About the Journal

ISSN 2786-4502 (Online)

ISSN  2312-5160 (Print)

"Current Issues of Mass Communication" is a peer-reviewed professional scientific publication of the Educational and Scientific Institute of Journalism of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. The journal publishes original, completed works based on the results of research on mass communication, reflecting current trends in the development of the industry in Ukraine and the world, patterns, processes, structures and forms of mass communication relations. Priority is given to studies of mass communication trends in the development of technologies, media, journalism, publishing, advertising, public relations, social informatics, document studies, library studies, etc. that are relevant for the Ukrainian and world audience.

Journal profile keywords: mass communication, audience, media influences on the audience, media effects in the audience, technologies of influence on the audience, media as an institution of influence on the audience, masses, public, crowd. Keywords of the journal's profile can include words and phrases that are close in meaning to those listed here.

Our journal has the following sections:

Discussions (printing of scientific and journalistic speeches, positions of the editorial board, editor-in-chief, members of the editorial board, results of research that have not been peer-reviewed, but are of interest. These publications are not scientific articles).

Review articles (printing reviews of scientific literature on a particular issue. Reviews are a type of scientific article. They are printed only in English (the submission can also be in Ukrainian).

Research articles (printing the results of scientific research that meet the profile of the journal, have been peer-reviewed and approved for publication as scientific articles). They are printed only in English (the submission can also be in Ukrainian).

Interdisciplinary research (printing scientific articles that have been peer-reviewed, present original research results, but go beyond the narrow profile of the journal, and their authors are scientists from other fields. However, such scientific articles must be at least partially related to issues of mass communication). They are printed only in English (the submission can also be in Ukrainian).

Page of the Hidden Media Effects Lab (empirical articles are printed, which are reports on the results, in particular, of experimental studies conducted by employees of the Laundry of Hidden Media Effects Laboratory of the Department of Social Communications of the Educational and Scientific Institute of Journalism. The decision to print these articles is made by the team of laboratory researchers. Articles can be printed in this section authors from outside the laboratory, but only by decision of the laboratory staff, if the subject of such articles meets the interests of the laboratory). Articles are published only in English (the submission can also be in Ukrainian).

Reviews (printing reviews of various scientific publications in the field of mass communication, including reviews of scientific articles, responses of opponents to dissertations).

 
 

We fully adhere to the APA standard, as outlined in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA), 7th Edition, when it comes to the structure of articles, their types, and design. See the main excerpts from this book here.

We adhere to the following classification of articles: empirical articles with quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods of research and replication (replication articles). These journal articles report on primary or original research, that is, research that has not been formally published before. Theoretical articles and methodological articles do not present research, but describe advances in theories or methods. Journal articles that review or synthesize the results of primary research include literature reviews and quantitative and qualitative meta-analyses. Different types of articles can be published in the thematic sections of the journal, so we label the type of article in the Category section of the website.

Founded in 2000. Until 2021, the journal (issues 1 - 30) was available at http://comstudies.org/

Founder

Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv