International Journal of Communication invites you to read these 25 publications that published in March

The International Journal of Communication is pleased to announce the publication of 25 papers in MARCH 2025. To access these papers, Ctrl+Click on the titles below for direct hyperlinking, or go to ijoc.org.
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ARTICLES

Relative Public Disconnection: Poverty and Media Use in the Media Welfare State
Ivar Eimhjellen, Torgeir Uberg Nærlan

Who Wants Impartial News? Investigating Determinants of Preferences for Impartiality in 40 Countries
Camila Mont’Alverne, Amy Ross A. Arguedas, Sumitra Badrinathan, Benjamin Toff, Richard Fletcher, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

Partisan Media and Support for Radical Protest Tactics Across Ideological Lines
Melissa Santillana, Joseph J. Yoo, Thomas J. Johnson, Silvia DalBen Furtado

Influence Operations as Brokerage: Political-Economic Infrastructures of Manipulation in the 2022 Philippine Elections
Fatima Gaw, Mariam Jayne Agonos, Kris Ruijgrok, Gerard Martin Suarez

The Role of Policy Mixes in Enabling Journalism Innovation: A Transnational Study Across Five Countries
Anja Noster, Christopher Buschow, Andy Kaltenbrunner, Renée Lugschitz

The “Star” Correspondent and Parachute Diplomacy: CNN’s Clarissa Ward in Myanmar and Afghanistan
Lisa Brooten, Syed Irfan Ashraf

Transmedia Edutainment for Sustainable Advocacy: How Narrative Engagement and Counterarguments Influence Generation Z’s Response to Sustainable Development Messages
Aya Shata, Michelle Seelig, Nicholas Carcioppolo

Determinants and Challenges of NGO Social Media Communication: Explaining Tensions Around “Looking Cool” for Social Change
Michael Dokyum Kim

Mobile Mundane (Dis)Connections: Examining Older Migrant Adults’ Mobile Media Automation During the COVID-19 Pandemic Through a Digital Kinship Lens
Earvin Charles B. Cabalquinto, Larissa Hjorth

Who is Responsible for Particulate Matter in South Korea’s Atmosphere? The Role of Social Media and Attribution of Responsibility on Risk Perception and Protective Behaviors
Doo-Hun Choi

Influence of the Watchdog Role of Nigerian Journalists on Public Perception of President Buhari’s Anti-Corruption Crusade
Sunday Uche Aja, Nnanyelugo Mark Okoro, Vincent Onyeaghanachi Odoh, Joseph Nwanja Chukwu, Mercy Ifeyinwa Obichili, Innocent Aja Ngene, Ngozi Eje Uduma, Chibuzor Cosmas Nwoga, Agatha Obiageri Orji-Egwu, Chika Thonia Ezeali

Toward a Theory of Surplus Blackness: Reception, Media Industries, and Blackness
Alfred L. Martin, Jr.

From Heroic Masculinity to Feminist Dads: Advertising Fatherhood in Türkiye
Alparslan Nas

Memefying Mental Illness: A Qualitative Content Analysis of Mental Illness Portrayals in #Depressionmemes on Instagram
Anna Wagner, Linn Temmann

The Positions of Data-Related Peripheral Actors in Journalism Practice
Laura Ahva

Bad Image, Yet Still Convincing? Examining the Chinese Government’s Image Repair Strategy in Responding to Accusations of COVID-19 Origin
Chih-Yao Chang, KyuJin Shim

Public Opinion and New Communication Technologies: The Impacts of Big Data on Public Opinion Studies From the Pragmatism Perspective
Pedro Caldas, Vinicius Romanini

BOOK REVIEWS

Eva Illouz, The Emotional Life of Populism: How Fear, Disgust, Resentment, and Love Undermine Democracy
Feyda Sayan-Cengiz

Meryl Alper, Kids Across the Spectrums: Growing Up Autistic in the Digital Age
Molly Martin

Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez (Eds.), Crip Authorship: Disability as Method
Kuansong Victor Zhuang, Wenqi Tan

Adrienne Russell, The Mediated Climate: How Journalists, Big Tech, and Activists Are Vying for Our Future
Claire Konkes

Song Shi, China and the Internet: Using New Media for Development and Social Change
Weiwei Zhang

Mohamed Zayani and Joe F. Khalil, The Digital Double Bind: Change and Stasis in the Middle East
William Lafi Youmans

Liane Rothenberger, Martin Löffelholz, David H. Weaver (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Cross-Border Journalism
Andreas Ryan Sanjaya

Christina Dunbar-Hester, Oil Beach: How Toxic Infrastructure Threatens Life in the Ports of Los Angeles and Beyond
Shelley Tuazon Guyton

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