International Journal of Communication invites you to read these 17 publications that published in February

The International Journal of Communication is pleased to announce the publication of 17 papers in FEBRUARY 2025. To access these papers, Ctrl+Click on the titles below for direct hyperlinking, or go to ijoc.org.
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ARTICLES

Media Health Literacy: A Scoping Review and Agenda for Future Research
Shadee Ashtari

Representation in ScienceTok: Communicator Identities, Message Content, and User Engagement on a Short-Form Video Social Media Platform
Siyu Chen, Paul R. Brewer

Tracing Information Flows in the Hybrid Media System: The Agenda-Setting Role of Dark Platforms Surrounding the Ukraine Invasion Discourse
Mónika Simon, Savvas Zannettou, Kasper Welbers, Anne C. Kroon, Damian Trilling

The Sexualization of Boys and Girls in Videos: Proposal for a Self-Sexualization Scale on TikTok
Rebeca Suárez-Álvarez, Antonio García-Jiménez

Decolonizing the Queer Project of Aotearoa New Zealand: Weaving Takatāpui Identity Into Queer Spaces
Elena Maydell

Research Practices in Comparative Communication Research: Visibility, Topical and Geographical Disparities, and their Longitudinal Patterns
Fabienne Lind, Hyunjin Song, Hajo G. Boomgaarden, Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam,
Kim Pamina Syed Ali, Rens Vliegenthart

Making Sense of Algorithm: Exploring TikTok Users’ Awareness of Content Recommendation and Moderation Algorithms
Cristiano Felaco

News Credibility on Facebook: The Role of Media and Intermediary Trust and Their Interplay
Lukáš Slavík, David Lacko, Jakub Macek

Everybody Hurts? Reality-Based Entertainment and Mediated Suffering in Sweatshop: Deadly Fashion
Vladimir Cotal San Martin, Georgia Aitaki

Shocking the System: The Athletic, a Journalistic Merger and the (Preventable) Ensuing Fallout
Patrick Ferrucci, Gregory P. Perreault

Creating a Cost to Spread Misinformation on Social Media
Drew B. Margolin, Yunyun S. Wang

I’ll Share It When I Believe It! An Experimental Study on the Effects of Hateful and False Content on Credibility and Sharing Intention
David Blanco-Herrero, Damian Trilling, Carlos Arcila-Calderón

Cultural Intertextuality in Olympic-Themed International Publicity: A Media Discourse Analysis
Yubin Qian

Smart-Washing the City: A Study on the Privatization of Urban Digital Infrastructures in the Global South
Jess Reia, Luã Cruz

BOOK REVIEWS

Simeon Yates and Elinor Carmi (Eds.), Digital Inclusion: International Policy and Research
Yan Wang

Phillip Santos and Cleophas T. Muneri (Eds.), Reading Justice Claims on Social Media: Perspectives from the Global South
Sarah Witmer

Avery Dame-Griff, The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet
Mack Brumbaugh

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

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