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ABOUT THE JOURNAL |
ABOUT THE JOURNAL
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Focus and scope
InMediaciones
de la Comunicación
is a
refereed, open access and non-profit academic journal published since 1998 by
the Universidad ORT Uruguay.
The journal's purpose focuses on the
publication of original articles and/or reviews and the dissemination of
interviews, essays and research results in the field of communication and
related disciplines, with special attention to social mediatisation processes
and the study of contemporary media phenomena. The content aims at researchers,
teachers, undergraduate and graduate university students and everyone with an
interest in all areas of communication. The published manuscripts are firstly
reviewed by the directors of the journal, the Associate Editors, the Academic
Committee –made up of experts from different countries– and the Guest Editor of
each issue, and are subsequently evaluated through the double-blind system with
the intervention of external referees.
From the second semester of 2024,
the journal InMediaciones de la Comunicación adopts the continuous
publication system with thematic biannual calls. This modality allows the
editorial process of the postulated papers to be faster: that is, all articles
accepted in the peer evaluation process are immediately published in the
website, with the idea that they will be quickly visible and citable. The
journal receives contributions written in Spanish, English and Portuguese and
the author does not pay any cost for the processing or publication of the
papers. InMediaciones de la Comunicación is published in print and
digital formats and carries out an editorial policy that conforms to the
international standards of academic journals.
Since its inception, InMediaciones
de la Comunicación has committed to the promotion of open publication of
papers derived from quality research, fostering an approach to the processes of social
mediatization
and issues that cross the field of communication. Over the years, it has had
contributions from renowned researchers and academic referents, who contributed
their views on the debates raised by the permanent renewal of contemporary
communicational phenomena.
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Identification / Publishing entity
InMediaciones de la Comunicación is owned by the Universidad ORT
Uruguay.
Legal address: Avenida Uruguay 1185, Montevideo,
Uruguay.
Contact email: immediaciones@ort.edu.uy
ISSN printed
version 1510-5091 // ISSN 1688-8626 (online)
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Director
Lautaro Cossia /
Faculty of Communication & Design, Universidad ORT Uruguay.
Contact email: cossia@ort.edu.uy
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Indexing and visibility
InMediaciones de la Comunicación is part of the Uruguayan Association of Academic
Journals (AURA) and is incorporated into SciELO-Uruguay (Scientific
Electronic Library On Line). It is cited in Latindex (Regional Online
Information System for Latin American Scientific Journals), DOAJ
(Directory of Open Access Journals), PKP-INDEX (Public Knowledge
Project), ERIH Plus (European Reference Index for the Humanities and
Social Sciences) and Clase (Latin American Citations in Social Sciences
and Humanities). In addition, it is included in different repositories or
international content aggregators that allow the published materials to be made
visible. Among them: Dialnet, REDIB, LatinREV, MIAR,
Google Scholar, ROAD, BIBLAT, EBSCO Essentials, WorldCat,
REDALyÇ.
All articles and
volumes have individual DOI (Digital Object Identifier) by Crossref.
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EDITORIAL POLICY
1.
Open access and copyright policy
InMediaciones de la Comunicación provides free and
immediate access to its content under the principle that making articles and
research freely available encourages a greater global knowledge exchange. In
this sense, the Universidad ORT Uruguay is a signatory of the San Francisco
Declaration on Research Evaluation (DORA), which suggests that the articles
be “available under the dedication of the Creative Commons public domain”. InMediaciones
de la Comunicación provides its
content under the Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0 International License (CC
BY 4.0).
Likewise, the
value of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) statement, which
establishes that open access implies the free availability on the public
Internet of articles and reviews published after submitting to the double-blind
arbitration protocol, is recognized. This perspective "allows any user to
read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or add a link to the full text
of these articles, track them for indexing, incorporate them as data in
software, or use them for any other purpose that is legal, without financial,
legal or technical barriers, apart from those that are inseparable from access
to the Internet itself. The only limitation regarding reproduction and
distribution, and the only role of copyright (economic rights) in this area,
should be to give authors control over the integrity of their works and the
right to be adequately recognized and cited”.
Universidad ORT
Uruguay reserves the rights of journal edition. In this way, once the
manuscript has been accepted for publication, InMediaciones de la Comunicación. You may dispose of such material and publish it both
in printed format and by electronic means and other known or unknown devices.
For this, it is an essential requirement that the authors authorize in writing
its reproduction, distribution, exhibition and communication (Document of
authors' rights and originality). Such use of the manuscripts is for the
purpose of disseminating and sharing the research work with the national and
international scientific-academic community, it is not for profit and the
authors will retain the moral and patrimonial rights of the article.
The use of the
CC-BY 4.0 license guarantees the publication, distribution, use and reuse of
the manuscripts. In this sense, the use, copy or public dissemination of the
published materials must be cited using the references indicated in the HOW TO
CITE section that accompanies each manuscript in its different versions: PDF,
HTML and XML.
2.
Peer review process
InMediaciones de la Comunicación uses the
double-blind arbitration protocol for the evaluation of manuscripts, understood
as obtaining advice from experts on the subject addressed in the specific issue
of the journal which allows the individual review of the submitted materials.
According to the
criteria established by the journal, the submitted manuscripts go through an
evaluation process that involves different instances of review and evaluation.
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Manuscripts are
reviewed by the directors of the journal,
the Associate Editors, the Academic Committee and the Guest
Editor, convened according to the theme addressed in each issue. In this first
instance, the manuscripts are subjected to a first plagiarism check using the
Turnitin prevention service (Plagiarism control and detection). Those
manuscripts that conform to the disciplinary area, comply with the standards
and objectives of the journal, and show relevance to the thematic axes of the
call move to the next stage of evaluation.
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Once compliance with
the required conditions has been verified, the submitted manuscript is sent to
two external referees who are specialists in the subject matter addressed.
Those who carry out the external arbitration should not have any conflict of
interest with respect to the manuscript submitted for evaluation, which will be
delivered to them, safeguarding the anonymity of the responsible authors. The
external referees must evaluate whether the manuscript presents innovative or
novel content regarding the topic addressed, the coherence of the analysis
carried out and the quality of the presentation according to the journal's
guidelines. On these general basic criteria, they must rule: a) accept and
publish the manuscript, b) publishable with modifications (in this case, the
authors must send a reworked version so that the external referees assigned to
evaluate the manuscript again), c) reject the application. The external
referees must validate the decision taken taking into account the parameters or
rubrics of the Evaluation Sheet (Ethics for external referees).
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In case of
discrepancy in the opinions, the manuscript will be sent to a third external
referee. This
last opinion, together with the final observations of the directors of the journal, the Associate Editors, the Academic Committee and the Guest Editor Editorial Board, will define the publication or not of the evaluated
application.
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The foundations,
suggestions and opinions will be reviewed by the Associate Editors and the Academic Committee, and the result of the evaluation carried out will be
informed to the author or the corresponding author. Such arbitration process
may involve several instances of exchanges and re-elaboration of the manuscript
based on what is observed by the external referees, the Associate Editors and the Academic Committee. The average duration of these evaluation and review
instances is 60 days.
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The final
acceptance of the manuscript also depends on compliance with the editorial
ethics and good practices required by the journal (more information in Editorial
ethics and good practices).
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The list of those
who participate as external arbitrators is published in the last issue of each
year.
3.
Publication frequency and no APC
From the second semester of 2024, the
journal InMediaciones de la Comunicación adopts the continuous
publication system. The published papers are gathered in an annual volume and
structured in its two semiannual issues (January-June and July-December) with
thematic calls for papers. The articles in the first issue are published
continuously starting in January and ending in June and the ones belonging to
the second issue are published from July until December.
Between reception
of the manuscripts nominated and their publication date, a maximum period of
six months is estimated.
The InMediaciones
de la Comunicación journal does not
charge processing or publication fees (Article Processing Charge or APC fees).
It does not have policies to subsidize the publication of articles.
4.
Self-archiving and digital preservation policies
InMediaciones de la Comunicación uses the PKP Preservation
Network (LOCKSS) repository where publications edited in the Open Journal
System (OJS) are digitally stored. This system allows perpetual access to the
original content of the magazine.
The files are
saved at the time of their publication in DSpace, the digital academic
repository used by InMediaciones de la
Comunicación, and on the journal's platform.
Likewise, authors
are advised to store published materials personally. The post-print (or final
galley) can be archived and included in your endorsements and in institutional
repositories immediately after its on-line publication.
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Interoperability protocol
InMediaciones de la Comunicación incorporates the Open Archives Initiative - Protocol
for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) interoperability protocol.
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STATEMENT OF EDITORIAL ETHICS AND GOOD PRACTICES
The School of
Communication of the Faculty of Communication & Design, Universidad ORT
Uruguay is committed to guaranteeing the ethics of the manuscripts that are
published in the journal InMediaciones de
la Comunicación. It is essential that all parties involved in the editorial
process, both the Editorial Team —Director, Associate Editors, Academic Committee, Technical Staff, Guest Editor— as well as the
authors and external referees, know and abide by the established criteria and
respect the guidelines established for the publication of articles, reviews,
interviews and other genres of academic production. InMediaciones de la Comunicación adheres to the code of ethics and
the declaration of good editorial practices indicated by the Committee on
Publication Ethics (COPE) and to the suggestions and recommendations
established in the San Francisco Declaration on Research Evaluation (DORA) to
guarantee good practices related to the evaluation of scientific-academic
productions.
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Ethics for the Editorial Team
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The Editorial Team
is responsible for publication or not the postulated manuscripts. They will be
evaluated without taking into account religion, sexual or political
orientation, ethnic origin, institutional membership, citizenship or any other
peculiarity outside the academic parameters and editorial criteria set by InMediaciones de la Comunicación.
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They undertake to
publish updated guidelines for authors, establishing the responsibilities of
those who submit the manuscript application and the required style standards
for the materials sent to the journal (Guidelines for authors). They
also undertake to specify the arbitration system used to evaluate the
manuscripts and the evaluation parameters that external referees must take into
account.
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They undertake to
guarantee the confidentiality of the evaluation process. It encompasses the
anonymity of external referees and authors and the privacy of the opinions
produced, the content evaluated and the exchanges or queries raised to the Associate Editors, Academic Committee and the Guest Editor.
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They guarantee the
publication of corrections, clarifications and/or apologies in all cases deemed
necessary.
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They are deemed responsible
for the articles received not to be used as input for other research, nor be
subject to any type of manipulation without the consent of their authors.
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They undertake to
have strict respect for authorship. The texts will be subjected to plagiarism
control using the Turnitin prevention service (Plagiarism control and
detection) and reasonable measures will be taken to prevent the publication
of manuscripts in which there have been cases of misconduct in the research.
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They will try to
avoid conflicts of interest, taking into account the sources of funding and the
affiliation of the authors when selecting the external referees.
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They declare their
commitment to the respect and integrity of the manuscripts already been
published.
2.
Ethics for authors
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Authors are
responsible for the applications, the content and the opinions expressed in the
manuscripts sent to InMediaciones de la
Comunicación. They must guarantee they are the owners or co-owners of the
nominated manuscript and, therefore, they are also owners of its intellectual
property rights (Document of authors' rights and originality).
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They must send
original manuscripts written by those who declare their authorship and
guarantee that they will not be submitted for consideration by other
publications while it is in the evaluation process. The journal considers a
manuscript to be original when it is unpublished: that is, when it has not been
published in an academic journal or as a chapter in a digital or printed book,
nor is it undergoing evaluation in another publication.
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In the event the
postulated manuscript includes advances in research previously presented in
Conferences, Colloquia and / or Congresses, or has its origin in a graduate or
postgraduate thesis, the authors must include an explanatory note indicating
the first place in which the advances were presented. InMediaciones de la Comunicación does not consider as a prior
publication the abstracts or advances presented in academic events such as
those mentioned above or are available as research documents in institutional,
thematic or general repositories. Likewise, the postulated manuscripts may have
their origin in undergraduate or graduate thesis. They may not, in any case,
keep the same title as its first version.
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They must express
that the contents, materials or resources used in the manuscript do not
infringe the copyrights of third parties. In case of reproducing copyrighted
material (photographs, still or moving images, figures, videos, infographics or
any type of previously published material) they must be cited or indicated in the
manuscript's body and, if necessary, obtain and send the corresponding
permission to be published in InMediaciones
de la Comunicación in print and online. Any material received without these
citations or permissions will be presumed to come from the authors of the
nominated manuscript.
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In the case of
manuscripts postulated by two or more authors, they must indicate the order of
appearance and, at the end of the manuscript, indicate in percentages the
contributions or contributions made by each author. In addition, they must
present a certificate that expresses the consent of all the authors for its
publication.
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They undertake to
recognize and indicate possible conflicts of interest that could be perceived
as bias in the manuscript. In this sense, and in the event the authors of the
manuscript receive any type of financial support, they must include a note
indicating their origin.
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They undertake to
inform the Director, the Associate
Editors, the Academic Committee and the
Guest Editor when they detect a relevant error in the published manuscripts, in
order to rectify and introduce the necessary corrections.
3.
Ethics for external referees
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They undertake to
make a rigorous, critical and impartial review of the evaluated manuscript.
They must guarantee their acceptance or rejection according to the thematic
relevance and relevance, the innovation or novelty of the contents, the
approach to the methodology used, the coherence of the analysis carried out and
compliance with the presentation rules required by the journal. For this
purpose, the arbitration must take into account the evaluation parameters or
rubrics that are established in the Evaluation Form.
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They must take
into account the same ethical and confidentiality recommendations indicated in Ethics for the Editorial Team.
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They undertake not
to disseminate or use, under any circumstances, the contents of the articles
evaluated. It will only be possible with the explicit permission of the authors
and the directors and/or the Associate
Editors and the Academic Committee of the InMediaciones de la Comunicación journal.
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They undertake to
respect the evaluation period established by the Associate Editors and Academic Committee: 20 days from submission of the
nominated manuscript. In case of contingencies preventing compliance, they must
notify the Director or a member of the Associate Editors or the Academic Committee sufficiently in advance so that the journal
can make a decision and respond to the planned evaluation schedule.
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They must notify
the Director or a member of the
Associate Editors and the Academic Committee of the existence of conflicts of
interest or lack of suitability and expertise to evaluate the assigned
manuscript.
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They must notify
the Director or a member of the Associate
Editors and the Academic Committee in the event of detecting possible
plagiarism or breach of ethics.
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They will avoid
suggesting citations from their own articles or academic production in order to
expand their own citations or those of the research team they belong to.
4.
Violation of editorial ethics
InMediaciones
de la Comunicación will monitor strictly to ensure compliance with ethics
and good editorial practices. In this sense, and in accordance with the
provisions of COPE, the accusations of alleged misconduct or the detection of a
possible anomaly will imply the activation of a protocol, in general terms,
with the following steps:
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A meeting will be held between the members of the Associate Editors and the Academic Committee where the relevance of the accusation made,
or the detection of a possible anomaly, will be evaluated.
- The Associate Editors and the Academic Committee will prepare a report contemplating the
measures or actions to be undertaken in accordance with the general criteria
and the Declaration of Editorial Ethics and Good Practices of the journal.
- The authors will be informed of the accusation
received or the detection of a possible fault or anomaly.
- A period of no more than 10 days will be
established, according to the type of fault or anomaly subject to
consideration, for the authors to make the clarifications or discharge they
deem pertinent.
- If necessary, the legal advisors of Universidad ORT
Uruguay will be consulted.
- The Associate Editors or the Academic Committee will apply the measures determined. If the
anomaly or fault reported is verified: the manuscript will be rejected. If the
manuscript is already published: it will be removed from the InMediaciones de
la Comunicación. Issue and the corresponding retraction will be made. The
author will be prevented from any future publishing in the journal.
5.
Revisiones y correcciones posteriores a
la publicación
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InMediaciones de la Comunicación garantiza la publicación de las
correcciones, aclaraciones y/o disculpas en todos los casos que se considere
necesario. Los reclamos se recibirán en el siguiente correo electrónico: inmediaciones@ort.edu.uy
6.
Plagiarism control and prevention
Manuscripts will
be subjected to plagiarism control using the Turnitin prevention service that
is used to reveal verbatim copies of resources from the Internet. This control
is carried out in two stages of the evaluation process: upon receipt of a
manuscript's application and, subsequently, before its publication (that is,
after having gone through the evaluation process and once the modifications
suggested by the external arbitrators, have been made). In case of identifying
a possible plagiarism, the members of the Associate Editors and the Academic Committee of the journal will initiate the protocol
established by in accordance with the criteria established in Violation of editorial ethics.
Such control includes self-plagiarism or the extended use of identical phrases
from a manuscript already published by the same author. The Associate Editors and the Academic Committee will communicate the results of the
plagiarism control to the responsible authors and they will be asked to make
the pertinent clarifications within 10 days before defining whether it is
plagiarism behaviour. Manuscripts in which such behaviour is verified will not
be published.
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PRIVACY STATEMENT
The
journal and its contents are licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution
4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). It is possible to copy, communicate and
publicly distribute its content as long as the individual authors and the name
of this publication are cited, as well as the publishing institution
(Universidad ORT Uruguay).
The
names and email addresses entered in this journal will be used exclusively for
the purposes stated in it, and will not be provided to third parties or for use
for other purposes.
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CONTACT
Facultad de Comunicación y Diseño
Av. Uruguay 1185
11100 Montevideo
Uruguay
Sitio web: https://fcd.ort.edu.uy/
Disponible en:
X: @InmediacionesUY
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Contacto principal
Lautaro Cossia
Universidad ORT Uruguay
Teléfono (598) 2 908 06
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Contacto de soporte
Andrea Castro
Teléfono (598) 2 908 06
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