Media Studies The magazine is a joint project of the Syndicate of Journalists of the Czech Republic and selected university departments in the Czech and Slovak Republic dealing with academic reflection of mass media role and professional communicators' training. Not focusing on academic readership only, the periodical aims at offering theoretically and methodologically open, interdisciplinary-orientated discussion, accentuating the critical reflection of mass media social functions. The magazine will bring up-to-date theoretical issues and research into mass media and their users, both in local and global contexts. Furthermore, the Media Studies endeavours to pay special attention to professional issues of Czech and world journalism, thus following the Brno-based project of the Revue for Media, which aimed at popularising mass media theory and research between years the 2001 and 2005.

The Media Studies' fundamental conception lies in a reviewed quarterly also publishing, apart from regular theoretical and empirical papers, translations of foreign-language papers, research reports, high-qualitystudent papers, essays, reviews of professional publications, andcurrent news in the field of media studies and journalism. The Media Studies are issued four times per a year (three issues in Czech and one issue in English).

Procedure of offering manuscripts
Authors offer their texts to the editorial team both in electronic and printed versions. As for the printed versions, three copies must be sent, free of any author's identification data. The author's name andcontact information (address, phone and email) must be included in the covering letter. As for the electronic versions, the authors are asked to send their texts via electronic mail or submit them on a floppy diskor CD.

The submitted texts and papers should fall within the following sections: research studies (original research, up to 70,000 characters), theoretical papers (up to 70,000 characters), reviews (reviews of current Czech and foreign academic and professional publications (10,000-15,000 characters), research reports (brief summaries of research data without any in-depth theoretical background 10,000-15,000 characters), news reports (from conferences, research projects information, etc., 7,000-10,000 characters).

The editorial team shall consider it unethical behaviour to turn in the same text to another magazine while still being in course of the Media Studies review procedure.

The author will be notified of the review procedure result within two months upon submitting the text to the editorial board.

Contact
Mediální studia
Mgr. Lenka Waschková Císařová
Department of Media Studies and Journalism, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University
Joštova 10
602 00 Brno
phone: +420 549 495 556
mobile: +420 604 177 240
e-mail: lcisarova@centrum.cz
www: www.medialnistudia.cz