International Journal of Communication invites you to read these 33 publications that published in July

The International Journal of Communication is pleased to announce the publication of 33 papers in July 2025, which includes the Special Section on “Health Communication for Displaced Populations.” To access these papers, please visit ijoc.org.
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ARTICLES

Cultural Clicks: Why Strategic Election News Does Not Resonate the Same Across English- and Spanish-Language Media Audiences in the United States
Lindita Camaj, Lea Hellmueller

Reframing the Early History of the World Wide Web (1989–1995): Applying the Marketing Mix to Understand the Web as a Product
Deborah Barcella

Who Speaks Matters: The Effect of Insider Versus Outsider Activism on Consumer Responses to Company-Directed Activism
Neda Ninova-Solovykh, Ingrid Wahl, Sabine Einwiller

Does Online Incivility Mobilize or Demobilize Political Participation? Evidence From Hong Kong’s Social Movement
Chen Min, Fei Shen, Yi Wu

More Control Than Support: Populism, The Covid-19 Pandemic, and Media Policies in USA, Brazil, Serbia, and Poland
Beata Klimkiewicz, Katarzyna Vanevska, Sabina Mihelj, Daniel C. Hallin, Danilo Rothberg, Paulo Ferracioli, Václav Štětka, Ana Stojiljković, Nithyanand Rao

Effective Ways of Casting Doubt? Examining the Different Effects of Blatant and Suggestive Disinformation
Lotte L. Schrijver, Denise J. Roth, Edwin G.M. Jans, Jade Vrielink, Puck C. Guldemond

Antecedents of Reporting Harmful Comments: Testing the Moderating Role of Perceived Transparency
Xinzhou Xie, Zhuo Song, Qiyu Bai

The Sublime and the Cute in Bong Joon Ho’s Ecocinema
LeiLani Nishime

FEATURE

The Social Construction of Right-Wing Reality
Anthony Nadler, Doron Taussig

BOOK REVIEWS

Matt Mahmoudi, Migrants in the Digital Periphery: New Urban Frontiers of Control
Natalia Rabahi

John Stephens and Vivian Yenika-Agbaw (Eds.), Children, Deafness, and Deaf Cultures in Popular Media
Ria J. Gualano

Stephen Hutchings, Vera Tolz, Precious Chatterje-Doody, Rhys Crilley, and Marie Gillespie (Eds.), Russia, Disinformation, and the Liberal Order: RT as Populist Pariah
Tianwei Lv

Border Media, Near and Far
Sam DiBella

Kevin Sanson, Mobile Hollywood: Labor and the Geography of Production
Daniel Rios

Shashidhar Nanjundaiah, News Aesthetics and Myth: The Making of Media Illiteracy in India
Barbara Ruth Burke

Elizabeth Rodwell, Push the Button: Interactive Television and Collaborative Journalism in Japan
Yasuhito Abe

Xabier Barandiaran, Antonio Calleja-López, Arnau Monterde, and Carol Romero, Decidim, a Technopolitical Network for Participatory Democracy: Philosophy, Practice and Autonomy of a Collective Platform in the Age of Digital Intelligence
Fátima Solera Navarro

Jennifer S. Clark, Producing Feminism: Television Work in the Age of Women’s Liberation
Rachel R. Reynolds

Lee McIntyre, On Disinformation: How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy
Arjen van Dalen

Julian Sefton-Green, Kate Mannell, and Ola Erstad (Eds.), The Platformization of the Family: Towards a Research Agenda
Leah Cates

Bo Ruberg, Sex Dolls at Sea: Imagined Histories of Sexual Technologies
Sadie Palach

Xinyuan Wang, Ageing with Smartphones in Urban China: From the Cultural to the Digital Revolution in Shanghai
Sunny Sui-Kwong Lam

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

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International Journal of Communication Publishes a Special Section on Health Communication for Displaced Populations

What does it mean to communicate care across borders, barriers, and bureaucracies? And how might health communication rise to meet the needs of those who are so often left at its margin?

Guest-edited by Stefanie Z. Demetriades, Nathan Walter, and Ayse D. Lokmanoglu, this Special Section on Health Communication for Displaced Populations brings together 10 original articles that examine how communication shapes health experiences in contexts marked by mobility, precarity, and adaptation.

Spanning rhetorical, ethnographic, interpretive, and quantitative approaches, the Special Section traces the institutional, familial, and political dynamics that make communication both a potential bridge and a recurring barrier. The authors explore a wide range of issues: from digital inequality in refugee humanitarian organizations to the challenges of telehealth acceptance; from intergenerational health talk in immigrant families to the communicative tensions faced by asylum medicine practitioners. Others highlight how structural inequities around food security, health literacy, and cultural competence are experienced and resisted through communicative means.

At a time of growing global displacement and widening health disparities, these contributions call for a conscious orientation of the field away from viewing displacement as an exception and toward recognizing it as a central lens for understanding health communication’s obligations to equity and justice. Rather than treat communication as a downstream intervention, this collection positions it as a foundational element of health itself.

We invite you to read these articles that published in the International Journal of Communication on July 1, 2025. Please log into ijoc.org to read the papers of interest. We look forward to your feedback!

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Health Communication for Displaced Populations—Introduction
Stefanie Z. Demetriades, Ayse Lokmanoglu, Nathan Walter

Narratives of Dispossession: Reading Antecedents of Public Health Rhetoric in Reconstruction
Bailey Flynn

Living Through Food Rations: A Culture-Centered Study With Rohingya Refugees
Md Mahbubur Rahman, Mohan J. Dutta, Phoebe Elers

The Limits of Language: New Directions for Measurement of the Buffering Effects of Social Support on Acculturative Stress
Chris L. Robbins, Danielle Hagood

Physician Advocacy in a “Culture of Disbelief”: A Critical-Interpretive Study of Asylum Medicine
Smita Misra-Latty

Cultural Competence in U.S. Health Care: Voices of the Arab Community
Kayan Khraisheh

Communicatively Constructing Health and Healing: Cultural and Behavioral Determinants of Prostate Cancer Screening Among Ghanaian Men in the United States
Kate Nimako, Amy E. Chadwick

Knowledge, Attitude, and Behavior About COVID-19: The Roles of Health Literacy and English Proficiency Among Korean Immigrants in the United States
Seulgi Park, Rukhsana Ahmed

Exploring Relationships Between Family Communication Patterns and Willingness to Communicate About Health Topics Among Vietnamese Americans
Angie Vo, Grace Ellen Brannon

Digital Inequality and Resilience in Humanitarian Refugee Organizations
Minkyung Kim, Marya L. Doerfel

Using a Modified Technology Acceptance Model and Communication Inequality Theory to Evaluate Telehealth Acceptance Among Resettled Refugees
Lindsey Disney, Rukhsana Ahmed, Yohan Moon

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Silvio Waisbord, Editor 
Kady Bell-Garcia, Managing Editor
Chi Zhang, Managing Editor, Special Sections
Andrew Taylor, Webmaster 
Stefanie Z. Demetriades, Nathan Walter, Ayse Lokmanoglu, Guest Editors

Please note that according to the latest Google Scholar statistics, IJoC ranks 7th 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 June

The International Journal of Communication is pleased to announce the publication of 18 papers in June 2025, which includes the Special Section on “True Costs of Misinformation.” To access these papers, please visit ijoc.org.
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ARTICLES

News Engagement Process Model: Theorization of Audience and Journalist Interactions
Soo Young Shin, Serena Miller

Digital Literacy, Information Precarity, and Gendered Exclusion Among Ukrainian Refugee Women in Hungary
Miriam Berg

Fever Dreaming on TikTok: A Conceptual Framework for Performative Nostalgia
Viki Askounis Conner

BOOK REVIEWS

Burçe Çelik, Communications in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire: A Critical History
Reviewer – Aslı Tunç

Adrian Daub, The Cancel Culture Panic: How an American Obsession Went Global
Jonathan Turcotte-Summers

Everyday Resistance, Self-Definition, and Hope on the Black Internet: A Review
Rachel Williams

Lisa Diedrich, Illness Politics and Hashtag Activism
Liu Yang

Kristin M. Peterson, Unruly Souls: The Digital Activism of Muslim and Christian Feminists
Sahar Khamis

Diedrich Diederichsen, Aesthetics of Pop Music
David Z. Gehring

Jia Tan, Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China
Jing Cai

Aditya Deshbandhu, The 21st Century in 100 Games
Devina Sarwatay

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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 7th 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 True Costs of Misinformation

Guest-edited by Jonathan Corpus Ong and Joan Donovan, this Special Section on True Costs of Misinformation engages the following key questions: Who pays for the harms and damage brought by misinformation? What are the financial, social, and human costs to society? Whose definitions and measures of digital harms matter when coordinating a global response? Crucially, what is the future of disinformation studies? What concepts and debates should disinformation scholars continue to engage with, and what methodologies and advocacy strategies need to be discarded?

This Special Section gathers articles written by senior and junior scholars who attended an international and interdisciplinary workshop of the same name in March 2022. Most of these papers were written during a more hopeful and less risky “peak moment” for tech accountability and tech justice advocacy especially in the United States. These papers collectively offer powerful critiques to the foundational frameworks and methodologies in disinformation studies and the tech-first, top-down, and U.S.-centric interventions industry.

In this first paper, Alice Marwick and Katherine Furl offer extremism and radicalization researchers a framework to study “redpilling” as a process as they advocate for long-term, values-based interventions. In the second paper, Amogh Dhar Sharma presents a model of deep ethnographic investigation that move beyond examining disinformation as content to explore how politicians in India misuse state resources and funnel “black money” to reward media manipulators who help them stay in power. Three papers deal with the important yet overlooked issue of audience reception of misinformation and conspiracy theories-across diverse contexts of the Asian diaspora in the United Sates (Rachel Kuo, Madhavi Reddi, and Lan Li), audiences in Kenya and Senegal (Dani Madrid Morales, Melissa Tully, Kevin C. Mudavadi, Frankline Matanji, and Layire Diop), and political fans in the Philippines (Nicole Curato and Sofia Tomacruz). Finally, Samantha Bradshaw, Gabrielle Lim, and Monzima Haque critique the global diffusion of anti-fake news legislation in a global context and how a more inclusive and context-aware approach is less vulnerable to authoritarian capture than the mainstream securitization frame.

With their critical, contextual, and community-driven approaches mindful of global differences and inequalities, these papers prompt powerful reflection on what the field in its peak moment got right–and also what it got wrong in both its research and activist methodologies.

We invite you to read these articles that published in the International Journal of Communication on June 10, 2025. Please log into ijoc.org to read the papers of interest. We look forward to your feedback!

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The True Costs of Misinformation—Introduction
Jonathan Corpus Ong, Joan Donovan

Mountains of Evidence: Processual “Redpilling” as a Socio-Technical Effect of Disinformation
Alice E. Marwick, Katherine Furl

Political Finance and Patronage Behind Disinformation: Evidence From India’s Election Campaigns
Amogh Dhar Sharma

Transnational Information Networks: Methods for Cross-Diasporic Research
Rachel Kuo, Madhavi Reddi, Lan Li

Exploring Audience Agency in Countering Misinformation
Dani Madrid-Morales, Melissa Tully, Kevin C. Mudavadi, Frankline Matanji, Layire Diop

How Conspiracy Theories Harm Deliberative Democracy
Nicole Curato, Sofia Tomacruz

The Global Spread of Misinformation Laws
Samantha Bradshaw, Gabrielle Lim, Monzima Haque

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Silvio Waisbord, Editor 
Kady Bell-Garcia, Managing Editor
Chi Zhang, Managing Editor, Special Sections
Andrew Taylor, Webmaster 
Jonathan Corpus Ong, Joan Donovan, Guest Editors

Please note that according to the latest Google Scholar statistics, IJoC ranks 7th 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 May

The International Journal of Communication is pleased to announce the publication of 17 papers in May 2025. To access these papers, Ctrl+Click on the titles below for direct hyperlinking, or go to ijoc.org.
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ARTICLES

From Manosphere to Mainstream: Representations of Masculinity on TikTok
Alexander Dhoest

The Visual Vernacular of Climate Change on Instagram: How Modal Convergence Between Image and Text Is Changing the Representation of Climate Solutions
Yuting Yao, Warren Pearce

Digital Labor in the Industrious Family: Neighborhood Influencers in Naples
Adam Arvidsson, Sabrina Bellafronte, Brigida Orria, Arianna Petrosino, Camilla Volpe

The Networked Amplification of Activist Voices: An Empirical Framework for Evaluating the Growth and Challenges of Information Diffusion Efforts During Hashtag Campaigns
Anita Kuei-Chun Liu, Yotam Ophir, Itai Himelboim, Dror Walter

Journalists’ Views on International Media Freedom Campaigns: Empty Rhetoric or Strategic Narratives?
Martin Scott, Mel Bunce, Maria Carmen Fernandez, Rachel Khan, Mary Myers, Lina Yassin

News Framing and the Applicability of Authoritarian Values: Citizens’ Reasoning on News About Societal Disorder
Mats Ekström, Maria Jervelycke Belfrage

From Bystanders to Perpetrators: The Influence of Normative Perceptions and Cognitive Empathy on Online Hate in Korea
Minwoong Chung, Seyoung Lee, Heejo Keum

Strategies of Receptive Social Media Use: How Users Combine Elements of Styles, Arrangements, Attitudes, and Focus
Benjamin Krämer

The Potential for Media Literacy to Combat Misinformation: Results of a Rapid Evidence Assessment
Nick Anstead, Lee Edwards, Sonia Livingstone, Mariya Stoilova

“Negro Drama”: Beyond the Colonial Family Romance in Brazilian Hip-Hop
Bryce Henson

The Rise of Pandemic Pundits: Constructing Expertise on TV News During the COVID-19 Outbreak in Germany, Israel, and the United States
Hadas Emma Kedar, Michael Brüggemann

BOOK REVIEWS

Lilie Chouliaraki, Wronged: The Weaponization of Victimhood
Angeliki Sifaki

Tiziano Bonini and Emiliano Treré, Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight Against Platform Power
Ivo Furman

Ulrike Klinger, Daniel Kreiss, and Bruce Mutsvairo, Platforms, Power, and Politics: An Introduction to Political Communication in the Digital Age
Chang Zhang, Lexuan Wang

Judith May Fathallah, Killer Fandom: Fan Studies and the Celebrity Serial Killer
Oscar Gómez Pascual

Jessa Lingel, The Gentrification of the Internet: How to Reclaim Our Digital Freedom
Jacob Green

Simone Pfeifer, Christoph Günther, and Robert Dörre (Eds.), Disentangling Jihad, Political Violence and Media
Katherine Bullock

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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 7th 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.