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max-height:none; margin:0px; padding:0px; "><strong><em>The Open Communication Journal</em></strong> offers scholars around the world an opportunity to publish peer-reviewed research of high caliber. Its focuses are: cultural communication, language and visual communication, rhetoric studies, discourse analysis, communication and science, communication pedagogy and pragmatics, political, professional and technical communication, as well as propaganda studies, the history of communication and e-communication studies. 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