A new professional journal COMMUNICATION AND CRITICAL/CULTURAL STUDIES will be first published in the USA in 2004. Our American colleague and journal editor Robert Ivie (Indiana U, USA) introduces the new journal:

Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies is a new quarterly journal for 2004 that is sponsored by the National Communication Association and published by Routledge. It will publish scholarship for an international readership on communication as a theory, practice, technology, and discipline of power.

The journal's editorial board is interdisciplinary and international, featuring leading scholars from ten countries and a dozen cognate disciplines. Professor Vadim Kassevitch, University of St. Petersburg, brings to the editorial board his expertise in linguistics and the philosophy of language. Scholars from various sub-disciplines of communication and from fields such as sociology, gender studies, political philosophy, cultural studies, American studies, history, education, and literature serve on the board.

The journal features critical inquiry that cuts across academic boundaries to focus on social, political, and cultural practices from the standpoint of communication. It promotes critical reflection on the requirements of a more democratic culture by giving attention to subjects such as, but not limited to, class, race, ethnicity, gender, ability, sexuality, polity, public sphere, nation, environment, and globalization.

Essays are selected to be academically sound, rhetorically self-reflexive, intellectually innovative, and conceptually relevant to democratic concerns in their orientation toward communication and culture. Collectively, they analyze historical contexts, material and economic conditions, institutional settings, political initiatives, practices of resistance, and/or the theoretical significance of discursive formations in everyday life.

CCCS will publish one or more reviews of major new books in each issue. The journal will be published quarterly in March, June, September, and December starting in March 2004.