Focus and Scope

Focus

CHANNEL: Jurnal Komunikasi is a peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to advancing scholarship in media studies and digital media. The journal provides a platform for empirical research, theoretical discussions, and critical perspectives that examine media as a site of communication, cultural production, social interaction, and technological transformation.

The journal focuses on the changing relationships between media, society, culture, technology, and audiences, with particular attention to the development of digital media, digital platforms, and contemporary media practices. It welcomes interdisciplinary approaches that deepen understanding of media structures, content, representations, production, distribution, and consumption, and their implications for individuals and society, particularly in Indonesia and Southeast Asia.

Scope

CHANNEL: Jurnal Komunikasi welcomes original research articles that make substantial theoretical, empirical, or methodological contributions to media studies and digital media. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:

  1. Digital Media and Platforms: Digital communication platforms, social media, platformization, algorithmic mediation, artificial intelligence in media, and emerging digital technologies.
  2. Media Content, Representation, and Discourse: Media framing, representation, discourse, narratives, ideology, visual communication, and the construction of meaning across traditional and digital media.
  3. Media Audiences and Digital Practices: Audience studies, media reception, media use, participation, engagement, digital literacy, online communities, fandom, and user-generated content.
  4. Media Industries and Political Economy: Media ownership, media industries, platform economies, commercialization, media convergence, digital labor, and the transformation of media business models.
  5. Digital Culture and Society: Digital identity, online cultures, networked communities, social interaction, digital citizenship, activism, and the sociocultural implications of media technologies.
  6. Journalism and Digital News: Digital journalism, news production and distribution, news consumption, misinformation, disinformation, media credibility, and the transformation of journalistic practices.
  7. Strategic Communication and Media Practices: Public relations, advertising, branding, marketing communication, campaigns, and organizational communication when examined through media platforms, media content, digital communication practices, or media-related audience processes.
  8. Media, Power, and Public Life: Media policy, regulation, governance, public discourse, political communication, and the relationship between media, power, and democratic participation.
  9. Media Research and Methodologies: Theoretical and methodological developments in media studies, including digital ethnography, netnography, computational approaches, content analysis, discourse analysis, and other methods that advance media research.

The journal particularly welcomes research examining media developments in Indonesia and Southeast Asia, as well as comparative and international perspectives that contribute to broader debates in media studies and digital media.

Submissions addressing broader communication topics are welcome when media studies or digital media constitutes a central analytical focus, rather than merely serving as a communication channel or contextual element. Manuscripts that discuss communication in general without a substantive connection to media studies or digital media fall outside the journal's primary scope.