International Journal of Communication Publishes a Special Section on Civic Participation in the Datafied Society

How do we advance citizen participation in a world increasingly governed through data infrastructures?

As data systems are deployed for commercial and public services, citizens are profiled, categorized, and “scored” and their future behavior predicted. Yet they have few possibilities to understand and intervene into these processes. What, then, are the implications of the increasing rollout of algorithmic and data-based decision-making for active citizenship and participation? How can citizens intervene into the development and management of the data systems that increasingly organize society? How do we maintain and expand civic participation in a context of rapid technological change?

Building on the growing range of research in the fields of critical data studies and data justice, this Special Section on Civic Participation in the Datafied Society, guest-edited by Arne Hintz, Lina Dencik, Joanna Redden, and Emiliano Treré, explores new questions at the intersection of datafication and participation. Based on papers presented at the second international Data Justice conference organized by the Data Justice Lab, the Special Section brings together six exciting contributions that collectively investigate practices, structures, and constraints of civic engagement in a datafied society. From different disciplinary and geographic perspectives, they discuss the role of citizen voices in data governance; questions of data literacy and understanding; self-organized data audits and data production; participatory institutions, as well as the wider social and political context of participation. 

We invite you to read these articles that published in the International Journal of Communication on May 18, 2023. Please log into ijoc.org to read the papers of interest. We look forward to your feedback! 
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Civic Participation in the Datafied Society—Introduction
Arne Hintz, Lina Dencik, Joanna Redden, Emiliano Treré 

Participatory Governance in the Digital Age: From Input to Oversight 
Rikki Dean

Citizen Data Audits in the Contemporary Sensorium 
Katherine M. A. Reilly, Esteban Morales   

A Democratic Approach to Digital Rights: Comparing Perspectives on Digital Sovereignty on the City Level 
Paola Pierri, Elizabeth Calderón Lüning

Data Citizenship: Data Literacies to Challenge Power Imbalance Between Society and “Big Tech” 
Elinor Carmi, Simeon Yates

Another Infrastructure Is Possible: Grassroots Citizen Sensing and Environmental Data Justice in Colombia 
Carlos Barreneche, Andres Lombana-Bermudez

Understanding Civic Participation and Realizing Data Justice 
Natalie Fenton

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Larry Gross, Editor 
Kady Bell-Garcia, Managing Editor
Chi Zhang, Managing Editor, Special Sections
Arne Hintz, Lina Dencik, Joanna Redden, and Emiliano Treré, Guest Editors

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International Journal of Communication invites you to read these 33 papers that published in April

The International Journal of Communication is pleased to announce the publication of 33 papers in APRIL 2023, which includes the “Special Section on Global Populism: Its Roots in Media and Religion.” 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

Perceived Social Sanctions and Deindividuation: Understanding the Silencing Process on Social Media Platforms
Mustafa Oz, Esra Nur Oz Cetindere 

Doing “Reputation” in the Indian Context: An Employee Perspective
Avani Desai, Asha Kaul, Vidhi Chaudhri

Between the Homefront and Battleground, Between TV and Smartphone: Evaluating the Use of a Second Screen in the May 2021 Israel-Palestine Crisis
Vered Elishar Malka, Yaron Ariel, Dana Weimann-Saks

How Information Factors and Attitudes Relate to Symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: The Role of Uncertainty in the Case of Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
Zhiwen Xiao, Jaesub Lee

Exploring Resilience and Communicated Narrative Sense-Making in South Africans’ Stories of Apartheid
Haley Kranstuber Horstman, Athena Pedro, Tessa Goldschmidt, Olivia Watson, Maria Butauski

The Fabulous East: On Peripheral Media Capitals and the Streaming Fantasy Television Genre
Timothy Havens  

Clusters of Dark Patterns Across Popular Websites in New Zealand
Cherie Lacey, Alex Beattie, Tristam Sparks

Postmodern Without Modernization: Ages, Phases, and Stages of Political Communication and Digital Campaigns in Brazil (2010–2020)
Arthur Ituassu

I am an Influencer and I Approve This Message! Examining How Political Social Media Influencers Affect Political Interest, Political Trust, Political Efficacy, and Political Participation
Ben Wasike

Toward a Sociologically Enriched Understanding of Anti-Media Populism: The Case of Enough is Enough!
Torgeir Uberg Nærland 

Partners, Competitors, Frenemies: How Australian Advertising Professionals Understand the Market Power of Facebook and Google 
Samuel Kininmonth, Ramon Lobato

Social Audience and Emotional Bonding in Marvel’s Transmedia Phenomenon: An Exploration of Peruvian Digital Communities
Tomás Atarama-Rojas, Beatriz Feijoo 

Politicizing, Personalizing, and Mobilizing in Online Political Communication: Drivers and Killers of Users’ Engagement
Milica Vuckovic

Community Diversity Climate Impact on the Well-Being of Asian Americans Amid Anti-Asian Sentiment During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Two-Way Symmetrical Communication by Local Governments
Jo-Yun Li, Weiting Tao, Yeunjae Lee

Are People Easily Duped by Disinformation? Experimental Evidence for Open Vigilance
Wuyao Ding, Yan Ge

What Leads to Audience Issue Fatigue? A Linkage Analysis Study on the Effects of News Coverage on Fatigue From Ongoing News Issues
Gwendolin Gurr, Julia Metag

Communication for Social Changemaking: A “New Spirit” in Media and Communication for Development and Social Change?
Jessica Noske-Turner

FEATURE

Building Legitimacy in the Absence of the State: Reflections on the Facebook Oversight Board
Monroe E. Price, Joshua M. Price

BOOK REVIEWS

Caty Borum, The Revolution Will Be Hilarious: Comedy for Social Change and CivicPower
Amy B. Becker 

Emily Hund, The Influencer Industry: The Quest for Authenticity on Social Media
Michael Skey

Sarah Sharma and Rianka Singh (Eds.), Re-Understanding Media: Feminist Extensions of Marshall McLuhan
Niall Stephens

Matthew E. Khan, Going Remote: How the Flexible Work Economy Can Improve Our Lives and Our Cities
Elizabeth R. Hornsby

Kevin Driscoll, The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media
Aaron Shaw 

David J. Park, Media Reform and the Climate Emergency: Rethinking Communication in the Struggle for a Sustainable Future
Henrik Bødker

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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. 

International Journal of Communication Publishes a Special Section on
Global Populism: Its Roots in Media and Religion

If we were to use one word to describe the recent trend in global politics, populism would no doubt be a strong candidate. From Donald Trump to Jair Bolsanaro and from Narendra Modi to Giorgia Meloni, right-wing populist movements have upended assumptions about contemporary politics and have seeded concerns about the future of liberal democracies across the globe.  

This Special Section on Global Populism: Its Roots in Media and Religion, guest-edited by Johanna Sumiala, Stewart M. Hoover, and Corrina Laughlin, advances scholarly understanding of the present dynamics of global politics in the hybrid media environment. While emergent populist movements increasingly use symbols and tropes in their political communication, religion and “the religious” tend to be ignored or acknowledged only at the most superficial level in the present research in media and communication studies. 

The articles in this Special Section attempt to fill in this gap in scholarship and address populism, media, and religion in a variety of media, political, and cultural contexts ranging from Finland, Norway, Poland, Italy, Turkey to India, Brazil, and the United States. Expert authors from media and communication studies, political science, and religious studies address political and religious populism with a special focus on nationalist and right-wing movements. The authors apply conceptual frameworks such as “religious populism,” gender, nationalism, fundamentalism, “civilizationism,” Islamophobia, and victimhood to study religion and populism in diverse media contexts ranging from newspapers to Twitter. In the afterword, John L. Jackson, Jr. reminds media and communication scholars to keep race in mind as they analyze religious and populist phenomena in the present political moment. 

We invite you to read these articles that published in the International Journal of Communication on April 4, 2023. Please log into ijoc.org to read the papers of interest. We look forward to your feedback! 
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Religious Populism? Rethinking Concepts and Consequences in a Hybrid Media Age—Introduction
Johanna Sumiala, Stewart M. Hoover, Corrina Laughlin

The World Congress of Families: Anti-Gender Christianity and Digital Far-Right Populism 
Giulia Evolvi

The Role of Religion in Construction of the People and the Others: A Study of Populist Discourse in the Polish Media
Agnieszka Stępińska  

“Brazil Above Everything. God Above Everyone.” Political-Religious Fundamentalist Expressions in Digital Media in Times of Ultra-Right Nationalism in Brazil
Magali do Nascimento Cunha

Islam as the Folk Devil: Hashtag Publics and the Fabrication of Civilizationism in a Post-Terror Populist Moment
Johanna Sumiala, Anu A. Harju, Emilia Palonen

Triggers and Tropes: The Affective Manufacturing of Online Islamophobia 
Mona Abdel-Fadil

Mediating Muslim Victimhood: An Analysis of Religion and Populism in International Communication 
Bilge Yesil

Populism, Religion, and the Media in India 
Pradip Ninan Thomas

The Ghosts in the Machine of Contemporary Scholarship on Media and Communication—Afterword
John L. Jackson, Jr.

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Larry Gross, Editor 
Kady Bell-Garcia, Managing Editor
Chi Zhang, Managing Editor, Special Sections
Johanna Sumiala, Stewart M. Hoover, and Corrina Laughlin, Guest Editors

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.

International Journal of Communication invites you to read these 40 papers that published in March

The International Journal of Communication is pleased to announce the publication of 40 papers in MARCH 2023, which includes the “Special Section on Digital Memory and Populism” and the “Special Section on Queer Cultures in Digital Asia.” 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

Is Ubiquitous a Good Thing? The Vulnerability of Using Smartphones Among Seniors in Taiwan
Luc Chia-Shin Lin  

A Survey of U.S. Science Journalists’ Knowledge and Opinions of Open Access Research
Teresa Schultz  

Express Yourself? Political Conversation, Emotion Regulation, and the Expression of Political Emotions
Christina M. Henry, William P. Eveland, Jr.  

Chinese LGBTQ+ Online Social Movements: A Comparative Study Between the Collective Identity Framings in the #IAmGay and #IAmLes Protests
Xing Huang

“Influencers” or “Doctors”? Physicians’ Presentation of Self in YouTube and Facebook Videos
Noha Atef, Alice Fleerackers, Juan Pablo Alperin  

Media Use and Political Trust in Kenya: Media Malaise or Virtuous Circle?
Gilbert Kipkoech

Predicting Romantic Comedy Success From Content
Melissa M. Moore, Yotam Ophir

Microaggression Terminology in Communications on Twitter: A Corpus Linguistic Analysis
Iain Alexander Smith, Amanda Griffiths, Kevin Harvey  

Changing Narratives: An Evaluation of Pakistan’s Public Diplomacy Efforts Under Imran Khan
Ravale Mohydin

Platformization in Local Cultural Production: Korean Platform Companies and the K-Pop Industry
Seoyeon Park, Hyejin Jo, Taeyoung Kim

Does Relational Polarization Entail Ideological Polarization? The Case of the 2017 Norwegian Election Campaign on Twitter
Bernard Enjolras

Immigrant Characters in Spanish Audiovisual Broadcast on Platforms
María Marcos-Ramos, Ariadna Angulo-Brunet, Beatriz González-de-Garay

The Great Reset and the Cultural Boundaries of Conspiracy Theory
Michael Christensen, Ashli Au

Seeking Online Health Information for Aged Parents in China: A Multigroup Comparison of the Comprehensive Model of Information Seeking Based on eHealth Literacy Levels
Xin Ma, Liang Chen

Imagined Audiences and Activist Orientations of Migrant Advocacy Organizations
Sara DeTurk

Reconsidering Misinformation in WhatsApp Groups: Informational and Social Predictors of Risk Perceptions and Corrections
Ozan Kuru, Scott W. Campbell, Joseph B. Bayer, Lemi Baruh, Richard S. Ling

Far Removed From Heteronormativity: Marriage and Same-Sex Couples in a Spanish TV News Program (2011–2020)
Adolfo Carratalá

The Development of Local News Collaboration: A Population Ecology Perspective
Wilson Lowrey, Nicholas R. Buzzelli, Ryan Broussard


BOOK REVIEWS

Rebecca Wanzo, The Content of Our Caricature: African American Comic Art and Political Belonging
Florence Zivaishe Madenga 

Daniel E. Agbiboa, Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency: The Routes of Terror in an African Context
Buket Oztas

Mike Hill, On Posthuman War: Computation and Military Violence
Maia Nichols

T. Bettina Cornwell and Helen Katz, Influencer: The Science Behind Swaying Others
Hannah Block

Shayda Kafai, Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid
Jaggar DeMarco

Balsam Mustafa, ‘Islamic State’ in Translation: Four Atrocities, Multiple Narratives
Jared Ahmad

Hermann Wasserman and Dani Madrid-Morales (Eds.), Disinformation in the Global South
Noah Zweig

C. Simon Fan, The Socioeconomics of Nationalism in China: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Wenliang Chen

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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.

International Journal of Communication Publishes a Special Section on
Queer Cultures in Digital Asia

What are the challenges and opportunities offered to queer communities and practices by social media and digital platforms such as Twitter, Instagram, Weibo, Grindr, Blued, Butterfly, and more, in the context of Asia? 

Inspired by Mobile Cultures: New Media in Queer Asia (Berry, Martin, Yue, & Spigel, 2003), published in 2003, and the subsequent two decades of critical scholarship on Queer Asia, this Special Section on Queer Cultures in Digital Asia aims to renew our critical interrogation of the intersection between queerness and Asia at a time when digital media and platforms are inseparable from social lives. Asia provides a complicated context for the development and survival of queer communities as social norms and laws regarding same-sex relationships and gender transition vary across regions. 

Guest-edited by Lik Sam Chan, Jia Tan, and Elija Cassidy, this Special Section examines how contemporary queer lives are platformized, investigating an array of issues from amateur gay porn cultures, lesbian and gay dating apps, trans men’s self-representation, to Boys’ Love fandom, as well as how these are mediated through specific digital platforms. 

While platformed digital media undoubtedly offers new opportunities for queer communities and practices, community-based regulations and internal stratification and discrimination also close off certain forms of queer expression and queer potential. Contributors to this Special Section offer empirical analyses of queer digital cultures, platforms, practices, and communities from one or multiple Asian regions. They highlight how regional specificity has contributed to the manifestation of queer practices and cultures. With new digital phenomena emerging—live streaming, games, robots and AI, non-fungible tokens, health tracking—and social and legal environments evolving, Queer Cultures in Digital Asia will always be in a state of flux. This Special Section can hopefully open further conversations about digital media and queerness among scholars working across a range of diverse Asian contexts. 

We invite you to read these articles that published in the International Journal of Communication on March 19, 2023. Please log into ijoc.org to read the papers of interest. We look forward to your feedback! 

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Queer Cultures in Digital Asia—Introduction
Lik Sam Chan, Jia Tan, Elija Cassidy

Digital Sexual Publics: Understanding Do-It-Yourself Gay Porn and Lived Experiences of Sexuality in China
Runze Ding, Lin Song

Attention Economy, Neoliberalism, and Homonormative Masculinity in Amateur Gay Porn Circuits on Twitter: The Case of Manila and Hong Kong
Ruepert Jiel Dionisio Cao 

“I Look at How They Write Their Bio and I Judge From There”: Language and Class Among Middle-Class Queer Filipino Digital Socialities in Manila 
Paul Michael Leonardo Atienza

Strategic, Conflicted, and Interpellated: Hong Kong and Chinese Queer Women’s Use of Identity Labels on Lesbian Dating Apps 
Carman K. M. Fung

Tracing Dystopian Insta-Emotions Among Hong Kong Trans Men 
Denise Tse-Shang Tang 

Participatory Censorship and Digital Queer Fandom: The Commercialization of Boys’ Love Culture in China
Yiming Wang, Jia Tan 

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Larry Gross, Editor 
Kady Bell-Garcia, Managing Editor
Chi Zhang, Managing Editor, Special Sections
Lik Sam Chan, Jia Tan, and Elija Cassidy, Guest Editors

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.