International Journal of Communication invites you to read these 23 publications that published in May

The International Journal of Communication is pleased to announce the publication of 23 papers in May 2026. To access these papers, please visit ijoc.org.
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ARTICLES

The Politics of Diversity: Netflix and the Transformation of Korean Drama Production in the Streaming Era
Woochul Kim

From Navigating Discrimination to Developing Professional Digital Intimacy: How Indonesian LGBTQ+ Users Harness the Affordances of Healthcare Apps
Ferry Fauzi Hermawan, Verity Trott

Can Pandora’s Box Be Closed? How People in Myanmar Access and Identify Trustworthy Information After the Coup
Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung, Jenifer Whitten-Woodring, Tun Tun Lynn, Catherine Abou-Khalil

Resilience in Newsrooms in Times of Authoritarian Resurgence: We Went From the Sky to Under the Ground
Fatima El Issawi, Joshua E. Rigg

“Freaks” and Raids: A Study of Networked Harassment and Misogyny in Turkey’s Authoritarian Landscape
Nora Suren

Visibility Under Constraint: Format Publics and the Politics of Visibility on TikTok Protest Videos During the Mahsa Amini Movement in Iran
Fatemeh Oudlajani

When Identities Go Viral: Themes and Aversiveness in TikTok Discourse on Kamala Harris’s Intersectional Identities During the 2024 U.S. Election
Gyo Hyun Koo, Dasia Clemente

Speculators Inside the Slop Factory: Shovelware and Financialized Game Development in Roblox
Daniel Nielsen, Aleena Chia

BOOK REVIEWS

Burcu Baykurt, Smart as a City: The Politics of Test-bed Urbanism
Jian Xiao

Bo Ruberg, How to Queer the World: Radical Worldbuilding through Video Games
Sabrina “Bri” Sonner

Benjamin Toff, Ruth Palmer, and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Avoiding the News: Reluctant Audiences for Journalism
Trish Audette-Longo

Phaedra C. Pezzullo, Beyond Straw Men: Plastic Pollution and Networked Cultures of Care
Sohinee Bera

Noor Ghazal Aswad, Searching for Solidarity: Revolutionary Dreams and Radical Social Movements
Marwa Abdalla

Dara Z. Strolovitch, When Bad Things Happen to Privileged People: Race, Gender, and What Makes a Crisis in America
Aaron A. Toscano

Dal Yong Jin, Cultural Production of Hallyu in the Digital Platform Era: Industry Perspectives
Miri Moon

Curtis Marez, Producing Precarity: The Costs of Making TV in Poor Places
David Frank

Karrmen Crey, Producing Sovereignty: The Rise of Indigenous Media in Canada
Ian Reilly, Oluwasemilore Adeyemi

Robin L. Nabi and Jessica Gall Myrick (Eds.), Emotions in the Digital World: Exploring Affective Experience and Expression in Online Interactions
Felicia Lu

Judit Bayer, Digital Media Regulation Within the European Union: A Framework for a New Media Order
Guosong Shao

Francesco Casetti, Screening Fears: On Protective Media
Stephen Hickson

Mora Matassi and Pablo J. Boczkowski, To Know Is to Compare: Studying Social Media Across Nations, Media, and Platforms
Shahid Minhas

Emma L. Briant and Vian Bakir (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of the Influence Industry
Rory Gates

Peter Neijens, Theo Araujo, Judith Möller, and Claes de Vreese (Eds.), Measuring Exposure and Attention to Media and Communication: Solutions to Wicked Problems
Yuhui Zhu

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Silvio Waisbord, Editor 
Kady Bell-Garcia, Managing Editor 
Chi Zhang, Managing Editor, Special Sections 
Andrew Taylor, Webmaster

Please note that according to the latest Google Scholar statistics, IJoC ranks 6th 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 18 publications that published in April

The International Journal of Communication is pleased to announce the publication of 18 papers in April 2026. To access these papers, please visit ijoc.org.
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ARTICLES

Between Duty and Discipline: Kantian Ideals and Techno-Governmental Realities in the European Union Artificial Intelligence Act and the United Nations Artificial Intelligence Framework
Mir Hasib, Lyombe Eko

The Industrialization of Digital Entrepreneurship:The Case of Beauty Influencers in China’s Multichannel Networks Economy
Qingyue Sun, Huiqian Lai, Runze Ding

Informational Sovereignty: The Commercial and Geopolitical Risk of Newsroom Dependency on Third-Party Infrastructure in Latin America
Juan Ortiz-Freuler

Cultivating Self-Care: Health Television and the Internalization of Individual Responsibility for Health in Contemporary China
Ge Zhu, Rachel Young

Hybrid Platformism: Thailand’s Online Political Media Landscape
Alexandra Colombier Vanijaka, Duncan McCargo

Navigating Credibility on TikTok: How Young Adults Evaluate and Verify Information on the Platform
Luise Anter, Anna Sophie Kümpel

Media-Saturated and Morally Contested Teenage Lives: No Space or Time for Nonmedia Moments (and for Being Bored)?
Marika Lüders

Angry Posts: Myanmar’s Anti-Military Rhetoric on the Internet
Yao-Tai Li, Moh Moh Thet

Deep State Conspiracism and/as Disinformation: A Journey to the Heart of Democracy’s Truth Crisis
Stephen Hutchings

Communicating the Crisis or Misinforming the Public? Analyzing the AI-Generated Visual Rhetoric of the 2025 California Wildfires
Menna Elhosary, Barikisu Issaka, Inusah Mohammed, Balkisa Sissy, Sabena Abdul Raheem

Shame, Suspicion, Surveillance, and Blame: The Neoliberal Undergirding of Stigma Experienced and Managed by Latinos/as in the United States
Alcides Velasquez, Rikki A. Roscoe, Umar O. Ajetunmobi

BOOK REVIEWS

Giota Alevizou, The Web of Knowledge: Encyclopedias and Authority in the Digital Age
Matthew A. Vetter

Rob Kitchin, Critical Data Studies: An A to Z Guide to Concepts and Methods
Ivo Furman

Jeffrey Boase, The Digital Bind: Constant Connectivity and the Reconfiguring of Family, Work, and Friendship
S M Mehedi Zaman

Héctor Beltrán, Code Work: Hacking Across the US/México Techno-Borderlands
Shukadev Amgain

Karen Tongson, Normporn: Queer Viewers and the TV That Soothes Us
Em Hathaway

Julieta Brambila, Mexico’s Resilient Journalists: How Reporters Manage Risk and Cope with Violence
Sumana Chattopadhyay

Fan Yang, Disorienting Politics: Chimerican Media and Transpacific Entanglements
Narmin Gezer

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Silvio Waisbord, Editor 
Kady Bell-Garcia, Managing Editor 
Chi Zhang, Managing Editor, Special Sections 
Andrew Taylor, Webmaster

Please note that according to the latest Google Scholar statistics, IJoC ranks 6th 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 12 publications that published in March

The International Journal of Communication is pleased to announce the publication of 12 papers in March 2026. To access these papers, please visit ijoc.org.
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ARTICLES

The Ventriloquial Configuring of Communication: International Communication Association Presidential Addresses as Legitimizing Rituals
Nicolas Bencherki, Dominique Trudel

“I Am Not a Conspiracy Theorist, But . . .”: Communicative Norms in Conspiracy Theory Supporters’ Interactions With Other News Users in Germany, Israel, Sweden, and the United States
Christian Baden, Nina Springer, Benjamin Krämer, Nina Steindl

The Quotidian Web and the Accidental Archive
Ethan Zuckerman, Ryan McGrady

Digital Feminism and Anti-Feminism in Interaction: Relational Dynamics and Hybridization Across Seven Spanish-Speaking Communities on Twitter
Catalina Farías, Elohim Monard, Fernanda Carvajal, Jiyoun Suk, Teresa Correa, Ingrid Bachmann, Christine Garlough, Dhavan V. Shah

Online Eudaemonic Spaces for Students During COVID-19: A Cross-National Comparison of Confession Discourses on Facebook
Ofer Shinar, Elad Segev

Testing the Effects of Relative Newsworthiness on News Selection
Minchul Kim, Yanqin Lu

BOOK REVIEWS

Oliver L. Haimson, Trans Technologies
Jack McLaren

Matt Sienkiewicz and Nick Marx, That’s Not Funny: How the Right Makes Comedy Work for Them
Madelijn Strick

Mirca Madianou, Technocolonialism: When Technology for Good is Harmful
Jillian C. York

Amit M. Schejter, Baruch Shomron, Muhammad Abu-Jaffar, Ghalia Abu-Kaf, Jonathan Mendels, Shula Mola, Malka Shacham, Amneh Al Sharha, and Noam Tirosh, Digital Capabilities: ICT Adoption in Marginalized Communities in Israel and the West Bank
Tamar Ashuri

Vassil Girginov and Katerina Girginova (Eds.), Handbook on Sport and Culture
Argyro Elisavet Manoli

Hanan Badr and Karin G. Wilkins (Eds.), Critical Communication Research With Global Inclusivity
Yujie Huang

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Silvio Waisbord, Editor 
Kady Bell-Garcia, Managing Editor 
Chi Zhang, Managing Editor, Special Sections 
Andrew Taylor, Webmaster

Please note that according to the latest Google Scholar statistics, IJoC ranks 6th 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 17 publications that published in February

The International Journal of Communication is pleased to announce the publication of 17 papers in February 2026. To access these papers, please visit ijoc.org.
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ARTICLES

Personal Testimonials and Empathy in Environmental Risk Communication—Their Effects on Reflective Thoughts, Risk Perception, and Behavioral Intentions
Anne Bartsch, Christal Bürgel, Felix Frey, Sonja Kretzschmar, Verena Wassink

When Over-The-Top Is Over the Top: A Political Economic Analysis of Network Usage Fees in South Korea
DongWook Jeong, Christopher Ali

The Short Video Format: Conceptualizing a Ubiquitous Artifact of Visual Platforms
Giulia Isabella Guerra

“Closed by Default”: Authoritarian Data Governance and Civil Society in Singapore
Kai Xiang Teo

Enhancing Media Literacy in Higher Education: An Experimental Study on Misinformation Through a Gamified Intervention in Peru
Julio-César Mateus, Manuel Etesse, Diego Vásquez-Cubas, Elohim Monard, Giancarlo Cappello

Data Publics: An Empirical and Comparative Approach to Datafication
Florence Millerand, Mélanie Millette, Alexandre Coutant, Guillaume Latzko-Toth

What Is at Stake? The Co-Encoding/Decoding Model of Human–Generative Artificial Intelligence Communication
Marco Guglielmo, Ben O’Loughlin, Henry Snowball

Drawing the Faces of “Perpetual Foreigners”: A Multimodal Narrative Analysis of #StopAsianHate on Instagram
Weiyu Zhang

FEATURE

Anti-Media Media: A Normative Approach to Media Positionality
Ayala Panievsky

BOOK REVIEWS

Samuel Woolley, Manufacturing Consensus: Understanding Propaganda in the Era of Automation and Anonymity
Chang Sup Park

RonNell Andersen Jones and Sonja R. West (Eds.), The Future of Press Freedom: Democracy, Law, and the News in Changing Times
Andrei Richter

Steffan Blayney, Joey Hornsby, and Savannah Whaley (Eds.), The Body Productive: Rethinking Capitalism, Work and the Body
Whitney-Jocelyn Kouaho

Jathan Sadowski, The Mechanic and the Luddite: A Ruthless Criticism of Technology and Capitalism
MC Forelle

Bohyeong Kim, Critically Capitalist: The Spirit of Asset Capitalism in South Korea
Micky Lee

Catherine D’Ignazio, Counting Feminicide: Data Feminism in Action
Muge Yuce

Nick Couldry, The Space of the World: Can Human Solidarity Survive Social Media and What If It Can’t?
Terry Flew

Laila Shereen Sakr, Arabic Glitch: Technoculture, Data Bodies, and Archives
Nathaniel Greenberg

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Silvio Waisbord, Editor 
Kady Bell-Garcia, Managing Editor 
Chi Zhang, Managing Editor, Special Sections 
Andrew Taylor, Webmaster

Please note that according to the latest Google Scholar statistics, IJoC ranks 6th 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 43 publications that published in January

The International Journal of Communication is pleased to announce the publication of 43 papers in January 2026, which includes the Special Section on “Big Data Discourses” and the Forum on “Not Entirely Artificial, Not That Intelligent: AI and Communication Research.” To access these papers, please visit ijoc.org.
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ARTICLES

Voices of Disagreement: Participatory Media and Agonistic Democracy in Cyprus
Chris Voniati

Performing the People and Depleting the Commons: Bottom-up Populism in Canada and France
Liwen Zhang

Knowledge and Expertise in the Digital Age: How People Engage With Sex Advice on TikTok
Facundo N. Suenzo, Annika Pinch, Ignacio F. Cruz, Calvin A. Liang, Amy Ross Arguedas

Understanding Public Concerns About Fake News: Linking Social Media News Use, Cognitive Elaboration, and Perceived Fake News Exposure
Manuel Goyanes, Taeyoung Lee

Regressive Futuring: Zuckerberg’s Rebranding Against Techlash’s “Crisis”
Emilie Grybos

Biased Judgment or Lack of Skill? The Role of News Consumption in (Mis)Information Identification in the Context of Russia’s War Against Ukraine
Luisa Gehle, Christian Schemer, Marina Tulin, and Michael Hameleers

Decentering Technology in the Datafied Workplace: Data (In)Justice and Workers’ Experiences of Algorithmic Management in Call Centers in the United Kingdom and Greece
Lina Dencik, Jess Brand, Philippa Metcalfe

Communicating Mobile Borders: Urban Conviviality and More-Than National Belonging in Trieste’s Interethnic Friendships
Zlatan Krajina

Political Manipulation of the Israel-Hamas Conflict on WhatsApp in India
Kiran Garimella

The Dark Side of Algorithms: How Ethical and Privacy Considerations Affect Individuals’ Engagement With Health Information on Social Media?
Mengxue Ou, Han Zheng, Baijue Li, Chen Luo

Oneness With the Source as a Means of Reducing Motivated Reasoning About Climate Policy
Christopher J. Carpenter, Shannon M. Cruz

“Is It So Bothersome That a Woman Has a Senior Position?”: False Empowerment in the Representation of Women in Sports TV Series
Anna Tous Rovirosa, Raquel Crisóstomo, Elena Fedotova, Natividad Ramajo

Talking About the Voice: Everyday Political Talk About Indigenous Constitutional Recognition
Kate Nash, Caitlin Mollica, Kate Senior

Global Communication and the Scalar Politics of Race: Tensions in Transnational Articulations of (Anti)-Racism(s)
Wendy Willems

Expert Reports as Epistemic Participation: Knowing and Doing in Artificial Intelligence’s Environmental Debate
Théophile Lenoir, Christopher Anderson

Scrolling Past Suffering: Ethnocentric Media, Distrust, and Humanitarian Responsibility
Inbar Illouz, Tal Orian Harel, Ifat Maoz

BOOK REVIEWS

Aeron Davis, Political Communication: An Introduction for Crisis Times (2nd ed.)
Cleves Nkie Mongo

Thomas S. Mullaney, The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age
Weilin Zhu

Beth A. Haller, Disabled People Transforming Media Culture for a More Inclusive World (1st ed.)
Russell Adzedu

Alfred L. Martin Jr., Fandom for Us by Us: The Pleasures and Practices of Black Audiences
Gordon Alley-Young

Timothy Recuber, The Digital Departed: How We Face Death, Commemorate Life, and Chase Virtual Immortality
Terilee Edwards-Hewitt

Göran Bolin and Per Ståhlberg, Managing Meaning in Ukraine: Information, Communication, and Narration Since the Euromaidan Revolution
Andrei Richter

Eviane Leidig, The Women of the Far Right: Social Media Influencers and Online Radicalization
Shahla Shahnaz Dyuti

Jabari M. Evans, Hip-Hop Civics: Connected Learning in the Rap Classroom
Rachel Williams

Amanda D. Lotz, After Mass Media: Storytelling for Microaudiences in the Twenty-First Century
Damián Fernández Pedemonte

Rodney Benson, Mattias Hessérus, Timothy Neff, and Julie Sedel, How Media Ownership Matters
Murat Akser

Natalie Fenton, Democratic Delusions: How the Media Hollows Out Democracy and What We Can Do About It
Fritz Kessler

Michelle Cho and Jesook Song (Eds.), Mediating Gender in Post-Authoritarian South Korea
Young A. Jung

John M. Jordan, The Rise of the Algorithms: How YouTube and TikTok Conquered the World
Chang Sup Park

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Silvio Waisbord, Editor 
Kady Bell-Garcia, Managing Editor 
Chi Zhang, Managing Editor, Special Sections 
Andrew Taylor, Webmaster

Please note that according to the latest Google Scholar statistics, IJoC ranks 6th 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.