About the Journal

Journal of Literacy and Technology is an online, peer-reviewed international academic journal exploring the complex relationship between literacy and technology in educational, public, workplace, and individual spheres. Founded in 2000, Journal of Literacy and Technology provides scholarship on interdisciplinary contexts pertinent to novel ways to look at literacy and digital culture.

Journal of Literacy and Technology is part of EBSCO database and invites original academic scholarship, feature articles, and book reviews that overtly focus on complex relationships between literacy and technology, including, but not limited to, the following areas of research:

  • New Media, Social Media Communication Studies
  • Gaming, Education and Literacy 
  • Digital Humanities 
  • Web Research and Theory 
  • Rhetoric, Technology & Literacy New Library Studies 
  • Multicultural Literacies 
  • Technology 
  • Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Technology 
  • Workplace Culture ofTechnology
  • International Studies on E-Learning Distance and/or Virtual Work and Communication Competence 
  • Literacy 

The Journal of Literacy and Technology accepts submissions continuously, publishing three issues yearly. For submission information, contact Nancy Rubin (nancy.rubin@gmail.com) 

Due to the peer-review system, please do not insert any information indicating author(s) of the submission. Make sure your submission follows APA style of reference.

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission’s compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

  1. The submission cannot have been previously published, nor is it submitted to another journal for consideration simultaneously (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor). The submission file is in Microsoft Word or RTF document file format.
  2. The acceptable format for electronic submission is MSWord. All text, including titles, headings, references, quotations, figure captions, and tables, must be typed, double-spaced, with one-inch margins all around. Please use a 12-point font.
  3. Abstract and keywords. All manuscripts must include an abstract and a few keywords. Abstracts describing the essence of the manuscript must be 150 words or less. Authors should select keywords from the menu on the manuscript submission system so that readers may search for the article after it is published.
  4. Please attach a separate file containing information about the author(s), a short bio, and contact information (mailing address and phone number). Abstracts can also be attached as separate documents. In case of multiple authors, please attach a file with all author’s information.