The Editorial Board of Kultura - Media - Teologia (eISSN: 2081-8971) invites scholars to submit original, previously unpublished research articles for a special issue devoted to contemporary research on political communication.

The issue seeks to provide a platform for theoretical, empirical, analytical, and interdisciplinary approaches to political communication and its transformations in contemporary media environments.

We particularly welcome contributions addressing, but not limited to, the following areas:

• political communication in traditional media and social media (Wolfsfeld, 2022);
• strategies, practices, and tools of political communication (García-Orosa, 2022);
• political communication in the age of algorithmic mediation and artificial intelligence (Battista, 2024);
• the professionalization and mediatization of political communication (Ahmad, 2024);
• political communication of Churches and other religious bodies (Šmeringaiová, 2023; Kolić Stanić, & Stanić 2024);
• political communication and electoral campaigns (Denton, Voth, Trent, & Friedenberg, 2023);
• political celebrity and the celebrity politics phenomenon (Majic, O’Neill, & Bernhard, 2020);
• the role of influencers in contemporary political communication (Riedl, Lukito, & Woolley, 2023).

We welcome theoretical, empirical, analytical, and review articles that offer original contributions to the study of political communication. Interdisciplinary perspectives and approaches drawing on communication and media studies, political science, sociology, religious studies, cultural studies, and related fields are particularly encouraged. In the event of a high volume of submissions, the Editorial Board reserves the right, in consultation with the authors concerned, to schedule some accepted manuscripts for publication in subsequent issues of the journal.

For inquiries regarding the thematic scope of the issue, as well as substantive or formal aspects of manuscript preparation, please contact the Scientific Editor of the issue:

Rev. Rafał Leśniczak, PhD, DSc
r.lesniczak@uksw.edu.pl

Important Dates

30 November 2026
Submission of the proposed article title and an abstract of up to 250 words to r.lesniczak@uksw.edu.pl

31 December 2026
Notification of authors regarding the acceptance of their proposals

30 June 2027
Submission of the full manuscript via the Kultura - Media - Teologia editorial platform:
https://czasopisma.uksw.edu.pl/kmt/about/submissions

Guidelines concerning manuscript structure and formatting are available at:
https://czasopisma.uksw.edu.pl/kmt/struktura_tekstu

Information on the journal's citation style is available at:
https://czasopisma.uksw.edu.pl/kmt/styl_cytowania

The special issue is scheduled for publication in the first half of 2028.

References

Ahmad, N. (2024). What drive marketization and professionalization of campaigning of political parties in the emerging democracy? Evidence from Indonesia in the post-Soeharto new order. Journal of Political Marketing, 23(1), 26-50.

Battista, D. (2024). Political communication in the age of artificial intelligence: an overview of deepfakes and their implications. Society Register, 8(2), 7-24.

Denton Jr, R. E., Voth, B., Trent, J. S., & Friedenberg, R. V. (2023). Political campaign communication: Principles and practices. Bloomsbury Publishing USA.

García-Orosa, B. (2022). Digital political communication strategies. Springer International Publishing.

Kolić Stanić, M., & Stanić, B. (2024). How to Ethically Use Artificial Intelligence in The Institutional Communication of the Catholic Church?. Roczniki Nauk Społecznych, 52(3), 7-21.

Majic, S., O’Neill, D., & Bernhard, M. (2020). Celebrity and politics. Perspectives on Politics, 18(1), 1-8.

Riedl, M. J., Lukito, J., & Woolley, S. C. (2023). Political influencers on social media: An introduction. Social Media+ Society, 9(2), 20563051231177938.

Šmeringaiová, M. (2023). The Catholic Church as a Political Actor. A Comparative Study of Communication of Bishops’ Conferences in Slovakia and Austria. Politologický časopis-Czech Journal of Political Science, 30(2), 133-154.

Wolfsfeld, G. (2022). Making sense of media and politics: Five principles in political communication. Routledge.

Rev. Rafał Leśniczak, PhD, DSc, University Professor (UKSW)
Scientific Editor of Volume 73, Issue 1 (2028)
Kultura - Media - Teologia