Focus and Scope

COMMUNICATE: Journal of Da'wa, Media, and Public Sphere is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes original empirical research, systematic literature reviews, and critical conceptual discourse. This journal aims to serve as a leading academic forum for researchers, scholars, and practitioners to disseminate strategic research findings regarding the interaction between Islamic communication theory and the dynamics of modern society.

Main Focus
The journal’s publication focus goes beyond traditional communication approaches by emphasizing the intersection between the mediatization of da’wa, media studies, and the constellation of the public sphere. In the face of rapid sociological transformations in the digital age, this journal prioritizes an interdisciplinary approach that connects communication studies with sociology and the humanities to examine how religious authority, communication culture, and social interactions are continuously negotiated by Muslim communities globally.

Scope
To ensure the research remains rigorous and in-depth, the scope of this journal’s publications is categorized into the following conceptual clusters:

  1. The Mediatization of Religion and the Digital Public Sphere: Examining how the ecology of digital platforms, social media, and artificial intelligence algorithms disrupts da’wah practices, the architecture of virtual communities, and religious literacy.
  2. Discourse on Da’wah and Social Conflict Resolution: Analyzing the effectiveness of persuasive communication strategies, rhetoric, public relations, and Islamic institutional communication in responding to polarization, identity crises, and challenges to social cohesion.
  3. Media Policy and Contemporary Communication Ethics: Examining the ecosystem of Islamic journalism, broadcasting ethics, critical media literacy, and the negotiation of public communication regulatory policies from the perspective of Islamic philosophical values.
  4. Cross-Cultural Communication and the Dynamics of Tradition: Exploring communication practices rooted in local wisdom, representations of gender and cultural identity, and media anthropology amid the diversity of Muslim societies.

This journal warmly welcomes manuscripts with a solid methodological foundation—whether qualitative or quantitative field research or literature reviews—that seek to bridge theoretical gaps while making practical contributions to the field of communication studies and da’wah practices in various social contexts.