About the Journal

Media Dialogues is an international, peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to the study of media, communication, and dialogue in contemporary societies. The journal provides an interdisciplinary forum for scholarly inquiry into the ways media and communication processes shape public discourse, social relations, political dynamics, economic structures, and cultural change.

The journal maintains a broad international and comparative orientation, with particular attention to media and communication phenomena in Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern Europe. These regions offer analytically significant contexts shaped by political and institutional transformation, social change, polarization, conflict, and rapidly evolving media systems. At the same time, Media Dialogues welcomes contributions that situate these regional experiences within wider global and theoretical perspectives.

Media Dialogues publishes original research articles, theoretical contributions, and analytical and critical studies. The journal conceptualizes media and communication not merely as channels of information transmission, but as processes of meaning-making, power negotiation, social interaction, and institutional coordination. Special attention is given to approaches that examine communication and information from an economic perspective, including the economics of information, political economy of media and digital platforms, value creation and distribution in communication processes, and the role of incentives, costs, and power relations in shaping information flows.

The thematic scope of the journal includes, but is not limited to, media and public discourse; journalism studies and media ethics; political communication and public relations; digital media, platforms, and datafication; media representations, narratives, and identities; communication, conflict, and dialogue; and media systems in transitional and post-transitional societies. Contributions from different disciplinary backgrounds and methodological traditions are encouraged, provided they meet the journal’s standards of scholarly rigor.

The journal is committed to academic integrity, editorial independence, and openness to diverse scholarly perspectives. All submissions undergo a peer-review process designed to ensure quality, transparency, and fairness. By fostering dialogue rather than polarization, Media Dialogues aims to contribute to a deeper and more critical understanding of media as a central force in contemporary public life and as a key arena in which social, political, and economic relations are negotiated.

Earlier issues were published under different terms. The journal plans to assign DOIs to articles.