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Submitting a piece for publication in Interfacings will be deemed to constitute the granting of a right to publish that article with such amendments as are necessary to conform to the stylistic conventions of the journal.

The General Board may publish, or arrange to have published, compendia in print or electronic form of pieces previously published on the Interfacings website.

Where a submission is reviewed and published in Interfacings and a version of that piece is subsequently published elsewhere the author will ensure that reasonable attribution is provided to Interfacings. The suggested wording will be "Previously published in Interfacings" with a link to the then current address of the Interfacings website.

All other rights will be retained by the authors. Where an author, or authors, have chosen to assign their rights to the public domain, or to use a specific copyright license, this will be noted on the Interfacings website.

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MISSION STATEMENT
- Interfacings is a project of the student body of the Institute of Communications Research. It is a peer reviewed journal that seeks a variety of approaches to the study of communication and culture, media objects and practices, with an emphasis on interdisciplinarity and innovative approaches. Interfacings provides a forum for scholars to shape the future of cultural and media studies.

GENERAL BODY
- Overall control of Interfacings will be exercised by meetings of those members of the student body of the ICR who choose to be involved in Interfacings.
- Decisions will be taken where possible by consensus, and failing that by such voting procedure as may be accepted by the student body from time to time.
- The general body will meet at least once in each of the fall and winter semester. It will be the responsibility of the editors to ensure meetings are called.
- The general body will appoint at least two Journal Editors to attend to the journal’s daily affairs for fixed terms of one year, and may appoint one or more Journal Editors (who may or may not be the same as the aforementioned editors) to handle submissions in languages other than English that might be decided that the journal publish in, for fixed terms of one year, and additional editors may be appointed for projects such as special areas and special issues as they arise. No editor will serve for more than two years.
- The general body will assign volunteers from amongst themselves to such tasks as are necessary from time to time.

JOURNAL EDITORS
- The editors will formulate Calls for Submissions and present them for approval to the general body.
- The editors will solicit reviewers to review submissions received, turning first to members of the ICR community (students, faculty, alumni) and previous reviewers where possible and appropriate.
- All submissions will be reviewed by at least two people, no more than one to be a serving editor of Interfacings. A majority recommendation is required to publish.

EDITORIAL BOARD
- The editorial board through its collective existence provides a warrant as to the aims, operations and content of Interfacings.
- Membership may be extended, upon resolution of the General Body, for renewable three year terms, to members of the communications and interdisciplinary research community, to faculty members of the ICR, and to ICR students.

FACULTY ADVISORY COMMITTEE
- There will be a faculty advisory committee, consisting of interested members of the ICR faculty who are appointed by the General Body for renewable two year terms.
- The committee will provide guidance and advice in the day to day operations of the journal, help the journal be a self-sustaining institution that renews itself, encouraging the involvement of incoming students, and help ICR students learn about how a professional peer-reviewed academic journal operates.