Welcome from ACJ's New Managing Editor, Mark Gring
The American Communication Journal has recently undergone some personnel changes and we would like to assure you that we are ready once again to continue the ongoing discussion that is academia and academic publishing. Please know that we welcome the submission of your best academic work in both traditional formats and alternative formats that take advantage of HTML and the Internet as a creative medium.
And this IS a CREATIVE medium. As such, I encourage you to play! Yes, I said play! I realize that scholarship is serious work and it has serious consequences for the promotion and protection of ideas, for individual tenure and promotion, and for how one is assessed as a scholar. However, we would also like to encourage you to think creatively, to reinforce or challenge the theoretical “sacred cows,” to play with ideas and concepts in ways that others have not, and to blend philosophical thought, data analysis, and theoretical discourse in creative ways. This journal will only be as valuable as the scholarship that you send to us that captures the readership that value what is published. Thoughtfulness! Quality! Creativity! Play! All of these matter and we are willing to take a risk on articles that attempt to achieve them all.
So, send us your work! You can contact me directly at
Mark.Gring@ttu.edu. The Associate Editors and I will review your work and if we send it out will try to have a review back to you in eight weeks. We welcome all work, national and international, that connects solid analysis with creativity about human communication issues, in all their dimensions. Please pay attention for future calls for work and any special issue calls that will be forthcoming.
Finally, we need your volunteer work. If you have advanced academic degrees and have an expertise in a particular area, please let me know if you are willing to review articles that we will consider for publication. Send me your name, email address, phone number, and your Curriculum Vitae so that we could consider you for a reviewer.
The American Communication Association will only be as significant as the people who join it and those who volunteer to keep it going. The same is true of the American Communication Journal. A new engagement in scholarship can only come about if you are engaged! Join in the ongoing discussion that is communication scholarship!
Mark Gring, PhD
ACJ Managing Editor
Texas Tech University