Context

Technological and societal changes have often led researchers to study the relationship between communication, technology and development. For a long time, people have been reflecting about the radio, television and mobile telephony. Now, studies are shifting towards artificial intelligence, the internet of things and big data. These studies often explore these issues in relation to the access, appropriation, governance and norms as well as their impacts on the culture, the social cohesion, the economic activities, democracy, and career change.

Positioning

The Unesco chair at University Bordeaux Montaigne for Emerging Practices in Technology and Communication for Development launched the scientific journal entitled “Communication, technologies et développement”. It is an international interdisciplinary online journal of scientific research. This journal deals with issues related to circulation of ideas, knowledge sharing and the expression of individual and collective identities. It intends to be a platform for scholarly dialogue where researchers from francophone speaking area and speakers from other linguistic areas can meet. Emphasis is laid on emerging zones; here, emergence goes beyond the economic and political domains. Those territories are mostly located in Latin America, in Asia, in Africa as well as in Europe and are characterized by the fact that they have not been highlighted enough. Although French is the prevailing language, the journal being consistent with the idea of diversity is accepting original papers in German, English, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, etc. Special attention is paid to socioprofessionnal changes, technological innovations in relation to economic and social development.

Objectives

The journal “Communication, technologies et développement” intends to promote the researches carried out in countries that do not benefit from an adequate scientific visibility, mostly countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America including issues investigated in developed countries. It is a forum of diverse minds, a platform for thinking about the ongoing changes (technological, social, cultural). To meet the goals of scientific excellence, the editorial committee is particularly cautious about plagiarism, redundant publications and there is a commitment to be uncompromising on the editorial and scientific qualities of the papers.

Editorial Policy

Published by Openedition Journals, the journal Communication, Technologies and Development disseminates its content in open access in accordance with the DOAJ definition. Authors retain all intellectual property rights over their articles and agree to grant certain usage rights to users through the open Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND. Thus, access to the articles published by the journal is free and immediate, allowing any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print the full text of the articles, search within them, or link to them via hyperlinks without seeking prior permission from the publisher or author.

Authors can deposit pre-prints of articles in open archives such as HAL as soon as the issue is published.

Communication, Technologies and Development welcomes contributions from both established researchers and early-career scholars. The journal publishes scientific articles based on a double-blind peer review process, with a strong emphasis on rigor, promoting research that meets the highest standards of quality. It also publishes texts by practitioners (field actors, institutional stakeholders, professionals, etc.) who wish to share their reflections with researchers on topics of mutual concern.

Since 2021, Communication, Technologies and Development has been publishing two thematic issues per year. Each issue dedicates a substantial section to a specific domain or aspect of information and communication issues.

Additionally, the journal offers complementary sections to the thematic dossier, providing flexibility in relation to the main theme. Regard des Suds hosts theoretical framing texts presenting a specific epistemological or critical stance, stemming from the context of countries in the Global South, on organizational, media, or digital communication topics related to the thematic issue. This section also seeks to give new life and international recognition to significant scientific texts initially published in printed journals from the Global South. The Literature Review section provides an overview of the available perspectives on the thematic issue's topic, while the Echo section presents the views of practitioners and field actors. These sections are the subject of targeted calls for papers.

Two sections outside of the thematic dossier welcome contributions unrelated to the main theme, namely the Varia section and the Doctoral Research section. The latter highlights the work of young researchers whose original contributions should not be overlooked.

The editorial, scientific, and review committees are composed of communication specialists with a strong international presence. Communication, Technologies and Development thus reflects a culture of openness to the most diverse contemporary thinking in the fields of technological innovation and the social uses of information and communication technologies.

Targeted goals

The journal addresses an international audience of researchers in all fields taken together and the heads of national and international agencies interested in information and communication issues. The journal as well meets all the needs regarding knowledge sharing; the circulation of ideas and it comes with solution to publication difficulties noticed with the particular researchers .

Evaluation criteria

The articles are evaluated on their intellectual and scientific content only, without any race, gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, nationality, university affiliation or author's political philosophy discrimination.

The evaluation criteria serve as a base for the interest and originality in comparison to the call for papers, the quality of the conceptual approach, the theoretical positioning, the methodological angle, the quality of the results, the rigor of the argumentation, the quality of style and the respect of bibliographical norms.

Principles of scientific integrity

The authors are expected to meet certain obligations and recommendations during their preparation for publishing:

• Reliable data, rigorous and objective results

• Quotations from the consulted works and researches

• No division of the results in multiple publications

• A strict ban on publishing the same work in different journals

Policy on plagiarism detection

The journal “Communication, technologies et développement” actively fights against plagiarism and will not allow the publication of plagiarized texts. The authors must therefore insure to only submit original articles. Any use of other's work and/or words, the authors must insure that they are properly quoted. In addition, the journal has access to a plagiarism detection software.

Rejection rate (submitted articles/accepted articles)

The rejection rate averages around 40%.