Communications Booknotes Quarterly Journal
Call for Communications Booknotes Quarterly Journal Book Reviewers
AEJMC members are invited to contribute to Communications Booknotes Quarterly Journal (CBQ), a Taylor & Francis publication.
Reviewers from a variety of backgrounds and interests are sought to contribute to upcoming issues. The journal seeks contributions from emerging researchers and advanced graduate students, as well as from seasoned scholars. Essays are also sought that comment about contemporary topics relevant to books, media and related global issues.
CBQ is an annotated review on all aspects of mediated communication designed for an audience of scholars and librarians in the United States and around the world. Subject areas of interest include, but are not limited to: advertising, public relations, strategic communications, journalism, telecommunications, gender, global media, media theories, media economics, media regulation and policy, media ethics, risk communication, ethnicity/race and media, media communication history, critical/cultural studies of media, popular culture, social media, books and publishing, media and society, visual communication, gender and representation, and media management.
Review essays range between 850 to 1,000 words. Some titles available now include:
• Kentucky’s Rebel Press: Pro-Confederate Media and the Secession Crisis
• The News Untold: Community Journalism and the Failure to Confront Poverty in Appalacia
• United Blacks in a Raceless Nation: Blackness, Afro-Cuban Culture, and Mestizaje in the Prose and Poetry of Nicolás Guillén
• Reading Smell in Eighteenth-Century Fiction
• The Phantom Unmasked: America’s First Superhero
• Reading as Collective Action: Texts as Tactics
• It’s Just the Normal Noises: Marcus, Guralnick, No Depression, and the Mystery of Americana Music
• Ishiro Honda: A Life in Film, from Godzilla to Kurosawa
• An Empire of Print: The New York Publishing Trade
• Across the Waves: How the United States and France Shaped the International Age of Radio
• Becoming the Story: War Correspondents Since 9/11
• Media Localism: The Polices of Place
• Risk Communication and Miscommunication: Case Studies in Science, Technology, Engineering, Government, and Community Organizations
• Trump and the Media
• After the Fact: The Erosion of Truth and the Inevitable Rise of Donald Trump
• Books are Weapons: The Polish Opposition Press and the Overthrow of Communism
• Treadbare: Class and Crime in Urban Alaska
• Reading African American Autobiography: Twenty-First-Century Contexts and Criticism
If you are interested in one of the titles above, or others on our list, contact Meta G. Carstarphen at and cc: CBQ Associate Editor Margarita Tapia at and put “CBQ Review” in the subject line.
You will receive detailed guidelines and a review copy of the selected title. Review drafts are generally due 4 to 6 weeks after assignment.
Final reviews are published with a credit line and a brief bio, and your work will be registered with your unique digital (ORCID) number.
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