International Journal of Communication invites you to read these 12 publications that published in June
The International Journal of Communication is pleased to announce the publication of 12 papers in June 2026. To access these papers, please visit ijoc.org.
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ARTICLES
Rethinking Comparative Media System Theory From Ghana: Toward a Patronage-Based Hybrid Model
Eric Asiedu, Mehdi Semati
What Are Media? A Hedonic Model for the Second Digital Convergence
Eli Noam, Gregory Ferrell Lowe, Jason Adam Buckweitz
BOOK REVIEWS
Caty Borum and David Conrad-Pérez, Radical Reality: Documentary Storytelling and the Global Fight for Social Justice
Kateryna Bystrytska
Elisabetta Ferrari, Appropriate, Negotiate, Challenge: Activist Imaginaries and the Politics of Digital Technologies
Adina Schneeweis
Katalin Feher, Generative AI, Media, and Society
Chang Sup Park
Anjali Nath, A Thousand Paper Cuts: US Empire and the Bureaucratic Life of War
Taya Ismail
Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed, Media, Culture, and Decolonization: Re-righting the Subaltern Histories of Ghana
Ignatius G. D. Suglo
Christopher Pinney with the PhotoDemos Collective (Eds.), Citizens of Photography: The Camera and the Political Imagination
Kaitlyn E. Rich
Zeynep Bulut, Building a Voice: Sound, Surface, Skin
Can Cui
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