About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Welcome to mediAzioni, an online journal promoted by the Department of Interpreting and Translation, University of Bologna at Forlì.

mediAzioni is an international open access, refereed journal that promotes interdisciplinary work in the humanities. It welcomes contributions from/cutting across the following areas: intercultural and gender studies, literature and theatre, literature for children and young adults, linguistics, humour, media and film studies, history, translation and interpreting, accessibility, Child Language Brokering, terminology.

mediAzioni (mediation) was chosen as a title because of what it evokes: media, action, mediation, and all that these notions imply – the space in between, which, while being compressed in the name of the journal, opens up to a multiplicity of meanings and interpretations. With mediAzioni we wish to encourage thinking across strictly defined disciplinary boundaries and highlight the value of an interdisciplinary approach in the belief that the resulting cross-fertilization cannot but be enriching.

Mediating the differences between languages, cultures, histories, nations, identities, genders, and peoples is one of the most pressing concerns of our times, and one that we, as teachers and scholars, feel challenged to face every day. That is precisely what the name mediAzioni refers to: “mediation” in the sense of understanding and negotiating differences, but also in the sense of taking action, that is “doing” things with language, promoting change in culture and society, and opening up new ways of thinking through research, imagination and passion.

For this reason, mediAzioni is an ever-changing journal. Each regular issue is opened with the first contribution that has been positively assessed by qualified referees, and other contributions are added until December 31st of the same year.

History of the Journal

mediAzioni was founded in 2005 by Rosa Maria Bollettieri Bosinelli, Raffaella Baccolini, Chiara Elefante and Delia Chiaro as a journal of the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies in Translation, Languages and Cultures (SITLeC), University of Bologna at Forlì.

Formerly published online by Gedit, in 2008 mediAzioni was moved to a proprietary website. In 2021 it joined the OJS – AlmaDL Journals platform of the University of Bologna.

In its early years, mediAzioni published, together with regular articles, reviews, and special issues, original and innovative BA and MA final projects in a dedicated section called “Work in progress”, as well as “Reports” of conferences and study days, and “Fiction”.

Section Policies

Articles

Submissions welcome / Peer Reviewed

Dossiers

Submissions welcome / Peer Reviewed

Reviews

Submissions welcome / Not Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

Contributions should not be under review anywhere else, nor should they be available on any website or social network, including platforms like academia.edu and researchgate.net. Each contribution is first assessed by the journal editors with reference to its general relevance to the journal. If the contribution obtains the editors’ approval, a plagiarism check is conducted through iThenticate. The article is then double-blind refereed by two scholars operating in the relevant field(s), who are neither affiliated with the same institution as the author(s) nor members of the journal’s scientific and editorial committees. Reviews are instead refereed by one of the journal editors, while the review process of dossiers and special issues rests with their respective editor(s), who commit to have all contributions double-blind refereed. Referee reports and revisions/comments are sent by the editorial committee (or the editors of the dossier/special issue) to the respective authors, who are responsible for revising their contribution accordingly.

The review process may have one the following outcomes:

  1. The contribution is rejected. The reasons for rejection should be specified in writing and sent to the author(s).

  2. The contribution is accepted with revisions, in which case the author(s) will be able to resubmit a revised version based on the reviewers’/editors’ suggestions.

  3. The contribution is accepted and, after notifying the author(s), published.

A final round of editing is provided by the editorial assistants. mediAzioni keeps a record of article referees and can provide it upon a motivated request by evaluation committees.

Publication Frequency

mediAzioni is published once a year, with the possibility of including articles/reviews in the regular issue at any time during the year. The journal can additionally publish one or more special issues a year.

Open access policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

It releases its articles under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

This license allows anyone to download, reuse, re-print, modify, distribute and/or copy the contributions. The works must be properly attributed to its author(s). It is not necessary to ask further permissions both to author(s) or journal board, although you are kindly requested to inform the journal for every reuse of the papers.

Authors who publish on this journal maintain the copyrights.

Publication Fees

The journal has neither article processing charges nor submission processing fees.

Ethics

mediAzioni adopts the AlmaDL Journals Code of Ethics.

The code is inspired by the guidelines from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), in particular to the COPE Core Practices and its Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing.

All parties involved in the editorial process, editorial staff members, authors, reviewers must know and apply the ethical principles of that document.

Data Policy

When relevant, authors are encouraged to follow Open Science and FAIR principles by publishing the research data associated to their articles in trusted data repositories, according to the international best practices and data management guidelines.

Detailed information is reported in the AlmaDL Journals Data Policy.

Authors who are affiliated to the University of Bologna can publish their data in AMSActa, the institutional research data repository.

Indexing and abstracting

The Journal is indexed in the following databases and search engines:

Archiving Policy

As part of AlmaDL Journals, the Journal adopts a strategy to ensure long term preservation of the published content. Please see the archiving policy of the publishing service AlmaDL Journals.

Publisher

Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
Alma Diamond – open scholarly communication

Via Zamboni 33,
40126 - Bologna (Italy)

Ownership

Department of Interpreting and Translation
Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, Forlì Campus

C.so della Repubblica, 136
47121 Forlì, Italy