International Journal of Communication invites you to read these 43 publications that published in September

The International Journal of Communication is pleased to announce the publication of 43 papers in SEPTEMBER 2024, which includes the “Special Section on Media and Propaganda” and the “Special Section on Media Technologies and Epistemologies: The Platforming of Everything.” To access these papers, Ctrl+Click on the titles below for direct hyperlinking, or go to ijoc.org.

_______________________________________________________________________

ARTICLES

The Platformization of Fandom and its Discontents: Understanding Platform Harms Through the Archive of Our Own
Mel Stanfill

Professionalize the Personal: Online Professional Identity Using Impression Management Among Junior Employees
Amal Nazzal

Platform Closure and Creator Creep: What We Can Learn From Korean Indie Musicians
Robert Prey, Seonok Lee

Understanding Communication and Support Processes Within Families of Marginalized Groups in Türkiye
Mikail Batu, Mustafa Oz, Akan Yanik

Leaning In or Turning Away? Differential Effects of the Early Pandemic Lockdown on Twitter Use
Daniela Stoltenberg, Neta Kligler-Vilenchik, Maya de Vries Kedem, Hadas Gur-Ze’ev, Barbara Pfetsch, Annie Waldherr

Information Environments Surrounding General Social Trust in COVID-19 Context: A Model of Belief in Misinformation and In-Group Trust
Seungyoon Lee, Jae Seon Jeong 

Europeans’ Digital Cultural Participation: Diversification, Democratization, Barriers, and Affordances 
Susanne Janssen, Nete Nørgaard Kristensen, Marc Verboord, Franziska Marquart, Guiseppe Lamberti

Multimodal Crisis Messaging in Times of Pandemic: Comparing Instagram Posts Published by Governments and Public Health Institutions in Germany, Türkiye, the UK, and the USA
Yi Xu, Martin Löffelholz

Being Prescribed to Perform Romance? Game Platform as a Place for Romantic Relationship Practice
Ziran Zhao

Source-Critical Affordances in Social Media Apps
Ståle Grut

Lessons From Senior Journalists’ Coverage of the First Wave of COVID-19: The Significance of Professional Expertise and Hybrid Work
Azi Lev-On, Judith Yehezkelly

Subjective Norm, Self-Efficacy, and Policy Acceptance for Open Communication Science: An Empirical Analysis
Rukun Zhang, Jinghong Xu

A Comparison of Four Approaches to Modeling Information Insufficiency
Pengya Ai, Sonny Rosenthal

Governing Transportation Through Communication: A Cultural History of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) in South Korea
Chamee Yang

Digital Inclusion Support Needs of Households in Poverty: Insights From Interviews With Dutch Social Workers
Lilian G. P. Boerkamp, Alexander J. A. M. van Deursen, Ester van Laar, Alex van der Zeeuw, Shenja van der Graaf

“I Don’t Understand It”: Australians’ Low Interest in Politics and Political News
Caroline Fisher, Sora Park, Kieran McGuinness, Janet Fulton, Shengnan Yao

Revisiting Everyday Activism for Gender Justice and Expanding on its Communicative Dimensions
Florencia Enghel

Programming Queerness? PSM Remits, Metarepresentational Discourse, and LGBTQ+ Portrayals
Florian Vanlee

Examining How Public Service Media Shapes Citizens’ News Media Attitudes and News Avoidance: A Cross-National Comparative Analysis
Michael Chan, Jingjing Yi

The Effect of Maternal Smartphone Distraction on Mother-Child Learning-Based Interaction
Michal Alon-Tirosh, Dorit Hadar Shoval, Kfir Asraf, Manor Fraizond

How do Nonspeakers View Minority Language Media? A Comparison of Basque, Catalan, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, and Welsh Public Broadcasters
Craig Willis

BOOK REVIEWS

Francesca Belotti, Indigenous Media Activism in Argentina
Aniruddha Jena

Margaret Jack, Media Ruins: Cambodian Postwar Media Reconstruction and the Geopolitics of Technology
Codey Ryan Bills

Anke Strüver and Sybille Bauriedl (Eds.), Platformisation of Urban Life: Towards a Technocapitalist Transformation of European Cities
Sandra Jeppesen

Debra Hawhee, A Sense of Urgency: How the Climate Crisis Is Changing Rhetoric
Julia M. Cope

Casey Ryan Kelly, Caught on Tape: White Masculinity and Obscene Enjoyment
Jonathan Devine

Graham Meikle, Deepfakes
Helton Levy

Andrew Iliadis, Semantic Media: Mapping Meaning on the Internet
Dechun Zhang

Ragnhild Brøvig, Parody in the Age of Remix: Mashup Creativity vs. the Takedown
Gabriele Prosperi

_______________________________________________________________________

Silvio Waisbord, Editor 
Kady Bell-Garcia, Managing Editor
Chi Zhang, Managing Editor, Special Sections
Mark Mangoba-Agustin, Webmaster

Please note that according to the latest Google Scholar statistics, IJoC ranks 7th among all Humanities journals and 9th among all Communications journals in the world — demonstrating the viability of open access scholarly publication at the highest level. 

International Journal of Communication Publishes a Special Section on Media Technologies and Epistemologies: The Platforming of Everything 

Following a prolonged period of disruption, the concept of legacy media now points to the establishment of new modes of communication and global media systems. As previous structures and players dissolve into forms of social memory and heritage, what effects do emerging technologies and user behaviors have on shaping the new norms characterizing online culture?

Guest editors Sara Monaci and Sean Maher have brought together seven articles for the Special Section on Media Technologies and Epistemologies: The Platforming of Everything, examining how user behaviors and emerging technologies negotiate the increasingly structural role of platforms and processes of platformization.

Providing a multi-disciplinary perspective on new communications systems and participatory behaviors, the collection shifts focus from the many unknowns posed by the phenomena of Artificial Intelligence to other media technologies and what is currently unfolding on established platforms.

Critical perspectives from 11 international contributors provide insights on the prevailing order online issuing from born digital players. The analyses cover specific user behaviors from peer-to-peer co-creation models to news verification practices. Each article demonstrates considered negotiations of the structural role of platforms amidst the organizing logics of web-based media and communication.

The seven articles provide a timely critique on the tensions fueling old media style, top-down compliance sought by platform providers against participatory culture’s predisposition for agility and bottom-up innovation. Presenting a combination of adaptations and counter measures, users constantly adapt to a fluctuating media ecology. Rather than disruption, these shifts signal states of perpetual emergence that dislocate traditional epistemological perspectives on communication and media industries.

With a future comprised by so many unknowns and a present characterized by so much uncertainty, perspectives on past media histories also inevitably change. Grasping how these challenges pose opportunities for contemporary understandings begins with epistemologically informed thinking.

To this end, we invite you to read these articles published in the International Journal of Communication on September 27, 2024.

____________________________________________________________________________________

Media Technologies and Epistemologies: The Platforming of Everything—Editorial Introduction
Sean Maher, Sara Monaci

Haptic Holograms: The Liminal Communication of Emerging Visio-Haptic Apparatuses
Jason Edward Archer, Thomas Conner

Roblox and the Pervasiveness of Play: What Game-Making Communities Can Teach Us About Participatory Practices in Affinity Spaces
Domenico Morreale, Alessia Rosa

What Prompts Suspicions About Information Integrity? Motives for Fact-Checking Suspect Content
Erik P. Bucy, Duncan V. Prettyman

The Governance of Disinformation: Everyday Practices of Platform Sovereignty
Sara Monaci

Reframing the Impact on Documentary From Social Media and Streaming Through Media Theories Informed by Platformization
Sean Maher

Economics of Educational Content Creators on Social Media
Gabriella Taddeo, Jessica Diaferia

A “French Touch” to the Political Economy of Communication? A Critical Epistemology of the “Cultural Industries” School
Christophe Magis

____________________________________________________________________________________

Silvio Waisbord, Editor
Kady Bell-Garcia, Managing Editor 
Chi Zhang, Managing Editor, Special Sections
Mark Mangoba-Agustin, Webmaster
Sara Monaci, Sean Maher, Guest Editors

Please note that according to the latest Google Scholar statistics, IJoC ranks 7th among all Humanities journals and 9th among all Communications journals in the world — demonstrating the viability of open access scholarly publication at the highest level.

International Journal of Communication Publishes a Special Section on Media and Propaganda 

What does propaganda look like in the digital age? 

This Special Section on Media and Propaganda, guest-edited by Nelson Ribeiro and Barbie Zelizer, calls on researchers to reconsider what propaganda looks like in the digital age. It approaches propaganda as a theoretical construct that problematizes the different strategies and tactics used in the digital environment to deceive and manipulate a range of publics. Even though propaganda is a concept with a long tradition in communication and media studies, it has been mostly absent from discussions of contemporary information ecosystems. This Special Section aims to draw together traditional understandings of propaganda and current information disorder. It assembles a collection of articles that use propaganda as a construct to problematize how different media can be turned into tools of deception and manipulation.

The authors present a set of critical cases that demonstrate how propaganda is still with us, living on in new, old, and hybrid forms. The discussions differentiate its study by time and space. Time is reflected in the first two articles that address the relevance of generational understanding, where propaganda is shown to cross generations effectively by targeting age groups through the media that make the most sense to them. Space is reflected in the three articles that follow, which use various contexts of reception to assess the ways in which propaganda spreads spatially. Whether it is the pandemic or the invasion of Ukraine, how propaganda unfolds depends on the circumstances in which it does so. 

Together, the articles help us grasp how propaganda permeates the current environment. They call on us to understand where propaganda lives on and they pay special heed to the venues where it thrives, largely unawares to those around it.

To this end, we invite you to read these articles published in the International Journal of Communication on September 9th, 2024.

____________________________________________________________________________________

Where Propaganda Lives On—Editorial Introduction
Nelson Ribeiro, Barbie Zelizer

Long Live Chairman Mao: Propaganda About Mao Zedong in Chinese Primary School Textbooks (1984–1999)
Shenglan Zhou

“Today’s Children, Tomorrow’s Mujahideen”: A Discourse-Theoretical Analaysis of the Militarist Discourse in a Turkish Cypriot Children’s Magazine
Mazlum Kemal Dagdelen

Propagandistic Use of Fact-Checking in Health Crisis: The Case of Pro-Government Fact-Checking in Hong Kong
Mengzhe Feng

Jiangshanjiao, Do You Get Your Period?: Understanding Feminist Expressions Against State Propaganda in China
Kedi Zhou

“She Played All the Pregnant Women!” Russian Disinformation, Symbolic Annihilation, and the Mariupol Hospital Attack
Valentyna Shapovalova

____________________________________________________________________________________

Silvio Waisbord, Editor
Kady Bell-Garcia, Managing Editor 
Chi Zhang, Managing Editor, Special Sections
Mark Mangoba-Agustin, Webmaster
Nelson Ribeiro, Barbie Zelizer, Guest Editors

Please note that according to the latest Google Scholar statistics, IJoC ranks 7th among all Humanities journals and 9th among all Communications journals in the world — demonstrating the viability of open access scholarly publication at the highest level.

International Journal of Communication Publishes a Special Section on Women, Antifeminism, and Platforms: The Discourses of Misogyny

Why are misogyny and antifeminism on the rise? What role do online platforms and algorithms play in perpetuating misogyny and antifeminism? 

The articles in this  Special Section on Women, Antifeminism, and Platforms: The Discourses of Misogyny, guest-edited by Miren Gutierrez, analyze how antifeminism and misogyny appear in attitudes, are disseminated in political discourses, or function to increase polarization online. This investigation sheds light on patterns that emerge in this type of discourse, including the idea that women in democracies have achieved equality, therefore, it is redundant to empower them. It investigates the crucial role social platforms play in spreading antifeminism and misogyny to neutralize women; the coincidence of the gender backlash with the political polarization and revival of old debates about the convenience of gender equality; and the gaps in institutional awareness due to a disregard ofgender and women’s perspectives. This Special Section is not the first to investigate theconnections antifeminism and misogyny in political discourse and people’s attitudes towards equality. Nevertheless, it offers novel insights into relationships between women, politics, and communication because of the mixture of methods (from discourse network analysis to a longitudinal comparative analysis of surveys) that serves to explore the centrality of gender in today’s far-right politics, political polarization, and radicalization.

The Special Section comes at a time when the far-right in Europe is experiencing significant electoral success. These parties often emphasize traditional gender roles, nationalism, and opposition to progressive values, a reaction to changes such as secularization and gender equality. The analyses in this Special Section connect cultural backlash, antifeminism, and misogyny with values, attitudes, political discourse, and online polarization. Rather than only examining what the far-right stands against, this Special Section also explores its proposals, with its complexities and contradictions. Thus, thearticles in this Special Issue are situated in the broader research on antifeminist values, discourse, reaction to equality, and hate speech by looking at emerging phenomena in international communication. 

To this end, we invite you to read these articles published in the International Journal of Communication on Monday, August 12th, 2024.

____________________________________________________________________________________

Women, Politics, and Communication: The Discourses of Antifeminism and Misogyny in Europe —Introduction
Miren Gutierrez

Value Change Regarding Gender Roles and Backlash in Europe: Is Gender a New Polarization Element
Edurne Bartolomé Peral, María Silvestre, Ayauzhan Kamatayeva, Bogdan Voicu

Gender in VOX’s Ideology: Legitimization Strategy or Central Category?
Carmen Innerarity, José M. Pérez-Agote, María Lasanta-Palacios

Gender and Far-Right Women Political Representatives: A Twitter Discourse Network Analysis
Miren Berasategi Zeberio, María J. Pando-Canteli, María Pilar Rodríguez

Insta-Hate Toward Female Political Leaders: Six Case Studies From Instagram
Irene Pérez-Tirado, Adriana Carmen Calvo Viota, Belén Igarzábal

Resistance to Profem Employer Messages in Talent Attraction: The Case of Employer Femvertising Campaigns on LinkedIn
Garazi Azanza, Lorena Ronda, Begoña Sanz

Misogynistic Discourse, a Blind Spot in Definitions of Terrorism
Miren Gutierrez, María Lozano, Antonia Moreno Cano

____________________________________________________________________________________

Silvio Waisbord, Editor
Kady Bell-Garcia, Managing Editor 
Chi Zhang, Managing Editor, Special Sections
Mark Mangoba-Agustin, Webmaster
Miren Gutierrez, Guest Editor

Please note that according to the latest Google Scholar statistics, IJoC ranks 7th among all Humanities journals and 9th among all Communications journals in the world — demonstrating the viability of open access scholarly publication at the highest level.

International Journal of Communication invites you to read these 19 publications that published in August

The International Journal of Communication is pleased to announce the publication of 19 papers in AUGUST 2024, which includes the “Special Section on Women, Antifeminism, and Platforms: The Discourses of Misogyny.”  To access these papers, Ctrl+Click on the titles below for direct hyperlinking, or go to ijoc.org.

_______________________________________________________________________

ARTICLES

A Thematic Analysis of Tweets About Contested Casting for Lead Roles in the Movies Harriet and Judas and the Black Messiah
Adelaja Oriola Oriade

Between Comments and Collective Action: The Potential of TikTok in Endometriosis Advocacy
Xin Zhao, Anna Feigenbaum, Özlem Demirkol Tønnesen

Exploring Hashtag Feminism Around Sexual Violence on Farsi Twitter: Affective Practices, Hierarchy of Deservingness, and Media Solidarities
Bahareh Badiei

“Love From Me and My Belly”: The Politics and Performance of Body Positivity on Instagram
Nora Suren

“Music Is Just Right There on Social Media!”: Discovering, Exploring, and Incorporating Songs Across Platforms
Ignacio Siles, Luciana Valerio-Alfaro, Arturo Arriagada

Unveiling Disinformation: Mapping Attacks on Brazil’s Electoral System and the Response of the Superior Electoral Court (2018–2023)
Regina Cazzamatta, Augusto Santos, Grazielle Albuquerque

BOOK REVIEWS

Aaron Sachs, Stay Cool: Why Dark Comedy Matters in the Fight Against Climate Change
Kirsten Lydic

Jussi Parikka, Operational Images: From the Visual to the Invisual
Ziwei Chen

Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan, Code: From Information Theory to French Theory
Tsvetelina Hristova

Gabriele Cosentino, The Infodemic: Disinformation, Geopolitics and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Yasuhito Abe

Nancy Ettlinger, Algorithms and the Assault on Critical Thought: Digitalized Dilemmas of Automated Governance and Communitarian Practice
Jan Teurlings

Lisa Messeri, In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles
Maxwell Foxman

_______________________________________________________________________

Silvio Waisbord, Editor 
Kady Bell-Garcia, Managing Editor
Chi Zhang, Managing Editor, Special Sections
Mark Mangoba-Agustin, Webmaster

Please note that according to the latest Google Scholar statistics, IJoC ranks 7th among all Humanities journals and 9th among all Communications journals in the world — demonstrating the viability of open access scholarly publication at the highest level.