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

The International Journal of Communication is pleased to announce the publication of 35 papers in APRIL 2025, which includes the “Forum on Oops? Interdisciplinary Stories of Sociotechnical Error.” To access these papers, Ctrl+Click on the titles below for direct hyperlinking, or go to ijoc.org.
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ARTICLES

Expectations of News Media in Uganda: Advancing a Theory of Relative Institutional Trust in Journalism
Meagan E. Doll

Negotiating Journalism: The (In)congruences of Role Expectations and Evaluation of Media Performance Between Audiences and News Professionals in Chile
Alexis Cruz, Claudia Mellado

Beyond Physical Access: Exploring Interaction With Political Content in Social Media Among Citizens Living in Poverty
Rune Søholt

Beating Algorithmic Discrimination: Maneuvering Digital Surveillance to Indigenize the Narrative
Dana Hasan, Amal Nazzal, Sulafa Zidani

The Blame Game? #Brexitriots as an Affective Ritualized Response to Civil Disorder in Northern Ireland
Paul Reilly

Reinventing Traditional Media in the Platformized K-Pop Industry: CJ ENM’s Strategic Adaptation Through KCON
Chairin An

Forced: Perceptions of “Woke” Politics in Video Games
Adam Ruch

“TikTok Is One Long Conversation With the Universe”: How Platform Affordances Shape Emerging Spirituality Across TikTok Manifestation Content
Sara Reinis

Testing the Self: Digital Trials and Identity Work on Instagram
Raimundo Frei, Felipe Ulloa

Transcending the Protest Paradigm: Rearticulating Journalism and Activism During Political Upheaval
Summer Harlow, Erica Ciszek

From Mockery to Moral Outrage: Affects and Relations of Power in Polarized Climate Change Discussions on Australian Twitter
Mariia Aleksevych, Marleen Buizer, Tales Tomaz, Ehsan Dehghan

Brazilian Fandom’s Perceptions of the Thai Boys Love Series Industry and the Practices of Fanservice and Shipping: Content Analysis of Online Comments on a Fansubbing Platform
Anderson Lopes da Silva, Nunghatai Rangponsumrit, Ligia Prezia Lemos

BOOK REVIEWS

David A. Banks, The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America
Jian Xiao

Guobin Yang, Bingchun Meng, and Elaine J. Yuan (Eds.), Pandemic Crossings: Digital Technology, Everyday Experience, and Governance in the COVID-19 Crisis
Minkyu Sung

Kathleen Loock, Hollywood Remaking: How Film Remakes, Sequels, and Franchises Shape Industry and Culture
Ryan David Briggs

Patricia Aufderheide, Kartemquin Films: Documentaries on the Frontlines of Democracy
Emily Rose Coleman

Jinying Li, Anime’s Knowledge Cultures: Geek, Otaku, Zhai
Serena Abdallah

Matthew Powers and Sandra Vera-Zambrano, The Journalist’s Predicament: Difficult Choices in a Declining Profession
Mir Ashfaquzzaman

Gregory P. Perreault, Digital Journalism and the Facilitation of Hate
Jessica Roberts

Daya Kishan Thussu, Changing Geopolitics of Global Communication
Xin Xin

Sandra Jeppesen, Transformative Media: Intersectional Technopolitics from Indymedia to #BlackLivesMatter
Melissa B. Skolnick-Noguera

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

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