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.

International Journal of Communication Publishes a Special Section on Afterlives of the Californian Ideology: Tech Movements, Pioneer Communities, and Imaginaries of Digital Futures

It was some 30 years ago that Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron coined the term “Californian Ideology”: At the intersection of hippiedom and yuppie entrepreneurship, they argued, a vision for recreating the world with digital technologies arose. But what has happened since? Has the rise of a more global Internet eclipsed the centrality of California? Are emerging technologies repeating the same patterns of political economy as earlier ones, or have they required the crafting of new ideologies entirely?   

This Special Section on Afterlives of the Californian Ideology: Tech Movements, Pioneer Communities, and Imaginaries of Digital Futures, guest edited by Andreas Hepp, Anne Schmitz, and Nathan Schneider, reflects on the “afterlives” of this Californian Ideology—an ideology that emerged in and through tech movements and pioneer communities. 

The Special Section’s contributions include case studies from Asia, Europe, South America, and the United States and address recent manifestations of the Californian Ideology by looking at Ethereum blockchain communities, tech communities of crafting and repairing, the “mindset” of the Maker movement, early civic hacking in South Korea, contemporary imaginaries of autonomous driving, and the micropolitics of everyday online life. The issue concludes with an interview with Richard Barbrook, who looks back at the polemic he and Andy Cameron wrote, along with the limits of critiquing ideology alone.

These articles reveal that the Californian Ideology remains alive and well, manifesting in many afterlives, which span diverse geographies and technological substrates. Even among efforts to challenge and supplant the dominance of Silicon Valley, Californian habits of mind continue to persist, even if in new forms and disguises. 

We invite you to read these articles that published in the International Journal of Communication on June 22, 2023. Please log into ijoc.org to read the papers of interest. We look forward to your feedback! 
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Afterlives of the Californian Ideology: Tech Movements, Pioneer Communities, and Imaginaries of Digital Futures—Introduction
Andreas Hepp, Anne Schmitz, Nathan Schneider 

Building Blockchain Frontiers: Ethereum as an Extension of the Californian Ideology
Ann Brody, Tamara Kneese, Julie Frizzo-Barker

More-Than-Tech Communities: Alternative Imaginaries Within Hacking and Crafting 
Fredy Mora-Gámez, Sarah R. Davies

Local Ambivalences Toward the Maker Ideology: Makerspaces, the Maker Mindset, and the Maker Movement
Andreas Hepp, Anne Schmitz

Negotiating Silicon Valley Ideologies, Contesting “American” Civic Hacking: The Early Civic Hackers in South Korea and Their Struggle
Danbi Yoo

Deepest Mediatization? Inventing the Autonomous Vehicle
James Miller

Homesteading on a Superhighway: The Californian Ideology and Everyday Politics 
Nathan Schneider

“Polemic Becomes Canon”: An Interview With Richard Barbrook on the Californian Ideology
Nathan Schneider
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Larry Gross, Editor 
Kady Bell-Garcia, Managing Editor
Chi Zhang, Managing Editor, Special Sections
Andreas Hepp, Anne Schmitz, Nathan Schneider, 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 Publishes a Special Section on Worker Resistance in Digital Capitalism

After years of enthusiasm, the political promises of a long wave of worker struggles within and against the digital economy must be evaluated critically. Local manifestations of worker resistance show the multiple tactics and sources of solidarity that underpin a renewed challenge to the power of global digital capital.  

Guest-edited by Julie Chen, Alessandro Delfanti, and Michelle Phan, this Special Section on Worker Resistance in Digital Capitalism aims to provide a better understanding of collective action in the global digital economy.  

This Special Section features studies from Brazil, India, Indonesia, United Kingdom, the United States, and the Philippines tracking the challenges and conditions of possibility for worker organizing. The authors examine both mundane and novel tactics adopted by workers for labor action, solidarity building, and construction of alternatives to digital capitalism’s power. Be it in food delivery, video production, care, or legal work, these struggles cannot be separated from their local specificities. Structural constraints encountered by workers include postcolonial conditions, local economic regimes, global divisions of labor, institutional privileges or barriers, and the identity of the workers themselves.

Together, the contributions to this Special Section suggest that struggles in the digital economy are politically, economically, and culturally situated. Yet, multiple sources of solidarity have the potential to cross the differences described in the articles. 

We invite you to read these articles that published in the International Journal of Communication on June 6, 2023. Please log into ijoc.org to read the papers of interest. We look forward to your feedback! 
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Worker Resistance in Digital Capitalism—Introduction
Julie Chen, Alessandro Delfanti, Michelle Phan

Algorithmized Not Atomized: The Distributed Solidarity of Jakarta’s Gig Workers
Rida Qadri 

Communication and Work From Below: The Role of Communication in Organizing Delivery Platform Workers
Rafael Grohmann, Mateus Mendonça, Jamie Woodcock 

On the Shoulders of Automation: A Worker’s Inquiry Into the Hybrid Nature of the Legal Managed Services Industry (LPO/ALSP)
Sreyan Chatterjee

Solidarity and Resistance Meet Social Enterprise: The Social Logic of Alternative Cloudwork Platforms 
Cheryll Ruth Soriano

A Politics of Judgement?: Alienation and Platformized Creative Labor 
Michael L. Siciliano

Platform Counterpublics: Networked Gossip and Resistance Beyond Platforms 
Julia Ticona, M. Ryan Tsapatsaris
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Larry Gross, Editor 
Kady Bell-Garcia, Managing Editor
Chi Zhang, Managing Editor, Special Sections
Julie Chen, Alessandro Delfanti, and Michelle Phan, 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 34 papers that published in May

The International Journal of Communication is pleased to announce the publication of 34 papers in MAY 2023, which includes the “Special Section on Civic Participation in the Datafied Society.” 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

Influence of Public Service Media Consumption on Citizens’ Perceptions of the Need for Public Media: The Moderating Role of Political Ideology
Marcela Campos Rueda  

The Ambivalent Governance of Platformed Chinese Feminism Under Censorship: Weibo, Xianzi, and Her Friends
Yijia Gu, Luke Heemsbergen 

Manufacturing Humanitarian Imagery: Explaining Norwegian Refugee Council’s Public Communication Strategies Toward the Syrian and Central African Crises
David Ongenaert, Stijn Joye, Øyvind Ihlen  

Subscribe Now: On the Effectiveness of Advertising Messages in Promoting Newspapers’ Online Subscriptions
Bartosz Wilczek, Ina Schulte-Uentrop, Neil Thurman

Uncovering Protest Paradigm Effect Processes: Representations and Perceptions of Media Protest Coverage Among Greek Youth
Alexandros Vlazakis, Aphrodite Baka  

When Distancing Fails—How Journalists’ Discursive and Mnemonic Techniques Facilitated the Rise of Trump and Trumpism
Jennifer R. Henrichsen 

Persuasive Communication Strategies in Breast Self-Awareness Messages: An International Perspective
Christine Skubisz

Bayesian Multilevel Modeling and Its Application in Comparative Journalism Studies
Chung-Hong Chan, Adrian Rauchfleisch

International News Media Coverage of Black Lives Matter: Evidence From Norway
Hilmar Mjelde 

Popes as Public Diplomats: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Vatican’s Foreign Engagement and Storytelling
Phillip Arceneaux

Reporting in the Age of Coronavirus: Alternating Between “Shoe-Leather” and “Slippers” Journalism
Mirjana Pantic

Media Parallelism Beyond the Political World: How Newspapers Push Economic Agendas Through Editorial Journalism
Deivison Henrique De Freitas Santos, Francisco Paulo Jamil Marques

Networked Platform Governance: The Construction of the Democratic Platform
Robyn Caplan

Understanding Fake News Corrective Action: A Mixed-Method Approach
Homero Gil de Zúñiga, Manuel Goyanes, Chris Skurka

Testing the Role of Inspirational and Crime News Use in Self-Report Empathic Concern and Helping
Chun Yang, Masahiro Yamamoto

The Impact of Advertisers on Media and Journalism in Transitional Democracies: The Case of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
Jiyan Faris, Pieter Maeseele, Kevin Smets

TikTok and COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation: New Avenues for Misinformation Spread, Popular Infodemic Topics, and Dangerous Logical Fallacies
Morgan Lundy

Probing the Coping Processes Between Social Media (WhatsApp) Addiction and Mental Health During Social Distancing
Adil S. Al-Busaidi, Victoria Dauletova, Jean Claude Kwitonda

FEATURE

“Napalm Girl” at 50: On Photojournalism and the Ethics of Care
Meenakshi Gigi Durham

BOOK REVIEWS

Ralph Engelman and Carey Shenkman, A Century of Repression: The Espionage Act and Freedom of the Press
Renita Coleman

Heather Ford, Writing the Revolution: Wikipedia and the Survival of Facts in theDigital Age
Noah Zweig 

Nathaniel Tkacz, Being With Data: The Dashboarding of Everyday Life
Li Zeng 

Nicholas Mirzoeff, White Sight: Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness
Frederick Brady Fletcher

Regina M. Marchi, Day of the Dead in the USA: The Migration and Transformation of a Cultural Phenomenon (rev. 2nd ed.)
Robert Heckert 

Chuyun Oh, K-pop Dance: Fandoming Yourself on Social Media
Jungmin Kwon

Karen Redrobe and Jeff Scheible (Eds.), Deep Mediations: Thinking Space in Cinema and Digital Cultures
James Gabrillo

Christina S. Beck (Ed.), Communication in the 2020s: Viewing Our World Through the Eyes of Communication Scholars
Yingfeng Zhang

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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 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

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.