kids+media new on HOPE
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With the publication of its 21st issue, the journal kids+media is now hosted on the open access publishing platform HOPE.
For more than ten years, the journal kids+media has been an important publication outlet in children’s and youth media research and in the field of popular literatures and media. From a cultural studies perspective, its contributors analyse children’s and youth media in the past and present and the practices associated with them, as well as what is received and produced by children and young people.
A particular focus is on social discourses as they are shaped and negotiated in picture books, novels, comics, films, video games, and social media. As a publication of the research focus “Youth, Media and Culture”, kids+media is based at the Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies (ISEK) at the University of Zurich.
Origin & Background
The journal was founded in 2011 as an open access publication by Ingrid Tomkowiak, Meret Fehlmann and Dana Frei. The thematic issues address current and innovative issues at the intersection of children’s and youth media research and popular culture research, and are aimed at both scholars and an interested audience.
Today, the editorial team consists of Meret Fehlmann and Christine Lötscher. kids+media is a diamond open access journal supported and operated by scientists. It is published semi-annually in thematic issues. The latest issue is dedicated to current research on Pippi Longstocking and her media afterlife.
Better accessable through HOPE
With the move to HOPE, UZH’s open access publishing platform, kids+media is now integrated into a professional journal management system. HOPE is run by the open source software OJS (Open Journal Systems). Its interfaces ensure that kids+media articles can be found worldwide in the relevant directories and that their metadata are openly integrated into the relevant data networks.
Christine Lötscher and Meret Fehlmann, Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies
Samuel Nussbaum, Open Science Services