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Revisita Famecos, an academic journal (A2) to be read.

Objectives - The challenge of an academic journal is to be read. From its birth, the Revista FAMECOS: culture media and technology intends to achieve this goal through three strategies: publish great names of international relevance, host the main Brazilian researchers in the field and explore the most relevant topics of communication. To make this work, it only accepts unpublished articles on communication, in Portuguese, English, French, German or Spanish, researchers and intellectuals linked to higher education institutions and research institutes, with a PhD, considering the various theoretical and methodological approaches to the field. The Revista FAMECOS also accepts reviews of researchers or graduate students who are at least pursuing a doctorate, from which critical-scientific containing contribution to knowledge in addition to that presented by the author about the reviewed book.

Mission - Thinking communication, however, is not limited to talking about it. It is a field within the Social Sciences which integrate in the broadest and noblest sense, the humanities. There is therefore, as close to the inter winds, multi and transdisciplinary, but without ever losing focus. Great thinkers extend the frontiers of thinking and unite disciplines. This exercise requires flexibility, sensitivity, courage and movement. It is necessary, while maintaining the rigor, the line of ethical conduct, consistency, and seek novelty, trying to capture the sound of change, the sound of creation, the displacement of the power lines of thinking. Science is method, investigation, observation and theory, but also originality, intuition, creativity, innovation, construction of new horizons and new methodologies.

Scope - An academic journal to be an intense exchanges space, open to the new and firm in its rigorous principles. Should serve to publish research reports and questions on the major issues of an era. In this sense, an academic journal should know contemplate cutting edge theory, the tip of the theory, the empirical and the speculative. You need shelter authors can imagine the new path and researchers who tread new paths. Should welcome criticism, self-criticism and doubt.

Not even science can be under in an academic journal, reflecting on its limits and perspectives. Repeating the more traditional flag of the Enlightenment, an academic journal should dare to know. That, everyone knows, there is always the risk of error. Close up tightly to error, however, means repeat paradigms without exposing them to the contradiction. Close up tightly in an area on the other hand, it can mean the legitimization of an anachronistic and dangerous positivism. An academic journal of communication, undoubtedly, should be in contact, open up the connection, look for the noise, the dissonance, produces intellectual ferment and create the conditions necessary to heat the discovery and climate creative dissent.

No school or thought grid is imposed as official thinking. Nothing can divert Revista FAMECOS its mission: think communication and communicate the thought of communication. In a sense, the simpler title of a book by the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges should serve as a guide for all academic publications: Discussion. Or discussions. More than judge or set, these old dreams of dogmatism, it is up to an academic publication to speak, to see, to bring out, reveal, uncover, discover, uncover, tease, put in focus. All this, of course, according to the rules of the scientific game, knowing that the rules themselves are the subject of discussion and not remain unchanged.

Each text, to paraphrase Jean-François Lyotard, is an argumentative bid, launched in a given field of arguments and counterarguments. The wheel does not stop arguments never turning. Not all arguments are acceptable, but all attempts argumentative need to be tested, heard, valued, considered and discarded arguably only. Argue is not accurate. Argue is inaccurate, risky, even dangerous necessary. These are the reasons that guide the work of the Revista Famecos.

Submissions - Among other measures that protect the quality of scientific thought disseminated by journals, are the mechanisms of control, unavoidable in academic activities. On average (from 2014) are submitted 250 articles a year to the Revista FAMECOS. Of this total are published about 45 items per year.

Evaluation - To ensure the quality we propose, the texts submitted to the Revista FAMECOS are sent in blind evaluation form, to two external evaluators who are part of its renowned and competent Editorial Board and its ad hoc. In case of divergence in opinions, the text is sent to a third evaluator.

International connections - The Revisa FAMECOS: media culture and technology also counts with an increased internationalization strategy, through cooperation agreements with the University Paris V (René Descartes), with the Current Study Center and Lifestyle, directed by Michel Maffesoli, through exchange of publications, with the University Paul Valéry (Montpellier III), through exchange of publications and the Laboratoire de l'Information, Communication Scientifique et Enjeux, coordinated by Dominique Wolton, and the Institut des Sciences de la Communication from the National Center of scientific Research of France, the prestigious CNRS.

Publishing system - The editorial process of the Revista FAMECOS: media culture and technology is run by SEER model (Page Header magazines) considered an international benchmark in terms of publishing, because it has the necessary indicators sending the publication of the article.

Target Audience - we are committed to maintaining periodicity and promoting circulation of the Revista FAMECOS: media culture and technology the broadest possible to ensure access to undergraduate students, graduate and academic and scientific institutions both national and international. It is wanted to achieve with the excellence of published studies PhD researchers of recognized competence in the field, especially linked to the Graduate Program in Communication in Brazil, Latin America, Europe and the United States.