The Communication Review is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 academic journal

Academic journal

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 covering all aspects of media studies

Media studies

Media studies is an academic discipline and field of study that deals with the content, history and effects of various media; in particular, the 'mass media'. Media studies may draw on traditions from both the social sciences and the humanities, but mostly from its core disciplines of mass...

 published by Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

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. Since 1999 its co-editors

Editor in chief

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 have been Andrea L. Press

Andrea L. Press

-Biography:Press received a PhD in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1987. She has held faculty positions at the University of California, Davis, the University of Michigan, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the London School of Economics in a variety of...

 (University of Virginia

University of Virginia

The University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson...

) and Bruce A. Williams

Bruce A. Williams

Bruce A. Williams is an American born political scientist and media studies scholar.-Biography:Williams received a PhD in political science from the University of Minnesota in ????. He has held faculty positions at the Pennsylvania State University, the University of Michigan, the University of...

 (University of Virginia

University of Virginia

The University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson...

). The journal was established in 1995 with Robert Horwitz as founding editor.
The Communication Review is an interdisciplinary journal bridging the fields of communications and media studies

Media studies

Media studies is an academic discipline and field of study that deals with the content, history and effects of various media; in particular, the 'mass media'. Media studies may draw on traditions from both the social sciences and the humanities, but mostly from its core disciplines of mass...

. The journal publishes a wide variety of research including historical and feminist scholarship. Recent contributors include: David Morley, Sonia Livingstone

Sonia Livingstone

Sonia Livingstone is a professor of Social Psychology and head of the Department of Media and Communications at London School of Economics, and Political Science and has dedicated much of her research to children and Internet use. She has written or edited eleven books and 100+ academic articles...

, Susan J. Douglas, Tamar Liebes, Lynn Spigel

Lynn Spigel

Lynn Spigel is the Frances E. Willard Professor of Screen Cultures at the School of Communication at Northwestern University. She has written extensively on numerous topics including post war culture and popular media. She has also edited numerous anthologies including Television after TV and...

, and Elihu Katz

Elihu Katz

Elihu Katz is an American and Israeli sociologist.-Biography:Katz has spent most of a lifetime in research on communication, his main focus being the interplay between media, conversation, opinion, and action in the public sphere...

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