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Call for Papers

The Journal of e-Media Studies invites submissions on an on-going basis, and occasionally puts out a call for a special issue with guest editors.

There is no fee for authors to publish with this journal. We are committed to the rapid turnaround of journal submissions in as practical a means as possible.

JOE-MS is a blind peer-reviewed, on-line journal dedicated to the scholarly study of the history and theory of electronic media, especially Film, Television, and New Media. It is an inter-disciplinary journal, and we welcome submissions across the fields and methodologies that study media and media history.

Our goal is to promote the academic study of electronic media, especially in light of the rise of digital media and the changes in formal and expressive capacities resulting from new configurations of electronic media forms. We solicit the best new scholarly work on current and historical e-media issues and topics, including work on inter-medial relations to traditionally non-electronic media (such as cinema, theater, and print media).

We welcome essays in traditional textual formats. We strongly encourage submissions that utilize and develop the features that an on-line journal can afford, in order to realize new analytical and pedagogical practices and strategies.

Submission Guidelines

Manuscripts

All manuscripts are reviewed by at least two referees. We utilize a blind referee system of review.
Articles are posted as HTML files. There are no charges for publishing. We format the articles, but ask you to adhere to the following guidelines:

• Manuscripts should be submitted in WORD format to: Journal of E-Media Studies
• Manuscripts should follow the format specified by the most current Chicago Manual of Style. Please download and refer to the Style Sheet for the Journal of e-Media Studies.
• Do not use any headers or footers other than page numbers.
• Avoid using macros in the preparation of your manuscript.

Media

Use of the electronic format for publishing allows us to post a variety of media, submitted in conjunction with an essay. We will also consider media as stand-alone documents.

• Audio, video and other media files should be submitted as supplementary files along with the manuscript to Journal of E-Media Studies.
• Please state any recording program used, where applicable, in the description. Once a submission is accepted, we will take responsibility for digitizing material as necessary.
• Video materials should be submitted in full digital video (DV) quality in Quicktime .mov or Windows .avi format. These formats are native to MiniDV and DVCAM tapes, and are usually an export option from non-linear editing programs such as iMovie, Final Cut Pro or Avid.

Rights and Permissions

This is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. Although we reserve the right to continue to publish accepted texts, the copyright ownership of accepted texts will be retained by the author(s) under the Creative Commons License CC BY 4.0. We ask that any subsequent publication of a text (or version of a text) not appear for at least six months after publication in this journal, and that such publication directly link to the initial publication in this journal via the DOI.

It is anticipated that, from time to time, contributors' submissions will include, for purposes of criticism or scholarship, third party copyrighted work such as illustrations and media clips.  In general, we will follow the same policies about quotations as we would apply to quotation from literary texts.

Contributors are responsible for determining whether it is necessary to obtain copyright permission for such material, for obtaining such permissions where necessary, and for determining whether use of such material is permissible under the doctrine of fair use.  Contributors should retain copies of permissions for at least three years and provide copies to the Editor if requested to do so.  Information concerning the requirements of copyright law and the doctrine of fair use is available at:

• Dartmouth Library Copyright Information
• Stanford Libraries Fair Use Guide
• United States Copyright Law Title 17, Fair Use, section 107

The editorial office address is:

Journal of e-Media Studies
Department of Film and Media Studies at Dartmouth
206 Black Family Visual Arts Center
22 Lebanon Street
Hanover, NH 03755-3543
USA