NCA Journals

NCA Members have online access to all current and past journals through Taylor & Francis.

 

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In partnership with Routledge/Taylor & Francis, NCA publishes 12 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

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Current Editor
Robin Boylorn, University of Alabama
Editor-Elect
Marina Levina, University of Memphis
 
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 Democracy

Formerly Known As: First Amendment Studies (2013-2021) and Free Speech Yearbook (1970 - 2012) 

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Current Editor
Billie Murray, Villanova University
 
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 Race

Publishing Starting in 2024.

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Current Editor
Armond Towns, Carleton University
 
About the Journal
Communication and Race publishes original interdisciplinary scholarship on the centrality of race, racism, and colonialism to the praxis of communication. The journal contributes in distinct ways to the field of communication by building on the theories and epistemologies of Black, Ethnic, Latinx, Indigenous, and Asian studies scholars. Read More.
 

Communication Education

Formerly Known As: The Speech Teacher

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Current Editor
C. Kyle Rudick, University of Northern Iowa
 
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 Monographs

Formerly Known As: Speech Monographs (1934 - 1975)

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Current Editor
Srividya Ramasubramanian, Syracuse 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 Teacher

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Current Editor
Brandi Lawless, University of San Francisco
 
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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Critical Studies in Media Communication

Formerly Known As: Critical Studies in Mass Communication (1984 - 1999)

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Current Editor
Kimberly Moffitt, University of Maryland Baltimore County, and Rachel Griffin, University of Utah
 
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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Journal of Applied Communication Research

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Current Editor
Heather H. Zoller, University of Cincinnati
 
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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Journal of International and Intercultural Communication

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Current Editor
Mahuya Pal, University of South Florida
 
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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Quarterly Journal of Speech

Formerly Known As: Quarterly Journal of Public Speaking and Quarterly Journal of Speech Education

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Current Editor
Stacey K. Sowards, University of Texas at Austin
 
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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Review of Communication

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Current Editor
Stephen Croucher, Massey 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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Text and Performance Quarterly

Formerly Known As: Literature in Performance

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Current Editor
Jake Simmons, Missouri State University
Editor-Elect
Kimberlee Pérez, University of Massachusetts Amherst
 
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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