Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

The Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society provides a forum to discuss the challenges humanity is facing 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 from perspectives such as:

  • Information Society 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 society.

We accept articles from all disciplines and combinations of disciplines carried out with any type of methods that focus on topics relating to contemporary society, to 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.

 

Section Policies

Editorial

Unchecked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Articles

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Reflections (Non Peer-Reviewed)

Unchecked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Book Reviews

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Special Issue: Capitalist Crisis, Communication, & Culture

Editors
  • Marcus Breen, Northeastern University, Department of Communication Studies
  • David Hakken, School of Informatics, Indiana University Bloomington
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Special issue: ICTs and Society - A New Transdiscipline?

Editors
  • Joseph Brenner, International Center for Transdisciplinary Research, Paris (CIRET)
  • Celina Raffl, Unified Theory of Information Research Group
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Special issue: ICTs and Society-Network-PhD Consortium 2010

Editors
  • Pille Vengerfeldt
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Theorizing ICTs & Society

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Special Issue: FIS Conference Beijing

Editors
  • Anthony Hoffmann, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked 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).

 


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