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Welcome to PLATFORM: Journal of Media and Communication, a biannual open-access online graduate publication. Founded and published by the Media and Communications Program, School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne (Australia), PLATFORM was launched in November 2008.
PLATFORM is refereed by an international board of established and emerging scholars working across diverse paradigms in Media and Communication, and edited by graduate students at the University of Melbourne. It is planned to develop it as an international journal.
PLATFORM aims to encourage sharing and support within and across Media and Communication graduate communities worldwide. As such, we warmly invite you to participate in this journal - as a reader, author, reviewer, and/or editor. For more information, please contact the Editors at platformjmc@gmail.com. We are also available on Facebook.
Recent News
7 Nov 2009: Call for Papers for Volume 2 Issue 2 now open
PLATFORM is looking for contributors to submit papers for its upcoming issue themed Deliberation, Collaboration, Mobilisation: Digital Media and Networked Participation. Deadline for abstract submission is 29 Jan 2010, deadline for full paper submission is 31 March 2010. Reviewers are also warmly welcomed to write in. For further details on submission guidelines, please click here.
22 Oct 2009: Call for Essays now open
PLATFORM would like to invite graduate students and early career researchers to contribute short essays pertaining to the constitutive role communication plays in the cultural, technological and political aspects of our lives. Deadline for submssion is 15 November 2009. For further details, click here.
22 July 2009: PLATFORM launches inaugural issue
PLATFORM invites you to view papers of its inaugural issue themed Mediated Mobilities: Negotiating Identities. Table of contents as follow:
Editorial
Esther Chin, Amira Firdaus, Gin Chee Tong and Blaise Murphet. University of Melbourne, Australia
Articles:
- Reconceptualising ‘Time’ and ‘Space’ in the Era of Electronic Media and Communications. By Panayiota Tsatsou. London School of Economics and Political Science and Swansea University, United Kingdom
- Cultural Deterritorialisation: Communications Technology, Provenance and Place. By Aleksandra Bida. Ryerson University and York University, Canada
- Presumed Innocent: The Paradox of 'Coming of Age' and the Problem of Youth Sexuality in Lolita and Thirteen. By Fleur Gabriel. Monash University, Australia
- When the ‘Other’ Becomes ‘Us’: Mediated Representations,'Terrorism' and the 'War on Terror'. By Rut M. Sanz Sabido. De Montfort University, United Kingdom>
- Constructing European Identity through Mediated Difference: A Content Analysis of Turkey’s EU Accession Process in the British Press. By Agnes I. Schneeberger. University Of Leeds, United Kingdom
Power, Mobility and Diaspora in the Global City: An Interview with Saskia Sassen.
Dale Leorke. University of Melbourne, Australia
