International Journal of Communication announces the publication of 53 papers that published in FEBRUARY

International Journal of Communication invites you to read these 53 publications that published in February

The International Journal of Communication is pleased to announce the publication of 53 papers in FEBRUARY 2024, which includes the “Book Review Forum on Eszter Hargittai’s Connected in Isolation.” To access these papers, Ctrl+Click on the titles below for direct hyperlinking, or go to ijoc.org to read the Forum.

_______________________________________________________________________

ARTICLES

The Making of Elihu Katz, 1926–1956: Generations and Ethnoreligious Identities in the Transnational Development of Communication Studies  
Peter Simonson  

Glittering Generalities: Reconsidering the Institute for Propaganda Analysis  
A.J. Bauer  

Do They Stop? How Do They Stop? Why Do They Stop? Whether, How, and Why Teens Insert “Frictions” Into Social Media’s Infinite Scroll  
Nikhila Natarajan  

In Dishonor of: The Assemblage of Counter-Memory as Networked Resistance on Twitter  
Fatima Gaw, Jon Benedik A. Bunquin  

Memories on Steel and Vinyl: The Northern Pacific Railway and the Sound of Memory  
Bryce D. Tellmann  

Mapping Chinese Digital Nationalism: A Literature Review  
Xiaoyu Zhang, Delia Dumitrica, Jeroen Jansz  

Physiological Response to Political Advertisement: Examining the Influence of Partisan and Issue Congruence on Attention and Emotion  
H. Denis Wu 

Digital Artivisms: Creative Practices, Digital Technologies, and Political Participation Among Young Portuguese Artivists  
Ricardo Campos, José Alberto Simões  

Jair Bolsonaro’s Populist Communication on Brazilian Television: An Analysis of Television Newscasts on Globo and Record During the COVID-19 Pandemic  
Bruno Araújo, Liziane Guazina  

Analyzing Media Representations of Terrorist Attacks Against Muslims: A Comparative Content Analysis of the Christchurch Mosque Attacks on BBC, Al Jazeera, and Al Arabiya Websites  
Fatima Abdul Rehman, Ruba Salma  

“They Are Amongst Us”: News About Islamist Terrorism, Perceptions of Sleeper Terrorists, and Negative Stereotypes Toward Muslims in the West 
Jörg Matthes, Ruta Kaskeleviciute  

Reviving the “Yellow Peril” Digitally: Anti-Asian Hate on Twitter During the COVID-19 Pandemic  
Fangjing Tu, Shanshan Jiang, Xue Gong  

Spoilers as Self-Protection: Investigating the Influence of Empathic Distress and Concern for the Self on Spoiler Selection  
Sarah E. Brookes, Judith E. Rosenbaum, Morgan E. Ellithorpe  

The First Spanish-Language Album to Reach Number One: El Último Tour del Mundo, Bad Bunny, and the Billboard 200 
Christopher Joseph Westgate  

How Chinese Women Cope With Physical and Psychological Traumas in Gynecological Examinations: A Situational Analysis of Patients’ Communicative Accommodation
Xinying Yang, Hongfeng Qiu 

Bibliometric Analysis on the Research Trend of Over the Top Platforms—Focusing on Social Science Research on Netflix From 2001 to 2020  
Xiaole Zhu, Yeajin Joo, Yoonjae Nam  
 
Debunking News as a Journalistic Genre: From the Inverted Pyramid to a Circular Writing Model 
Paula Herrero-Diz, David Varona-Aramburu, Marta Pérez-Escolar 
 
Intersectional Powers of Digital Repression: How Activists are Digitally Watched, Charged, and Stigmatized in Thailand  
Janjira Sombatpoonsiri 
  
Different Dimensions of Communicative Exchanges in Online Political Talk: Measuring Reciprocity Through Structures, Behaviors, and Discourses  
Tariq Choucair, Rousiley C. M. Maia  
 
That Is So Mainstream: The Impact of Hyper-Partisan Media Use and Right-, Left-Wing Alternative Media Repertoires on Consumers’ Belief in Political Misperceptions in the United States 
Brittany Shaughnessy, Myiah J. Hutchens, Eliana DuBosar 
 
Agenda-Setting Effects During Times of Social Disruption: The Influence of Mass Media and Personal Experiences on Societal Concerns  
Sophia Schaller, Dorothee Arlt, Jens Wolling 

Developing an Affordance-Practice Framework to Data Practices: How Civic Technologists Practice Data Literacy Cross-Regionally
Alejandro Alvarado Rojas 
 
From Information Poverty to Information Deficit: An Intersectional Analysis of Women of Color’s News Information-Seeking Habits in the Digital Age
Chelsea Peterson-Salahuddin
 
From Emancipation to Confusing the Nation: Social Media and Figurations of Disinformation a Decade After the Arab Uprisings
Nermin Elsherif, Tasniem Anwar 
 
Dual Impact of Tie Strength and Visibility of Action on Political Participation Types  
Simin Michelle Chen 
 
Unfair Competition: How States Use Disinformation to Exercise Public Diplomacy  
Juan Luis Manfredi 

Commodification of Spirituality and the Spiritual Healers’ Labor on Facebook  
Berit Renser, Katrin Tiidenberg  
 
From Cultivation to Self-Cultivation: Alternative Media and Reinforcing Spirals in a Fragmented Media Environment  
Angelica Cöster, Adam Shehata 

When Partisans Do Not Share Partisan News: Third-Person Effect in an Era of Polarized Politics
Seungsu Lee, Jaeho Cho

BOOK REVIEWS

Rules and Rivals: A Review Essay
Sue Curry Jansen

Leland G. Spencer, Rape, Agency, and Carceral Solutions: From Criminal Justice to Social Justice
Courtney D. Tabor 

David Goodman and Joy Elizabeth Hayes, New Deal Radio: The Educational Radio Project
David Elliot Berman 
 
Thomas Poell, David Nieborg, and Brooke Erin Duffy, Platforms and Cultural Production
Mustafa Oz 

Laine Nooney, The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal
Rongxin Ouyang 

Lee McGuigan, Selling the American People: Advertising, Optimization, and the Origins of Adtech 
Jennifer Hessler 
 
Elyakim Kislev, Relationships 5.0: How AI, VR, and Robots Will Reshape Our Emotional Lives 
Jinyuan Zhan 

Sue Robinson, How Journalists Engage: A Theory of Trust Building, Identities, and Care  
Andrea Wenzel 

Aynne Kokas, Trafficking Data: How China Is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty  
Jing Zeng 

Jeremy Packer, Paula Nuñez de Villavicencio, Alexander Monea, Kathleen Oswald, Kate Maddalena, and Joshua Reeves, The Prison House of the Circuit: Politics of Control from Analog to Digital  
Michelle Phan 

Patrick Ferrucci and Scott A. Eldridge II (Eds.), The Institutions Changing Journalism: Barbarians Inside the Gate  
Thomas R. Schmidt 

Senta Siewert, Performing Moving Images: Access, Archives and Affects  
Kelsey Moore 

Peiren Shao, New Perspectives on Geography of Media  
Yingzi Qu, Guofeng Wang 

Exploring Creativity Under Platform Capitalism   
Barry John King  

___________________________________________________________
Silvio Waisbord, Editor 
Kady Bell-Garcia, Managing Editor 
Chi Zhang, Managing Editor, Special Sections 
Mark Mangoba-Agustin, Webmaster 

Please note that according to the latest Google Scholar statistics, IJoC ranks 7th among all Humanities journals and 8th among all Communications journals in the world  — demonstrating the viability of open access scholarly publication at the highest level.