International Journal of Communication invites you to read these 18 publications that published in April

The International Journal of Communication is pleased to announce the publication of 18 papers in April 2026. To access these papers, please visit ijoc.org.
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ARTICLES

Between Duty and Discipline: Kantian Ideals and Techno-Governmental Realities in the European Union Artificial Intelligence Act and the United Nations Artificial Intelligence Framework
Mir Hasib, Lyombe Eko

The Industrialization of Digital Entrepreneurship:The Case of Beauty Influencers in China’s Multichannel Networks Economy
Qingyue Sun, Huiqian Lai, Runze Ding

Informational Sovereignty: The Commercial and Geopolitical Risk of Newsroom Dependency on Third-Party Infrastructure in Latin America
Juan Ortiz-Freuler

Cultivating Self-Care: Health Television and the Internalization of Individual Responsibility for Health in Contemporary China
Ge Zhu, Rachel Young

Hybrid Platformism: Thailand’s Online Political Media Landscape
Alexandra Colombier Vanijaka, Duncan McCargo

Navigating Credibility on TikTok: How Young Adults Evaluate and Verify Information on the Platform
Luise Anter, Anna Sophie Kümpel

Media-Saturated and Morally Contested Teenage Lives: No Space or Time for Nonmedia Moments (and for Being Bored)?
Marika Lüders

Angry Posts: Myanmar’s Anti-Military Rhetoric on the Internet
Yao-Tai Li, Moh Moh Thet

Deep State Conspiracism and/as Disinformation: A Journey to the Heart of Democracy’s Truth Crisis
Stephen Hutchings

Communicating the Crisis or Misinforming the Public? Analyzing the AI-Generated Visual Rhetoric of the 2025 California Wildfires
Menna Elhosary, Barikisu Issaka, Inusah Mohammed, Balkisa Sissy, Sabena Abdul Raheem

Shame, Suspicion, Surveillance, and Blame: The Neoliberal Undergirding of Stigma Experienced and Managed by Latinos/as in the United States
Alcides Velasquez, Rikki A. Roscoe, Umar O. Ajetunmobi

BOOK REVIEWS

Giota Alevizou, The Web of Knowledge: Encyclopedias and Authority in the Digital Age
Matthew A. Vetter

Rob Kitchin, Critical Data Studies: An A to Z Guide to Concepts and Methods
Ivo Furman

Jeffrey Boase, The Digital Bind: Constant Connectivity and the Reconfiguring of Family, Work, and Friendship
S M Mehedi Zaman

Héctor Beltrán, Code Work: Hacking Across the US/México Techno-Borderlands
Shukadev Amgain

Karen Tongson, Normporn: Queer Viewers and the TV That Soothes Us
Em Hathaway

Julieta Brambila, Mexico’s Resilient Journalists: How Reporters Manage Risk and Cope with Violence
Sumana Chattopadhyay

Fan Yang, Disorienting Politics: Chimerican Media and Transpacific Entanglements
Narmin Gezer

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