International Journal of Communication
invites you to read these 21 papers that
published in APRIL 

The International Journal Communication is pleased to announce the publication of 21 papers in April 2020. To access these papers, please Ctrl+Click on the titles below for direct hyperlinking to these articles. We look forward to your feedback and wish you well during these challenging times.

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ARTICLES

Chinese Automated Journalism: A Comparison Between Expectations and Perceived Quality
Chenyan Jia

Assessing Digital Threats to Democracy, and Workable Solutions: A Review of the Recent Literature
Kathleen M. Kuehn, Leon A. Salter 

The Emerging Institutionalization of Global Internet of Things Governance: A Network Approach
Jaewon R. Choi, Wenhong Chen 

Digital Traces of “Twitter Revolutions”: Resistance, Polarization, and Surveillance via Contested Images and Texts of Occupy Gezi
Ozge Ozduzen, Aidan McGarry

Developing the ‘Control Imaginary’: TIME Magazine’s Symbolic Construction of Digital Technologies
Delia Dumitrica, Georgia Gaden Jones

Journalistic Coverage of Organized Crime in Mexico: Reporting on the Facts, Security Protocols, and Recurrent Subthemes
Elba Díaz-Cerveró, Daniel Barredo

The Black Box and Japanese Discourses of the Digital
David Humphrey

Manager–Employee Communication in the #MeToo Era: The Role of Gender Similarity and Context Ambiguity in Ethical Leadership
Lindsey Meeks, William T. Howe

Political Party Identification and Intergroup Attitudes: Exploring the Effects of Mediated and Direct Contact With the Opposing Party During a Presidential Campaign
Mei-Chen Lin, Paul M. Haridakis, Yan Bing Zhan 

“I Like That It’s My Choice a Couple Different Times”: Gender, Affordances, and User Experience on Bumble Dating
Urszula Pruchniewska

Subaltern Agency in the Cultural Industries: Palestinian Creative Labor in the Israeli Series Fauda
Amal Jamal, Noa Lavie

The Elusiveness of Communicative Influence: How Key Socializers Influence Adolescents’ Proenvironmental Engagement
Yuliya Lakew

Party Populism and Media Access: The News Value of Populist Communication and How It Is Handled by the Mass Media
Franzisca Schmidt

Incorporating Communication Factors in the Theory of Planned Behavior to Predict Chinese University Students’ Intention to Consume Genetically Modified Foods
Li Li, John Robert Bautista

FEATURES

“Rediscovering” Ideology Critique (Again): Toward a Critical Realist Analysis of Political Media Effects
Matt Guardino

 

BOOK REVIEWS

Dal Yong Jin and Nojin Kwak (Eds.), Communication, Digital Media, and Popular Culture in Korea: Contemporary Research and Future Prospects
Gooyong Kim

Izumi Mitsui (Ed.), Cultural Translation of Management Philosophy in Asian Companies: Its Emergence, Transmission, and Diffusion in the Global Era
Chengfa Yu

Mohammad Ayub Khan and Noam Ebner (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Cross-Cultural Business Negotiation
Renzhong Peng, Chongguang Zhu

Jason Farman, Delayed Response: The Art of Waiting from the Ancient to the Instant World
Cynthia Wang 

Eden Medina, Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile
Kristin Wells

Edmund Chapman, The Afterlife of Texts in Translation: Understanding the Messianic in Literature
Linxin Liang

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Larry Gross
Editor

Arlene Luck
Managing Editor                   

International Journal of Communication
invites you to read these 21 papers that
published in APRIL 

The International Journal Communication is pleased to announce the publication of 21 papers in April 2020. To access these papers, please Ctrl+Click on the titles below for direct hyperlinking to these articles. We look forward to your feedback and wish you well during these challenging times.
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ARTICLES

Chinese Automated Journalism: A Comparison Between Expectations and Perceived Quality
Chenyan Jia 

Assessing Digital Threats to Democracy, and Workable Solutions: A Review of the Recent Literature
Kathleen M. Kuehn, Leon A. Salter 

The Emerging Institutionalization of Global Internet of Things Governance: A Network Approach
Jaewon R. Choi, Wenhong Chen 

Digital Traces of “Twitter Revolutions”: Resistance, Polarization, and Surveillance via Contested Images and Texts of Occupy Gezi
Ozge Ozduzen, Aidan McGarry

Developing the ‘Control Imaginary’: TIME Magazine’s Symbolic Construction of Digital Technologies
Delia Dumitrica, Georgia Gaden Jones

Journalistic Coverage of Organized Crime in Mexico: Reporting on the Facts, Security Protocols, and Recurrent Subthemes
Elba Díaz-Cerveró, Daniel Barredo

The Black Box and Japanese Discourses of the Digital
David Humphrey 

Manager–Employee Communication in the #MeToo Era: The Role of Gender Similarity and Context Ambiguity in Ethical Leadership
Lindsey Meeks, William T. Howe

Political Party Identification and Intergroup Attitudes: Exploring the Effects of Mediated and Direct Contact With the Opposing Party During a Presidential Campaign
Mei-Chen Lin, Paul M. Haridakis, Yan Bing Zhan

“I Like That It’s My Choice a Couple Different Times”: Gender, Affordances, and User Experience on Bumble Dating
Urszula Pruchniewska

Subaltern Agency in the Cultural Industries: Palestinian Creative Labor in the Israeli Series Fauda
Amal Jamal, Noa Lavie

The Elusiveness of Communicative Influence: How Key Socializers Influence Adolescents’ Proenvironmental Engagement
Yuliya Lakew

Party Populism and Media Access: The News Value of Populist Communication and How It Is Handled by the Mass Media
Franzisca Schmidt

Incorporating Communication Factors in the Theory of Planned Behavior to Predict Chinese University Students’ Intention to Consume Genetically Modified Foods
Li Li, John Robert Bautista

FEATURES

“Rediscovering” Ideology Critique (Again): Toward a Critical Realist Analysis of Political Media Effects
Matt Guardino

BOOK REVIEWS

Dal Yong Jin and Nojin Kwak (Eds.), Communication, Digital Media, and Popular Culture in Korea: Contemporary Research and Future Prospects
Gooyong Kim

Izumi Mitsui (Ed.), Cultural Translation of Management Philosophy in Asian Companies: Its Emergence, Transmission, and Diffusion in the Global Era
Chengfa Yu

Mohammad Ayub Khan and Noam Ebner (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Cross-Cultural Business Negotiation
Renzhong Peng, Chongguang Zhu

Jason Farman, Delayed Response: The Art of Waiting from the Ancient to the Instant World
Cynthia Wang 

Eden Medina, Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile
Kristin Wells

Edmund Chapman, The Afterlife of Texts in Translation: Understanding the Messianic in Literature
Linxin Liang

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Larry Gross
Editor

Arlene Luck
Managing Editor      

International Journal of Communication
announces the publication of 41 papers that
published in MARCH 

The International Journal Communication is pleased to announce the publication of 41 papers in March 2020 which includes a Special Section on Mediating Islamic State. To access these papers, Ctrl+Click on the titles below for direct hyperlinking or go to ijoc.org to read the Special Section.

Please note that according to the latest Google Scholar 2019 statistics, IJoC now ranks 2^nd among all Humanities journals and 5^th among all Communications journals in the world — demonstrating the viability of non-commercial open access scholarly publication at the highest level.
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ARTICLES

Effects of Media Companies’ Organizational Nature and Journalists Autonomy and Position on Internal and External Influences: Evidence From Spain
Manuel Goyanes, Márton Demeter

Differentiated Information Flows: Social Media Curation Practices in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Elections
Sam Jackson, Jennifer Stromer-Galley, Jeff Hemsley

Organizations’ Dialogic Social Media Use and Stakeholder Engagement: Stakeholder Targeting and Message Framing
Chih-Hui Lai, Jiawei Sophia Fu

Taking the Reparatory Turn at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice
Marouf Hasian, Jr., Nicholas S. Paliewicz

“I Don’t Use the Internet”: Exploring Perceptions and Practices Among Mobile-Only and Hybrid Internet Users
Isabel Pavez, Teresa Correa

Parenting Style, Personality Traits, and Interpersonal Relationships: A Model of Prediction of Internet Addiction
Yanshu Sun, Jeffrey S. Wilkinson

What Influences the Willingness of Chinese WeChat Users to Forward Food-Safety Rumors?
Shuo Seah, Gabriel Weimann

The Power of Data From the Global South: Environmental Civic Tech and Data Activism in China
Yu Sun, Wenjie Yan

Communicating Academic Knowledge Beyond the Written Academic Text: An Auto-Ethnographic Analysis of the Mirror Palace of Democracy Installation Experiment
Nico Carpentier 

Populism Fuels Love and Anger: The Impact of Message Features on Users’ Reactions on Facebook
Pablo Jost, Marcus Maurer, Joerg Hassler

The Geotagging Counterpublic: The Case of Facebook Remote Check-Ins to Standing Rock
Jeeyun Baik 

The Relationship Between Fox News Use and Americans’ Policy Preferences Regarding Refugees and Immigrants
Jennifer Hoewe, Cynthia Peacock, Bumsoo Kim, Matthew Barnidge 

Lifestyles, Technology Clustering, and the Adoption of Over-the-top Television and Internet Protocol Television in Taiwan
Shu-Chu Sarrina Li 

Malaise Effect or Virtuous Effect? The Dynamics of Internet Use and Political Trust in China
Xiaoxiao Cheng 

The Enhancement of Verbal Immediacy in Online University Classes: A Student-Generated Taxonomy
Richard S. Bello, Frances E. Brandau, Dena Horne 

Hiplife Music in Ghana: Postcolonial Performances of the Good Life
Nii Kotei Nikoi

 

BOOK REVIEWS

Annette Hill, Media Experiences: Engaging with Drama and Reality Television
Aiden Kosciesza

Chris Shei (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Discourse Analysis
Yifei Li 

Andrew Lison, Marcell Mars, Tomislav Medak, and Rick Prelinger, Archives (In Search of Media)
Frances Corry

Claire Scammell, Translation Strategies in Global News: What Sarkozy Said in the Suburb
Renzhong Peng 

Lingzi Meng, Gender in Literary Translation: A Corpus-Based Study of the English Translations of Chenzhong De Chibang
Weiping Wu, Gaosheng Zhan

Sender Dovchin, Language, Social Media and Ideologies: Translingual Englishes, Facebook and Authenticities
Gaoxin Li, Jinfen Xu

Rukmini Pande, Squee from the Margins: Fandom and Race
Jacqueline Johnson

Thomas Hanitzsch, Folker Hanusch, Jyotika Ramaprasad, and Arnold S. de Beer (Eds.), Worlds of Journalism: Journalism Cultures Around the Globe
Meagan E. Doll

Michael Patrick Lynch, Know-It-All Society: Truth and Arrogance in Political Culture
Dennis S. Gouran 

Jenny Kennedy, Digital Media, Sharing and Everyday Life
Zhongqing He 

Kit Hughes, Television at Work: Industrial Media and American Labor
Frederick Wasser

Jungmin Kwon, Straight Korean Female Fans and Their Gay Fantasies
Thomas Baudinette

Ahmet Atay and Margaret U. D’Silva (Eds.), Mediated Intercultural Communication in a Digital Age
Renzhong Peng, Chongguang Zhu

Giuliana Ferri, Intercultural Communication: Critical Approaches and Future Challenges
Weiping Wu, Ting Li

Patricia Bou-Franch and Pilar Garces-Conejos Blitvich, Analyzing Digital Discourse: New Insights and Future Directions
Xiaoyu Lai

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Larry Gross
Editor

Arlene Luck
Managing Editor                                                                  

International Journal of Communication
Publishes a Special Section on “Mediating Islamic State”

How does the group that calls itself “Islamic State” communicate?
How has Islamic State been understood and contested?

This Special Section on Mediating Islamic State gathers emergent scholarly voices, many deploying humanistic inquiry, to probe a phenomenon that has predominantly been the province of social scientists, in order to explore and understand the players, patterns, and practices that have mediated Islamic State: the communicative ways in which the group has been studied, reported on, visualized, narrated, mocked, spoofed, and resisted. We use “mediation” rather than “media” to shift public discourse on Islamic State beyond the focus on technology that has characterized research on media and sociopolitical change generally, and Islamic State communication in particular. Mediation connotes a broad approach to media, which includes words, images, bodies, platforms, and the expressive capacities and meaning-making practices that communicators generate when they deploy these media.

Originally presented at the Third Biennial Symposium of the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, contributions tackle popular culture as a dynamic context for meaning creation, within a framework of media and culture as formative of identity and community, and not merely as conveyors of ideas, images, and information. Grounded in CARGC’s mission to advance a global media studies that fuses multidisciplinary regional knowledge with theory and methodology in the humanities and social sciences, we hope this special section continues spurring critical conversations that promise a new understanding of the transnational nexus of communication, identity, and violence. Together, these articles suggest imaginative avenues to understand phenomena like Islamic State beyond the narrow lens of what communication scholars would call administrative research within a national security paradigm.

We invite you to read this new Special Section of 10 articles in the International Journal of Communication  that published March 8, 2020. Please Ctrl+Click  on the titles below for direct hyperlinking.  Looking forward to your feedback …

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Mediating Islamic State − Introduction    
Marwan M. Kraidy, Marina R. Krikorian

The Islamic State: Politics by Other Means
Yara M. Damaj

Toward a Protostate Media System: The Role of ISIS’s Content   
Kareem El Damanhoury

Islamic State War Documentaries
Nathaniel Greenberg

Iconic Socioclasm: Idol-Breaking and the Dawn of a New Social Order
Christoph Günther

Theologians, Poets, and Lone Wolves: Mapping Medium-Specific Epistemologies
of Radicalization            
Brian T. Hughes

The Geopolitics of Television Drama and the War on Terror: Gharabeeb Soud Against Islamic State            
Heather Jaber, Marwan M. Kraidy

Collaborative Media Practices and Interconnected Digital Strategies of Islamic State (IS) and Pro-IS Supporter Networks on Telegram
Michael Krona

Islamic State and Game of Thrones: The Global Among Tradition, Identity, and the Politics of Spectacle                    
Bashir Saade

Islamic State and Women: A Biopolitical Analysis              
Mohammed Salih, Marwan M. Kraidy

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Larry Gross
Editor

Arlene Luck
Managing Editor                                                                  

Marwan M. Kraidy, Marina R. Krikorian
Guest Editors

International Journal of Communication
announces the publication of 62 papers that
published in FEBRUARY 

The International Journal Communication is pleased to announce the publication of 62 papers in February 2020 which includes a Special Section on the Hermit Regime as well as a Special Section on Critical Rhetoric. To access these papers, Ctrl+Click on the titles below for direct hyperlinking or go to ijoc.org to read the Special Sections.

Please note that according to the latest Google Scholar 2019 statistics, IJoC now ranks 2^nd among all Humanities journals and 5^th among all Communications journals in the world — demonstrating the viability of non-commercial open access scholarly publication at the highest level.

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ARTICLES

The Communication Rights of Palestinian Israelis Understood Through the Capabilities Approach
Baruch Shomron, Amit M. Schejter

How Does News Media Exposure Amplify Publics’ Perceived Health Risks About Air Pollution in China? A Conditional Media Effect Approach
Qing Huang

Podcasting as Public Media: The Future of U.S. News, Public Affairs, and Educational Podcasts
Patricia Aufderheide, David Lieberman, Atika Alkhallouf, Jiji Majiri Ugboma

Communicative Care in Online Forums: How Burdened Informal Caregivers Seek Mediated Social Support
Manuel Menke, Anna J.M. Wagner, Susanne Kinnebrock 

What Does it Take to Sustain a News Habit? The Role of Civic Duty Norms and a Connection to a “News Community” Among News Avoiders in the UK and Spain
Ruth Palmer, Benjamin Toff 

The Proliferation of the “News Finds Me” Perception Across Societies
Homero Gil de Zúñiga, Nadine Strauss, Brigitte Huber  

From “Public Journalism” to “Engaged Journalism”: Imagined Audiences and Denigrating Discourse
Patrick Ferrucci, Jacob L. Nelson, Miles P. Davis

Why Buttons Matter: Repurposing Facebook’s Reactions for Analysis of the Social Visual
Marloes Geboers, Nathan Stolero, Anna Scuttari, Livia Van Vliet, Arran Ridley 

The Internet and Participation Inequality: A Multilevel Examination of 108 Countries
Saifuddin Ahmed, Jaeho Cho, Kokil Jaidka, Johannes C. Eichstaedt, Lyle H. Ungar

“The Whole World Watching”? How News Media Create the Myth of an Audience of Billions and Foster Imagined Communities
Silke Furst

ICT Aid Flows From China to African Countries: A Communication Network Perspective
Rong Wang, François Bar, Yu Hong

From Ayran to Dragon Fruit Smoothie: Populism, Polarization and Social Engineering in Turkey
Defne Karaosmanoglu

Transportation and Smart City Imaginaries: A Critical Analysis of Proposals for the USDOT Smart City Challenge
Oscar H. Gandy, Jr., Selena Nemorin

Incorporating Research Design in Public Diplomacy: The Role of Listening to Foreign Publics
Juve J. Cortés, Thomas Jamieson

The Unruly, Loud, and Intersectional Muslim Woman: Interrupting the Aesthetic Styles of Islamic Fashion Images on Instagram
Kristin M. Peterson

Political Parallelism in Transitional Media Systems: The Case of Libya
Anja Wollenberg, Carola Richter

“Why Does a Teacher Feel the Need to Post My Kid?”: Parents and Teachers Constructing Morally Acceptable Boundaries of Children’s Social Media Presence
Davide Cino, Chiara Dalledonne Vandini

My Reality Is More Truthful Than Yours: Radical Right-Wing Politicians’ and Citizens’ Construction of “Fake” and “Truthfulness” on Social Media—Evidence From the United States and The Netherlands
Michael Hameleers

What Data Can Do: A Typology of Mechanisms
Angèle Christin

An International Analysis of Governmental Media Campaigns to Deter Asylum Seekers
Sarah C. Bishop

Mapping Connective Actions in the Global Alt-Right and Antifa Counterpublics
Weiai Wayne Xu

Extending Disposition Theory of Sports Spectatorship to ESports
Logan D. Trent, Daniel M. Shafer

Mutual Group Polarization in the Blogosphere: Tracking the Hoax Discourse on Climate Change
Michael Brüggemann, Dag Elgesem, Nils Bienzeisler, Helena Dedecek Gertz, Stefanie Walter 

Toward Reducing Institutional Digital Divides in the Media Industry: Examining Social Media Use in Ethnic Media Organizations
Xin Zhou, Matthew Matsaganis

Social Media Campaigns Against Violent Extremism: A New Approach to Evaluating Video Storytelling
Sara Monaci

Protest Participation Experiences and Media Uses in Urban Protests: A Conceptualization and Empirical Examination
Yeji Kwon, Yong-Chan Kim, Euikyung Shin, Ahra Cho, Jee Hyun Kim

The Effects of Political Conflict News Frame on Political Polarization: A Social Identity Approach
Youngju Kim, Shuhua Zhou

BOOK REVIEWS

Kristian Bjørkdahl and Benedicte Carlsen, Pandemics, Publics, and Politics: Staging Responses to Public Health Crises
Gaotong Li, Gaoxin Li

Manuela Wagner, Dorie Conlon Perugini, and Michael Byram (Eds.), Teaching Intercultural Competence Across the Age Range
Renzhong Peng, Rongrong Fu

Paul Roquet, Ambient Media, Japanese Atmospheres of the Self
Gabriele de Seta

Luwei Rose Luqiu, Propaganda, Media, and Nationalism in Mainland China and Hong Kong
Yu Xiang

Roy Youdale, Using Computers in the Translation of Literary Style: Challenges and Opportunities
Jingfeng Zhang, Linxin Liang

Diana Roig-Sanz and Reine Meylaerts (Eds.), Literary Translation and Cultural Mediators in ‘Peripheral’ Cultures: Customs Officers or Smugglers?
Jianwei Zheng, Wenjun Fan

The House of Truth: Review of Three Books
Sue Jansen

Ginger Nolan, The Neocolonialism of the Global Village
Greg Niedt

Matthew W. Ragas and Ron Culp, Mastering Business for Strategic Communication: Insights and Advice from the C-suite of Leading Brands
Nandini Bhalla

Aram Sinnreich, The Essential Guide to Intellectual Property
MC Forelle

Simone Murray, The Digital Literary Sphere: Reading, Writing, and Selling Books in the Internet Era
Monica Jean Henderson

Tim Muehlhoff and Richard Langer, Winsome Persuasion: Christian Influence in a Post-Christian World
Lakelyn Taylor

Jonathan Downie, Interpreters vs Machines: Can Interpreters Survive in an AI-Dominated World?
Feng Pan

Dimitris Asimakoulas, Rewriting Humour in Comic Books: Cultural Transfer and Translation of Aristophanic Adaptations
Fangyuan Hou, Fan Ye

Hansjörg Bittner, Evaluating the Evaluator: A Novel Perspective on Translation Quality Assessment
Shicong Nie, Shuhuai Wang

Mia Fischer, Terrorizing Gender: Transgender Visibility and the Surveillance Practices of the U.S. Security State
Erique Zhang

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Larry Gross
Editor

Arlene Luck
Managing Editor