International Journal of Communication invites you to read these 43 publications that published in January
The International Journal of Communication is pleased to announce the publication of 43 papers in January 2026, which includes the Special Section on “Big Data Discourses” and the Forum on “Not Entirely Artificial, Not That Intelligent: AI and Communication Research.” To access these papers, please visit ijoc.org.
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ARTICLES
Voices of Disagreement: Participatory Media and Agonistic Democracy in Cyprus
Chris Voniati
Performing the People and Depleting the Commons: Bottom-up Populism in Canada and France
Liwen Zhang
Knowledge and Expertise in the Digital Age: How People Engage With Sex Advice on TikTok
Facundo N. Suenzo, Annika Pinch, Ignacio F. Cruz, Calvin A. Liang, Amy Ross Arguedas
Understanding Public Concerns About Fake News: Linking Social Media News Use, Cognitive Elaboration, and Perceived Fake News Exposure
Manuel Goyanes, Taeyoung Lee
Regressive Futuring: Zuckerberg’s Rebranding Against Techlash’s “Crisis”
Emilie Grybos
Biased Judgment or Lack of Skill? The Role of News Consumption in (Mis)Information Identification in the Context of Russia’s War Against Ukraine
Luisa Gehle, Christian Schemer, Marina Tulin, and Michael Hameleers
Decentering Technology in the Datafied Workplace: Data (In)Justice and Workers’ Experiences of Algorithmic Management in Call Centers in the United Kingdom and Greece
Lina Dencik, Jess Brand, Philippa Metcalfe
Communicating Mobile Borders: Urban Conviviality and More-Than National Belonging in Trieste’s Interethnic Friendships
Zlatan Krajina
Political Manipulation of the Israel-Hamas Conflict on WhatsApp in India
Kiran Garimella
The Dark Side of Algorithms: How Ethical and Privacy Considerations Affect Individuals’ Engagement With Health Information on Social Media?
Mengxue Ou, Han Zheng, Baijue Li, Chen Luo
Oneness With the Source as a Means of Reducing Motivated Reasoning About Climate Policy
Christopher J. Carpenter, Shannon M. Cruz
“Is It So Bothersome That a Woman Has a Senior Position?”: False Empowerment in the Representation of Women in Sports TV Series
Anna Tous Rovirosa, Raquel Crisóstomo, Elena Fedotova, Natividad Ramajo
Talking About the Voice: Everyday Political Talk About Indigenous Constitutional Recognition
Kate Nash, Caitlin Mollica, Kate Senior
Global Communication and the Scalar Politics of Race: Tensions in Transnational Articulations of (Anti)-Racism(s)
Wendy Willems
Expert Reports as Epistemic Participation: Knowing and Doing in Artificial Intelligence’s Environmental Debate
Théophile Lenoir, Christopher Anderson
Scrolling Past Suffering: Ethnocentric Media, Distrust, and Humanitarian Responsibility
Inbar Illouz, Tal Orian Harel, Ifat Maoz
BOOK REVIEWS
Aeron Davis, Political Communication: An Introduction for Crisis Times (2nd ed.)
Cleves Nkie Mongo
Thomas S. Mullaney, The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age
Weilin Zhu
Beth A. Haller, Disabled People Transforming Media Culture for a More Inclusive World (1st ed.)
Russell Adzedu
Alfred L. Martin Jr., Fandom for Us by Us: The Pleasures and Practices of Black Audiences
Gordon Alley-Young
Timothy Recuber, The Digital Departed: How We Face Death, Commemorate Life, and Chase Virtual Immortality
Terilee Edwards-Hewitt
Eviane Leidig, The Women of the Far Right: Social Media Influencers and Online Radicalization
Shahla Shahnaz Dyuti
Jabari M. Evans, Hip-Hop Civics: Connected Learning in the Rap Classroom
Rachel Williams
Amanda D. Lotz, After Mass Media: Storytelling for Microaudiences in the Twenty-First Century
Damián Fernández Pedemonte
Rodney Benson, Mattias Hessérus, Timothy Neff, and Julie Sedel, How Media Ownership Matters
Murat Akser
Natalie Fenton, Democratic Delusions: How the Media Hollows Out Democracy and What We Can Do About It
Fritz Kessler
Michelle Cho and Jesook Song (Eds.), Mediating Gender in Post-Authoritarian South Korea
Young A. Jung
John M. Jordan, The Rise of the Algorithms: How YouTube and TikTok Conquered the World
Chang Sup Park
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