Journal of Media and Religion Studies (MEDIAD), which has started its publication in June 2018, is an international peer-reviewed journal that accepts papers in the languages of Turkish, English and Arabic.

It includes articles, translations, and book reviews carried out with various scientific methods in the fields of Social Theory, Religious Sciences, Communication Sciences, Media Studies, Psychology, Law, Philosophy, Literature etc., focusing on different implications of the relationship between media and religion.

Its mission is to concretize initiatives concerning the relationship between the media and religion in our country, thereby making these initiatives more precise as a field of inquiry, to lay the groundwork for new methodological design of the field, to bring ​​international academic knowledge accumulation to the attention of national academia, and to reflect authentic local, regional and global perspectives in the field.

Journal of Media and Religion Studies (MEDIAD) employs double-blind refereeing system. Double-blind refereeing is a method concerning publishing of scientific publications in high quality within ethical standards. This method is the basis of an objective evaluation process of scientific studies and is preferred by many scientific journals.

Articles submitted to the Journal of Media and Religion Studies (MEDIAD) are reviewed first by the Editorial Board in terms of compliance with the journal's principles, and then sent to two approved referees. If deemed necessary, articles may be sent to a third referee approved by the editor.

In accordance with the double-blinding method, the identities of the authors and referees are kept secret. The editorial board decides on the publication of the articles.

Ethical values are one of the most important elements of all scientific study processes. For this reason, studies submitted to the journal are subjected to a completely confidential evaluation process. The information and ideas acquired during the evaluation are kept confidential; they cannot be used to gain an advantage in any way.

Plagiarism Policy

As a requirement of its publication ethics, the Journal of Media and Religion Studies necessitates that every study which has passed the blind refereeing process goes through    plagiarism check in order to protect the integrity of every study. In this context, Turkish and English copies of each study go through plagiarism check by a member appointed by the editorial board.

Plagiarism check is carried out through appropriate software according to the nature of the article and a report is prepared accordingly. The author may be asked to correct the errors pointed in the report or his/her study may be returned. The ethical and legal responsibility of the studies belongs primarily to the authors.

The editorial board of Journal of Media and Religion Studies complies with the following rules for plagiarism policy:

The articles with an overall similarity index of greater than 20% are rejected without proceeding for the formal peer review. In such cases, the author(s) will be asked to re-revise the article within three weeks. The similarity  index for a single source must be equal to or lower than 5%.  Editors may also choose to run a similarity report at any other point during the review process or post-publication.

The above-mentioned rules are accepted by all authors who have uploaded articles to the journal.

Journal of Media and Religion Studies expects all parties to hold the following ethical responsibilities.

1. Publication and authorship:

• List of references, financial support;

• No plagiarism, no fraudulent data;

• Forbidden to publish same research in more than one journal.

2. Author’s responsibilities:

• Authors obliged to participate in peer review process;

• All authors have significantly contributed to the research;

• A statement that all data in the article are real and authentic;

• All authors are obliged to provide retractions or corrections of mistakes.

3. Peer review/responsibility for the reviewers:

• Judgments should be objective;

• Reviewers should have no conflict of interest with respect to the research, the authors and/or the research funders;

• Reviewers should point out relevant published work which is not yet cited;

• Reviewed articles should be treated confidentially. 

4. Editorial responsibilities:

• Editors have complete responsibility and authority to reject/accept an article;

• Editors should have no conflict of interest with respect to articles they reject/accept;

• Only accept a paper when reasonably certain;

• When errors are found, promote the publication of correction or retraction;

• Preserve the anonymity of reviewers.

• No plagiarism, no fraudulent data.

5. Publishing ethics issues

• Monitoring/safeguarding publishing ethics by editorial board;

• Guidelines for retracting articles;

• Maintain the integrity of the academic record;

• Preclude business needs from compromising intellectual and ethical standards;

• Always be willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions, and apologies when needed.

Financial rights of all articles published in the Journal of Media and Religion Studies (MEDIAD), especially all kinds of printing rights and copyrights including processing, reproduction, representation, printing, publishing, distribution and transmission via internet belong to Erciyes University Media and The Center for Media and Religion Studies (MEDIAM).

The usage rights of academic content published in the Journal of Media and Religious Studies (MEDIAD) are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND4.0). With this license, the academic content published in the journal can be downloaded or shared by following the excitation rules, but cannot be changed and used for commercial purposes.

Creative Commons copyright licenses and tools create a balance within the traditional "all rights reserved" structure created by law.

The copyright of our journal is as follows;

• 1. No registration is required for copyright. Rights on intellectual and artistic works are born with the production of the work. Copyrights have an abstract nature. They are intangible goods created by human thought and protected by copyright. Copyrights have an independent asset and legal value.
• 2. The principle of territoriality applies to copyrights. In which country the protection is requested, the protection conditions are determined according to the legislation of that country.
• 3. It has the nature of absolute rights. Copyrights can be asserted against everyone. However, various limitations have been imposed on this absolute right for reasons such as the protection of community interest. Limitations imposed on the absolute right: It consists of restrictions on public order, general morality, public interest, and exceptions for the benefit of private interest (personal use, etc.). (For example, it is possible that a work can be reproduced for private use without profit.)
• 4. Intellectual property rights are protected for a certain period of time (70 years in intellectual and artistic works, etc.). Intellectual products have a separate and independent legal status.
• 5. Intellectual products are regulated within the framework of special laws, regulations, and regulations.

However, users may refer to the published full text of the articles.

Violation of copyrights is a criminal offense as defined under the relevant articles of the Law on Intellectual and Artistic Works Numbered 5846.

It is possible to access all the issues of the Journal of Media and Religion Studies (MEDIAD) on the internet in accordance with the open access policy.