International Journal of Communication invites you to read these 19 publications that published in July

The International Journal of Communication is pleased to announce the publication of 19 papers in JULY 2024 which includes the “Special Section on Bossware: Critically Investigating Employee Monitoring and People Management”. To access these papers, Ctrl+Click on the titles below for direct hyperlinking, or go to ijoc.org.

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ARTICLES

Parenting With Chinese Characteristics in the Digital Age: Chinese Parents’ Perspectives and Parental Mediation of Children’s Media Use
Cecilia Yuxi Zhou

The Datafied School in the Neoliberal Era: Pandemic Shifts in South Korean Education Policy
Saemi Jung

Examining the Links Between Communication and Optimal Outcomes in Foreign Domestic Workers’ Perceived Health-Care Experiences: An Analysis of Proximal and Intermediate Outcomes
Xixi Wang, Bernadette Maria Watson

Revisiting the Hierarchy of Influences on Journalism in a Transitional Context: When the Social System Level Prevails
Dalia Elsheikh, Daniel Jackson, Nael Jebril

Unraveling Structured Routine: An Exploration of Audiences’ Habits in the Post-Network Age
Chun Shao

Working for the Miracle: A Critical, Visual Analysis of Disney’s Encanto
Raisa Alvarado, Carlos Flores, Raquel Moreira 

Identity Experiment in the Metaverse: Making Sense of Zepeto Users’ Avatar Use
Eun-Ju Lee, Sojeong Park, Wonjae Lee, Hyun Suk Kim

The Inherent Vice of Internet Memes: The Double Bind of Recognition and the Aesthetic of Haste
Ben T. Pettis 

An Exploration of Fitspiration Content on Social Media and Chinese Young People’s Insight Into Their Experiences of It: Gender-Based Differences
Jooyeon Lee

Critically Analyzing Platform Interfaces: How Music-Streaming Platforms Frame Musical Experience
David Hesmondhalgh, Raquel Campos Valverde, D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye, Zhongwei Li 

BOOK REVIEWS

James E. Dobson, The Birth of Computer Vision
Maia Nichols

Karin van Es and Nanna Verhoeff (Eds.), Situating Data Inquiries in Algorithmic Culture
Yiming Chen

Smith Mehta, The New Screen Ecology in India: Digital Transformation of Media
Bizaa Zeynab Ali

Liz Przybylski, Sonic Sovereignty: Hip Hop, Indigeneity, and Shifting Popular Music Mainstreams
Ian Sinnett

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Silvio Waisbord, Editor 
Kady Bell-Garcia, Managing Editor
Calvin Liu, Assistant Managing Editor 
Chi Zhang, Managing Editor, Special Sections
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