Emerging Media
Emerging Media (ISSN 2752-3543; EISSN 2752-3551) is an international, peer-reviewed academic journal jointly published by the School of Media and Communication at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and SAGE Publishing. Officially launched in September 2023, the journal is indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).
With an emphasis on diversity, reflexivity, and dialogue, Emerging Media provides a platform that supports diversified perspectives and fosters critical engagement with the global implications of emerging media technologies. The journal publishes four issues per year and welcomes submissions in the form of colloquium, research notes, original research articles, and book reviews. All articles are published open access and are free of article processing charges (APCs).
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Emerging Media is an open access peer-reviewed journal focusing on emerging issues and future developments in media and communication, both theoretically and practically. This journal publishes interdisciplinary research and trend discussions in areas such as media development histories, artificial intelligence (AI), information and communication technologies (ICTs), new media application, computer science, mobile technology, user experience design, data science, aesthetics, ethics, cultural studies, as well as social and psychological perspectives. The journal bridges technological innovation, industrial transformation, and socio-cultural analysis, serving as a platform to understand the ongoing reconfiguration of communication and society. Its scope spans three dimensions: technological, industrial & managerial, and social & cultural. Major questions and issues include the followings aspects:
Technologies and Social Communication
- Emerging media technologies and future development of communication.
- AI manifested in interactive media, newsroom, education, service and entertainment.
- Automation & control, robots’ learning capability, and human-machine interaction.
- VR/ MR/ AR in creative culture, news production, 3D synthetic communication, Ads, films, animation and in gaming industry.
- 5G (and +) transmission and mobile technology, block chains, internet of things and innovative mobile communication.
- Big data, data scrawl, data science.
- AI journalism, info-graphics, computational communication.
- Emerging media and technological advancement worldwide.
Ethics, Digital Humanities and Social Issues
- Epistemology, psychology, linguistics and emotion in AI, VR and other emerging media technologies.
- New media narrative and user experience, multi-modality/ interactivity/ hyper-reality …
- Digitization and digital humanities.
- Social media, social networking, and online gaming.
- Global governance, management and policy implementation of the emerging media and digital economy.
- Impact of emerging media technologies on cultural transformation, local/ global media relationships, media industry & management environment, occupational structure & division of labour, and modes of human communication.
- Ethical issues of emerging media technologies: Humanities, social problems, control and subjectivity, data and privacy, moral/ normative standards, regulation policy and accountability, deep fakes and post-truth, as well as the need for AI/ VR digital literacy.
- Ethics, epistemology and social implications of the emerging media and technologies developed worldwide.
| Yi Mou | Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China |
| Liangwen Kuo | Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China |
| Benqian Li | Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China |
| Elaine Jing Zhao | University of New South Wales, Australia |
| Vivian Hsueh-hua Chen | Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| Baibing Cheng | Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China |
| Mark Andrejevic | Monash University, Australia |
| Peng Hwa Ang | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
| Patrice Marie Buzzanell | University of South Florida, USA |
| Yiyu Cai | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
| Nico Carpentier | Charles University, Czech Republic |
| Jose Cláudio Siqueira Castanheira | Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil |
| Chingching Chang | Academia Sinica, Taiwan, China |
| Changfeng Chen | Tsinghua University, China |
| Sung Kyum Cho | Chungnam National University, South Korea |
| Mathias-Felipe de-Lima-Santos | Macquarie University, Australia |
| Michel Dupagne | University of Miami, USA |
| Terry Flew | University of Sydney, Australia |
| Basyouni Hamada | Qatar University, Qatar |
| Nicole Krämer | University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany |
| Carolyn A. Lin | University of Connecticut, USA |
| Richard Seyler Ling | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
| Yu-Li Liu | Shanghai University, China |
| Lizhuang Ma | Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China |
| Donald Matheson | University of Canterbury, New Zealand |
| Graham Murdock | Loughborough University London, UK |
| Sisanda Nkoala | University of the Western Cape, South Africa |
| Daniel Raichvarg | University of Burgundy, France |
| Rowena Capulong Reyes | Far Eastern University, Philippines |
| Ylva Rodny-Gumede | University of Johannesburg, South Africa |
| Richard Rogers | University of Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Todd Lyle Sandel | University of Macau, China |
| Benchang Shia | Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan, China |
| Don Shin | Texas Tech University, USA |
| Olga Smirnova | Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia |
| Patric Spence | University of Central Florida, USA |
| Francis Steen | University of California, Los Angeles, USA |
| Julian Stringer | University of Nottingham, UK |
| Leslie Tkach-Kawasaki | University of Tsukuba, Japan |
| Ran Wei | Hong Kong Baptist University, China |
| Andrea Stevenson Won | Cornell University, USA |
| Guoliang Zhang | Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China |
| Shuhua Zhou | The University of Missouri, USA |
| Jian Hua Jonathan Zhu | City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China |
| Meng Chen | Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China |
| Yumei Gan | Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China |
| Penn Tsz Ting Ip | Hong Kong Metropolitan University, Hong Kong, China |
| Yungeng Li | Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China |
| Fang Wu | Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China |
| Tai-yee Wu | National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, China |
| Lianshan Zhang | Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China |
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