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

The International Journal of Communication is pleased to announce the publication of 19 papers in JULY 2024 which includes the “Special Section on Bossware: Critically Investigating Employee Monitoring and People Management”. To access these papers, Ctrl+Click on the titles below for direct hyperlinking, or go to ijoc.org.

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ARTICLES

Parenting With Chinese Characteristics in the Digital Age: Chinese Parents’ Perspectives and Parental Mediation of Children’s Media Use
Cecilia Yuxi Zhou

The Datafied School in the Neoliberal Era: Pandemic Shifts in South Korean Education Policy
Saemi Jung

Examining the Links Between Communication and Optimal Outcomes in Foreign Domestic Workers’ Perceived Health-Care Experiences: An Analysis of Proximal and Intermediate Outcomes
Xixi Wang, Bernadette Maria Watson

Revisiting the Hierarchy of Influences on Journalism in a Transitional Context: When the Social System Level Prevails
Dalia Elsheikh, Daniel Jackson, Nael Jebril

Unraveling Structured Routine: An Exploration of Audiences’ Habits in the Post-Network Age
Chun Shao

Working for the Miracle: A Critical, Visual Analysis of Disney’s Encanto
Raisa Alvarado, Carlos Flores, Raquel Moreira 

Identity Experiment in the Metaverse: Making Sense of Zepeto Users’ Avatar Use
Eun-Ju Lee, Sojeong Park, Wonjae Lee, Hyun Suk Kim

The Inherent Vice of Internet Memes: The Double Bind of Recognition and the Aesthetic of Haste
Ben T. Pettis 

An Exploration of Fitspiration Content on Social Media and Chinese Young People’s Insight Into Their Experiences of It: Gender-Based Differences
Jooyeon Lee

Critically Analyzing Platform Interfaces: How Music-Streaming Platforms Frame Musical Experience
David Hesmondhalgh, Raquel Campos Valverde, D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye, Zhongwei Li 

BOOK REVIEWS

James E. Dobson, The Birth of Computer Vision
Maia Nichols

Karin van Es and Nanna Verhoeff (Eds.), Situating Data Inquiries in Algorithmic Culture
Yiming Chen

Smith Mehta, The New Screen Ecology in India: Digital Transformation of Media
Bizaa Zeynab Ali

Liz Przybylski, Sonic Sovereignty: Hip Hop, Indigeneity, and Shifting Popular Music Mainstreams
Ian Sinnett

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Silvio Waisbord, Editor 
Kady Bell-Garcia, Managing Editor
Calvin Liu, Assistant 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 Bossware: Critically Investigating Employee Monitoring and People Management

Bossware. Employee Monitoring. People Management. Whatever the term, this software tracks the activity of workers in extensive and often invasive ways. Piggybacking on the pandemic, bossware has rapidly spread as managers strive to oversee and control remote workers. Bossware introduces new digital regimes into the workplace, establishes softer forms of surveillance, and reshapes the everyday experience of workers. Some services flag “risky” employees; others offer productivity scores to management to “optimize” labor. These techniques intensify pressure, undermine trust, and damage worker well-being.

But if the stakes of bossware are clear, its novelty has made it hard to grasp. A more critical and comprehensive understanding is needed. How do we situate bossware, how does it operate, how do workers respond, and how does all of this reconfigure contemporary labor? Such questions are not merely about filling a disciplinary gap but are foundational for worker understanding and resistance.

In this Special Section on Bossware: Critically Investigating Employee Monitoring and People Management, guest-edited by Luke Munn, authors provide a rich portrait of bossware, showing the powerful affordances and promises that lead employees to adopting it (Barili), how it reshapes our experience of work in subtle but significant ways (Cinque), and how workers adapt to these pervasive regimes, accepting some measures while pushing back against others (Ye and Zhao). Mark Andrejevic concludes the Section with a highly incisive framing of bossware as a “devolution of recognition” situated in a broader recession of sociality. 

As work becomes platformized and digitized, bossware becomes a significant yet often invisible infrastructure and a new site of struggle for contemporary labor. Grasping this phenomenon is key for media studies, labor studies, management studies, and organizations and activists seeking to support workers’ lives and livelihoods. 

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

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More Than Monitoring: Grappling With Bossware—Introduction
Luke Munn

The Platformization of Worker Surveillance: Materialities and Imaginaries in Teramind and Time Doctor
Fabricio Barili

Knowledge Workers of the Digital World, Unite! Knowledge Workers’ Workplace Surveillance and Hidden Transcripts in China
WeiMing Ye, Luming Zhao

Rise of the Performance and Assessment Filter: Microsoft Viva “Bossware,” Presence Status, and the Power of Surveillance Machines—Sleepers Awake!
Toija Cinque

Automated Monitoring in the Workplace: The Devolution of Recognition—Afterword
Mark Andrejevic

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

Please note that according to the latest Google Scholar statistics, IJoC ranks 7th among all Humanities journals and 8th 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 20 publications that published in June

The International Journal of Communication is pleased to announce the publication of 20 papers in June 2024, which includes the “Special Section on Intermediated Communication via Social Media Platforms During the COVID-19 Pandemic”.

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ARTICLES

Queer Identity Negotiation in Taiwanese Tongzhi’s Relationships with Mainland Gay Men in China
Wei Luo

Revisiting the Relationship Between Internet Access and Civic Engagement: A Multilevel Analysis of Between-Country Differences and Within-Country Change
Ruth Jin-Hee Heo, Tai-Quan “Winson” Peng

Does Party Affiliation Matter? A Moderated Moderation Examining Literacies, Foreign Social Media Use, and Political Affiliation on COVID-19
Xizhu Xiao, Quanchao Li, Mengyuan Wang, Xueping Chang, Xiaowei Liu 

Linking Exposure to Uncivil Online Comments to Decreased Political Knowledge: The Mediating Role of Active News Avoidance
Alberto Ardèvol-Abreu, Héctor Centeno Martín, Sheila Guerrero Rojas

A Century of Pandemics: The Spanish Flu, COVID-19, and the Splintering of the Modern Time Regime
Adetobi Moses

Mediatized Environmental Governance: The Normalization of Waste-classification Policy in China 
Jia Dai, Chenghao Ji 

Uncertainty and Privacy Management of the South Korean Public During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Adoption Intentions for AI-Based Digital Contact-Tracing Technology
Soo Jung Hong, Hichang Cho 

SPECIAL SECTION

Intermediated Communication via Social Media Platforms During the COVID-19 Pandemic—Editorial Introduction 
Dingkun Wang, Brian Yecies

The Homophobic Call-Outs of COVID-19: Spurring and Spreading Angry Attention from Girregi Journalism Online to YouTube in South Korea
Jin Lee, Jeehyun Jenny Lee

The Construction of Distributed Trust on Bilibili Under the COVID-19 Pandemic
Siwen Lu, Sijing Lu

Citizens’ Strategies for Navigating News and Misinformation in the COVID-19 “Infodemic” 
Kate Holland, Sora Park, Kerry McCallum, Emma John, Caroline Fisher, Kieran McGuinness, Jee Young Lee

(Mis-)Connected: Web Series, Digital Culture, and Everyday Life in Lockdown 
Nicola Evans, Mark David Ryan, Steinar Ellingsen, Meredith Burkholder, Leandro da Silva

Communicating Through Chaos in the Webtoon Parasocial Intimacy Chamber
Dingkun Wang, Brian Yecies, Mehrdad Amirghasemi, Kishan Kariippanon, Ming Lu

BOOK REVIEWS

Laura Cariola (Ed.), Eating Disorders in Public Discourse: Exploring Media Representations and Lived Experiences
Dalton Bouzek

Jenna Supp-Montgomerie, When the Medium Was the Mission: The Atlantic Telegraph and the Religious Origins of Network Culture 
Derek Moscato 

Mark Coeckelbergh, Political Philosophy of AI: An Introduction
Chikezie E. Uzuegbunam

Kjetil Selvik and Jacob Høigilt, Journalism in the Gray Zone: Pluralism and Media Capture in Lebanon and Tunisia
Buket Oztas

Jason Gilmore and Charles Rowling, Exceptional Me: How Donald Trump Exploited the Discourse of American Exceptionalism
Emma A. Hall

Anthony Elliott, Algorithmic Intimacy: The Digital Revolution in Personal Relationships
Yueyang Yao

Nick Seaver, Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation
Shengchun Huang

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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 8th 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 Intermediated Communication via Social Media Platforms During the COVID-19 Pandemic

As more time passes from the rapid and chaotic onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic, some fundamental questions remain about the short and long-term impacts of this crisis on our mental and physical well-being, as well as the dynamic forms of communication practices many of us adopted as a basic survival strategy.    

Guest-edited by Dingkun Wang (University of Hong Kong) and Brian Yecies (University of Wollongong), this Special Section on Intermediated Communication via Social Media Platforms During the COVID-19 Pandemic instigates new perspectives on “citizen” journalism, distributed trust, strategies for navigating misinformation and disinformation, the creation of short-form episodic content, and parasocial intimacy in the Webtooniverse—as diverse responses to one of the biggest crises in our lifetime. Combined, the articles interrogate how various acts of intermediation spread novel forms of digital interaction and integration among different audiences and online infrastructures. The authors’ findings contribute to a growing discourse about how intermediated communications via online and mobile social media platforms have engaged with and overcome challenges at the fundamental core of human communication.  

The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically changed our lives in ways we have yet to fully understand. While a lot of the intense anxiety and extreme health provocations that the pandemic inspired may have subsided, the world remains challenged by the impact of this crisis on our mediated lives. In particular, our varied engagement with the online and mobile world has exposed nuanced pathways for knowledge sharing today, as well as future research on how individual and collective actions may continue to transform digital environments and everyday lived realities more broadly. 

This Special Section explores some of the previously unrecognized ways the pandemic has altered how we consume and synthesize information, create content, and participate and support each other in digital spaces. By applying a range of research methods and tools, including ethnography, qualitative analysis, and big-data emotion detection techniques, the contributing authors delve into significant individual and participatory domains of social media communication. Together, the articles underpin intricate modes of human agency and digital intermediation which have increased in momentum during and since the times of lockdown and the spread of misinformation, as well as the resulting flows of connection, disconnection, and reconnection. Looking forward, it is hoped the research in this Special Section will pave the way for a new generation of scholars and future investigations into how communication practices across digital environments transform in the face of cascading crises. 

We invite you to read these articles that are published in the International Journal of Communication. Please  Ctrl+Click on the article titles below for direct linking to the papers of interest. 

Intermediated Communication via Social Media Platforms During the COVID-19 Pandemic—Editorial Introduction
Dingkun Wang, Brian Yecies

The Homophobic Call-Outs of COVID-19: Spurring and Spreading Angry Attention from Girregi Journalism Online to YouTube in South Korea
Jin Lee, Jeehyun Jenny Lee

The Construction of Distributed Trust on Bilibili Under the COVID-19 Pandemic
Siwen Lu, Sijing Lu

Citizens’ Strategies for Navigating News and Misinformation in the COVID-19 “Infodemic”
Kate Holland, Sora Park, Kerry McCallum, Emma John, Caroline Fisher, Kieran McGuinness, Jee Young Lee

(Mis-)Connected: Web Series, Digital Culture, and Everyday Life in Lockdown
Nicola Evans, Mark David Ryan, Steinar Ellingsen, Meredith Burkholder, Leandro da Silva

Communicating Through Chaos in the Webtoon Parasocial Intimacy Chamber
Dingkun Wang, Brian Yecies, Mehrdad Amirghasemi, Kishan Kariippanon, Ming Lu

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Silvio Waisbord, Editor
Kady Bell-Garcia, Managing Editor
Chi Zhang, Managing Editor, Special Sections
Mark Mangoba-Agustin, Webmaster
Dingkun Wang and Brian Yecies , Guest Editors

​Please note that according to the latest Google Scholar statistics, IJoC ranks 7th among all Humanities journals and 8th 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 12 publications that published in May

The International Journal of Communication is pleased to announce the publication of 12 papers in May 2024. Please log into ijoc.org to read the papers of interest.

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ARTICLES

An Integrative Conception of Micromobility: Its Technical Tendency, Its Appropriation, and the Role of Mobile Interfaces 
Thilo von Pape, Jean-Claude Domenget, Séverine Equoy-Hutin, Sophie Mariani-Rousset, Thomas Buhler

“Bargaining With Patriarchy”: Newsroom Experiences of Women Journalists in Turkey and Greece
Sevda Alankus

Extending Athlete Reputational Crises: Theorizing Underperformance Crises and the Flip Appeal
Lillian B. Feder, Diana Zulli

Making Politics Attractive: Satirical Memes and Attention to Political Information in the New Media Environment 
Kirill Chmel, Nikita Savin, Michael X. Delli Carpini

Russian Public-Diplomacy Efforts to Influence Neighbors: Media Messaging Supports Hard-Power Projection in Ukraine and Georgia 
Maureen Taylor, Natalie M. Rice, Oleg Manaev, Catherine A. Luther, Suzie L. Allard, R. Alexander Bentley, Joshua Borycz, Benjamin D. Horne, Brandon C. Prins

Online Disinformation in Brazil: A Typology of Discursive Action of Harmful Political Content on WhatsApp and Facebook
Tatiana Dourado, Victor Piaia, Viktor Chagas, Dalby Dienstbach, Marco Aurelio Ruediger, Eurico Matos, João Guilherme Bastos dos Santos

“They Know Everything”: Folk Theories, Thoughts, and Feelings About Dataveillance in Media Technologies 
Dong Zhang, Sophie C. Boerman, Hanneke Hendriks, Margot J. van der Goot, Theo Araujo, Hilde Voorveld

Firewalls Have Ears: How Horizontal Privacy Regulation Influences Online Political Expression in Russia
Aysenur Dal

BOOK REVIEWS 

Tamara Kneese, Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond
Kate Maddalena

Johanna Brewer, Bo Ruberg, Amanda L. L. Cullen, and Christopher J. Persaud (Eds.), Real Life in Real Time: Live Streaming Culture 
Alberto Lusoli

Daniel Miller, Laila Abed Rabho, Patrick Awondo, Maya de Vries, Marília Duque, Pauline Garvey, Laura Haapio-Kirk, Charlotte Hawkins, Alfonso Otaegui, Shireen Walton, and Xinyuan Wang, The Global Smartphone: Beyond a Youth Technology
Tanja Bosch

Xin Pei, Pranav Malhotra, and Rich Ling (Eds.), Women’s Agency and Mobile Communication Under the Radar
Haixia Man

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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 8th among all Communications journals in the world — demonstrating the viability of open access scholarly publication at the highest level.