Special Issue

We are exited to share the Call for Papers for the Global Media Journal – German Edition Special Issue "Comparison as Method and Heuristic in Communication Research"

This Special Issue invites scholars to reconsider comparison as both method and heuristic in communication research. It seeks to critically assess the possibilities, challenges, and implications of comparison for contemporary communication research, with particular attention to the methodological and epistemological questions that comparative inquiry raises. It also examines how changing research practices and approaches are reshaping comparative research and how comparative findings can contribute to methodological and theoretical development as well as to insights of societal relevance.

We welcome conceptual, theoretical, methodological, and empirical contributions from the full breadth of comparative media and communication research. Submissions should engage explicitly with the rationale, conceptualization, and consequences of comparison, approaching comparison as a method, methodological principle, or heuristic rather than merely as a feature of the research design.

Key Areas

Innovations and Emerging Approaches in Comparative Communication Research
Conditions and Limits of Comparison: Methodological, Epistemological, and Critical Perspectives
From Comparison to Knowledge: Explanation, Theory, and Transfer

Manuscript Submission

Full manuscripts must comply with the submission guidelines and the style guide of Global Media Journal – German Edition and be submitted via the journal’s website by 31 January 2027.

When submitting, authors should select the submission category “Special Issue: Comparison as Method and Heuristic in Communication Research.”

The Special Issue is scheduled for publication in December 2027.

Indicative Timeline

Full manuscript submission deadline: 31.1.2027
First-round review decisions: 31.5.2027
Revised manuscripts due: 30.6.2027
Final decisions: 30.9.2027
Publication: December 2027

Further information: https://www.globalmediajournal.de and https://www.oeaw.ac.at/cmc

If you have any questions about content-related aspects, please contact the guest editors (cmc(at)oeaw.ac.at); for editorial queries, please contact the GMJ-DE editor Katharina Nötzold (gmj(at)polsoz.fu-berlin.de).

You can download the complete Call for Papers here

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