Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift (KWZ)

Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift（KWZ）自2016年起由成立于2015年的Kulturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft（KWG）出版。自创刊以来，又出版了八期，包括两个专题特刊。该杂志的任务是促进文化研究的研究，并通过出版来自文化研究各个领域的高质量德语和英语稿件，连接跨学科和国际专业团体。对历史和当代现象的范式分析以及理论辩论的重建和启动形成了主题焦点。除了论文、评论和报告之外，每期还邀请一位著名文化研究学者就其研究领域的当前话题和争议发表纲领性的客座文章。作为KWG的出版机构，KWZ旨在与国际学术话语交换关于文化研究问题、理论方法和方法论概念的辩论，批判地、自我反思地审视自身理论传统与理论输入的关系。通过该计划，KWZ成功地将自己打造成跨学科交流的论坛，并在第一个资助阶段（2018-2020）结束后成为文化研究讨论的中心出版场所。KWZ每年以开放获取的在线版本出版两次。出版语言德语或英语的文章是双盲同行评审的。所有文章都可以从出版商的网站（https：//sciendo.com/journal/KWG）以及KWZ自己的主页（https：//kulturwissenschaftlichezeitschrift.de/）永久下载。2022年初，KWZ将重新启动，期刊将从De Gruyter/Sciendo出版社搬迁到Felix Meiner Verlag。作为该出版社的第一本纯OA期刊，它将在出版数字化过程中发挥先锋作用。预期与Meiner合作的协同效应应加强KWZ作为文化研究中心出版场所的知名度，并有助于该学科的长期可持续性。第二阶段（2021-2023年）计划的营销、社交媒体和国际化战略的强化，以及通过KWZ主页增加提供替代数字和多媒体内容，也有助于产生更广泛的影响。到第二个资助阶段（2021-2023年）结束时，KWG成员数量的增加表明该杂志将能够从自己的资源中获得资金。

The Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift (KWZ) is published since 2016 by the Kulturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft (KWG), founded in 2015. Since the founding issue, eight further issues, including two thematic special issues, have been published. The journal's tasks are to promote research in cultural studies and to connect the transdisciplinary and international professional community by publishing high-quality German- and English-language contributions from all areas of cultural studies. Paradigmatic analyses of historical and contemporary phenomena and the reconstruction and initiation of theoretical debates form the thematic focus. In addition to essays as well as reviews and reports, each issue features a programmatic guest article by a renowned cultural studies scholar on current topics and controversies in his or her field of study.As the publication organ of the KWG, the KWZ aims to profile debates on cultural studies issues, theoretical approaches and methodological concepts in exchange with international academic discourses, and to critically and self-reflexively examine its own theoretical traditions in relation to theory imports. With this program, the KWZ has succeeded in establishing itself as a forum for interdisciplinary exchange and as a central publication venue for cultural studies discussions after the end of the first funding phase (2018-2020). The KWZ is published twice a year in an open-access online edition. The articles in the publication languages German or English are double-blind peer-reviewed. All articles are permanently available for download from the publisher's website (https://sciendo.com/journal/KWG) as well as from the KWZ's own homepage (https://kulturwissenschaftlichezeitschrift.de/).At the beginning of 2022, there will be a 'relaunch' of the KWZ with the relocation of the journal from the publishing house De Gruyter/Sciendo to Felix Meiner Verlag. As this publisher’s first purely OA journal it will take on a pioneering role for digitization processes in publishing. The synergy effects expected from the collaboration with Meiner should strengthen the visibility of the KWZ as a central publication venue for cultural studies research and contribute to the long-term sustainability of the discipline. The generation of an even broader impact is also served by the intensification of marketing, social media, and internationalization strategies planned for the second funding phase (2021-2023), as well as the increased provision of alternative digital and multimedia content via the KWZ homepage. By the end of the second funding phase (2021-2023), the increase in KWG's membership numbers suggests that the journal will be able to secure funding from its own resources.