Communication and the Public
Last updated ISSN 2057-0473
Communication and the Public is published by SAGE Publishing in social sciences. It is open access. There is no article processing charge.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Communication and the Public concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Social Media and Politics
- Media Studies and Communication
- China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics
- Gender, Feminism, and Media
- Public Relations and Crisis Communication
- Asian Culture and Media Studies
- Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
- Rhetoric and Communication Studies
Key facts
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 2057-0473, 2057-0481 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | None |
| Indexed in | Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 316 |
| Publishing since | 2016 |
| Journal website | us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/journal/communication-and-p |
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