title: Critical Studies in Media Communication
text: # Critical Studies in Media Communication
  
  Critical Studies in Media Communication (CSMC) is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering media and mass communication from a cultural studies and critical perspective. The journal is published by Taylor & Francis on behalf of the National Communication Association. CSMC publishes original scholarship in mediated and mass communication from a cultural studies and/or critical perspective. It particularly welcomes submissions that enrich debates among various critical traditions, methodological and analytical approaches, and theoretical standpoints.
  
  CSMC takes an inclusive view of media and welcomes scholarship on topics such as:
  
  * media audiences
  * representations
  * institutions
  * digital technologies
  * social media
  * gaming
  * professional practices and ethics
  * production studies
  * media history
  * political economy
  
  ## Abstracting and indexing
  
  The journal is abstracted and indexed in
  
  * America: History and Life
  * CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
  * Communication Abstracts
  * Communication and Mass Media Complete
  * Current Abstracts
  * Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences
  * Education Research Index
  * Electronic Collections Online
  * Film Literature Index
  * Historical Abstracts
  * Humanities Index
  * Humanities International Index
  * International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
  * OCLC
  * R I L M Abstracts of Music Literature
  * Scopus
  * Social Sciences Citation Index
  * Social Sciences Full Text
  * Social Services Abstracts
  * Sociological Abstracts
  