International Journal of Communication invites you to read these 15 publications that published in October

The International Journal of Communication is pleased to announce the publication of 15 papers in October. To access these papers, please visit ijoc.org.
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ARTICLES

Journalism-Hate as Social Affect: How Anti-Press Sentiments Holistically Shape the Lives of Korean Journalists
Changwook Kim, Wooyeol Shin

Journalist YouTubers: How Platformization Transforms Journalism in an Authoritarian System
Can Ertuna, Ozan Aşık

Scandal as Constructivation: Trust Cultures and the Politics of Legitimacy in Southeast Asia
Karl Patrick R. Mendoza

Playing Dead: TikTok, #Darkhumor Memes, and the Absurdity of School Shootings in the United States
Jacqueline Ryan Vickery

Journalism Innovation Under Autocratization: Comparing Journalistic Resistance in Poland and Slovakia
Simone Benazzo

Christian Nationalism as Media
Reed Van Schenck

Black Lives Matter on the Ground and in Sports: Varied Influences of Delegitimizing News Coverage on Self-Perceived Knowledge and Support for Protests
Danielle K. Brown, Rachel Reis Mourão, Tania Ganguli

Habits and Motivations of Citizens in Receiving and Disseminating Disinformation on Social Media
Ignacio Blanco-Alfonso, María Solano-Altaba, Cristina Rodríguez-Luque, Sergio Arce-García

BOOK REVIEWS

Sara Petersen, Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture
Jisha Jacob

Myria Georgiou, Being Human in Digital Cities
Soojung Paek

Christopher Chávez, Isle of Rum: Havana Club, Cultural Mediation, and the Fight for Cuban Authenticity
Soojung Paek

Grant Bollmer and Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory: A Marxist Theory of Corporate Personhood on YouTube
Oscar Gómez Pascual

Ben Collier, Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy
Min Wang

Patrick Ferrucci, The Organization of Journalism: Market Models and Practice in a Fraying Profession
Yelena Dzhanova

Robert Gorwa, The Politics of Platform Regulation: How Governments Shape Online Content Moderation
Yunhee Shim

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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 21 publications that published in August

The International Journal of Communication is pleased to announce the publication of 21 papers in August 2025, which includes the Special Section on “Media and Ambivalence.” To access these papers, please visit ijoc.org.
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ARTICLES

Strategic Narratives on Social Media: How Information Environments Shape the Russian-Ukrainian War Discourse in Seven European Countries
Kostiantyn Yanchenko, Edda Humprecht

Examining News Media Use and Trust in Public Institutions in Kenya: The Moderating Role of Perceived Corruption and Political Freedom
Bingbing Zhang, Kevin Mudavadi, Frankline Matanji, David Lomoywara

Real Harassment, Virtual Robots? Exploring Misogyny Against Machines
Bya Beatrys, André Peruzzo

Beyond Access: Motivation and Digital Literacy in Sustainable Technology Use
Maria Laura Ruiu, Gabriele Ruiu, Massimo Ragnedda

Social Justice as On-Brand: Social Causes, Monetization Traces, and the Logics of Visibility in the Dutch Influencer Industry
Taylor Annabell

BOOK REVIEWS

Josh Shepperd, Shadow of the New Deal: The Victory of Public Broadcasting
Angela Xiao Wu

Bilge Yesil, Talking Back to the West: How Turkey Uses Counter-Hegemony to Reshape the Global Communication Order
Matthew deTar

Jennifer Holt, Cloud Policy: A History of Regulating Pipelines, Platforms, and Data
Mengmeng Guo, Guosong Shao

John M. Jordan, The Rise of the Algorithms: How YouTube and TikTok Conquered the World
Arnab Biswas

Christopher B. Patterson and Tara Fickle (Eds.), Made in Asia/America: Why Video Games Were Never (Really) About Us
Saeed Hani Said Dabbour

Reem Hilu, The Intimate Life of Computers: Digitizing Domesticity in the 1980s
William Beaman

Kevin M. Carragee, Communication Activism Research for Social Justice: Engaged Research, Collective Action, and Political Change
Billie Murray

James Malazita, Enacting Platforms: Feminist Technoscience and the Unreal Engine
Maxwell Foxman

Donnie Johnson Sackey, Trespassing Natures: Species Migration and the Right to Space
Teo Rogers Mendizabal

Aviva Wei Xue and Kate Rose, Weibo Feminism: Expression, Activism, and Social Media in China
Sophia Xiangyan Xiong

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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 Publishes a Special Section on Media and Ambivalence: The Value of a Quandary

Is ambivalence the best we can wish for in times of political extremism?

This Special Section on Media and Ambivalence, guest-edited by Barbie Zelizer and Nelson Ribeiro, argues that in its most promising form, ambivalence presents a quandary. It suggests that being torn can be better than being sure, that conflict can be resolved by straddling both of its sides or that trying on different faces offsets the discomfort of contradiction.

Often associated with indecision or ineptitude, capable of paralyzing our ability to make decisions and take sides, ambivalence is frequently portrayed as negative. For the media and academia that privilege messages projecting certainty, it can be a terrifying concept. Even so, it has been central to how media scholars have thought about messages, reception, effects, and technologies. While some see ambivalence undercutting and undermining the media environments it inhabits, others consider it a necessary complication of the overused binaries of late modernity.

The articles in this Special Section discuss how different media and technologies help create ambivalent meanings and complicate the debates taking place in the public realm across different social and political contexts. Each manuscript presents a case study that illustrates how ambivalence can be used as a frame for knowledge generation. Each also illustrates how getting rid of ambivalence can reduce what is most desirable and strived for into rigid and overly constrained modes of thought.

We invite you to read these articles that published in the International Journal of Communication on August 28, 2025. Please log into ijoc.org to read the papers of interest. We look forward to your feedback!

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Media and Ambivalence: The Value of a Quandary—Introduction
Barbie Zelizer, Nelson Ribeiro

Repetition and Ambivalence in COVID-19-Related Chinese Political Jokes
Ran Wang

“Destroyer of Worlds”: Individual Narratives, Mass Atrocity, and (Moral) Ambivalence
Liz Hallgren

Is It a Fit or Is She Just Skinny? A TikTok Hashtag as a Site of Ambiguity Around Fashion, Gender, and Women’s Bodies
Ira Solomatina

¡No Fue Suicidio, Fue Feminicidio!: Ambivalent Facts in the (Un)making of Feminicide in Mexico
Fernanda Soria-Cruz

The Ambivalences of Virtual Love: Conversational, Embodied, and Hyperreal Intimacy in the Social VR Platform VRChat
Jindong Leo-Liu

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Silvio Waisbord, Editor 
Kady Bell-Garcia, Managing Editor
Chi Zhang, Managing Editor, Special Sections
Andrew Taylor, Webmaster 
Barbie Zelizer and Nelson Ribeiro, Guest Editors

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 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

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 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.