Volume 49, Issue 2, Fall 2021
In the book titled, The Invention of Communication, Armand Mattelart refers to the origins of our discipline emerging from a negative connotation; “Excommunication is defined…as the separation from communication and trade with a person with whom one previously enjoyed it,”[1] cites Mattelart from the Encyclopédie. To communicate is an action bringing a body or a society into communion with a person previously outside or omitted. The word evokes a welcoming of diverse doctrines and theories and situations and messages that contribute to thinking and understanding about multiple phenomena were others are included or excluded accordingly; the sharing of food, exchange of information, bartering of services, opportunities for growth and encouragement of fortitude. Or the effects of ostracization and imposition of censorship.
The Florida Communication Journal (FCJ) is a professional double-blind refereed publication of the Florida Communication Association and is currently accepting manuscripts for the Fall 2021 edition. The Board is asked to privilege papers that foster discussion and research that explores the call, The Act of Communion.
Please submit only electronic submissions in Microsoft Word documents, avoid PDF. This will expedite the review process. Preferred manuscript length is 10-25 pages (due to space constraints submissions on the shorter side of that range are preferred). Include a separate cover page with the title, author(s) name, address(es), e-mail address(es), affiliation(s) and an abstract of no more than 100 words.
Prepare all manuscripts double-spaced and in accordance with latest edition of APA (for quantitative) or MLA (for qualitative) guidelines. Begin the manuscript with the title and an abstract, then start the body of the paper on the second page. Be sure to remove all references to the author(s) within the manuscript itself to facilitate blind review. Submissions are made through the Florida Communication Association website listed below.
Deadline for review: September 1, 2021.
