International Journal of Communication invites you to read these 43 publications that published in September

The International Journal of Communication is pleased to announce the publication of 43 papers in SEPTEMBER 2024, which includes the “Special Section on Media and Propaganda” and the “Special Section on Media Technologies and Epistemologies: The Platforming of Everything.” To access these papers, Ctrl+Click on the titles below for direct hyperlinking, or go to ijoc.org.

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ARTICLES

The Platformization of Fandom and its Discontents: Understanding Platform Harms Through the Archive of Our Own
Mel Stanfill

Professionalize the Personal: Online Professional Identity Using Impression Management Among Junior Employees
Amal Nazzal

Platform Closure and Creator Creep: What We Can Learn From Korean Indie Musicians
Robert Prey, Seonok Lee

Understanding Communication and Support Processes Within Families of Marginalized Groups in Türkiye
Mikail Batu, Mustafa Oz, Akan Yanik

Leaning In or Turning Away? Differential Effects of the Early Pandemic Lockdown on Twitter Use
Daniela Stoltenberg, Neta Kligler-Vilenchik, Maya de Vries Kedem, Hadas Gur-Ze’ev, Barbara Pfetsch, Annie Waldherr

Information Environments Surrounding General Social Trust in COVID-19 Context: A Model of Belief in Misinformation and In-Group Trust
Seungyoon Lee, Jae Seon Jeong 

Europeans’ Digital Cultural Participation: Diversification, Democratization, Barriers, and Affordances 
Susanne Janssen, Nete Nørgaard Kristensen, Marc Verboord, Franziska Marquart, Guiseppe Lamberti

Multimodal Crisis Messaging in Times of Pandemic: Comparing Instagram Posts Published by Governments and Public Health Institutions in Germany, Türkiye, the UK, and the USA
Yi Xu, Martin Löffelholz

Being Prescribed to Perform Romance? Game Platform as a Place for Romantic Relationship Practice
Ziran Zhao

Source-Critical Affordances in Social Media Apps
Ståle Grut

Lessons From Senior Journalists’ Coverage of the First Wave of COVID-19: The Significance of Professional Expertise and Hybrid Work
Azi Lev-On, Judith Yehezkelly

Subjective Norm, Self-Efficacy, and Policy Acceptance for Open Communication Science: An Empirical Analysis
Rukun Zhang, Jinghong Xu

A Comparison of Four Approaches to Modeling Information Insufficiency
Pengya Ai, Sonny Rosenthal

Governing Transportation Through Communication: A Cultural History of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) in South Korea
Chamee Yang

Digital Inclusion Support Needs of Households in Poverty: Insights From Interviews With Dutch Social Workers
Lilian G. P. Boerkamp, Alexander J. A. M. van Deursen, Ester van Laar, Alex van der Zeeuw, Shenja van der Graaf

“I Don’t Understand It”: Australians’ Low Interest in Politics and Political News
Caroline Fisher, Sora Park, Kieran McGuinness, Janet Fulton, Shengnan Yao

Revisiting Everyday Activism for Gender Justice and Expanding on its Communicative Dimensions
Florencia Enghel

Programming Queerness? PSM Remits, Metarepresentational Discourse, and LGBTQ+ Portrayals
Florian Vanlee

Examining How Public Service Media Shapes Citizens’ News Media Attitudes and News Avoidance: A Cross-National Comparative Analysis
Michael Chan, Jingjing Yi

The Effect of Maternal Smartphone Distraction on Mother-Child Learning-Based Interaction
Michal Alon-Tirosh, Dorit Hadar Shoval, Kfir Asraf, Manor Fraizond

How do Nonspeakers View Minority Language Media? A Comparison of Basque, Catalan, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, and Welsh Public Broadcasters
Craig Willis

BOOK REVIEWS

Francesca Belotti, Indigenous Media Activism in Argentina
Aniruddha Jena

Margaret Jack, Media Ruins: Cambodian Postwar Media Reconstruction and the Geopolitics of Technology
Codey Ryan Bills

Anke Strüver and Sybille Bauriedl (Eds.), Platformisation of Urban Life: Towards a Technocapitalist Transformation of European Cities
Sandra Jeppesen

Debra Hawhee, A Sense of Urgency: How the Climate Crisis Is Changing Rhetoric
Julia M. Cope

Casey Ryan Kelly, Caught on Tape: White Masculinity and Obscene Enjoyment
Jonathan Devine

Graham Meikle, Deepfakes
Helton Levy

Andrew Iliadis, Semantic Media: Mapping Meaning on the Internet
Dechun Zhang

Ragnhild Brøvig, Parody in the Age of Remix: Mashup Creativity vs. the Takedown
Gabriele Prosperi

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