CFP: Communication Design Quarterly is open to submissions

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Hi all,

I’m happy to announce that our Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) peer-reviewed publication Communication Design Quarterly (CDQ) is open for submissions, and we would love to see submissions from scholars situated in writing studies. I recently took over as Editor-in Chief, and one of my main goals is to make the publication significantly more interdisciplinary. Traditionally, the publication has mostly been situated in technical communication and UX work, but my goal is to make the publication a venue where people from different disciplinary backgrounds and methodological perspectives can share work on innovative approaches to communication and writing design. Consequently, I figured reaching out to various communities was a good place to start. And on that note, we recently updated our reviewer guidelines to include both anti-racist guidelines and guidelines for reviewing interdisciplinary work.

For more background, CDQ is a peer-reviewed publication of the Association of Computing Machinery, more specifically the publication of ACM’s Design of Communication group. All articles and issues are contained in the ACM digital library, and we are devoted to an inclusive, positive, publishing processes and anti-racist reviewing. We also publish articles online first and make them publicly available, so while the journal is not officially open access, the articles do remain freely available for a significant period before they need to be accessed through the ACM digital library.

Additionally, our new editorial team just published a special issue on Infrastructures of Writing and Design that you can find here.

Anyways, if you’re still reading this far, please don’t hesitate to reach out to me at jfr...@clemson.edu if you have any questions. We would love to receive your work, and we are happy to talk to authors individually about their fit with CDQ and provide guidance on the publication process.

 

Jordan Frith, Ph.D.

Pearce Professor of Professional Communication, Clemson University

Pronouns: He/Him

Editor-in-Chief, Communication Design Quarterly

Editor, The X-Series, Parlor Press