Journal presentation

Émergences. Son, musique et médias audiovisuels is an international refereed journal published at a frequency of one issue per year. The issues include a thematic section (articles, interviews, translations), a review section (critical reviews of books), and an optional varia section (submissions are accepted on a rolling basis and should be sent directly to the journal’s editors-in-chief). The submitted articles are subject to a selection process and anonymous peer review, under the authority of the scientific and editorial committees. The texts, in French or English, are evaluated anonymously. We invite academics to submit thematic issues that are in line with the journal’s editorial policy. In response to the need to open research to the widest audience, Émergences is a digital, open-access journal that charges neither submission fees nor publication fees.

Topics and approaches

Émergences is dedicated to all audio-visual productions: conventional ones (films, series, television shows, music videos, video games…), as well as to those that have emerged with new media (social networks, streaming platforms, mobile applications…). It aims to provide a platform for reflection around new technologies and new aesthetics and for the identification of challenges associated with them. In this context, Émergences encourages the investigation of underexplored audio-visual territories using mixed methods. In other words, the journal addresses the need to embrace old and new products alike through the emergence of new transdisciplinary perspectives. Émergences wishes to promote the work of researchers, both young and established, at the crossroads of sound and film music studies, videogame and historical studies, fan studies, but also visual arts, reception, cultural anthropology and more generally all disciplines related to media cultures. It aims to decompartmentalize and bring together these different fields of research in order to question the methods of knowledge production as well as the objects to which they are attached.