International Journal of Communication invites you to read these 17 publications that published in February

The International Journal of Communication is pleased to announce the publication of 17 papers in February 2026. To access these papers, please visit ijoc.org.
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ARTICLES

Personal Testimonials and Empathy in Environmental Risk Communication—Their Effects on Reflective Thoughts, Risk Perception, and Behavioral Intentions
Anne Bartsch, Christal Bürgel, Felix Frey, Sonja Kretzschmar, Verena Wassink

When Over-The-Top Is Over the Top: A Political Economic Analysis of Network Usage Fees in South Korea
DongWook Jeong, Christopher Ali

The Short Video Format: Conceptualizing a Ubiquitous Artifact of Visual Platforms
Giulia Isabella Guerra

“Closed by Default”: Authoritarian Data Governance and Civil Society in Singapore
Kai Xiang Teo

Enhancing Media Literacy in Higher Education: An Experimental Study on Misinformation Through a Gamified Intervention in Peru
Julio-César Mateus, Manuel Etesse, Diego Vásquez-Cubas, Elohim Monard, Giancarlo Cappello

Data Publics: An Empirical and Comparative Approach to Datafication
Florence Millerand, Mélanie Millette, Alexandre Coutant, Guillaume Latzko-Toth

What Is at Stake? The Co-Encoding/Decoding Model of Human–Generative Artificial Intelligence Communication
Marco Guglielmo, Ben O’Loughlin, Henry Snowball

Drawing the Faces of “Perpetual Foreigners”: A Multimodal Narrative Analysis of #StopAsianHate on Instagram
Weiyu Zhang

FEATURE

Anti-Media Media: A Normative Approach to Media Positionality
Ayala Panievsky

BOOK REVIEWS

Samuel Woolley, Manufacturing Consensus: Understanding Propaganda in the Era of Automation and Anonymity
Chang Sup Park

RonNell Andersen Jones and Sonja R. West (Eds.), The Future of Press Freedom: Democracy, Law, and the News in Changing Times
Andrei Richter

Steffan Blayney, Joey Hornsby, and Savannah Whaley (Eds.), The Body Productive: Rethinking Capitalism, Work and the Body
Whitney-Jocelyn Kouaho

Jathan Sadowski, The Mechanic and the Luddite: A Ruthless Criticism of Technology and Capitalism
MC Forelle

Bohyeong Kim, Critically Capitalist: The Spirit of Asset Capitalism in South Korea
Micky Lee

Catherine D’Ignazio, Counting Feminicide: Data Feminism in Action
Muge Yuce

Nick Couldry, The Space of the World: Can Human Solidarity Survive Social Media and What If It Can’t?
Terry Flew

Laila Shereen Sakr, Arabic Glitch: Technoculture, Data Bodies, and Archives
Nathaniel Greenberg

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