California State University Long Beach
Kevin Johnson, California State University Long Beach
About the Journal
Communication and Democracy publishes research on the methodologies and aspects of free speech within culture, media and legal contexts. Read more.
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Communication and Democracy publishes research on the methodologies and aspects of free speech within culture, media and legal contexts. Read more.
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Communication Education
Formerly Known As: The Speech Teacher
Current Editor
Joseph Mazer, Clemson University
Joseph Mazer, Clemson University
About the Journal
Communication Education publishes high-quality international scholarship that is committed to the advancement of communication and learning broadly defined as instructional communication and communication education. Read more.
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Communication Education publishes high-quality international scholarship that is committed to the advancement of communication and learning broadly defined as instructional communication and communication education. Read more.
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Communication Monographs
Formerly Known As: Speech Monographs (1934 - 1975)
Current Editor
Paul Schrodt, Texas Christian University
Paul Schrodt, Texas Christian University
About the Journal
Communication Monographs aims to provide a venue for excellent original scholarship that contributes to our understanding of human communication. The scholarship should endeavour to ask questions about the diverse and complex issues that interest Communication scholars, including areas such as media studies, interpersonal and relational communication, organizational and group communication, health and family communication, rhetoric, language and social interaction, intercultural communication and cultural studies, and others. Read more.
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Communication Monographs aims to provide a venue for excellent original scholarship that contributes to our understanding of human communication. The scholarship should endeavour to ask questions about the diverse and complex issues that interest Communication scholars, including areas such as media studies, interpersonal and relational communication, organizational and group communication, health and family communication, rhetoric, language and social interaction, intercultural communication and cultural studies, and others. Read more.
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Communication Teacher
Current Editor
David H. Kahl, Pennsylvania State University
David H. Kahl, Pennsylvania State University
About the Journal
Communication Teacher publishes instructional activities that can be conducted in either the K-12 or college classroom; manuscripts focused on communication education assessment of student learning, classroom practices (K-12 or college), or program development; and original teaching activities with links to assessment articles. Read more.
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Communication Teacher publishes instructional activities that can be conducted in either the K-12 or college classroom; manuscripts focused on communication education assessment of student learning, classroom practices (K-12 or college), or program development; and original teaching activities with links to assessment articles. Read more.
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Critical Studies in Media Communication
Formerly Known As: Critical Studies in Mass Communication (1984 - 1999)
Current Editor
Mia Consalvo, Concordia University
Mia Consalvo, Concordia University
About the Journal
Critical Studies in Media Communication provides a home for scholarship in media and mass communication from a cultural studies and critical perspective. It particularly welcomes cross-disciplinary works that enrich debates among various disciplines, critical traditions, methodological and analytical approaches, and theoretical standpoints. Read more.
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Critical Studies in Media Communication provides a home for scholarship in media and mass communication from a cultural studies and critical perspective. It particularly welcomes cross-disciplinary works that enrich debates among various disciplines, critical traditions, methodological and analytical approaches, and theoretical standpoints. Read more.
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Journal of Applied Communication Research
Current Editor
Mohan Dutta, Massey University
Mohan Dutta, Massey University
About the Journal
The Journal of Applied Communication Research publishes original peer-reviewed scholarship that addresses or challenges the relation between theory and practice in understanding communication in applied contexts. Read more.
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The Journal of Applied Communication Research publishes original peer-reviewed scholarship that addresses or challenges the relation between theory and practice in understanding communication in applied contexts. Read more.
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Journal of International and Intercultural Communication
Current Editor
Bernadette Calafell, Gonzaga University
Bernadette Calafell, Gonzaga University
About the Journal
The Journal of International and Intercultural Communication (JIIC) serves as a primary outlet for original research on international and intercultural communication. The journal showcases diverse perspectives and methods, including qualitative, quantitative, critical and textual approaches. It addresses an international readership and features research conducted in a wide range of locations by diverse groups of scholars. Read more.
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The Journal of International and Intercultural Communication (JIIC) serves as a primary outlet for original research on international and intercultural communication. The journal showcases diverse perspectives and methods, including qualitative, quantitative, critical and textual approaches. It addresses an international readership and features research conducted in a wide range of locations by diverse groups of scholars. Read more.
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Quarterly Journal of Speech
Formerly Known As: Quarterly Journal of Public Speaking and Quarterly Journal of Speech Education
Current Editor
Karrin Anderson, Colorado State University
Karrin Anderson, Colorado State University
About the Journal
The Quarterly Journal of Speech (QJS) publishes peer-reviewed articles and book reviews of interest to those who take a rhetorical perspective on the texts, discourses, and cultural practices by which public beliefs and identities are constituted, empowered, and enacted. Read more.
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The Quarterly Journal of Speech (QJS) publishes peer-reviewed articles and book reviews of interest to those who take a rhetorical perspective on the texts, discourses, and cultural practices by which public beliefs and identities are constituted, empowered, and enacted. Read more.
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Review of Communication
Current Editor
Kathleen McConnell, San Jose State University
Kathleen McConnell, San Jose State University
About the Journal
The Review of Communication publishes scholarship that advances the discipline of communication through the study of major themes that cross the disciplinary sub-fields. Read more.
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The Review of Communication publishes scholarship that advances the discipline of communication through the study of major themes that cross the disciplinary sub-fields. Read more.
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Text and Performance Quarterly
Formerly Known As: Literature in Performance
Current Editor
Jake Simmons, Missouri State University
Jake Simmons, Missouri State University
About the Journal
Text and Performance Quarterly publishes scholarship that explores and advances the study of performance as a social, communicative practice; as a technology of representation and expression; and as a hermeneutic. Articles address performance and the performative from a wide range of perspectives and methodologies, and they investigate all sites of performance from the classical stage to popular culture to the practices of everyday life. Read more.
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Text and Performance Quarterly publishes scholarship that explores and advances the study of performance as a social, communicative practice; as a technology of representation and expression; and as a hermeneutic. Articles address performance and the performative from a wide range of perspectives and methodologies, and they investigate all sites of performance from the classical stage to popular culture to the practices of everyday life. Read more.
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