IJoC Publishes 18 Articles in March

The International Journal of Communication (IJoC) has published the following 18 papers in March which we’re delighted to share with you. Please click on the article title below to access the manuscript.

ARTICLES

Which Countries Does the World Talk About? An Examination of Factors that Shape Country Presence on Twitter
Denis Wu, Jacob Groshek, Michael G. Elasmar

The Challenge of Delocalized Channels: Transfrontier Television in Poland (Characteristics, Typology and Content)
Tomasz Gackowski

A Mediation Model to Explain the Effects of Information Seeking from Media and Interpersonal Sources on Young Adults’ Intention to Use Marijuana
Lourdes S. Martinez, Nehama Lewis

Enjoyment and Appreciation as Motivators for Coping: Exploring the Therapeutic Effects of Media Messages on Perceived Threat
Jinhee Kim, Mina Tsay-Vogel

Smiles, Babies, and Status Symbols: The Persuasive Effects of Image Choices in Small-Entrepreneur Funding Requests
Kenton Bruce Anderson, Gregory D. Saxton

Agreeing Not to Disagree: Iterative Versus Episodic Forms of Political Participatory Behaviors
Yangsun Hong, Hernando Rojas

Jus Algoritmi: How the National Security Agency Remade Citizenship
John Cheney-Lippold

Source Variety, Event Frequency, and Context in Newspaper Crime Reporting
Rocky Dailey, Debora Halpern Wenger

Bottom of the Data Pyramid: Big Data and the Global South
Payal Arora

Mediated Contact, Intergroup Attitudes, and Ingroup Members’ Basic Values: South Koreans and Migrant Workers
Hyeyeon Ju, Sung-Yeon Park, Jae C. Shim, Yunhee Ku

Communication in a Post-Disaster Community: The Struggle to Access Social Capital
Donald Matheson, Annalee Jones

The Efficacy of Chinese News Coverage of Tobacco Control: A Comparison between Media Agenda and Policy Agenda
Di Zhang, Baijing Hu, Ruosi Shao

Hosting Together via Couchsurfing: Privacy Management in the Context of Network Hospitality
Airi Lampinen

Co-mmodifying the Gay Body: Globalization, the Film Industry and Female Prosumers in the Contemporary Korean Mediascape
Jungmin Kwon

FEATURES

The Herald and Daily News’ Framing of the Leaked Zimbabwean Draft Constitution and Vice President Joice Mujuru’s Fall from Grace
Albert Chibuwe

BOOK REVIEWS

Phoebe H. Li, A Virtual Chinatown: The Diasporic Mediasphere of Chinese Migrants in New Zealand
Aya Yadlin-Segal

Mohan J. Dutta, Communicating Social Change: Structure, Culture, and Agency
Daniel Lane

Joseph M. Reagle Jr., Reading the Comments: Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web
Anna Lee Swan

“The Urban Panopticon/Los Angeles,” originally taken from “Street Discourse:
A Visual Essay on Urban Signification” (Pauwels, 2009)

IJoC Publishes Special Section on “Urban Communication Research”

Cities are central to the media landscapes and communication practices of our times, ranging from the wide appeal of urban popular cultures and the global resonance of protests in squares to the ubiquity of public screens and locative media in urban space. Over the past decade, scholars have become increasingly interested in cities because a close look at urban life may offer answers to important questions about contemporary media and communication: How do individuals and communities interact through the media or face-to-face in urban settings?  How does the urban built environment shape and constrain the everyday lives of city dwellers?  How do dominant narratives about cities promote particular forms of civic engagement and social change?

The networks, proximities, creativities, and inequalities that animate cities are at the heart of some of the major debates that sustain the discipline.

Urban communication scholarship is concerned with the ways in which people connect (or don’t connect) with others and with their urban environment via symbolic, technological and/or material means. This Special Section on methods and methodologies for urban communication research breaks new ground. For the first time, a group of established scholars reflect systematically on how research on urban communication is done, why particular questions matter, and how they and others have examined specific aspects of the urban/communication nexus.

Guest-edited by Giorgia Aiello and Simone Tosoni, this Special Section features seven original articles that cover different disciplinary points of view, including documentary (Daniel Makagon, Mary Rachel Gould), audiencing (Simone Tosoni, Seija Ridell), material (Greg Dickinson, Giorgia Aiello), visual (Luc Pauwels), mixed-method (Matthew D. Matsaganis), ecological (Stephen Coleman, Nancy Thumim, Giles Moss), and applied (Susan Drucker, Gary Gumpert) perspectives on urban communication.

The Special Section works as a springboard for a timely and much-needed conversation on the key methodological principles, processes and practices that underlie urban communication as an area of inquiry in its own right. Taken together, the articles highlight the multifaceted nature of this body of work and invite scholars to keep reflecting on how media and communication research can produce groundbreaking empirical knowledge on cities. Even more, these articles show that research in and on cities may fundamentally change current outlooks on media and communication as a whole.

Going About the City:  Methods and Methodologies for Urban Communication Research—Introduction
Giorgia Aiello, Simone Tosoni

Learning the City Through Stories: Audio Documentary as Urban Communication Pedagogy
Daniel Makagon, Mary Rachel Gould

Decentering Media Studies, Verbing the Audience: Methodological Considerations Concerning People’s Uses of Media in Urban Space
Simone Tosoni, Seija Ridell

Being Through There Matters: Materiality, Bodies, and Movement in Urban Communication Research
Greg Dickinson, Giorgia Aiello

Visually Researching and Communicating the City: A Systematic Assessment of Methods and Resources
Luc Pauwels

Multi- and Mixed-Methods Approaches to Urban Communication Research: A Synthesis and the Road Ahead
Matthew D. Matsaganis

Researching Local News in a Big City: A Multimethod Approach
Stephen Coleman, Nancy Thumim, Giles Moss

The Communicative City Redux
Susan Drucker, Gary Gumpert

We invite you to read these papers that published February 23, 2016 at http://ijoc.org

IJoC Publishes Special Section on “Translating in the 21st Century”

Translations have historically played a central role in the dissemination of and access to knowledge, culture, arts, and sciences across national and cultural borders. While globalization processes have generated an international milieu where English is increasingly the lingua franca of communication in popular culture and academic conversations alike, distances and differences among cultures still remain, and translations retain a key presence and function in international communication flows.

Babel and Globalization: Translating in the 21st Century, guest-edited by Paolo Sigismondi, University of Southern California, is the latest Special Section of IJoC. It breaks new ground — delving into the craft and the challenges of translating and the evolving role of the translator in the 21st-century international communication landscape shaped by the evolution of digital technologies within the unfolding phenomena of globalization. Whereas economic and technological forces appear to bring about an increasing invisibility of translators, this collection of work focuses instead on the centrality of their role as essential connectors in a multicultural and multilayered global landscape.

The interdisciplinary approach of this publication has drawn 14 contributions — 12 original articles, a book review, and the editorial introduction — from international scholars at the intersection of diverse fields of academic inquiry, in particular, communication and translation studies. This Special Section aims to provoke new thinking and perspectives on translations while bridging existing distances among diverse theoretical standpoints and academic backgrounds. [Click on the article title for direct link to the paper.]

Babel and Globalization: Translating in the 21st Century — Introduction
Paolo Sigismondi

Communication Studies Without Frontiers? Translation and Cosmopolitanism Across Academic Cultures
Silvio Waisbord

Rapid and Radical Changes in Translation and Translation Studies
Yves Gambier

Translation’s Histories and Digital Futures
Karin Littau 

Massively Open Translation: Unpacking the Relationship Between Technology and Translation in the 21st Century
Minako O’Hagan

The Impact of Translation Technologies on the Process and Product of Translation
Stephen Doherty

Translators as Adaptive Experts in a Flat World: From Globalization 1.0 to Globalization 4.0?
Vanessa Enriquez Raido

“The Task of the Translator”: Comparing the Views of the Client and the Translator
Hanna Risku, Christina Pein-Weber, Jelena Milosevic

The Challenges and Opportunities of Legal Translation and Translator Training in the 21st Century  
Catherine Way

Cultural Translators of Communication Studies in Greater China
Jack Linchuan Qiu

Synchronization Techniques in Multilingual Fiction: Voiced-Over Films in Poland
Katarzyna Sepielak     

The Stimulating Challenges of Translating Contemporary German Swiss Poetry
Lucia Salvato   

Perils of Translation in a Conflict Situation: Lessons from Kashmir
Rashmi Luthra

Book Review| Tytti Suojanen, Kaisa Koskinen & Tiina Tuominen, User-Centered Translation (Translation Practices Explained)
Nike K. Pokorn  

We invite you to read this Special Section that published February 8, 2016 at http://ijoc.org.

IJoC Publishes 49 Articles in January

To launch the new year, we are delighted to share with you the following articles that published in the International Journal of Communication for the month of January.

These papers are in addition to the “Special Section on Digital Age” and the “Special Section on Constructing Public Space” that published the first week in January.

We look forward to your responses to these new papers and Special Sections. Just click on the article title for direct access.

ARTICLES

Copies, Clones, and Genre Building: Discourses on Imitation and Innovation in Digital Games
Christian Katzenbach, Sarah Herweg, Lies van Roessel

Free Dailies in the European Cross-Border Metropolis: The State-Based Economic Deals
Christian Lamour

“My Voice Needs to be Heard”: Cultural Challengers in the Regulatory Arena
Efrat Daskal

Transnational Media Coverage of the ISIS Threat: A Global Perspective?
Xu Zhang, Lea Hellmueller

Polymediated Narrative: The Case of the Supernatural Episode “Fan Fiction”
Art Herbig, Andrew F. Herrmann

Patriots and Pedagogues: Cultural Institutions and the Performative Politics of Minority German Hip Hop
Kate Zambon, Didem Uca

“Who Has Time for That?” Understanding Media Use Among Conservation Photographers
Elizabeth Anne Gervais

Media-Remembering the Falklands War:  Subjectivity and Identification
Sarah Maltby

Eating Together, Separately: Intergroup Communication and Food in a Multiethnic Community
Andrea Wenzel

Measuring Freedom of Information: Issues and Opportunities from an Expert Survey
Diego Giannone, Ruth De Frutos

Giving Attention to Conduct on Social Media: Discursive Mechanisms of Attention Structures in Mediating Governance-at-a-distance in Today’s Russia
Julia Zhukova Klausen

Media Freedom Indexes in Democracies: A Critical Perspective Through the Cases of Poland and Chile
Ewa Sapiezynska, Claudia Lagos

Common Sense, Good Sense, and Commercial Television
Anat First

Connecting Political Communication with Urban Politics: A Bourdieusian Framework
Yongjun Shin

Effeminate Speech on New Media: @HillaryClinton’s Public Intimacy through Relational Labor
Flemming Schneider Rhode, Tisha Dejmanee

Crimea River: Directionality in Memes from the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Bradley E. Wiggins

Debating “Alternative” Gender Identities: The Online Discourse Triggered by 2014 Life Ball Advertising Posters
Irmgard Wetzstein, Brigitte Huber

In Search of Reason-centered Discussion on China’s Twitter: The Effects of Initiating Post and Discussion Format on Reasoning
Mingxiao Sui, Raymond J. Pingree

The Effect of Anonymity on Conformity to Group Norms in Online Contexts: A Meta-Analysis
Guanxiong Huang, Kang Li

Effects of National Identity in Transnational Crises: Implications of Social Identity Theory for Attribution and Crisis Communications
Jonathan Borden

Independent Audiovisual Regulators in Spain: A Unique Case in Europe
Isabel Fernandez Alonso

Liquid Youth: From Street Kids to Theater Actors. An Account of a Reaffiliation Process
Milton N. Campos, Ana Paula Burg, Mayara Moraes, Adriana Guerra Abreu Lemos, Daniel Goncalves Alves, Ligia C. Leite

A New Measure for the Tendency to Select Ideologically Congruent Political Information: Scale Development and Validation
Yariv Tsfati

Burmese Media in Transition
Lisa Brooten

Spatiotemporal Diffusion Modeling of Global Mobilization in Social Media: The Case of 2011 Egyptian Revolution
Hazel Kwon, Weiai Wayne Xu, Haiyan Wang, Jaime Chon

“I Like the Metamorphosis of the Characters”: Dynamics of Transnational Television Comedy Engagement
Sharon Lockyer, Diana Elena Popa

“A Tiny and Closed Fraternity of Privileged Men”: The Nixon-Agnew Anti-Media Campaign and the Liberal Roots of the U.S. Conservative “Liberal Media” Critique
Christopher Cimaglio

FEATURES

Epistemological (Im)possibilities and the Play of Power: Effects of the Fragmentation and Weak Institutionalisation of Communication Studies in Europe
Louise Phillips

“I Has Seen Image Macros!” Advice Animals Memes as Visual-Verbal Jokes
Marta Dynal

Relocating Development Communication: Social Entrepreneurship, International Networking, and South-South Cooperation in the Viva Rio NGO
Stuart Davis

BOOK REVIEWS

Pavel Shlossberg, Crafting Identity:Transnational Indian Arts and the Politics of Race in Central Mexico
Regina Marchi

Christian A. Klöckner, The Psychology of Pro-Environmental Communication: Beyond Standard Information Strategies
Hyun Tae (Calvin) Kim

John Durham Peters, Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media
Niall P. Stephens

Shi-xu, Chinese Discourse Studies
Xuelei Wang

Joe Sacco, Safe Area Goražde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992–95
Benjamin Woo

Kaitlynn Mendes, SlutWalk: Feminism, Activism, Media
Giuliana Sorce

IJoC Publishes Special Section on “Constructing Public Space”

From the uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa to environmental protests in China, and from LGBTQ festivals to the Black Lives Matter movement, we have seen major forms of popular contestation in different parts of the world. In these protests and festivals, activists and citizens embrace social media, trying to appropriate these media as public spaces. In these protests, activists and citizens embrace social media, trying to appropriate these media as public spaces. This Special Section on “Constructing Public Space” examines 1) the types of social media practices involved in such efforts, 2) the particular political institutional contexts in which these practices are articulated, and 3) the techno-commercial architectures through which they take shape.

Guest-edited by Thomas Poell and José van Dijck, the Special Section calls for a shift from public sphere theory to trajectories of publicness as the main conceptual framework through which relations between popular contestation, mediated communication and power have been examined. This new approach aims to trace how moments of publicness are created, sustained, and dissolved through the mutual articulation of citizen and activist practices, media infrastructures, and the governing strategies of states.

Exploring how these connections take shape in contemporary protest, the five original empirical studies featured in this Special Section reveal that not debate, opinions, nor demands assemble the collective today, but rather the rapid circulation of emotionally charged images and slogans. Emotional connectivity allows fundamentally different actors, perspectives, and identities to temporarily come together as collectives to challenge domination and injustice.

We invite you to read the articles from this Special Section that published January 7, 2016.

Global Perspectives on Social Media and Popular Contestation – Introduction —Thomas Poell, José van Dijck

Participants on the Margins: Examining the Role that Shared Artifacts of Engagement in the Ferguson Protests Played Among Minoritized Political Newcomers on Snapchat, Facebook, and Twitter — Lynn Schofield Clark

Rousing the Facebook Crowd: Digital Enthusiasm and Emotional Contagion in the 2011 Protests in Egypt and Spain — Paolo Gerbaudo

“Legit Can’t Wait for #Toronto #WorldPride!”: Investigating the Twitter Public of a Large-Scale LGBTQ Festival — Stefanie Duguay

New “Danger Zone” in Europe: Representations of Place in Social Media–Supported Protests — Cornelia Brantner, Joan Ramon Rodriguez-Amat

Weibo, WeChat, and the Transformative Events of Environmental Activism in China—Kevin Michael DeLuca, Elizabeth Brunner, Ye Sun