Are you interested in getting published or becoming engaged in the Nordic context? We’ve gathered all the ways you can connect, contribute, and publish within the Nordic media and communication researcher community.
If you have a paper in media and/or communication research or a related field with Nordic relevance, you might be interested in the journals run by the Nordic scientific publisher Nordicom, established at the end of the 1970s. Today, Nordicom runs two scientific peer-reviewed journals: Nordicom Review, which has an open submission policy year-round, and Nordic Journal of Media Studies (NJMS), which publishes a thematic issue once a year. Both journals invite submissions that have a Nordic connection, and you are warmly welcome to submit your paper to Nordicom Review or respond to the calls of NJMS. All articles undergo double-blind peer review.
If you want to write an academic book review, you can get into touch with the book review editor who can design the process with you. You can suggest topical titles that you would like to review or take a look at the list available on Nordicom’s website. We publish 2–4 academic book reviews per year. The books that are selected for review need to be published in English during the past two years and show some kind of a Nordic connection or relevance to Nordic media and/or communication research. You can get guidance on academic book reviewing from the booklet Joining the Scholarly Conversation (2022) that was published as part of the series NordMedia Network Open Educational Resources. At the moment, Nordicom does not have a review channel for literature published in national languages, as the multilingual journal Nordicom-Information was retired in 2018.
Nordicom also publishes books. If you have an idea for an anthology or a research monograph, you can send us a book proposal. Publishing is free of charge for the authors and editors, and all books, as are the journals, are Open Access.
We also publish essays written by scholars in a more journalistic style as part of NordMedia Network’s news feed shown on the frontpage. If you want to pitch ideas, you can contact NordMedia Network’s managing editor. At the moment, we don’t pay for articles but prefer texts written by scholars themselves as part of their research communication and outreach work.
You are, of course, welcome to suggest ideas for webinars and webinar series that we can co-organise with you. During the past years, we have, among other things, hosted virtual writing retreats to advance social writing practices. In general, the idea of the virtual events is to support Nordic researchers’ everyday work and support their career paths. We do this also to offer Nordic associations and networks the possibility to establish a website of their own under our umbrella.
Last but not least, if you are missing a channel or form of participation, please do not hesitate to get into contact with us. If you have registered in our open expert database, which is free of charge, you will receive our bimonthly newsletters and be updated about the newest offerings. We collect vacant positions and new doctoral courses on a regular basis.