International Journal of Communication invites you to read these 42 papers that published in June

The International Journal of Communication is pleased to announce the publication of 42 papers in JUNE 2023, which includes the “Special Section on Worker Resistance in Digital Capitalism” and the “Special Section on Afterlives of the Californian Ideology: Tech Movements, Pioneer Communities, and Imaginaries of Digital Futures.” To access these papers, Ctrl+Click on the titles below for direct hyperlinking or go to ijoc.org to read the Special Sections.
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ARTICLES

The Journalistic Wishlist: Exploring Reporters’ Desired Skills Using Delphi Method
Oded Jackman, Zvi Reich

Memes and Veganism: Representations of Vegan Identity and Its Alterity
Camila Joustra, Juan Alfaro, Claudia Giacoman 

Zapping Storms: Camp, Parody, and Queer Video Activism
Raffi Sarkissian

From Symbolic Obscurity to Cultural Visibility? African Immigrants on U.S. Television and the Ambivalence of Nigerians on American Sitcom
Toks Dele Oyedemi

Mediating Banal Populism Through Vlogging in the Philippines
Jefferson Lyndon D. Ragragio

The Role of Media Literacy in Mitigating COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Conspiracy Theories
Jad Melki, Dana Hamzeh, Jana Itani, Maya Hariri, Perla Daou, Abdulrahman Al-Shami,
Hamida El Bour, Sahar Khalifa Salim, Saleh Masharqa, Soheir Othman, Yasar Durra

Audience Perception and Religious Identity Among Social Media Users: The Case of Muslim Arab Women in Israel
Aysha Agbarya

Inequalities in Remote Gig Work During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Floor Fiers, Eszter Hargittai 

Critiquing “Mainstream Media” on Twitter: Between Moralized Suspicion and Democratic Possibility
Sean Phelan, Pieter Maeseele

Delegating Issue Importance Judgments: An Experimental Test of the Agenda Cueing Hypothesis in an Online News Aggregator
Kirill Bryanov

Mukbang Streamers in China: Wanghong as Industry, Laborer, and Exemplar of Social Transformation
Sijun Shen

Like Grandmother, Like Mother? Multigenerational Mediation of Young Children’s Media Use
Galit Nimrod, Nelly Elias, Dafna Lemish

How Class Matters: Examining Working-Class Children’s Home Technology Environments From a Developmental Perspective
Vikki Katz, Brianna Hightower

“I Urgently Need Your Advice”—Digital Stress Experiences and Social Support in Online Forums
Cordula Nitsch, Susanne Kinnebrock

Behind Closed Doors: How Public Affairs Professionals Perceive the Process of Organizational Frame Building
Irina Lock, Sandra Jacobs

BOOK REVIEWS

Dal Yong Jin, Understanding Korean Webtoon Culture: Transmedia Storytelling, Digital Platforms, and Genres
Haixia Man

Rogers Brubaker, Hyperconnectivity and Its Discontents
Jacob Green

Michael Keane, Haiqing Yu, Elaine J. Zhao, and Susan Leong (Eds.), China’s Digital Presence in the Asia-Pacific: Culture, Technology, and Platforms
Nicholas P. Fernacz 

Cortland Rankin, Decline and Reimagination in Cinematic New York
Michael D. Dwyer

Sarah C. Bishop, A Story to Save Your Life: Communication and Culture in Migrants’ Search for Asylum
Kristin Wells

Traci B. Abbott, The History of Trans Representation in American Television andFilm Genres
Aiden James Kosciesza 

Georgina Born, Music and Digital Media: A Planetary Anthropology
Jiaqi Tan, Qiuying Zhao 

Joel Penney, Pop Culture, Politics, and the News: Entertainment Journalism in the Polarized Media Landscape
Valentina Proust

Rachel E. Dubrofsky, Authenticating Whiteness: Karens, Selfies, and Pop Stars
Sim Gill 

Igor E. Kylukanov, Communication: A House Seen from Everywhere
Philip Effiom Ephraim

Danny Kimball, Net Neutrality and the Battle for the Open Internet
Maria Michalis

Emmanuel Alloa (Ed.), This Obscure Thing Called Transparency: Politics and Aesthetics of a Contemporary Metaphor
Raúl Rodríguez-Ferrándiz

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Larry Gross, Editor
Kady Bell-Garcia, Managing Editor
Chi Zhang, Managing Editor, Special Sections

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