International Journal of Communication Publishes 33 Papers in July

International Journal of Communication invites you to read these 33 publications that published in July

USC Annenberg Press and International Journal of Communication

The International Journal of Communication is pleased to announce the publication of 33 papers in July 2025, which includes the Special Section on “Health Communication for Displaced Populations.” To access these papers, please visit ijoc.org.
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ARTICLES

Cultural Clicks: Why Strategic Election News Does Not Resonate the Same Across English- and Spanish-Language Media Audiences in the United States
Lindita Camaj, Lea Hellmueller

Reframing the Early History of the World Wide Web (1989–1995): Applying the Marketing Mix to Understand the Web as a Product
Deborah Barcella

Who Speaks Matters: The Effect of Insider Versus Outsider Activism on Consumer Responses to Company-Directed Activism
Neda Ninova-Solovykh, Ingrid Wahl, Sabine Einwiller

Does Online Incivility Mobilize or Demobilize Political Participation? Evidence From Hong Kong’s Social Movement
Chen Min, Fei Shen, Yi Wu

More Control Than Support: Populism, The Covid-19 Pandemic, and Media Policies in USA, Brazil, Serbia, and Poland
Beata Klimkiewicz, Katarzyna Vanevska, Sabina Mihelj, Daniel C. Hallin, Danilo Rothberg, Paulo Ferracioli, Václav Štětka, Ana Stojiljković, Nithyanand Rao

Effective Ways of Casting Doubt? Examining the Different Effects of Blatant and Suggestive Disinformation
Lotte L. Schrijver, Denise J. Roth, Edwin G.M. Jans, Jade Vrielink, Puck C. Guldemond

Antecedents of Reporting Harmful Comments: Testing the Moderating Role of Perceived Transparency
Xinzhou Xie, Zhuo Song, Qiyu Bai

The Sublime and the Cute in Bong Joon Ho’s Ecocinema
LeiLani Nishime

FEATURE

The Social Construction of Right-Wing Reality
Anthony Nadler, Doron Taussig

BOOK REVIEWS

Matt Mahmoudi, Migrants in the Digital Periphery: New Urban Frontiers of Control
Natalia Rabahi

John Stephens and Vivian Yenika-Agbaw (Eds.), Children, Deafness, and Deaf Cultures in Popular Media
Ria J. Gualano

Stephen Hutchings, Vera Tolz, Precious Chatterje-Doody, Rhys Crilley, and Marie Gillespie (Eds.), Russia, Disinformation, and the Liberal Order: RT as Populist Pariah
Tianwei Lv

Border Media, Near and Far
Sam DiBella

Kevin Sanson, Mobile Hollywood: Labor and the Geography of Production
Daniel Rios

Shashidhar Nanjundaiah, News Aesthetics and Myth: The Making of Media Illiteracy in India
Barbara Ruth Burke

Elizabeth Rodwell, Push the Button: Interactive Television and Collaborative Journalism in Japan
Yasuhito Abe

Xabier Barandiaran, Antonio Calleja-López, Arnau Monterde, and Carol Romero, Decidim, a Technopolitical Network for Participatory Democracy: Philosophy, Practice and Autonomy of a Collective Platform in the Age of Digital Intelligence
Fátima Solera Navarro

Jennifer S. Clark, Producing Feminism: Television Work in the Age of Women’s Liberation
Rachel R. Reynolds

Lee McIntyre, On Disinformation: How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy
Arjen van Dalen

Julian Sefton-Green, Kate Mannell, and Ola Erstad (Eds.), The Platformization of the Family: Towards a Research Agenda
Leah Cates

Bo Ruberg, Sex Dolls at Sea: Imagined Histories of Sexual Technologies
Sadie Palach

Xinyuan Wang, Ageing with Smartphones in Urban China: From the Cultural to the Digital Revolution in Shanghai
Sunny Sui-Kwong Lam

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