International Journal of Communication invites you to read these 29 papers that published in September

The International Journal of Communication is pleased to announce the publication of 29 papers in SEPTEMBER 2023. To access these papers, Ctrl+Click on the titles below for direct hyperlinking.
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ARTICLES

How did #StopAsianHate and #BlackLivesMatter React to Each Other After the Atlanta Shootings: An Analysis of Twitter Hashtag Networks
Jihye Kim, Jae-Woo Kim

The Trust Factor: Investigating the Triple Role of News Media Trust on Perceived Migrant Threat
David De Coninck, Hajo G. Boomgaarden, Hannah Kronschnabl, Leen d’Haenens

Do Brands Matter? Understanding Public Trust in Third-Party Factcheckers of Misinformation and Disinformation on Facebook 
Andrea Carson, Timothy B. Gravelle, Justin B. Phillips, James Meese, Leah Ruppanner 

Fanning Money: The Cultural Economy and Participatory Politics of Dogecoin 
Maximilian Brichta

Catchier Than COVID: An Analysis of Pandemic Coverage by Dutch News Satire Show Zondag Met Lubach 
Jonas Nicolaï, Pieter Maeseele

Concerns With Infrastructuring: Invisible and Invasive Forces of Digital Platforms in Hangzhou, China
Kirsikka Grön, Zhuo Chen, Minna Ruckenstein

Toward Productive Coexistence: A Relational Analysis of a Feminist Counterpublic in Twitter K-Pop Fandom 
Yena Lee

Stability as an Outcome in Communication Research
Jacob A. Long

Reading Emotions in the Digital Age: A Deep Learning Approach to Detecting Anxiety During the COVID-19 Pandemic Through Social Media
Jinwoo Jeong, Sujin Yoon, Dongyoung Sohn, Yong Suk Choi 

Chilean Gays and Lesbians and the Televisual Representations of Homosexuality: Interpreting Changing Images as “Packages” of Information
Ricardo Ramírez  

Positive and Negative Role Models in Uncertainty Management Processes About Aging
Kai Kuang, Patricia E. Gettings

From Telefónica to Movistar: A European Case of the Transformation of a Telecom Into a Global TV Company
María José Pérez-Serrano, José Vicente García Santamaría, Andreu Casero Ripollés 

Stand-Up: The “Comic” Public Sphere in India
Rashi Bhargava, Samarth Singhal

Why Netizens Report Harmful Content Online: A Moderated Mediation Model
Xinzhou Xie, Lin Shi, Yaoying Zhu

All Radicalization Is Local: Media Influence on Local Islamist Radicalization Processes in Five German and Austrian Hotspots
Katharina Neumann, Philip Baugut

An Exploration of the Communication Dynamics of the Hard-to-Reach: Considering Disintegration of a Communication Infrastructure in Old Age
Carrie Leach, Julie M. Novak, Thomas B. Jankowski, Sandie Pierce, Pam Lapan

Social Media Influencer and Source Credibility: Endorsing Content Moderation on Douyin
Renyi He, Hao Tian

Queer Podcasting as a Medium of Visibility in Türkiye’s Media Ecosystem: A Content Analysis on Episodes
Fırat Tufan, Bilge Şenyüz

Patterns in Making Victims’ Gender Visible or Invisible in News Media Reporting of Boko Haram’s Massacres and Kidnappings
Nathan Beel, Kate Jonathan

Conflicting Responses to Djokovic’s Deportation: Citizenship, The Rule of Law, and Commercial Nationalism
Zala Volcic, Nikolas Matovinovic, Mark Andrejevic 

From Moving About the City to Moving About the Home: Considering Bounded Spaces of Connected Mobility
Scott W. Campbell, Morgan Q. Ross, Fan Liang, Rich Ling

What’s in a Name? Imagined Territories and Sea Names in the South China Sea Conflict
Lupita Wijaya

The Role of “State Endorsers” in Extending Chinese Propaganda: Evaluating the Reach of Pro-Regime YouTubers
Marie Brockling, Haohan Lily Hu, King-wa Fu 

The Go-Betweens: Political Discussion Management Practices on Social Media Among Political Aides—A Comparative Study
Chen Sabag-Ben Porat, Sharon Haleva-Amir

BOOK REVIEWS

Michael Mario Albrecht, Trumping the Media: Politics and Democracy in the Post-Truth Era
Zahedur Rahman Arman

Nick Monaco and Samuel Woolley, Bots
Ho-Chun Herbert Chang

Luzhou Li, Zoning China: Online Video, Popular Culture, and the State 
Mengru Sun 

Michael Brüggemann and Simone Rödder (Eds.), Global Warming in Local Discourses: How Communities around the World Make Sense of Climate Change
Lijing Gao

Kyle Parry, A Theory of Assembly: From Museums to Memes
Jan Teurlings

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Larry Gross, Editor
Kady Bell-Garcia, Managing Editor
Chi Zhang, Managing Editor, Special Sections

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 33 papers that published in August

The International Journal of Communication is pleased to announce the publication of 33 papers in AUGUST 2023, which includes the “Special Section on The Role of Media on Political Polarization.” To access these papers, Ctrl+Click on the titles below for direct hyperlinking, or go to ijoc.org to read the Special Section.
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ARTICLES

Two Tales of One War: Understanding the Media Coverage of the Yemeni Civil War in Saudi Arabia and Qatar
Talha İsmail Duman, Furkan Halit Yolcu 

The Power of Fake News: Big Data Analysis of Discourse About COVID-19–Related Fake News in South Korea
Sou Hyun Jang, Kyoung Eun Jung, Yong Jeong Yi  

Political Campaign Ads on Facebook: Investigating the Effects of Incivility in Videos and User Comments on Affective Polarization and Mobilization
Taberez Ahmed Neyazi, Ozan Kuru, Subhayan Mukerjee 

Digital Personal Storytelling of Union Supporters and Opponents in Neoliberal Organizational Settings
Tamar Lazar 

Attracting Effective Support on Social Networking Sites: Examining Three Characteristics of Online Support-Seeking Messages
Siyue Li, Diyi Liu, Chenyu She, Wenjing Pan  

Seeing With Transparency: Mapping the Privacy-Security Controversy Over Digital Contact Tracing in Vietnam
Dang Nguyen  

“They Expect us to All be Yellow”: Rhetorical Construction of Asianness in Blackface Controversy Around Jella’s Yellowish-Brown Tanning Makeup on YouTube
Seonah Kim 

Coming Out of the Fog of War and Adoption Trauma: Central American Adoptees and Social Media Support Groups
Nathan Rossi 

Questioning Public Service Media in Egypt and Spain
Mercedes Medina, Rasha Allam 

The Politics of Disconnection: A Systematic Review of Politically Motivated Unfriending
Qinfeng Zhu

Disclosing Hearing Loss: Managing Boundaries Surrounding a Stigmatized Identity
Brittany N. Lash

Automated Fact-Checking to Support Professional Practices: Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analysis
Laurence Dierickx, Carl-Gustav Lindén, Andreas Lothe Opdahl

The Coloniality of Dating Apps: Racial Affordances and Chinese Men Using Gay Dating Apps in Sydney
Rodrigo Perez Toledo, L. L. Wynn  

“It Comes With the Job”: How Journalists Navigate Experiences and Perceptions of Gendered Online Harassment
João Miranda, Maria João Silveirinha, Susana Sampaio-Dias, Bruno Dias, Bibiana Garcez,
Mateus Noronha

“No Does Not Always Mean No”: The Discursive Representation of Female Sexual Rejection as “Last Minute Resistance” in Pick-Up Artist Communities
Giuseppina Scotto di Carlo

The Politics of Pity Under Authoritarianism: How Government-Controlled Media Regulates Audiences’ Mediated Experiences of Distant Suffering
Zhe Xu, Mengrong Zhang  

Selling Synthetic Sisterhood: Legitimation Strategies of Entrepreneurship on MLM Corporate Websites
Heidi E. Huntington, Mary E. Brooks

FEATURE

Converging Media Unions: A Labor History of Newsworkers in a Predigital Age
Errol Salamon

BOOK REVIEWS

Fiona Rossette-Crake, Digital Oratory as Discursive Practice: From the Podium to the Screen
David Boromisza-Habashi

Elena Block, Discursive Disruption, Populist Communication and Democracy: The Cases of Hugo Chávez and Donald J. Trump
Raymie E. McKerrow 

Thy Phu, Erina Duganne, and Andrea Noble (Eds.), Cold War Camera
Liz Hallgren  

Jacob Nelson, Imagined Audiences: How Journalists Perceive and Pursue the Public
Anya Schiffrin

Jennifer Miller, The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children’s Picture Books
Jackson McLaren

James Balfour, Representing Schizophrenia in the Media: A Corpus-Based Approach to UK Press Coverage
Jiamin Pei, Min Wang

Chrisanthi Giotis, Borderland: Decolonizing the Words of War
Maia Nichols

Ross Melnick, Hollywood’s Embassies: How Movie Theaters Projected American Power Around the World
Eneos Çarka

Shanon Fitzpatrick, True Story: How a Pulp Empire Remade Mass Media
Hana Vega

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Larry Gross, Editor
Kady Bell-Garcia, Managing Editor
Chi Zhang, Managing Editor, Special Sections

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 The Role of Media on Political Polarization

As political polarization emerges across societies, are news platforms and social media sites to blame? 

Guest-edited by Christian von Sikorski and Emily Kubin, this Special Section on the Role of Media in Political Polarization aims to provide a deeper understanding regarding the complex relationship between media (i.e., traditional and social media) and political polarization (with a special focus on affective polarization). Here we bring together leading scholars from the fields of communication research, political science, and psychology to understand how media and affective polarization relate to one another.    

The authors present diverse perspectives in understanding when media exacerbates affective division, when media are unrelated to affective polarization, and the situations where media can depolarize viewers. Authors consider these questions in both traditional media settings (e.g., news media) and social media contexts (e.g., Facebook). The conclusions drawn by the authors highlight how there is not a simple answer regarding whether the media are (at least in part) to blame for rising political polarization. For example, one must consider the media content, how people interact with media, their (mis)perceptions of society at large, and how the media shape users’ real-world behaviors. Further, some authors grapple with how media can reduce political division—exploring whether attitudes expressed by others within online forums, and inoculation against the perceived reliability of polarizing content, can reduce affective polarization. Taken together, these contributions highlight the need for nuanced understandings of how media relate to political polarization. 

We invite you to read these articles that published in the International Journal of Communication on August 15, 2023. Please log into ijoc.org to read the papers of interest. We look forward to your feedback! 
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The Complex Relationship Between Media and Political Polarization: Understanding How the Media Can Affectively (De)Polarize Citizens—Introduction
Emily Kubin, Christian von Sikorski 

The Way We Use Social Media Matters: A Panel Study on Passive Versus Active Political Social Media Use and Affective Polarization
Jörg Matthes, Andreas Nanz, Ruta Kaskeleviciute, Franz Reiter, Isabelle Freiling, Ariadne Neureiter, Marlis Stubenvoll, Sebastian E. Sherrah,
Sarah Juricek, Atika Aisyarahmi Munzir, Iara Noronha 

Mediatized Campaign Attacks Fuel Affective Polarization if Perceived as Negative: Experimental Evidence With American Voters
Alessandro Nai, Jürgen Maier

When We Have to Get Along: Depolarizing Impacts of Cross-Cutting Social Media
Daniel J. Sude, Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick

Inoculation Can Reduce the Perceived Reliability of Polarizing Social Media Content
Isobel Harrop, Jon Roozenbeek, Jens Koed Madsen, Sander van der Linden

The SPIR Framework of Social Media and Polarization: Exploring the Role of Selection, Platform Design, Incentives, and Real-World Context
Elizabeth Harris, Steve Rathje, Claire E. Robertson, Jay J. Van Bavel

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Larry Gross, Editor 
Kady Bell-Garcia, Managing Editor
Chi Zhang, Managing Editor, Special Sections
Christian von Sikorski, Emily Kubin, 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 31 papers that published in July

The International Journal of Communication is pleased to announce the publication of 31 papers in JULY 2023. To access these papers, Ctrl+Click on the titles below for direct hyperlinking.
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ARTICLES

“Political Cannabis” or “Medicinal Cannabis?”: An Australian News Framing Analysis
Hannah Adler, Monique Lewis

Framing and Sourcing the 2019 Lebanese Protests on Local Television
Jana El Amine, Claudia Kozman

Perceived Versus Actual Ability to Identify Fake News: Evidence From Israel’s 2019–2020 Elections
Moran Yarchi, Tal Samuel-Azran, Tsahi (Zack) Hayat

Kenyan Politics: Determinants of Legislators’ Coverage in Newspapers’ Pictorial News
Jimmy Ochieng, Kioko Ireri  

Indigenous-Washing and Colonial Amnesia: How New Zealand’s Nation Brand Depoliticizes Climate Change
Olli Hellmann 

Race, Myth, and News: An Updated Model to Explain Representations of Racism in Colombian Racial Democracy
Carlos A. Cortés-Martínez, Jesús Antonio Arroyave-Cabrera, Andrea Cancino-Borbón  

Cannabis, Media, and the Neoliberal Marketplace: The Problem With Just Saying Yes to Color-Blind Legalization Narratives
Corinne Weinstein  

Conceptualizing Online Content From a Game-Theoretic and Relational Perspective
Xiangting Bernice Lin, Poong Oh  

The Imitation Game as a Method for Testing Producers and Their Audience, Real and Imagined: A Proof of Concept
Philippe Ross

Is Processing COVID-19 Information Effective for Wearing Masks? The Effect of Information Processing on Preventive Intention
Yunhee Ku, Hwalbin Kim, Wonkyung Kim, Ghee-Young Noh

Interrogating Dominant Ideology in Media Representations of Witchcraft-Related Gendered Violence: The Case of Mariama Akua Denteh
Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed

Mapping the Information Landscapes of Sudanese Youth: Implications for Media Literacy Education
Abubakr Abdelbagi, Ioana Literat

Before and After the 2017 Gulf Crisis: Peace, Propaganda, and Violence Frames in Al-Jazeera’s Coverage of Bahrain’s Uprising
Zainab Abdul-Nabi

Surviving or Thriving? Examining the Impact of Digital Connective Politics in Primary-Level Cadres’ Live-Streaming E-Commerce in China
Yupei Zhao, Wanyan Wu, Zhongxuan Lin 

Emojis in Parties’ Online Communication During the 2019 European Election Campaign: Toward a Typology of Political Emoji Use
Anna-Katharina Wurst, Katharina Pohl, Jörg Haßler, Daniel Jackson

The Role of Team and Social Identity in Parasocial Relationships and Parasocial Breakups: Lionel Messi’s Departure From FC Barcelona
Sai Datta Mikkilineni, Andrew C. Billings, Kenon A. Brown, Xavier Ramon

The Same Old Story: Cultivation of the Warrior Stereotype of American Indians
Laurel R. Davis-Delano, Renee V. Galliher, Joseph P. Gone

Understanding Stakeholder Feedback in Digital Contexts
Renee Mitson, Matthew S. Weber

Northeast Delhi Riots of 2020: Contesting and (Re)claiming the Western Media Narrative
Sumanth Inukonda

Participating or Tuning Out? Engagement With Political Content on Social Media
Ianis Bucholtz

Imaginaries of Success About Netflix Original Series: The Case of Cidade Invisível
Daniel Rios, Mayka Castellano

Participatory Outcomes of Collective Action Groups on Facebook: The Roles of Network Relationships and Group Contexts
Chih-Hui Lai

Digital Platforms and Civil War: How Côte d’Ivoire’s Press Informs a New Model of African Journalistic Practices in Authoritarian Regimes
Jeslyn Lemke 

FEATURES

Still Watching From the Sidelines? The Case for Transformative Environmental Communication Scholarship
Michael Brüggemann, Anabela Carvalho, Benedetta Brevini, John Downey 

Americans Cannot Consent to Companies’ Use of Their Data
Joseph Turow, Ypthach Lelkes, Nora A. Draper, Ari Ezra Waldman


BOOK REVIEWS

Jennifer DeClue, Visitation: The Conjure Work of Black Feminist Avant-Garde Cinema
M. Sellers Johnson

Jennifer Gabrys, Citizens of Worlds: Open-Air Toolkits for Environmental Struggle
Yasuhito Abe

Matthew W. Ragas and Ron Culp, Business Acumen for Strategic Communicators: A Primer
Heidi E. Huntington

Maria Ressa, How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future
Sue Curry Jansen

Thomas Klikauer, Media Capitalism: Hegemony in the Age of Mass Deception
Marcus Breen

Allison Page, Media and the Affective Life of Slavery
Kelli Moore

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Larry Gross, Editor
Kady Bell-Garcia, Managing Editor
Chi Zhang, Managing Editor, Special Sections

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 42 papers that published in June

The International Journal of Communication is pleased to announce the publication of 42 papers in JUNE 2023, which includes the “Special Section on Worker Resistance in Digital Capitalism” and the “Special Section on Afterlives of the Californian Ideology: Tech Movements, Pioneer Communities, and Imaginaries of Digital Futures.” To access these papers, Ctrl+Click on the titles below for direct hyperlinking or go to ijoc.org to read the Special Sections.
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ARTICLES

The Journalistic Wishlist: Exploring Reporters’ Desired Skills Using Delphi Method
Oded Jackman, Zvi Reich

Memes and Veganism: Representations of Vegan Identity and Its Alterity
Camila Joustra, Juan Alfaro, Claudia Giacoman 

Zapping Storms: Camp, Parody, and Queer Video Activism
Raffi Sarkissian

From Symbolic Obscurity to Cultural Visibility? African Immigrants on U.S. Television and the Ambivalence of Nigerians on American Sitcom
Toks Dele Oyedemi

Mediating Banal Populism Through Vlogging in the Philippines
Jefferson Lyndon D. Ragragio

The Role of Media Literacy in Mitigating COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Conspiracy Theories
Jad Melki, Dana Hamzeh, Jana Itani, Maya Hariri, Perla Daou, Abdulrahman Al-Shami,
Hamida El Bour, Sahar Khalifa Salim, Saleh Masharqa, Soheir Othman, Yasar Durra

Audience Perception and Religious Identity Among Social Media Users: The Case of Muslim Arab Women in Israel
Aysha Agbarya

Inequalities in Remote Gig Work During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Floor Fiers, Eszter Hargittai 

Critiquing “Mainstream Media” on Twitter: Between Moralized Suspicion and Democratic Possibility
Sean Phelan, Pieter Maeseele

Delegating Issue Importance Judgments: An Experimental Test of the Agenda Cueing Hypothesis in an Online News Aggregator
Kirill Bryanov

Mukbang Streamers in China: Wanghong as Industry, Laborer, and Exemplar of Social Transformation
Sijun Shen

Like Grandmother, Like Mother? Multigenerational Mediation of Young Children’s Media Use
Galit Nimrod, Nelly Elias, Dafna Lemish

How Class Matters: Examining Working-Class Children’s Home Technology Environments From a Developmental Perspective
Vikki Katz, Brianna Hightower

“I Urgently Need Your Advice”—Digital Stress Experiences and Social Support in Online Forums
Cordula Nitsch, Susanne Kinnebrock

Behind Closed Doors: How Public Affairs Professionals Perceive the Process of Organizational Frame Building
Irina Lock, Sandra Jacobs

BOOK REVIEWS

Dal Yong Jin, Understanding Korean Webtoon Culture: Transmedia Storytelling, Digital Platforms, and Genres
Haixia Man

Rogers Brubaker, Hyperconnectivity and Its Discontents
Jacob Green

Michael Keane, Haiqing Yu, Elaine J. Zhao, and Susan Leong (Eds.), China’s Digital Presence in the Asia-Pacific: Culture, Technology, and Platforms
Nicholas P. Fernacz 

Cortland Rankin, Decline and Reimagination in Cinematic New York
Michael D. Dwyer

Sarah C. Bishop, A Story to Save Your Life: Communication and Culture in Migrants’ Search for Asylum
Kristin Wells

Traci B. Abbott, The History of Trans Representation in American Television andFilm Genres
Aiden James Kosciesza 

Georgina Born, Music and Digital Media: A Planetary Anthropology
Jiaqi Tan, Qiuying Zhao 

Joel Penney, Pop Culture, Politics, and the News: Entertainment Journalism in the Polarized Media Landscape
Valentina Proust

Rachel E. Dubrofsky, Authenticating Whiteness: Karens, Selfies, and Pop Stars
Sim Gill 

Igor E. Kylukanov, Communication: A House Seen from Everywhere
Philip Effiom Ephraim

Danny Kimball, Net Neutrality and the Battle for the Open Internet
Maria Michalis

Emmanuel Alloa (Ed.), This Obscure Thing Called Transparency: Politics and Aesthetics of a Contemporary Metaphor
Raúl Rodríguez-Ferrándiz

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Larry Gross, Editor
Kady Bell-Garcia, Managing Editor
Chi Zhang, Managing Editor, Special Sections

Please note that according to the latest Google Scholar statistics, IJoC ranks 9th 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.