About this journal

Drawing together the most current work upon the social, economic, and cultural impact of the emerging properties of the new information and communications technologies, this journal positions itself at the centre of contemporary debates about the information age. Information, Communication & Society (iCS) transcends cultural and geographical boundaries as it explores a diverse range of issues relating to the development and application of information and communications technologies (ICTs), asking such questions as:

• What are the new and evolving forms of social software? What direction will these forms take?
• ICTs facilitating globalization and how might this affect conceptions of local identity, ethnic differences, and regional sub-cultures?
• Are ICTs leading to an age of electronic surveillance and social control? What are the implications for policing criminal activity, citizen privacy and public expression?
• How are ICTs affecting daily life and social structures such as the family, work and organization, commerce and business, education, health care, and leisure activities?
• To what extent do the virtual worlds constructed using ICTs impact on the construction of objects, spaces, and entities in the material world?

iCS analyses such questions from a global, interdisciplinary perspective in contributions of the very highest quality from scholars and practitioners in the social sciences, gender and cultural studies, communication and media studies, as well as in the information and computer sciences.

Peer Review Policy:
Published articles in iCS have all been subjected to rigorous peer review comprising initial editorial screening and double anonymized refereeing by at least two referees.

Editor-in-Chief
Dan Mercea – City, University of London, UK

Associate Editors
Maria Kyriakidou - University of Cardiff, UK
Michael Saker – City, University of London, UK
Stefania Vicari – University of Sheffield, UK

Associate Editor/Reviews Editor
Victor Ávila Torres – University of Lincoln, UK

Associate Editor Data and Ethics
Siân Brooke - London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

North American Editor
Shelley Boulianne -Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, Germany

Asian Editor
Jack Qiu - Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

African Editor
Tanja Bosch - University of Cape Town, South Africa

South American Editor
Rousiley Maia - Federal University of Minas Gerias, Brazil

Editorial Board
David Beer - University of York, UK
Tanja Bosch - University of Cape Town, South Africa
danah boyd - Microsoft Research and Harvard Berkman Center, USA
Axel Bruns - Queensland University of Technology
Taina Bucher - University of Oslo, Norway
Gustavo Cardoso - ISCTE, University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal
Manuel Castells - University of Southern California, USA
Mary Chayko - Rutgers University, USA
Wenhong Chen - University of Texas at Austin, USA
Paul Dourish - University of California, Irvine, USA
Mats Ekstrom - University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Natalie Fenton - Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
Mark Graham - Oxford Internet Institute, UK
Alex Halavais - Arizona State University, USA
Keith Hampton - Michigan State University, USA
Noriko Hara - Indiana University, USA
Eszter Hargittai - University of Zurich, Switzerland
Jeanette Hofmann - Humboldt Institute for Internet Studies, Germany
Philip N. Howard - Oxford Internet Institute, UK
Lee Humphreys - Cornell University, USA
Ang Peng Hwa - Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Laura Iannelli - University of Sassari, Italy
James Katz - Boston University, USA
Anne Kaun - Södertörn University, Sweden
Sonia Livingstone - London School of Economics, UK
Gustavo Mesch - University of Haifa, Israel
Bruce Mutsvairo - University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
Katherine Ognyanova - Rutgers University, USA
Saskia Sassen - Columbia University, USA
Desiree Schmuck - University of Vienna, Austria
Liza Tsaliki - University of Athens, Greece
Robin Williams - University of Edinburgh, UK

Journal Administrator
Sarah Shrive-Morrison
[email protected]