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Focus and Scope
The Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society provides a forum to discuss the challenges humanity is facing in the information society today.
It promotes contributions within an emerging science of the information society following the highest standards of peer review. It is a journal that focuses on information society studies and studies of media, digital media, information and communication in society from perspectives such as:
- Information Society Studies / Media and Communication Studies / Internet Research / New Media Studies / Social Informatics / Information and Communication Technologies & Society
- Science and Technology Studies (STS) / Technology Assessment / Design Science
- Social Sciences / Economics / Political Economy / Communication Studies
- Science of Information / Information Studies / Cognitive Science / Semiotics
- Philosophy / Humanities / Arts
with a special interest in critical studies in these thematic areas. Papers should reflect on how the presented findings contribute to the illumination of conditions that foster or hinder the advancement of a global sustainable and participatory information society.
It is the journal´s mission to encourage uncommon sense, fresh perspectives and unconventional ideas, and connect leading thinkers and young scholars in inspiring reflections.
tripleC is a transdisciplinary journal that is open to contributions from all disciplines and approaches that meet at the conjunctions of cognition, communication and cooperation in the information society.
We accept articles from all disciplines and combinations of disciplines carried out with any type of methods that focus on topics relating to the role of information, communication, media and digital media in contemporary society, politics, culture, and economy and the interrelation of humans and technology. We publish both theoretical and empirical research.
Besides peer-reviewed papers, we also publish reflections on current issues, political developments, reviews of books, comments on articles, discussions, interviews, etc that are related to the journal's mission. By this we aim to foster discourse about the information and communication age. Reviews for reflections are welcome. Please note that also all published articles can be commented by readers. For doing so, please first register as a reader and then use the 'add comment' section that is visible at the right-hand side of the abstract of a paper.
Indexing
tripleC is indexed in:
Communication and Mass Media Complete (EBSCOhost)
CSA Sociological Abstracts (sociological content of tripleC)
DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals
SCOPUS
Section Policies
Editorial
 Open Submissions |
 Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Articles
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Reflections (Non Peer-Reviewed)
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Book Reviews
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Special Issue: Capitalist Crisis, Communication, & Culture
Editors- Marcus Breen, Bond University, School of Communication and Media
- David Hakken, School of Informatics, Indiana University Bloomington
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Special Issue: ICTs and Society - A New Transdiscipline?
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Special issue: ICTs and Society-Network-PhD Consortium 2010
Editors- Pille Vengerfeldt
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Theorizing ICTs & Society
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Special Issue: Towards a New Science of Information
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the Foundations of Information Science, Beijing, August 21–24, 2010
Editors- Wolfgang Hofkirchner, Unified Theory of Information Research Group
- Zong-Rong Li, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, China
- Pedro Marijuán, Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud (I+CS)
- Kang Ouyang, Social Information Science Institute, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Special Issue: What is Really Information? An Interdisciplinary Approach.
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Special Issue: The Difference that Makes a Difference 2011
Editors- David Chapman, The Open University
- Magnus Ramage, The Open University
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
"Critical Theory and Political Economy of the Internet @ Nordmedia 2011" (ed. Christian Fuchs, Göran Bolin)
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Special section "Marx is Back: The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies Today"
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Peer Review Process
tripleC offers two types of reviewing: Blind and open refereeing, in the latter case author names will be told to the reviewers and the reviewers will decide whether they will reveal their identity to the authors or not.
We encourage authors and reviewers to choose open reviewing due to democratic reasons and in order to achieve transparency.
Reflections (reviews, comments, discussions, interviews) are non peer-reviewed. Please select the section 'Reflections' when submitting.
However, also conventional double-blind reviewing is available as an option. If authors choose this option please take care that the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
The typical articles publication process is:
- An author submits an article to our journal.
- The author selects the type of reviewing.
- The Managing Editor assigns two reviewers.
- Reviewers submit their reports and recommendations.
- The editors take a decision on the submitted manuscript and the submitted recommendations.
- The Managing Editor informs the author(s) about the decision and forwards the (open or anonymous) reviews.
- Either the paper is accepted, or the author is asked to make minor revisions before acceptance, or the author is asked to make major revisions and resubmit the article for a second review, or the paper is rejected due to fatal errors that cannot be corrected or the topic is unsuitable for tripleC.
- If the paper is accepted, the author is asked to layout the paper according to our guidelines (references, citation, formating, etc.) if the author has not already done so in the first place.
- The paper is published as soon as the final version by the author is received. Publication is instantaneous and there is no holding time as is the case in traditional journal publishing.
Publication Frequency
tripleC is published twice a year. Individual items will be published as soon as they are ready, by adding them to the current issue's Table of Contents.
Open Access Policy
tripleC provides full open access to its authors and readers. Publishing with and reading tripleC is free of charge.
We have to ask authors to register with tripleC to manage the publishing process. We also have to ask authors to play an active role in the publishing process. We are not hiring Layout Editors, Copyeditors, or Proofreaders to lower costs. We want to offer a free service! Thus we ask authors to use our Layout template and take full responsibility for their own proofreading. Of course we check the articles and we will only publish work that is consistent with our quality criteria.
We also ask readers to register with tripleC to get in touch with our audience (e.g. to send announcements).
Indexing
tripleC is indexed/listed in:
CSA Sociological Abstracts (sociological content of tripleC),
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ),
EBSCOHost Communication and Mass Media Complete,
Scopus
tripleC is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal (ISSN: 1726-670X). All journal content, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Austria License.