Media Messenger: A Call for papers

Media Messenger

A Biannual Multilingual Research Journal in Media

MGM College of Journalism & Mass Communication,

Paper Submission Last Date is January 5th, 2018

Dear Researchers / Professors / Scholars/ Students,

            MGM College of Journalism & Mass Communication Aurangabad (Maharashtra) is the oldest college in Marathwada region stepping towards research field with its own research journal. Media Messenger Bilingual Research Journal (MMBRJ - ISSN: 2455-2046) is an Academic journal in the field of Mass Communication and Journalism. This national level research journal is a peer-reviewed journal with a key objective to provide the platform for different researchers, professors, media personalities and students to showcase their research. We have successfully published our first issue and moving towards the second issue.   

Theme of Journal: “Market dynamics of Media & entertainment industry in India”

Digital and entertainment media industry has tremendous growth rate since last decade. Studies show increased power of purchasing and consumer choice content is shifting the traditional market orientation to digital and online trends. With the emergence of IT and rise in social networking sites have provided the instantaneous global approaches to the content. Besides the shifting trends of media and entertainment industry marketing, it is creating worrisome and unfortunately situations. In this scenario FDI, Corporate & monopoly ownership patterns and GST bringing alarming circumstances to the reliable public interest content.

Sub- Themes

1.      Media & Entertainment industry: Impact and Influence

2.      Social Media Rise: challenges to Print & electronic media

3.      The Business of media industry: Corporate interests Vs public interests

4.      Market dynamics of Social media

5.      FDI and GST: Impact on media industry

6.      New media: Impacts and lessons

7.      Shifting trends in media marketing strategies

8.      Concentration & monopoly issues in Indian Media

9.      Govt. policies and its impact on Economics of the media industry

10.  Media coverage quality & Market dependency

11.  Advertising  & Manipulations of information

12.  Corporate media industry Disguised information

13.  Shifting Audience to consumers

14.  Digital marketing Vs traditional marketing

15.  Mobile and android marketing

Important Dates:

Last Date of Abstract Submission: December 25th, 2017

Communication Details:

Website:                      www.mgmjournalism.org

Email: info.mmbrj@gmail.com (Submit Your paper to this Email)

Contact No:               0240-6454162/ 2480490

Frequency:                 Biannual (2 Issue per year)

 Processing Fees:

Single Author:           Rs.1000 + Bank Charges

Two Authors:                        Rs.1400 + Bank Charges

(All payments must be made by Account Pay/RTGS/NEFT/Cash Deposit.)

INSTRUCTION FOR PREPARING THE MANUSCRIPT

            Media messenger Bilingual Research Journal publishes research papers and case studies containing original research work of good standard with contemporary relevance from all over the nation. Following types of contributions are considered for publication:

RESEARCH PAPERS: Full Length – Maximum of 8 pages-A/4 size

LANGUAGES: English, Hindi & Marathi 

(Author can send manuscript as an attachment in MS word (.doc or .docx) and PDF file)

AUTHOR GUIDELINES:

Authors willing to submit their manuscript are requested to carefully go through the guidelines as given below.

The papers submitted without following this style and format will not undergo the review process and will not be published.

A research paper containing original unpublished work can be submitted to the Chief Editor at any time of the year. The Journal will be published half-yearly in the month of January & July. Submitted paper will be checked for Plagiarism and then will be referred to Peer Review Team. In case of any query other than submissions please send email on info.mmbrj@gmail.com.

All portions of the manuscript must be typed in Times New Roman for English, Kruti Dev 010 or APS DV Prakash for Hindi and Marathi with 1.5 spaced and all pages numbered starting from the title page.

The Title should be a brief phrase describing the contents of the paper with capital letters.

(Font size 12) The Abstract should be informative and completely self-explanatory, briefly present the topic, state the scope of the experiments, indicate significant data, and point out major findings and conclusions. ((Font size 10 & 1.5 spacing)

Following the abstract, about 3 to 6 Keywords that will provide indexing should be listed.

 (Font size 10)

The Introduction should provide a clear statement of the problem, the relevant literature on the subject. (Font size 12& 1.5 spacing)

Materials and Methods should be complete enough to allow search/experiments to be reproduced. (Font size 12 & 1.5 spacing)

Results should be presented with clarity and precision. The Discussion should interpret the findings in view of the results obtained in this and in past studies on this topic. State the Conclusions in a few sentences at the end of Discussion. (Font size 12 & 1.5 spacing)

The Acknowledgments of people, grants, funds, etc should be brief. Tables should be kept to a minimum and be designed to be as simple as possible and should be numbered. Figure (Photo plates and graphs) should be numbered, serially in numerals in order of appearance and prepared using JPEG file for reduction.

REFERENCES:

            The references should be in an alphabetical order or listed in numerical sequence on a separate sheet. References should be cited in full in the reference list, including the title and the first and last page numbers.

PEER REVIEW POLICY:

            The following types of contribution to Media Messenger Bilingual Research Journal are peer-reviewed: Research papers, Articles and Case Study.

            Articles published in this journal, for its content and accuracy the author/contributor will be responsible, the editor will not be responsible. Controversial issues & articles will not be accepted & published.

Selection or rejection of articles, research papers or case studies will be decided by peer review committee and editorial board, the decision of selection or rejection will be irrevocable and it will be communicated to the author by email.

PROOFREADING:

            Proofreading should be done by the author or contributor. The editor of the journal will not be responsible for any grammatical or spelling mistakes.

DECLARATION:

            A declaration form is attached to this copy at the end; every author should sign it and send it to info.mmbrj@gmail.com in the form of scanned copy.

COPYRIGHT:

            Media Messenger Bilingual Research Journal will acquire copyright of the overall published material. Author / Contributors should submit an agreement form in the specified format for copyright transfer and declare about the authenticity of the literature and originality of the data, without which the paper will not be published online. This form should be submitted along with proof corrections.

PRIVACY POLICY:

            The author's identity in the form of the name, email id, mobile/land line number, address or account details will not be shared with any other individual.  

ADDRESS OF COLLEGE:

MGM College of Journalism & Mass Communication

N-6, CIDCO, Mahatma Gandhi Mission Hospital Campus, Aurangabad – 431003

Phone: 0240-6454162 / 2480490

DECLARATION FORM

I, ………………………………….. Author of this article/ research paper/case study would like to declare that I have followed all the rules and regulations given by MMBRJ. I assure that

·               I have seen and approved the content of the submitted manuscript.

·            The paper presented by me is the original work, and not previously published in the similar form and not currently under consideration by another Journal.

·            If this paper contains any material (data or information in any other form) that is the intellectual property and copyright of any other person(s), then I have mentioned the reference of it incorrect manner or I have taken permission of the copyright from the owner(s) to publish that material.

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(This form is to be signed by the Author and send the scanned copy by mail while submitting the paper.)