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Kaleidoscope: a graduate journal of qualitative communication research
Praise for Kaleidoscope
"This is an important cutting edge journal for communication scholars. It fills a real niche and is gaining a reputation as an important site for new scholars seeking an outlet for their work."
--Norman K. Denzin, Professor of Communications, Sociology and Humanities,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"This journal has tremendous promise to be a training ground for graduate students in many ways. First, it gives graduate students a high quality, peer reviewed outlet for publication. Second, it gives graduate student reviewers training in how to fulfill that important professional responsibility to the scholarly community. Third, it gives the graduate students at SIUC wonderful training and experience in managing a scholarly journal. . . .This journal serves an important professional service for the entire discipline of Communication . . .".
--Barry Brummett, Charles Sapp Centennial Professor in Communication,
University of Texas at Austin
". . .[Kaleidoscope] is also a wonderful journal in that it focuses exclusively on qualitative research; many graduate students today find themselves in academic environments where quantitative studies rule the roost and Kaleidoscope provides an excellent venue for them to share their scholarly work."
--Marc Leverette, doctoral student,
Rutgers University
". . . Kaleidoscope fills a publication gap in the Communication discipline and provides an opportunity for future scholars to learn the process of publication. This serves an important and necessary role in preparing future faculty."
--Pat Arneson, Associate Professor in the Department of Communication & Rhetorical Studies,
Duquense University
". . . As a Southern Illinois University alum (1980), I have been proud to participate in this graduate student effort and to recommend it to my students at the University of Maine. The journal is unique in its focus on qualitative research in communication and innovative in its format."
--Kristen M. Langellier, Professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism,
University of Maine
". . .As a graduate student in communication I cannot think of a more important tool that I have taken advantage of than my submission to this journal. It has provided me with an important research experience. I benefited from the review process and was rewarded through seeing my work in print. "
--Kim Gatz, graduate student,
Illinois State University
". . . This journal is needed in the field of communication where qualitative research is exploding yet there are no qualitative communication journals. It is amazing that students have taken the lead. They have been very professional in organizing this journal and getting top papers and reviewers. Their board contains the top academics--professors and advanced graduate students--in qualitative communication research. I have been very impressed with what they have been able to accomplish."
--Carolyn Ellis, Professor in Communication Studies,
University of South Florida
". . .Though we talk the talk of being connected in departments as academic 'communities' and recognize the importance of such unity, we rarely get a chance to read each other's finished or published work. Generally, when we finish a paper, it goes to an instructor, and comes back to us. Our colleagues only read the proofs. Ordinarily, once we are published, we are out of, or on our way out of, an academic program. Kaleidoscope gives us a will and way to become academically connected and a reason to dialogue about our research and work."
--Rochelle Robertson, doctoral student,
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale