Renaissance provides an interdisciplinary forum for scholars, researchers, and practitioners to investigate how communication processes, media systems, cultural identities, social structures, and technological developments interact and shape contemporary societies.

The journal particularly encourages studies situated within Indonesian contexts, including its diverse cultures, communities, languages, local knowledge, media environments, and patterns of social change. Comparative and international studies are also welcomed when they provide clear relevance to Indonesia, Southeast Asia, or the journal's core areas of communication, culture, media, and society.

The journal's scope includes, but is not limited to, the following areas:

• Communication Studies — communication theory, interpersonal communication, organizational communication, political communication, health communication, and other contemporary communication practices.
• Media Studies — mass media, new media, media institutions, media representation, media audiences, media literacy, and changing media ecosystems.
• Digital Communication — social media, digital platforms, online communities, digital participation, platform culture, and emerging communication technologies.
• Journalism & Broadcasting — journalism practices, news production, broadcasting, digital journalism, media ethics, and transformations in news environments.
• Public Relations & Strategic Communication — public relations, corporate communication, branding, crisis communication, stakeholder communication, and communication strategy.
• Cultural & Intercultural Communication — cultural representation, identity, intercultural interaction, symbolic communication, cultural narratives, and communication across communities.
• Indonesian Culture & Local Wisdom — cultural traditions, local knowledge, customary practices, cultural values, community knowledge, and their transformation in contemporary society.
• Society & Social Change — social transformation, community dynamics, identity, migration, globalization, social inclusion, and changing social relations.
• Language & Communication — language use, discourse, sociolinguistics, multilingual communication, digital discourse, and language as a social and cultural communication practice.
• Cultural Heritage — tangible and intangible heritage, heritage communication, cultural memory, preservation, interpretation, and digital heritage.
• Arts & Creative Industries — cultural production, creative media, visual culture, performing arts, creative economies, and communication within creative industries.
• Tourism, Culture & Communication — destination communication, cultural tourism, tourism narratives, place identity, community-based tourism, and digital tourism communication.
• Indigenous & Customary Communities — indigenous knowledge, customary institutions, community communication, cultural continuity, identity, and representation.
• Technology & Society — the social and cultural implications of artificial intelligence, algorithms, digital platforms, information technologies, and emerging communication technologies.

Renaissance welcomes interdisciplinary scholarship connecting communication and media studies with relevant perspectives from sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, linguistics, history, tourism studies, creative industries, information technology, and other related fields.

Interdisciplinary manuscripts should maintain a clear relationship with the journal's principal focus on communication, media, culture, or society.

The journal welcomes diverse scholarly approaches, including qualitative, quantitative, mixed-methods, theoretical, comparative, historical, computational, and interdisciplinary research.

Manuscripts should present a clearly defined scholarly problem, an appropriate research or analytical approach, engagement with relevant literature, and a meaningful contribution to the field.

Indonesia is a central scholarly context of Renaissance because of its cultural diversity, multilingual communities, dynamic media landscape, local traditions, and continuing social transformation.

The journal is not geographically exclusive. Research from Southeast Asia and other regions may be considered when it provides comparative, theoretical, methodological, or empirical relevance to the journal's focus and contributes to broader understanding of communication, culture, media, or society.