Convergence

Impact Factor: 2.9

Coeditors-in-Chief: Helen Kennedy, Sarah Atkinson

Society Affiliation: Not a society journal

Discipline: Communication, Media Studies

Description:

Convergence aims to encourage and advance interdisciplinary modes of enquiry into the study of the histories, trajectories, impacts, practices, pleasures and creative potential of contemporary convergent media & allied innovative technologies.Convergence is an international peer-reviewed academic journal which was set up in 1995 to address the creative, social, political and pedagogical issues raised by the advent of new media technologies. As an international research journal, it provides a forum both for monitoring and exploring developments in the field and for encouraging, publishing and promoting vital innovative research. Adopting an inter-disciplinary approach and published six times a year, Convergence has developed this area into an entirely new research field.Topics include:Convergent media: histories, cross-cultural/international contexts, emergent productsDigital creative production (music, television, art, photography, cinema, kinetic media)Games, gaming and ludic technologiesDigital media distributionMobile media/contentExtended Realities (XR) – Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Mixed RealityLocal and Global Media Regulation and Infrastructure (e.g. Intellectual Property (IP), censorship, policy, platforms)Diversity, Inclusion and representational politicsNew techno-subjects of the anthropocene – Algorithmic, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial LifeDemocratisation of the digital economy: co-production, open access and block chain and cryptocurrencyDistributed data, networked subjects and vulnerable publicsAccess all issues of Convergence on SAGE Journals Online.Submit your manuscript today at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/convergence.