International Journal of Communication invites you to read these 29 publications from August
The International Journal of Communication is pleased to announce 29 publications in August 2026, which includes a Forum on “SCALE: Tracing the Sociotechnical Convenings, Sizes, Transitions, and Measurements Shaping Communication Systems.” To access these papers, please visit ijoc.org.
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ARTICLES
Blaming News Media for Fake News: The Role of Elite Media Discourse and Partisans’ Media Perception in Perceived Fake News Exposure and Attribution
Mihye Seo, Ki Deuk Hyun, Gunho Lee
Surveying Gatekeepers: Journal Editors’ Perceptions, Responses, and Attitudes Toward De-Westernizing Communication and Media Studies
Francisco Paulo Jamil Marques, Sujatha Sosale, Brian Ekdale, Bingbing Zhang
Thailand 5.0? Reimagining the Nation’s Digital Future With Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Patcharapar Rojanakit
Toward a Unified Conceptual Framework for Participation Research
Moshe Schwartz, Hillel Nossek
From Alarm to Bogus: Climate Migration Discourse Across German-, Spanish-, and Dutch-Language Twitter/X (2015–2023)
Sercan Kiyak, Leen d’Haenens
BOOK REVIEWS
Amit Pinchevski, Patrice M. Buzzanell, and Jason Hannan (Eds.), The Handbook of Communication Ethics (2nd ed.)
Susan M. Fredricks
W. Russell Neuman, Evolutionary Intelligence: How Technology Will Make Us Smarter
Jonathan D. Aronson
Miao Lu, The Transsion Approach: Translating Chinese Mobile Technology in Africa
Muyao Jiang
John Alekna, Seeking News, Making China: Information, Technology, and the Emergence of Mass Society
Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman
Tuğçe Bidav and Smith Mehta (Eds.), Global South Creator Cultures
Jiali Fan
Jian Lin, Wilfred Yang Wang, and Ping Sun, Chinese Platforms: A Critical Introduction
Xiaoxuan Lu
Larissa Hjorth and Gerard Goggin, Mobile Media Methods
Linsen Su
David B. Nieborg and Maxwell Foxman, Mainstreaming and Game Journalism
Steffi Shook
Toussaint Nothias and Lucy Bernholz (Eds.), AI and Assembly: Coming Together and Apart in a Datafied World
Leeam Azoulay
Kristen Hoerl, The Impossible Woman: Television, Feminism, and the Future
Florencia Enghel
Agnieszka Jelewska and Michał Krawczak, Exposing Violence: Media Practices and Aesthetics of Radical Truth
Janos Mark Szakolczai
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