International Journal of Communication Publishes a Special Section on Mobilities, Communication, and Asia The Special Section on “Mobilities, Communication, and Asia” examines the interplay of communication, power, and movement amid large-scale transformations throughout Asia. Guest-edited by Mohan J. Dutta and Raka Shome, this Special Section brings together 11 articles that theorize from and within Asia the social, political, economic, and cultural contexts of im/mobilities, and the ways in which these constitute constructions and negotiations of the social, cultural, political, and economic. The articles depict communicative negotiations amid movements in and across Asia, examining critically the hegemonic formations of Asian mobility. They offer locally grounded theoretical anchors for understanding these movements. The global movement of capital, commodities, and labor foreground certain meanings of mobility while erasing other interpretations. Further, the global movement of capital, while enabling and encouraging mobility for some, renders many others immobile — disconnected, expelled, and erased from the possibilities of movement. Mobility and immobility thus are not binaries but are interrelated in a system that expresses and captures the desires and violence of globalization. The figure of the migrant and the various processes of migration make these relations both visible and invisible. Mediated and communication practices — such as technology, films, music, social media, and remittances — play intrinsic roles in shaping and informing various forms of migration. Additionally, the transnational migration of communication practices themselves constitutes new forms of mobilities and immobilities, opportunities for enacting agency, identity formations, and collective organizing in resistance. The articles in this Special Section draw on the lived experiences of migrants in and across Asia to offer conceptual frameworks for examining the nature of communication amid migration, attending to the particulars of migration and simultaneously offering globally anchored entry points to theorizing mobility. We invite you to read these articles that published September 26, 2018 in the International Journal of Communication.  Please Ctrl+Click on the titles below for direct hyperlinking to these articles. ____________________________________________________________________________ Mobilities, Communication, and Asia: Introduction Raka Shome, Mohan Jyoti Dutta Tracing the Discourse of Migrant Labor in China: Mobility, Fixity, and Displacement in the Workshop of the World Zhuo Ban Logics of Mobility: Social Movements and Their Networked Other Shiv Ganesh “I Have Always Thought of My Family First”: An Analysis of Transnational Caregiving Among Filipino Migrant Adult Children in Melbourne, Australia Earvin Charles B. Cabalquinto Essentialist Identities as Resistance to Immobilities: Communicative Mobilities of Vietnamese Foreign Brides in Singapore Arul Chib, Hoan Nguyen Im/materializing Cross-Border Mobility: A Study of Mainland China–Hong Kong Daigou [Cross-Border Shopping Services on Global Consumer Goods] Xie ZhuoXiao Precarities of Migrant Work in Singapore: Migration, (Im)mobility, and Neoliberal Governmentality Mohan Dutta, Satveer Kaur-Gill Media, Mobility, and Resilience Among Diasporic Young People  Audrey Yue Mobile Media Photography and Intergenerational Families Jolynna Sinanan, Larissa Hjorth, Kana Ohashi, Fumitoshi Kato Facebook, Long-Distance Marriages, and the Mediation of Intimacies Kristel Anne Acedera, Brenda Yeoh Dreams and Desserts, Indigenous Migration, Service, and Mobility in India Dolly Kikon _________________________________________________________________________________________ Larry Gross Editor Arlene Luck Managing Editor                                                                    Mohan J. Dutta, Raka Shome Guest Editors

International Journal of Communication Publishes a Special Section on
Authoritarian Practices in the Digital Age  

There is increasing concern about how digital technologies contribute to a decline of democracy and the rise of authoritarian tendencies. Published September 18, 2018, this Special Section on Authoritarian Practices in the Digital Age breaks new ground by systematically examining how digital authoritarian practices are diffused between states, co-produced by states and corporate actors, legitimized in multilateral settings, and experienced by citizens. Digital authoritarian practices describe threats to the democratic process, sabotaging accountability by disrupting access to information or disabling communication.

Edited by Marlies Glasius and Marcus Michaelsen, University of Amsterdam, the Special Section brings together nine papers including an editorial introduction, a conceptual prologue, and seven research articles that extend our understanding of the relationship between contemporary forms of authoritarianism and digital communication technologies. The contributions investigate Internet control and censorship, surveillance, and disinformation, presenting insights from China, Russia and Central Asia, Iran, Pakistan, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Western Europe.

In addition to presenting original empirical research, the articles aim to advance conceptual knowledge on what constitutes an authoritarian and/or illiberal practice in the field of digital technologies, and how these practices, in turn, may change the ways in which the technologies are used and developed in an increasingly interconnected world.

To access the papers, please Ctrl+Click on the article titles below for direct linking, or go to ijoc.org. We look forward to your feedback.

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Authoritarian Practices in the Digital Age — Introduction
Marcus Michaelsen, Marlies Glasius

Illiberal and Authoritarian Practices in the Digital Sphere — Prologue
Marlies Glasius, Marcus Michaelsen

Information, Security, and Authoritarian Stability: Internet Policy Diffusion and Coordination in the Former Soviet Region
Jaclyn A. Kerr

The Contestation and Shaping of Cyber Norms through China’s Internet Sovereignty Agenda
Sarah McKune, Shazeda Ahmed

Transforming Threats to Power: The International Politics of Authoritarian Internet Control in Iran
Marcus Michaelsen 

Asymmetrical Power Between Internet Giants and Users in China
Aofei Lv, Ting Luo

Blocking the Bottleneck: Internet Shutdowns and Ownership at Election Times in Sub-Saharan Africa
Tina Freyburg, Lisa Garbe

Understanding Internet Shutdowns: A Case Study from Pakistan
Ben Wagner

Through a Glass, Darkly: Everyday Acts of Authoritarianism in the Liberal West
Stefania Milan, Arne Hintz

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Larry Gross
Editor 

Arlene Luck
Managing Editor

Marlies Glasius, Marcus Michaelsen
Guest Editors

The International Journal Communication is pleased to announce the publication of 25 papers in August 2018 including a Special Section on Political Scandale=s. To access these papers, please Ctrl+Click on the article titles below for direct linking, or go to ijoc.org. 

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ARTICLES

Bringing the Mountain to the Prophet: Marshall McLuhan’s Mythology in the Anthropocene
Niall P. Stephens

Becoming Iconic
Barry King 

Social Issues and TV Scripted Fiction: An Exploration of Fans’ Feedback in Spain
Deborah Castro, Joseph D. Straubhaar

Rethinking the Venezuelan Media Presidency: Populism/Authoritarianism and “Spectacular Modernity
Noah Zweig

The Bounded Embodiment of Fandom in China: Recovering Shifting Media Experiences and Fan Participation Through an Oral History of Animation-Comics-Games Lovers
Yiyi Yin, Xie Zhuoxiao

Implicit and Explicit Control: Modeling the Effect of Internet Censorship on Political Protest in China
Jiayin Lu, Yupei Zhao

Networks of Play and Resentment: Emotionally Mobilized Protests in Macau in the Internet Age
Zhongxuan Lin

Theoretical Frames and Institutional Constraints: A Synopsis About Chilean Communication Research in the 21st Century
Claudia Lagos Lira

Attention in Business Press to the Diffusion of Attention Technologies, 1990–2017
Ronald E. Rice, Zane T. Hoffmann

The Media Event Build-Up Phase: A Site of Contestation and Counternarratives
Cerianne Robertson

Far-Right Parties in the European Union and Media Populism: A Comparative Analysis of 10 Countries During European Parliament Elections
Larisa Doroshenko

The Post-Truth Double-Helix: Reflexivity and Mistrust in Local Politics
Timothy Gibson

BOOK REVIEWS

Yu Hong, Networking China: The Digital Transformation of the Chinese Economy 
Menglu Lyu

Darin Barney, Gabriella Coleman, Christine Ross, Jonathan Sterne, Tamar Tembeck (Eds.), The Participatory Condition in the Digital Age
Aleena Chia

Theorizing the Future of Rhetoric and Posthumanism: Perspectives on Bodies that Learn Language and Objects that Have Agency
Emma Frances Bloomfield 

Grant Bollmer, Inhuman Networks: Social Media and the Archaeology of Connection
George Maier

Andre Cavalcante, Struggling for Ordinary: Media and Transgender Belonging in Everyday Life
Greg Niedt
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Larry Gross
Editor    

Arlene Luck
Managing Editor

The International Journal Communication is pleased to announce the publication of 18 papers in July 2018 including the Special Section on News Media & the Emotional Public Sphere as well as the Special Section on (Un)civil Society in Digital China. To access these papers, please Ctrl+Click on the article titles below for direct linking or go to ijoc.org. 

ARTICLES

Communication Theory After the Administered Society: The “Total Market” in the Writings of the Departamento Ecuménico de Investigaciones
Vicente Berdayes

“He’s Got His Own Sea”: Political Facebook Unfriending in the Personal Public Sphere
Nicholas A. John, Noam Gal

A New Women’s Work: Digital Interactions, Gender, and Social Network Sites
Angela M. Cirucci

Changing Center and Stagnant Periphery in Communication and Media Studies: National
Diversity of Major International Journals in the Field of Communication from 2013 to 2017
Marton Demeter

Winds of Change? BRICS as a Perspective in International Media Research
Afonso de Albuquerque, Diógenes Lycarião

The Idea of Europeanness: Perceptions of Erasmus Students in Turkey and The Netherlands
Zeynep Aksoy

Poor Information: How Economics Affects the Information Lives of Low-Income Individuals
James T. Hamilton, Fiona Morgan

Can the Internet Aid Democratic Consolidation? Online News and Legitimacy in Central
and Eastern Europe
Matthew Placek

Smartphones as Metamedia: A Framework for Identifying the Niches Structuring Smartphone Use
Lee Humphreys, Veronika Karnowski, Thilo von Pape

Selfies and Cultural Events: Mixed Methods for the Study of Selfies in Context
Gemma San Cornelio, Antoni Roig

FEATURE

Making Implicit Methods Explicit: Trade Press Analysis in the Political Economy of Communication
Thomas F. Corrigan

BOOK REVIEWS

Robert E. Babe, Wilbur Schramm and Noam Chomsky Meet Harold Innis: Media, Power
and Democracy
Marcus Breen

Grant Bollmer, Inhuman Networks: Social Media and the Archaeology of Connection
J.J. Sylvia IV

Jody C. Baumgartner and Terri L. Towner (Eds.), The Internet and the 2016 Presidential Campaign
Fatemeh Kamali Chirani

The Ambivalences of the Citizen Marketer Concept: A Response to Tabassum Ruhi Khan
Joel Penney

Ulla Carlsson and David Goldberg (Eds.), The Legacy of Peter Forsskål: 250 Years of Freedom of Expression
Andrei G. Richter 

Keyword Up!
Jack Bratich

Paul Feigenbaum, Collaborative Imagination: Earning Activism through Literacy Education
Kellie Brownlee

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Larry Gross
Editor       

 Arlene Luck
Managing Editor

International Journal of Communication
Publishes a Special Section on Political Scandals

This Special Section on “Political Scandals as a Democratic Challenge” brings together seven original papers (plus an editorial introduction) on current international research in the area of political scandals. The complexity of these processes underlines the need for critical, interdisciplinary research, and this Special Section includes a systematic review of research examining the various effects of political scandals, and a paper analyzing the psychological reactions of politicians involved in scandals.

The Section focuses on the primary question: What are the roles–and effects–of mediated political scandals on democratic processes?

A central topic in several of the articles is the contradictory status of journalism as an important “watchdog” institution, holding political leaders to account, and media institutions as a “scandal machine” that ignores serious political misdeeds and inflates the importance of trivial norm violations. Other papers discuss how politicians and power holders may provoke and use staged mediated scandals in order to influence the public agenda and smear competitors. The complexity of such scandalization processes underlines the need of critical, interdisciplinary research, and this Special Section includes a systematic review of research examining the various effects of political scandals and a paper analyzing the psychological reactions of politicians involved in scandals.

We invite you to read these eight articles that just published in the International Journal of Communication on August 6, 2018. Please Ctrl+Click on the article titles below to hyperlink to the papers of interest.

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Political Scandals as a Democratic Challenge: From Important Revelations to Provocations, Trivialities, and Neglect. Introduction
Sigurd Allern, Christian von Sikorski

Blunders, Scandals, and Strategic Communication in U.S. Foreign Policy: Benghazi vs. 9/11
Robert Entman, Sarah Stonbely

Political Scandals Under Responsive Authoritarianism: The Case of the Bo Xilai Trial in China
Francis L. F. Lee

“Assassination Campaigns”: Corruption Scandals and News Media Instrumentation
Paolo Mancini

The New Normal: Scandals as a Standard Feature of Political Life in Nordic Countries
Ester Pollack, Sigurd Allern, Anu Kantola, Mark Ørsten

The Aftermath of Political Scandals: A Meta-Analysis
Christian von Sikorski

Powerful and Powerless: Psychological Reactions of Norwegian Politicians Exposed in Media Scandals
Kim Edgar Karlsen, Fanny Duckert

Hidden Traps: An Essay on Scandals — Commentary
Hans Mathias Kepplinger

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Larry Gross
Editor 

Arlene Luck
Managing Editor

Sigurd Allern, Christian von Sikorski
Guest Editors