About the Journal

Focus and Scope

The Media and Everyday Life Journal is a quarterly publication of the Media and Everyday Life Postgraduate Program and aims to disseminate empirical and/or theoretical research on themes related to the field of Communication, with an emphasis on the relationship between media and everyday life. The Journal publishes articles, reviews, and interviews that address the ways in which meaning is produced, circulated, and received in media discourses and processes within the context of power relations observable in various social practices of daily life.

Its editorial line privileges a critical perspective in analyzing the mediatized interactions of individuals and collectives, focusing on events and dynamics of media production processes in their distinct relationships with society and culture. The Journal accepts original works (see guidelines) from researchers with a Ph.D. (and/or in partnerships with Ph.D. candidates, masters, and master's candidates) in Communication and related fields, primarily targeting these academic communities, with an emphasis on Communication. Submissions are accepted in Portuguese, English, and Spanish.

Section Policies

1. Thematic Section Articles
The Thematic Section is usually managed by two or three guest editors for a specific call, defined by the Editorial Team and the Editorial and Scientific Board of the Media and Everyday Life Journal. It has a set submission and publication deadline. The submission and evaluation process follows the Author Guidelines. The dossier editors have the final decision on whether to publish approved articles, depending on editorial coherence and the article limit per issue.

2. Open Section Articles
The Open Section accepts articles on a continuous flow basis, with submissions and publications following the editorial flow of the Media and Everyday Life Journal and the Author Guidelines. The goal is to follow the submission timeline as closely as possible, with exceptions depending on the pace of reviews. The Editorial Team has the final decision on publishing approved articles based on the Journal's editorial flow and the article limit per issue.

3. Translations
This section, initiated in September 2021, aims to present texts translated into Portuguese from authors who have contributed to the Journal's scope. The responsibility for evaluation lies with the Media and Everyday Life Editorial Team, with the possibility of also being evaluated by "double-blind" reviewers when there is an editorial decision in this regard. There is no text limit, but the goal is to publish a maximum of two translations per issue. Submission details for this section are specified in the Author Guidelines.

4. Interviews
Interviews submitted to the Media and Everyday Life Journal follow the same submission procedures as articles and the Author Guidelines. However, the decision to publish an interview is made by the Editorial Team. Interviews should not exceed 35,000 characters. Only Ph.D. holders can publish in this section (co-authors can include Ph.D. candidates, masters, and master's candidates).

5. Reviews
Reviews can be authored by master's candidates, masters, Ph.D. candidates, and Ph.D. holders. They should ideally cover recently released works in the publishing market. Reviews must follow the formatting guidelines specified in the Author Guidelines and should be between 10,000 and 20,000 characters. The Editorial Team is responsible for publication evaluation.

6. Editorial and Staff
Texts in these sections are the responsibility of the Media and Everyday Life Editorial Team.

7. Regarding the DOIs
DOIs are attributed to the COMPLETE EDITION version and to the articles published in the Thematic Section and Free Section

Edition Format

The Mídia e Cotidiano Journal is published exclusively in an online version, being made available in a COMPLETE EDITION (continuous text) and also accessible by individual texts, including the Editorial Board, according to the OJS System layout. All files - whether individual or the complete edition - can be downloaded free of charge. Information regarding the edition is highlighted in each article and in the complete version.

Identification of Published Texts

All texts published by the Mídia e Cotidiano Journal are identified by highlighting, in the header: the Journal title; the ISSN: 2178-602X; the Section to which it belongs / Volume / Issue / complete date (monthly period and year) / submission date and approval date of the article.

Submission Process

See the Submissions tab for the conditions for submitting to the Media and Everyday Life Journal, as well as the Author Guidelines.

Arbitration System

Acceptance and Evaluation Stages:

  1. All texts submitted to the journal must follow the Author Guidelines.
  2. Submitted texts (national and international articles, reviews, interviews, and research reports) undergo a preliminary analysis by the Editorial Team (DESK REVIEW) to verify if all submission conditions (journal publication norms) are met, including suitability to the Journal's Focus and Scope.
  3. If approved in the DESK REVIEW, texts are subject to a scientific arbitration process conducted by at least two external AdHoc reviewers and/or the Editorial and Scientific Board of the Journal, following the blind peer review process (double-blind, meaning authors are not identified to reviewers and vice versa).
  4. Evaluation process and criteria: the evaluation process includes an EVALUATION FORM with specific criteria on the topic's relevance to the field, suitability to the journal's scope, clarity of objectives and whether they are effectively achieved; currency and adequacy of references used; consistent theoretical review; explanation of methodology and procedures adopted; etc. The editorial decisions justified by the reports are communicated to the authors.

Publication Frequency

The Media and Everyday Life Journal is a quarterly publication of the Media and Everyday Life Postgraduate Program at Fluminense Federal University – UFF. The publication periods are: January-April; May-August; September-December.

Open Access Policy

  • Free Access: This journal offers immediate free access to its content, following the principle that making scientific knowledge freely available to the public provides greater global democratization of knowledge.
  • Copyright: The copyright of articles published in the Media and Everyday Life Journal is retained by the authors, who grant the Journal the exclusivity of first publication.
  • Reproduction Rights: Works published in the Media and Everyday Life Journal are under the Creative Commons Attribution License, meaning there is the right to copy, distribute, and create derivative works from this production as long as proper credit is given to the author and the Journal.
  • Editing Formats: Access to each edition's publications can be done by choosing individual texts or downloading the complete edition.

Digital Preservation Policy

In line with its editorial policy, the Media and Everyday Life Journal offers free and immediate access to its content. This principle of free and open research to the public aligns with the purpose of supporting greater global knowledge exchange. To this end, this journal uses the LOCKSS and CLOCKSS systems, allowing the creation of a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and ensuring that libraries create permanent archives of the journal for preservation and restoration purposes.

Publication Fee

The Media and Everyday Life Journal does not charge authors fees for evaluating, editing, and publishing their texts.

Code of Ethics and Conduct

The Media and Everyday Life Journal aligns with the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Our code of conduct and good practices aims to ensure the integrity of scientific production. In this sense, we highlight that good practices are guided by:

  1. Creative Commons: Attribution of Creative Commons and CC-BY, always recognizing the authors and the journal's credits for the research.
  2. Research Funding: When the research that originated the submitted article is funded by an organization, this must be informed by the authors at the time of submission, in the ScholarOne system.
  3. Conflict of Interest: If there is a conflict of interest between authors and any other person or entity, this must be informed by the authors at the time of submission.
  4. Inappropriate Practices: In case of identifying potential inappropriate practices, such as redundancy, plagiarism, issues with the use of databases, conflicts among authors, undisclosed conflicts of interest, etc., if unresolved, they should be discussed among the editors. If the issue remains unresolved, an editorial commission will be created to assess and decide on the problem, and its existence and proposed solution will be communicated to the Journal's Editorial and Scientific Board. In case of doubt, authors should send their questions to the editorial team via email at midiaecotidiano.ega@id.uff.br. Retractions will be requested when significant inaccuracies are identified in already published articles.
  5. Guidelines for authors, reviewers, and editors: Peer review, in all its forms, plays a fundamental role in ensuring the quality and integrity of academic production. This process largely depends on trust and demands that all involved act responsibly and ethically. COPE's Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers establish the basic principles and standards that all reviewers must adhere to in the peer review process (https://publicationethics.org/). Among COPE's ethical guidelines, it stands out that reviewers, in deciding whether to accept an evaluation, must be Ph.D. holders and agree only to review manuscripts for which they possess the knowledge.