International Journal of Communication invites you to read these 85 publications that published in January

The International Journal of Communication is pleased to announce the publication of 85 papers in JANUARY 2024, which includes the “Special Section on Rethinking Artificial Intelligence: Algorithmic Bias and Ethical Issues” and the “Forum on Sociotechnical Change: Tracing Flows, Languages, and Stakes Across Diverse Cases.” To access these papers, Ctrl+Click on the titles below for direct hyperlinking, or go to ijoc.org to read the Special Section and Forum.

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EDITORIALS

Envoi: Looking Back With Pride and Looking Forward With Optimism
Larry Gross
 
Passing the Conductor’s Baton: The Score Remains the Same
Silvio Waisbord

ARTICLES

Communication Inequality and the Technopolitical Structure of Platform Work: Aotearoa New Zealand Platform Workers During COVID-19
Leon A. Salter, Mohan J. Dutta

The Heteronormative Male Gaze: Experiences of Sexual Content Moderation Among Queer Instagram Users in Berlin
Rachel Griffin

Using Radical Co-Design to Create and Develop a Technology-Based Solution to Improve Post-Release Outcomes for Formerly Incarcerated Women: LindaBot
Michele Jarldorn, Susannah Emery 

“O Ever Youthful, O Ever Weeping”: Exploring Youth Empowerment Through Platform-Dependent Creative Labor in China
Yunyi Hu

Vaccine Misinformation for Profit: Conspiratorial Wellness Influencers and the Monetization of Alternative Health
Rachel E. Moran, Anna L. Swan, Taylor Agajanian

Explicating the Effects of In- Versus Out-Group Membership and Collective Action Framing on Social Media Activism Messages
Chen Lou, Chelsea Ning Rei Yap, Xuan Zhou, Ji Ah Lim, Melody Tingyi Koh, Aik Tan

Platform Analogies: How Bookstores, Libraries, and Supermarkets Can Inform Thinking on Social Media
Caitlin Petre, Nicole Weber 

“Drop a Bomb on Them . . . and Problem Solved!” An Analysis of Poverty Discourse on TikTok 
Ana Mayagoitia-Soria, Juan Manuel González-Aguilar, Salvador Gómez-García, María Antonia Paz-Rebollo 

Scrolling Past Public Health Campaigns: Information Context Collapse on Social Media and Its Effects on Tobacco Information Recall
George D. H. Pearson, Joseph N. Cappella

Health Information Orientation, Social Support, and Diabetes Self-Care Behavior Among Indian Adults: The Roles of Education and Self-Efficacy
Yam Limbu, Devon Johnson, C. Jayachandran, Christopher J. McKinley, P. Raghunadha Reddy

Ethical Challenges of Digital Communication: A Comparative Study of Public Relations Practitioners in 52 Countries 
Jens Hagelstein, Sophia Charlotte Volk, Ansgar Zerfass, Andréia Silveira Athaydes, Jim Macnamara, Juan Meng, Chun-Ju Flora Hung-Baesecke 

Social Norms, Referent Group Specificity, and College Students’ COVID-19 Vaccination Intentions: Risk and Efficacy Perceptions as Boundary Conditions of Normative Influence
Jie Zhuang, Paul Schrodt, Mengfei Guan 

Network Informational Complexity, Epistemic Political Efficacy, and Fact-Checking
Toby Hopp 

Feeling Threatened and Thinking of Actions? Examining Consumers’ Responses to Corporate Social Advocacy Messages Through Intergroup Threat Perceptions
Xueying Zhang, Mei-Chen Lin 

Consumer-Generated Visual Advertisements in Social Media Brand Communities 
Hui-Fei Lin, Pei-Chih Lin, Benjamin Yeo

Civil Society Chatbots: A Plurality of Conceptual Approaches
Sophie Toupin

Finding Sarah Everard: A Critical Discourse Analysis Exploring the First Two Weeks of News Media Coverage Following Her Disappearance and Murder
Sim Gill

Discussing the Role of TikTok Sharing Practices in Everyday Social Life
Andreas Schellewald

Information Sources, Credibility, Knowledge, and Risk Perceptions: Findings From the National Tuberculosis Survey in South Korea
Jarim Kim, Sunouk You, Yesolran Kim 

The Daily Show’s Climate Change Content: Two Decades of Late-Night Science Communication
Charlotte Gehrke

The Role of Second Screening in Online Political Participation in Jakarta and Islamabad
Drina Intyaswati, Qasim Mahmood, Hermina Simanihuruk 

Engaging International Students via Dialogic Communication
Rachel Dean, Linjuan Rita Men

Knowledge Migration and the Politics of Innovation
Saskia Witteborn 

Getting out of Debt: The Communication Begets Communication (CBC) Typology as an Approach to Theoretical Advancement in the Field
Nathan Walter, R. Lance Holbert, John Jennings Brooks, Camille J. Saucier, Sapna Suresh, Floor Fiers 

Ambiguity Undermines Persuasive Effectiveness: Ego Involvement, Motivated Reasoning, and Message Ambiguity
David M. Keating, Qinjun Fan

Cryptid Communication: Media Messages and Public Beliefs About Cryptozoology
Wyatt Dawson, Paul R. Brewer, Liam Cuddy 

The Labor of Cultural Conception and Uncertainty in Cultural Work: The Work of Korean Drama Writers
Hoyoung Kim 

“A Significant Impact on our Democracy”: Chilean Media Audiences’ Claims for Dignity
Mónica Humeres-Riquelme, Claudia Jordana-Contreras, Jorge Saavedra-Utman

Trust Divide in Health Information Sources? Investigating the Role of Techno-Capital and Social Capital: A Comparative Analysis of General and Low-Income Populations
Jaewon R. Choi, Joseph Straubhaar, Soyoung Park, Maria Skouras, Melissa Santillana, Sharon Strover

Effects of Intergroup Communication on Intergroup Anxiety and Prejudice Through Single Sessions of Peer Counseling in Online Settings
Romy RW, Nick Joyce

Journalistic Theater: A Case Study of Reporting on People’s Emotional Response to Current Affairs With the Body as Medium
Stijn Postema

Talking Facts and Establishing (In)Justice: Discussing Public Matters on Instagram
Luise Salte

Chilling Effects as a Result of Corporate Surveillance in Digital Communication: A Comparison Between American and Dutch Media Users
Joanna Strycharz, Claire M. Segijn

Janus-Faced Portrayal: News Representation of Migrant Workers in Malaysian Newspapers Amid COVID-19
Huihuang Lai, Hanizah Idris, Jiankun Gong

Public Service Media and the Internet: Two Decades in Review
Alessandro D’Arma, Steven Barclay, Minna Aslama Horowitz

Uncertainty Communication in a High-Trust Society: Source Type, Political Preference, and Trust
Øyvind Ihlen, Audun Fladmoe, Kari Steen-Johnsen  

Online Toxicity Against Syrians in Turkish Twitter: Analysis and Implications 
Hala Mulki, Samir Alabdullah, Ahmed Halil, Nawari Al-Ali, Maria Kyriakidou, Ludek Stavinoha

“I Care Where You Come From”: Testing the Conditional Moderated Mediation of Country-of-Origin Effect in Multinational Enterprises’ Corporate Social Responsibility Communication
BaoBao Song

Convergent Television Audiences, Digital Inequalities, and Social Support in Getting Audiovisual Content
Štěpán Žádník, Jakub Macek

What You See from These Survival Games is What Machines Get and Know: Squid Game, Surveillance Capitalism, and Platformized Spectatorship
Jihoon Kim

“These Parents, Themselves, Are Using These Children as Pawns”: The Politicization of Childhood at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Alyvia Walters

Spreading Like Wildfire: The Securitization of the Amazon Rainforest Fires on Twitter
Natalia Umansky

Trust and Online Privacy Concerns in a General Population of Internet Users
Stelios Stylianou

Two-Sided Narration and In-Group Narrator: Examining the Effects of Different Strategies of Mediated Public Diplomacy 
Tianru Guan, Yue Yin, Yilu Yang

Visual Hate Speech and Its Discontents: Young Adult Chinese and Malaysians’ Perception of Visual Hate Speech
Jamaluddin Bin Aziz, Holger Briel

Mapping the Russian Media Field Through Audience Networks and Agenda Choice
Alla Loseva, Anna Moroz, Egor Shmidt, Daniel Alexandrov 

FEATURE

Members in Good Standing? The Relationship Between NoFap/Reboot Communities and the Manosphere
David S. Smith

BOOK REVIEWS

Mark Andrejevic and Neil Selwyn, Facial Recognition
Katerina Girginova

Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere and Deliberative Politics 
Elizabeth Folan O’Connor

Alex Preda, The Spectacle of Expertise: Why Financial Analysts Perform in the Media
Micky Lee  

Dan McQuillan, Resisting AI: An Anti-Fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence
Florencio Cabello Fernández-Delgado

Eszter Hargittai (Ed.), Handbook of Digital Inequality
Christopher Ali

Moya Bailey, Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance
Hyejin Jo

E Cram, Violent Inheritance: Sexuality, Land, and Energy in Making The North American West 
Shelby R. Crow

Jennifer McClearen, Fighting Visibility: Sports Media and Female Athletes in the UFC
Evan Brody

Larisa Kingston Mann, Rude Citizenship: Jamaican Popular Music, Copyright, and the Reverberations of Colonial Power 
Jiaxi Hou

Meredith Broussard, More Than A Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech
Melike Asli Sim

Sara Shaban, Iranian Feminism and Transnational Ethics in Media Discourse
Laila Abbas

Amanda D. Lotz and Ramon Lobato (Eds.), Streaming Video: Storytelling Across Borders
Melina Meimaridis

Janaki Srinivasan, The Political Lives of Information: Information and the Production of Development in India 
Rajdeep Pakanati

Johanna Dunaway and Kathleen Searles, News and Democratic Citizens in the Mobile Era
Ana Melro

Richard Rogers and Sabine Niederer (Eds.), The Politics of Social Media Manipulation
Qing Xu

Cory Barker, Social TV: Multi-Screen Content and Ephemeral Culture
Aidan Moir

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