Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft

The scholarly journal, „Medien & Kom­muni­ka­tions­wissenschaft“ (M&K, Media and Communication Studies) has been published and edited since 1953 (up to the end of 1999 under the title „Rundfunk und Fernsehen“ [Broadcasting and Television]) by the Hans Bredow Institute; it appears quarterly in the Nomos-Verlag, Baden-Baden.

M&K offers a forum for discussion of questions related to media and communication, as well as for analysing media development from various perspectives and across all forms, be they „new” or „old”. M&K is open to various scholarly disciplines and methodological approaches and hence reflects the trends in research and the public discussion surrounding the media.

The spectrum of contents ranges from contributions out of research into use and reception, journalism, media law and regulation, health communication, media economics, out of political communication, research into effects, cultural studies and media culture to media psychology and media ethics.

The journal runs to ca. 600 pages p.a. and contains articles on the development of theory, current reports oriented to results and methodology and contributions to discussions, reviews and reports on literature, a survey of new literature, extracts from the relevant international specialist journals and an annual chronicle of developments in the media.

Assessment of manuscripts proceeds via an anonymous peer-review procedure, where experts from the scholarly community provide opinions on texts submitted and in this way help to assure the selection of contributions oriented towards scholarly quality. The editors ensure the greatest possible transparency with an annual report (at www.hans-bredow-institut.de).

The Nomos-Verlag has been offering the issues of "Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft" online since June 2007 at the website www.m-und-k.info. Here, all volumes older than three years can be downloaded free of charge as PDF files, that is, currently all volumes from 2000 to 2005 inclusive.

Since 2008, M&K has been one of the two magazines included in the membership fee of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Publizistik und Kommunikationswissenschaft [German Association for Publicist and Communication Studies].