The Journal of Communication Pedagogy (JCP) is a peer-reviewed journal sponsored by the Central States Communication Association. The journal publishes only the highest quality articles that extend communication theory, research, and practice in meaningful ways. We seek manuscripts that focus on communication education & instructional communication research situated in a variety of contexts such as (but not limited to) classrooms, health, business/industry, religious, risk/crisis, training and leadership, public relations, journalism, forensics, and nonprofits both within the borders of the United States and beyond them. We are particularly interested in diversity, equity, and inclusion research as well as the use of technology in instruction. We also welcome communication pedagogy research that intersects with interdisciplinary and/or emerging scholarship around, for example, open pedagogy and open educational resources, online learning, and artificial intelligence. In sum, we seek manuscripts that examine communication pedagogy as it occurs across subfields in the communication discipline, in disciplines throughout the academy, and in contexts beyond the walls of higher education.
The Journal of Communication Pedagogy currently accepts manuscripts on a rolling basis, publishing once a year and is an open-access journal. All manuscripts must adhere to the guidelines published in the most recent edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association and must not have been published elsewhere or be under review for any other publication.
Current Volume: Volume 10 (2026)
Editorial
Editor’s Note to Volume 10 of the Journal of Communication Pedagogy: A Critical and Urgent Call
Meggie Mapes
Research Articles
Exploring Power in the Classroom Through the Lens of Relational Power
Aubree A. Herman and Narissra Maria Punyanunt-Carter Phd
Artificial Intelligence Adoption among Future Journalism and Mass Communications Professionals: A TAM-Based Approach to Students’ Generative AI Adoption Intent
Chinwendu P. Akalonu
The Co-Educators Framework: An Illustrative Account of Shared Pedagogical Practice and Inclusive Teaching in a Large-Enrollment Communication Course
Divya S, Man Luo, Jisha Jacob, Shahla Shahnaz Dyuti, and Victoria Michelle Main
Meeting Rhetorical and Relational Goals in Online Higher Education: Insights from a South African Case Study
Rentia du Plessis Dr., Diana Breshears Prof., and Luzelle Naudé Prof
Community Problems Need Community Solutions: Feminist Collaboration Across Campuses to Create Transformative Outcomes through Community Engaged Learning
Elizabeth Wilhoit Larson, Jasmine R. Linabary, Ziyu Long, and Kylie J. Johnson
Best Practice
Creating Safe(r) Classrooms: Trauma-Informed Teaching Practices in Higher Education
Shannon Pappas, Nolan Bowers, and Lili R. Romann
Reflective Essays
Speaking in Color: Code-Meshing Against Standard Language Ideology in the Public Speaking Classroom
Darrion A. Walker
From Weaponized Doubt to Educated Doubt: Critical Communication Pedagogy’s Deconstruction of Post-Truth
David H. Kahl Jr.
Section: Why AI Now, and Why Communication Pedagogy?
When They Automate, We Conversate: Tensions on AI in Communication Pedagogy
Kyle Vareberg and Meggie Mapes
AI and Agency: Policy as Problem Posing in the Introductory Communication Studies Classroom
Deanna L. Fassett and Nancy Park
Teaching AI Through Communication: Rethinking Evidence, Interaction, and Learning
Chad Edwards, Matthew J. A. Craig, Varun Rijhwani, and Habeeb Abdulrauf
How to Blow Up an AI Data Center
Tyler Rife
AI Didn’t Break Our Teaching, It Revealed Our Teaching
Michael G. Strawser
The Mundanity of AI
David Westerman and Nicholas Bowman
Complete Volume
JCP Volume 10 Editors
- Editor
- Meggie Mapes
- Associate Editor
- Kyle Vareberg
- Consulting Editors
- Renee Kaufmann
- Robert Sidelinger
- Patric R. Spence