About the Journal

The Southeast Asian Media Studies Journal (SEAMSJ) is the international, blind peer-reviewed, and open-access scholarly journal of the Southeast Asian Media Studies Association (SEAMSA). It publishes open-call and special themed issues. Each issue includes a section for scholarly articles and another section for the reviews of books, film festivals, exhibitions and media events. 

SEAMSJ is indexed in EBSCO and the Asian Research Index.

There are NO submission or publication charges for this journal.

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AIMS AND SCOPE

The Southeast Asian Media Studies Journal (SEAMSJ) publishes original research, critical scholarship, and interdisciplinary work on media in and about Southeast Asia. The journal welcomes studies that focus on the 11 ASEAN member states, namely Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste, and Vietnam, as well as Southeast Asian communities, industries, cultures, and media systems. It also welcomes research that situates Southeast Asia in regional, transnational, diasporic, comparative, and global contexts.

Submissions may address any topic in media studies, including, but not limited to:

  • Audience, reception, fan, and celebrity studies

  • Broadcasting, journalism, news, and mass communication

  • Film, television, video, and screen studies

  • Digital media, online media, social media, platforms, emerging technologies, artificial intelligence, and media convergence

  • Media, culture, identity, and society

  • Media, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, generation, and disability

  • Media, migration, diaspora, mobility, and transnationalism

  • Media, religion, spirituality, and belief

  • Media, environment, climate change, sustainability, and environmental communication

  • Media industries, creative industries, cultural production, labour, business, management, advertising, public relations, and marketing

  • Media politics, political communication, governance, political economy, law, regulation, policy, and ethics

  • Media education, pedagogy, news literacy, media literacy, information literacy, and digital literacy

  • Media history, archives, memory, heritage, and historiography

  • Media theory, criticism, aesthetics, representation, discourse, and practice

    Media language, linguistics, semiotics, rhetoric, and communication

  • Media ethnography, communities, everyday life, spaces, places, and geographies

  • Media production, programming, distribution, circulation, exhibition, and consumption

  • Popular culture, cultural studies, and entertainment media

  • Indigenous, ethnic minority, community, alternative, independent, and activist media

  • Sport, games, gaming, esports, and media

  • Music, radio, podcasting, sound, and audio cultures

  • Visual communication, photography, design, animation, and visual cultures

  • Mobile media, platform cultures, datafication, algorithms, surveillance, and digital infrastructures

  • Media activism, social movements, civic communication, and public participation

  • Health, science, risk, crisis, and disaster communication

  • Media development, development communication, and communication for social change

  • Comparative, regional, transnational, decolonial, and postcolonial approaches to media and communication