International Journal of Communication invites you to read these 33 papers that published in August

The International Journal of Communication is pleased to announce the publication of 33 papers in AUGUST 2023, which includes the “Special Section on The Role of Media on Political Polarization.” To access these papers, Ctrl+Click on the titles below for direct hyperlinking, or go to ijoc.org to read the Special Section.
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ARTICLES

Two Tales of One War: Understanding the Media Coverage of the Yemeni Civil War in Saudi Arabia and Qatar
Talha İsmail Duman, Furkan Halit Yolcu 

The Power of Fake News: Big Data Analysis of Discourse About COVID-19–Related Fake News in South Korea
Sou Hyun Jang, Kyoung Eun Jung, Yong Jeong Yi  

Political Campaign Ads on Facebook: Investigating the Effects of Incivility in Videos and User Comments on Affective Polarization and Mobilization
Taberez Ahmed Neyazi, Ozan Kuru, Subhayan Mukerjee 

Digital Personal Storytelling of Union Supporters and Opponents in Neoliberal Organizational Settings
Tamar Lazar 

Attracting Effective Support on Social Networking Sites: Examining Three Characteristics of Online Support-Seeking Messages
Siyue Li, Diyi Liu, Chenyu She, Wenjing Pan  

Seeing With Transparency: Mapping the Privacy-Security Controversy Over Digital Contact Tracing in Vietnam
Dang Nguyen  

“They Expect us to All be Yellow”: Rhetorical Construction of Asianness in Blackface Controversy Around Jella’s Yellowish-Brown Tanning Makeup on YouTube
Seonah Kim 

Coming Out of the Fog of War and Adoption Trauma: Central American Adoptees and Social Media Support Groups
Nathan Rossi 

Questioning Public Service Media in Egypt and Spain
Mercedes Medina, Rasha Allam 

The Politics of Disconnection: A Systematic Review of Politically Motivated Unfriending
Qinfeng Zhu

Disclosing Hearing Loss: Managing Boundaries Surrounding a Stigmatized Identity
Brittany N. Lash

Automated Fact-Checking to Support Professional Practices: Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analysis
Laurence Dierickx, Carl-Gustav Lindén, Andreas Lothe Opdahl

The Coloniality of Dating Apps: Racial Affordances and Chinese Men Using Gay Dating Apps in Sydney
Rodrigo Perez Toledo, L. L. Wynn  

“It Comes With the Job”: How Journalists Navigate Experiences and Perceptions of Gendered Online Harassment
João Miranda, Maria João Silveirinha, Susana Sampaio-Dias, Bruno Dias, Bibiana Garcez,
Mateus Noronha

“No Does Not Always Mean No”: The Discursive Representation of Female Sexual Rejection as “Last Minute Resistance” in Pick-Up Artist Communities
Giuseppina Scotto di Carlo

The Politics of Pity Under Authoritarianism: How Government-Controlled Media Regulates Audiences’ Mediated Experiences of Distant Suffering
Zhe Xu, Mengrong Zhang  

Selling Synthetic Sisterhood: Legitimation Strategies of Entrepreneurship on MLM Corporate Websites
Heidi E. Huntington, Mary E. Brooks

FEATURE

Converging Media Unions: A Labor History of Newsworkers in a Predigital Age
Errol Salamon

BOOK REVIEWS

Fiona Rossette-Crake, Digital Oratory as Discursive Practice: From the Podium to the Screen
David Boromisza-Habashi

Elena Block, Discursive Disruption, Populist Communication and Democracy: The Cases of Hugo Chávez and Donald J. Trump
Raymie E. McKerrow 

Thy Phu, Erina Duganne, and Andrea Noble (Eds.), Cold War Camera
Liz Hallgren  

Jacob Nelson, Imagined Audiences: How Journalists Perceive and Pursue the Public
Anya Schiffrin

Jennifer Miller, The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children’s Picture Books
Jackson McLaren

James Balfour, Representing Schizophrenia in the Media: A Corpus-Based Approach to UK Press Coverage
Jiamin Pei, Min Wang

Chrisanthi Giotis, Borderland: Decolonizing the Words of War
Maia Nichols

Ross Melnick, Hollywood’s Embassies: How Movie Theaters Projected American Power Around the World
Eneos Çarka

Shanon Fitzpatrick, True Story: How a Pulp Empire Remade Mass Media
Hana Vega

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

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