International Journal of Communication invites you to read these 35 publications that published in November

The International Journal of Communication is pleased to announce the publication of 35 papers in NOVEMBER 2024, which includes the “Special Section on The Ultra-Right: Media, Discourses, and Communicative Strategies.” To access these papers, Ctrl+Click on the titles below for direct hyperlinking, or go to ijoc.org.

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ARTICLES

Populism Fuels Hate Speech and Disinformation: Evidence From Political Discourse on X (Formerly Twitter) in India and Pakistan
Shabir Hussain, Qamar Abbas, Sayyed Fawad Ali Shah

Ghost in Dissent: Artifacts and the Architecture of Activism in Digital China
Mengyang Zhao, Anosartor

Racism in the Platformized Cultural Industries: Precarity, Visibility, and Harassment in Canada
Daniela Zuzunaga Zegarra

Exposure to Online Hateful Content and Users’ Engagement: A Silencing Effect
Nicoleta Corbu, Raluca Buturoiu, Oana Ștefăniță, Alexandru Dumitrache

Can This Platform Survive? Governance Challenges for the Fediverse
Thomas Struett, Aram Sinnreich, Patricia Aufderheide, Robert W. Gehl

OK, Boomer: Activating Intergroup Perceptions to Facilitate Intergenerational Contact in Social Media
Alexandra S. Hinck, Caleb T. Carr

“Woman, Life, Freedom”: A Visual Rhetoric Analysis of #MahsaAmini on X
Menna Elhosary, Laila Abbas, Shahira S. Fahmy

Watching Grey’s Anatomy as Sexual Assault Prevention? Examining Factors Related to College Students’ Attitudes and Intended Behaviors
Valerie Ellen Kretz, Anna Marie VanSeveren

Divisive, Negative, and Populist?! An Empirical Analysis of European Populist and Mainstream Parties’ Use of Digital Political Advertisements
Simon Kruschinski, Márton Bene, Jörg Haßler, Uta Rußmann, Darren Lilleker, Delia Cristina Balaban, Paweł Baranowski, Andrea Ceron, Vicente Fenoll, Daniel Jackson

Playing With Visibility: Underground Electronic/Dance Music Culture in the Smartphone Era
Stephen Yang

In/Visibility in the Digital Age: A Literature Review From a Communication Studies Perspective
Helena Stehle, Annekatrin Bock, Claudia Wilhelm, Nina Springer, Merja Mahrt, Katharina Lobinger, Christine Linke, Ines Engelmann, Hanne Detel, Cornelia Brantner

Cross-Cultural TV Drama Viewing, Parasocial Acculturation, and Host Country Branding: Empirical Evidence and Implications
Young Han Bae, Jong Woo Jun, Hyung Min Lee

The Impact of Methodological Diversity on Productivity, Views, and Citations: An Empirical Examination of Communication and its Most Productive Scholars
Manuel Goyanes, Beatriz Jordá, Gergő Háló

Visible Beyond Control? Fragmented Attention and Hypervisibility Trap in the Online Media Coverage of Politically Active Youth
Jana Rosenfeldová, Lenka Vochocová

Are Public Service Media Innovative? Developing a Tool for Assessing Innovation in Production Processes
Mónica López-Golán, Azahara Cañedo, Olga Blasco-Blasco

Longtermism, Big Tech, and the Rebalancing of Historical Time: A Benjaminian Critique
Asher Kessler

Bad Data Better Than No Data? How Journalists Use Numeric Data in Reporting Armed Conflicts
Iris Lambert

Commerce Meets Activism: #StopMenstualShaming and the Dynamics of Feminist Advocacy on Xiaohongshu
Yuejie Gu, Ying Yang, Ariel Saiyinjiya, Wanyu Wu, Qingyun Chen, Siqi Chen, Ioana Literat

K-Pop Fandom and Political Activism in Thailand’s 2020 Student Uprising
Penchan Phoborisut, Jiwoo Park

Image-Text Congruency in Legacy Press Coverage of Iran’s 2019 Bloody November: A Shift Away From the Protest Paradigm?
Afrooz Mosallaei, Douglas Porpora

Creating a New South Korean Style Beyond Hybridity: An Analysis of Why South Korean Dramas Appeal to Americans
Chang Sup Park, Hyerim Jo

News Distortion in Times of Crises: Covid-19 Case in the Arab Media
Mostafa Shehata, Noha Adel

U.S. Military Service Members and Romantic Relationships: Identity Gaps, Mindfulness, and Relational Quality
William Thomas Howe, Leanna Lynne Hartsough

Constructing Jerusalem in English-Language News Media
Abeer Al-Najjar

We Deserve Better: Spanish Adolescents’ Perspectives of the Portrayal of LGBTQ+ Characters in Fiction
María T. Soto-Sanfiel, Esmeralda A. Vázquez-Tapia

How Effective Are Anthropomorphic Chatbots? A Study of Consumer-Chatbot Communication in Taiwan
Wan-Hsiu Sunny Tsai, Ching-Hua Chuan

Universal Access? Investigating News Deserts in the American Public Media System
Louisa Lincoln

BOOK REVIEWS

Julia Sonnevend, Charm: How Magnetic Personalities Shape Global Politics
Robert Watson

Luke Munn, Red Pilled: The Allure of Digital Hate
Neelam Sharma

Jean K. Chalaby, Television in the Streaming Era: The Global Shift
Taeyoung Kim

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