International Journal of Communication invites you to read these 54 publications that published in January

The International Journal of Communication is pleased to announce the publication of 54 papers in JANUARY 2025, which includes the “Special Section on Unpacking Property: Media, Ownership, and Power in Transformation” and the “Forum on Groundhog Day.” To access these papers, Ctrl+Click on the titles below for direct hyperlinking, or go to ijoc.org.
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ARTICLES

The “Good” Dictator: The Semiotics of “Desirable” Authoritarianism
Sameera Durrani

Difference in and Influences on Public Opinion About Artificial Intelligence in 20 Economies: Reducing Uncertainty Through Awareness, Knowledge, and Trust
Ronald E. Rice, Ming-Yi Wu

The Role of Trust in Social Media Platforms in Shaping Political Effects of Dissident Information Flows: A Case of Facebook in Kazakhstan
Jason Gainous, Kevin Wagner, Amanzhol Bekmagambetov, Adil Rodionov, Serik Beimenbetov,
Aigul Zhanadilova, Zhanna Karimova

How, When, and Why to Use AI: Strategic Uses of Professional Perceptions and Industry Lore in the Dubbing Industry
Laurena Bernabo

Unveiling the Veil: Examining the Stereotyping of Hijab in Internet Memes and GIFs
Omneya Ibrahim, Shahira Fahmy

The Evolution of Twitter: An Entangled History of Intermedia Relationships
Carlos A. Scolari

A Territorialized Business Model? Exploring the Objective and Subjective Conceptualizations of the Local Scale Built by Mid-City Digital News Media in Chile
Antoine Faure, David Jofré, René Jara-Reyes, Claudia Lagos Lira

Dark Cycles: Social Engineering and Political Chatbots in Netanyahu’s 2019 Election Campaigns
Anat Ben-David, Elinor Carmi

The Thin Line Between Conspiracy Theories and Opinion: Why Humans and AI Struggle to Differentiate Them
Paula Carvalho, Danielle Caled, Mário J. Silva

What Makes You Happy Also Makes You Sick: Mental Health and Well- Being in Media Work
Mark Deuze

Autonomy and Algorithms: Tracing the Significance of Content Personalization
Henrik Rydenfelt, Tuukka Lehtiniemi, Jesse Haapoja, Lauri Haapanen

We the Consumers: The Conservative “Parallel Economy” as Reactionary Commodity Activism
Carolyn E. Schmitt, Lee McGuigan

News Corp Australia’s Conservative Advocacy Against the Indigenous Voice to Parliament
Victoria Fielding, Catherine Son, Robert Boucaut, Alexander H. Beare

The Women Who Proposed Two-Step Flow: A Gendered Revisit to the Intellectual History of a Mass Communication Theory
Esperanza Herrero

When Corrections Fail: Effects of Misinformation Targets, Repeated Exposure, and Partisanship on Misinformation Beliefs
Yunya Song, Yuanhang Lu, Stephanie Jean Tsang, Jingwen Zhang, Kelly Y. L. Ku

Voice-Based Assistants as Intermediaries for Sociopolitical Issues: Investigating Use Patterns, Expectations, and Prior Indirect Experiences
Esther Greussing, Evelyn Jonas, Monika Taddicken

Seeing a New Type of Economic Inequality Discourse: Inequality as Spectacle in the “Billionaire Space Race”
Michael Vaughan, David Schieferdecker

Variation and Selection During Pandemic: Toward A Multiplex Framework for Understanding Nonprofit Community Network Evolution in Crisis Time
Yiqi Li, Aimei Yang, Wenlin Liu, Jingyi Sun, Chuqing Dong, Lichen Zhen

Between Morality and the Market: The Circulation of Humanitarian Photography
Lilie Chouliaraki, Richard Stupart

Privacy Activism: (Anti-)Surveillance Discourse in Pandemic Days
Tamar Ashuri

Knowledge Mediation and Narrowed Polysemy in Journalistic Interactive Visualizations
Inbal Klein-Avraham, Zvi Reich

Rethinking the Protest Paradigm: Media Kettling in the Television Coverage of the 2019 Chilean Uprising
César Jiménez-Martínez, Ximena Orchard, Nadia Herrada

Paid to Play: Gender, Intersectionality, and Labor in Online Game Companionship
Ting He

Revealing the True Self Online: How Lurking Behavior Interacts With Exposure to Positivity Bias and Affects Self-Disclosure on Social Media
Briana Marie Trifiro, Manuel Goyanes

How Far Can Political Deepfakes Credibly Deviate From Reality? Responses to Political Deepfakes With Varying Degrees of Deception
Michael Hameleers, Toni Van der Meer, Tom Dobber

Confronting Anti-Press Violence in Mexico: Strategies of Resistance in Mexican and U.S. News Coverage of Journalist Killings
Elizabeth M. Chambers, Jennifer R. Henrichsen

Rooting Platform Dependencies in the Digital News Economy: Google News Initiative in India
Simran Agarwal

“Is That It?”: Veteran Reflections on the Falklands 40th Anniversary and Northern Ireland Peacekeeping Exhibitions at the Imperial War Museum London
Jenna Pitchford-Hyde, Katy Parry

SVoD in Europe and the Americas: A Comparative Approach to Regulatory Regimes
María Trinidad García Leiva, Ana Bizberge, Guillermo Mastrini

Mobile Without Fear: Personal Control, Information, and Communication Support in ICT-Mediated Urban Public Transportation
Gerit Götzenbrucker, Kai Daniel Preibisch, Michaela Griesbeck

Rethinking Crisis Response: Cross-Cultural Insights From Comparing American and Korean Corporate Apologies
Jeongwon Yang, Ploypin Chuenterawong

Platform Cultures and Emotional Communication About Climate Change: A Comparison of Affective Language in the Climate Change Blogo- and Twittersphere
Christel W. van Eck, Jon Roozenbeek, Tim M. Stevens, Art Dewulf

Online Behaviors, Offline Consequences? Linking Online Traces of Health Information Use to Observed Communication During Medical Consultations
Minh Hao Nguyen, Nadine Bol, Inge S. van Strien, Kirsten van der Eijken, Kristien M. A. J. Tytgat, Hanneke W. M. van Laarhoven,
Mark I. van Berge Henegouwen, Ellen M. A. Smets, Julia C. M. van Weert

BOOK REVIEWS

Rachael Kent, The Digital Health Self: Wellness, Tracking, and Social Media
Xinna Li

Hunter Hargraves, Uncomfortable Television
Gabriele Prosperi

Sara J. Grossman, Immeasurable Weather: Meteorological Data and Settler Colonialism from 1820 to Hurricane Sandy
Pamela C. Perrimon

Nevine El Nossery, Arab Women’s Revolutionary Art: Between Singularities and Multitudes
Noha Mellor

Aram Sinnreich and Jesse Gilbert, The Secret Life of Data: Navigating Hype and Uncertainty in the Age of Algorithmic Surveillance
John Cheney-Lippold

Jian Lin, Chinese Creator Economies: Labor and Bilateral Creative Workers
Daniela Mazur

Mel Stanfill, Fandom Is Ugly: Networked Harassment in Participatory Culture
Lauren Nicole Balser

Allen Munoriyarwa and Admire Mare, Digital Surveillance in Southern Africa: Policies, Politics and Practices
Sheila B. Lalwani

Andrea Wenzel, Antiracist Journalism: The Challenge of Creating Equitable Local News
Anita Varma

Guobin Yang, The Wuhan Lockdown
Yiyan Zhang

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

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