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

The International Journal of Communication is pleased to announce the publication of 25 papers in November 2025, which includes the Special Section on “Generative AI and Disinformation.” To access these papers, please visit ijoc.org.
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ARTICLES

De-Westernizing Communication Studies Through Domesticating the Global South: A Critical Examination of the Mechanisms Shaping Scholarly Participation in the Field
Francisco Paulo Jamil Marques, Andressa Butture Kniess, Manuel Goyanes, Thaiane Oliveira

Is TikTok “for” News? Sociotechnical Frictions and Workarounds in Environmental News Events on TikTok
Ryland Shaw

Hostile Legacy Media, Friendly Social Media? Exploring Young People’s Use, Trust, and Bias Perception of Different News Sources About the Middle Eastern Conflict
Alexandra Wölfle, Desirée Schmuck

Is Journalism Making Its Workers Sick? Labor Conditions and Mental Health in Mexico and Spain
Dolors Palau-Sampio, Maria Iranzo-Cabrera, Ana Leticia Hernández Julián, Rubén Arnoldo González Macías

Assessing Media Polarization in Spain During a Highly Polarized Electoral Cycle (2015–2019): Increasing Effects of Vote and Ideology on News Media Consumption
Lidia Valera-Ordaz, María Luisa Humanes, José María Ramírez-Dueñas

Affinity, Agency, and Exclusion: Digital Feminist Pedagogy and Grassroots Empowerment in Douban’s Survival Guide for Ordinary Women
Xingyuan Meng

K-Drama as Ecocinema? A Multimodal Analysis of Climate Change Representation in 60 Globally Popular Korean TV Dramas
Cristiane Melchior, Hannele Seeck, Ratna Aini Hadi

BOOK REVIEWS

Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Thomas Ramge, Access Rules: Freeing Data from Big Tech for a Better Future
Scott Timcke

Ingrid Richardson and Rowan Wilken, Bodies and Mobile Media
Amanda Ganus

Bernard Keenan, Interception: State Surveillance from Postal Systems to Global Networks
Sheila B. Lalwani

Michael Serazio, The Authenticity Industries: Keeping It “Real” in Media, Culture, and Politics
Jian Xiao, Linlin Wei

Ya-Wen Lei, The Gilded Cage: Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China
Yuexin Lyu

Tupur Chatterjee, Projecting Desire: Media Architectures and Moviegoing in Urban India
Aparna Shastri

Global Communication Rights: Is There a Future? A Review Article
Damian Tambini

Mia Consalvo, Marc Lajeunesse, and Andrei Zanescu, Streaming by the Rest of Us: Microstreaming Videogames on Twitch
Steffi Shook

Barbara A. Biesecker, Reinventing World War II: Popular Memory in the Rise of the Ethnonationalist State
Aaron A. Toscano

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