submission guidelines

gnovis welcomes all forms of content that critically evaluate communication, culture and technology in today's world through a variety of lenses. Submissions to the journal should take the format of papers (from shorter essays to longer, more in-depth analyses). We also encourage multimedia submissions that incorporate photos, video, or other components, as well as blog postings on current issues in the field.

The most important questions to ask as you consider submitting a project to gnovis are whether your work contributes new ideas to the academic world's understanding of this topic and whether it encourage your peers (i.e., other graduate students and the academic community) to talk about and think about this topic in a new light?

Journal Articles

Guidelines

  • All submissions should be the FINAL version of the project. Please do not submit a project that you are still working on or for whatever reason never finished. These submissions will be rejected without review. Seminar papers MUST be revised at least one more time prior to submission. In addition, if your submission was written any significant period of time ago and developments since then have affected the validity of parts of your argument, please update the paper appropriately.
  • Papers should be between 3000 and 7500 words (10-25 double-spaced pages), excluding citations. There are exceptions to this rule, but please try to stay within these guidelines. If your paper runs too short or too long, please reference this in your submission and we will make decisions on a case-by-case basis.
  • We encourage submissions from all kinds of researchers who are examining issues critically. You need not be a current student to submit a paper, nor a student of Georgetown University.

How to Submit
Please submit articles via email to submit@gnovisjournal.org. In your email, please attach the project in an editable document (i.e., NOT a .pdf), preferably as a Microsoft Word document.
Please include the following information (in the body of the email or somehow separate from the document you are submitting for review):

  • your name
  • your school affiliation, program name, and year
  • contact information, preferably an email address checked regularly

The Review Process
When a paper is accepted for review, it is anonymized to protect the author's identity and then distributed to no less than two peer reviewers. gnovis' peer reviewers are current students and alumni of the CCT program; they will read the project critically, paying close attention to both style and content. If it meets gnovis' editorial standards, the project is then returned to the author for any necessary revisions. Once made, the project goes through a final check by the staff before being published in the next issue. Issues are published in the fall and spring of each year, with special themed issues possible throughout the year, depending on current events and submission topics.

 

Blog Entries

Our blog submission process is informal: anyone can post a blog entry at anytime, simply by registering on our website. However, all blog entries are moderated by gnovis' editorial staff, and entries may be rejected on the basis of length (less than 1000 words is preferred) and writing quality. Entries that are off-topic or lack a critical perspective may also be rejected. Review some of our existing blog entries to get a sense of what we're looking for. We encourage you to email us before writing to clear your idea.

Digital / Multimedia Projects

gnovis is, at present, no longer publishing digital or multimedia projects, due to the challenges presented by these formats, in terms of peer review standards, the use of copyrighted images, and technological support. Scholars wishing to share their digital work with the gnovis community are encouraged to post them on YouTube, SlideShare, Vimeo, or other free services, and then embed the work in a blog post on our website.