New Editor at Media Psychology
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LJ Shrum is new editor at Media Psychology, a journal focusing on the psychological antecedents, consequences, and underlying processes of mediated communication
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Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 17:32:57 -0500
From: "LJ Shrum" <LJ.Shrum@utsa.edu>
I would like to call your attention to the journal, Media Psychology, of which I recently took over as editor (along with Mary Beth Oliver and Peter Vorderer). The journal (published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates) is an interdisciplinary one devoted to publishing theoretically-oriented empirical research that is at the intersection of psychology and media communication. Thus, any research that focuses on the psychological antecedents, consequences, and underlying processes of mediated communication would be appropriate.
Because this focus clearly spans disciplines, we expect and encourage submissions from many different research areas, including but not limited to communication, psychology, business, political science, sociology, anthropology, and public opinion.
Although Media Psychology is a relatively new journal (it began in 1999), it is currently ranked second in impact factor (Communication) in the most recent edition of Journal Citation Reports. Currently, most of our submissions come from scholars in the field of communication. However, we are very interested in receiving submissions from scholars in other fields, hence our posting of this announcement on this listserv.
You can get more details on the journal at our website (), including information on journal scope, editorial board, submission procedures (now all electronic), and subscriptions. You can also view abstracts of recently accepted papers to get an idea of the types of articles that have accepted by the journal (the list is currently incomplete, but will be updated soon).
Finally, I would like to note that the journal is committed to not only quality reviews and feedback to authors, but timely ones as well. Our stated goal is a 28-day turnaround from submission by authors to decision letter from the editor, and we have been right around that standard over the past six months (29.2 days average for manuscripts sent out for review).
If you have any questions about the journal, please feel free to contact me.
Regards,
L. J. Shrum, Ph.D.
Professor of Marketing
College of Business
University of Texas at San Antonio
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San Antonio, TX 78249-0632
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