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. 

International Journal of Communication invites you to read these 35 publications that published in April

The International Journal of Communication is pleased to announce the publication of 35 papers in APRIL 2025, which includes the “Forum on Oops? Interdisciplinary Stories of Sociotechnical Error.” To access these papers, Ctrl+Click on the titles below for direct hyperlinking, or go to ijoc.org.
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ARTICLES

Expectations of News Media in Uganda: Advancing a Theory of Relative Institutional Trust in Journalism
Meagan E. Doll

Negotiating Journalism: The (In)congruences of Role Expectations and Evaluation of Media Performance Between Audiences and News Professionals in Chile
Alexis Cruz, Claudia Mellado

Beyond Physical Access: Exploring Interaction With Political Content in Social Media Among Citizens Living in Poverty
Rune Søholt

Beating Algorithmic Discrimination: Maneuvering Digital Surveillance to Indigenize the Narrative
Dana Hasan, Amal Nazzal, Sulafa Zidani

The Blame Game? #Brexitriots as an Affective Ritualized Response to Civil Disorder in Northern Ireland
Paul Reilly

Reinventing Traditional Media in the Platformized K-Pop Industry: CJ ENM’s Strategic Adaptation Through KCON
Chairin An

Forced: Perceptions of “Woke” Politics in Video Games
Adam Ruch

“TikTok Is One Long Conversation With the Universe”: How Platform Affordances Shape Emerging Spirituality Across TikTok Manifestation Content
Sara Reinis

Testing the Self: Digital Trials and Identity Work on Instagram
Raimundo Frei, Felipe Ulloa

Transcending the Protest Paradigm: Rearticulating Journalism and Activism During Political Upheaval
Summer Harlow, Erica Ciszek

From Mockery to Moral Outrage: Affects and Relations of Power in Polarized Climate Change Discussions on Australian Twitter
Mariia Aleksevych, Marleen Buizer, Tales Tomaz, Ehsan Dehghan

Brazilian Fandom’s Perceptions of the Thai Boys Love Series Industry and the Practices of Fanservice and Shipping: Content Analysis of Online Comments on a Fansubbing Platform
Anderson Lopes da Silva, Nunghatai Rangponsumrit, Ligia Prezia Lemos

BOOK REVIEWS

David A. Banks, The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America
Jian Xiao

Guobin Yang, Bingchun Meng, and Elaine J. Yuan (Eds.), Pandemic Crossings: Digital Technology, Everyday Experience, and Governance in the COVID-19 Crisis
Minkyu Sung

Kathleen Loock, Hollywood Remaking: How Film Remakes, Sequels, and Franchises Shape Industry and Culture
Ryan David Briggs

Patricia Aufderheide, Kartemquin Films: Documentaries on the Frontlines of Democracy
Emily Rose Coleman

Jinying Li, Anime’s Knowledge Cultures: Geek, Otaku, Zhai
Serena Abdallah

Matthew Powers and Sandra Vera-Zambrano, The Journalist’s Predicament: Difficult Choices in a Declining Profession
Mir Ashfaquzzaman

Gregory P. Perreault, Digital Journalism and the Facilitation of Hate
Jessica Roberts

Daya Kishan Thussu, Changing Geopolitics of Global Communication
Xin Xin

Sandra Jeppesen, Transformative Media: Intersectional Technopolitics from Indymedia to #BlackLivesMatter
Melissa B. Skolnick-Noguera

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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 Forum on Oops? Interdisciplinary Stories of Sociotechnical Error

What can we learn about people and technology through interdisciplinary stories of sociotechnical errors, failures, breakdowns, and mistakes? 

Guest edited by Mike Ananny and Simogne Hudson, the Forum on Oops? Interdisciplinary Stories of Sociotechnical Error takes up the question through a playful and provocative mix of projects that show how sociotechnical errors happen, why they matter, and what they reveal about people, technology, and power. Amidst so many complex collisions among people, data, engineering, and media—and in an age when technological “innovation” is widely celebrated and inescapable—these articles offer changes to pause and ask what system failures show about how people and machines intersect and vie for power.

Including scholars from communication, media studies, urban planning, critical data studies, and science and technology studies, the collection of essays invites readers to see failures anew—to consider errors, breakdowns, and mistakes from a different perspective, method, or normative stake. Use these essays to start conversations about what “error” means in your work or community, and why it matters.

We invite you to read these articles that published in the International Journal of Communication on April 23, 2025. Please log into ijoc.org to read the papers of interest. We look forward to your feedback!
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Oops? Sociotechnical Errors as Interdisciplinary Stories of Complex Relations, Shared Consequences, and Resilient Hopes—Introduction
Mike Ananny, Simogne Hudson

Uncertainty as Spectacle: Real-Time Algorithmic Techniques on the Live Music Stage
Stephen Yang

When Faulty AI Falls Into the Wrong Hands: The Risks of Erroneous AI-Driven Healthcare Decisions 
Eugene Jang

Fake It Till You Make It: Synthetic Data and Algorithmic Bias
Sook-Lin Toh, Jiwon Park

Discourses of Sociotechnical Error and Accuracy in U.S. and PRC News Media: The Case of the 1999 Bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade
Max Berwald

Affective Experiences of Error 
Megan Finn, Youngrim Kim, Ryan Ellis, Amelia Acker, Bidisha Chaudhuri, Stacey Wedlake

Peeling Back the Layers of “Paint on Rotten Wood”: Unraveling the Senate’s “Big Tech and Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis” Hearing
Kyooeun Jang

Kicking Error Out of the Game: Video Assistant Referee as Technosolutionism
Pratik Nyaupane, Alejandro Alvarado Rojas

When User Consent Fails: How Platforms Undermine Data Governance
Rohan Grover

Ephemeral Platforms, Enduring Memories: Errors and Digital Afterlife
Sui Wang

:Chatting: Errors in Live Streamer Discord Servers
Kirsten Crowe

Hole in the (Pay)Wall: Monetized Access, Content Leaks, and Community Responsibility
Celeste Oon

Edges, Seams, and Ecotones: Error in Interstate Landscapes
Cindy Lin, Steve J. Jackson

Quantifying Housing Need in California: The Erroneous Practice of Evidence-Based Policy
Elana R. Simon

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Silvio Waisbord, Editor 
Kady Bell-Garcia, Managing Editor
Chi Zhang, Managing Editor, Special Sections
Andrew Taylor, Webmaster
Mike Ananny, Simogne Hudson, 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 25 publications that published in March

The International Journal of Communication is pleased to announce the publication of 25 papers in MARCH 2025. To access these papers, Ctrl+Click on the titles below for direct hyperlinking, or go to ijoc.org.
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ARTICLES

Relative Public Disconnection: Poverty and Media Use in the Media Welfare State
Ivar Eimhjellen, Torgeir Uberg Nærlan

Who Wants Impartial News? Investigating Determinants of Preferences for Impartiality in 40 Countries
Camila Mont’Alverne, Amy Ross A. Arguedas, Sumitra Badrinathan, Benjamin Toff, Richard Fletcher, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

Partisan Media and Support for Radical Protest Tactics Across Ideological Lines
Melissa Santillana, Joseph J. Yoo, Thomas J. Johnson, Silvia DalBen Furtado

Influence Operations as Brokerage: Political-Economic Infrastructures of Manipulation in the 2022 Philippine Elections
Fatima Gaw, Mariam Jayne Agonos, Kris Ruijgrok, Gerard Martin Suarez

The Role of Policy Mixes in Enabling Journalism Innovation: A Transnational Study Across Five Countries
Anja Noster, Christopher Buschow, Andy Kaltenbrunner, Renée Lugschitz

The “Star” Correspondent and Parachute Diplomacy: CNN’s Clarissa Ward in Myanmar and Afghanistan
Lisa Brooten, Syed Irfan Ashraf

Transmedia Edutainment for Sustainable Advocacy: How Narrative Engagement and Counterarguments Influence Generation Z’s Response to Sustainable Development Messages
Aya Shata, Michelle Seelig, Nicholas Carcioppolo

Determinants and Challenges of NGO Social Media Communication: Explaining Tensions Around “Looking Cool” for Social Change
Michael Dokyum Kim

Mobile Mundane (Dis)Connections: Examining Older Migrant Adults’ Mobile Media Automation During the COVID-19 Pandemic Through a Digital Kinship Lens
Earvin Charles B. Cabalquinto, Larissa Hjorth

Who is Responsible for Particulate Matter in South Korea’s Atmosphere? The Role of Social Media and Attribution of Responsibility on Risk Perception and Protective Behaviors
Doo-Hun Choi

Influence of the Watchdog Role of Nigerian Journalists on Public Perception of President Buhari’s Anti-Corruption Crusade
Sunday Uche Aja, Nnanyelugo Mark Okoro, Vincent Onyeaghanachi Odoh, Joseph Nwanja Chukwu, Mercy Ifeyinwa Obichili, Innocent Aja Ngene, Ngozi Eje Uduma, Chibuzor Cosmas Nwoga, Agatha Obiageri Orji-Egwu, Chika Thonia Ezeali

Toward a Theory of Surplus Blackness: Reception, Media Industries, and Blackness
Alfred L. Martin, Jr.

From Heroic Masculinity to Feminist Dads: Advertising Fatherhood in Türkiye
Alparslan Nas

Memefying Mental Illness: A Qualitative Content Analysis of Mental Illness Portrayals in #Depressionmemes on Instagram
Anna Wagner, Linn Temmann

The Positions of Data-Related Peripheral Actors in Journalism Practice
Laura Ahva

Bad Image, Yet Still Convincing? Examining the Chinese Government’s Image Repair Strategy in Responding to Accusations of COVID-19 Origin
Chih-Yao Chang, KyuJin Shim

Public Opinion and New Communication Technologies: The Impacts of Big Data on Public Opinion Studies From the Pragmatism Perspective
Pedro Caldas, Vinicius Romanini

BOOK REVIEWS

Eva Illouz, The Emotional Life of Populism: How Fear, Disgust, Resentment, and Love Undermine Democracy
Feyda Sayan-Cengiz

Meryl Alper, Kids Across the Spectrums: Growing Up Autistic in the Digital Age
Molly Martin

Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez (Eds.), Crip Authorship: Disability as Method
Kuansong Victor Zhuang, Wenqi Tan

Adrienne Russell, The Mediated Climate: How Journalists, Big Tech, and Activists Are Vying for Our Future
Claire Konkes

Song Shi, China and the Internet: Using New Media for Development and Social Change
Weiwei Zhang

Mohamed Zayani and Joe F. Khalil, The Digital Double Bind: Change and Stasis in the Middle East
William Lafi Youmans

Liane Rothenberger, Martin Löffelholz, David H. Weaver (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Cross-Border Journalism
Andreas Ryan Sanjaya

Christina Dunbar-Hester, Oil Beach: How Toxic Infrastructure Threatens Life in the Ports of Los Angeles and Beyond
Shelley Tuazon Guyton

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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 invites you to read these 17 publications that published in February

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

Media Health Literacy: A Scoping Review and Agenda for Future Research
Shadee Ashtari

Representation in ScienceTok: Communicator Identities, Message Content, and User Engagement on a Short-Form Video Social Media Platform
Siyu Chen, Paul R. Brewer

Tracing Information Flows in the Hybrid Media System: The Agenda-Setting Role of Dark Platforms Surrounding the Ukraine Invasion Discourse
Mónika Simon, Savvas Zannettou, Kasper Welbers, Anne C. Kroon, Damian Trilling

The Sexualization of Boys and Girls in Videos: Proposal for a Self-Sexualization Scale on TikTok
Rebeca Suárez-Álvarez, Antonio García-Jiménez

Decolonizing the Queer Project of Aotearoa New Zealand: Weaving Takatāpui Identity Into Queer Spaces
Elena Maydell

Research Practices in Comparative Communication Research: Visibility, Topical and Geographical Disparities, and their Longitudinal Patterns
Fabienne Lind, Hyunjin Song, Hajo G. Boomgaarden, Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam,
Kim Pamina Syed Ali, Rens Vliegenthart

Making Sense of Algorithm: Exploring TikTok Users’ Awareness of Content Recommendation and Moderation Algorithms
Cristiano Felaco

News Credibility on Facebook: The Role of Media and Intermediary Trust and Their Interplay
Lukáš Slavík, David Lacko, Jakub Macek

Everybody Hurts? Reality-Based Entertainment and Mediated Suffering in Sweatshop: Deadly Fashion
Vladimir Cotal San Martin, Georgia Aitaki

Shocking the System: The Athletic, a Journalistic Merger and the (Preventable) Ensuing Fallout
Patrick Ferrucci, Gregory P. Perreault

Creating a Cost to Spread Misinformation on Social Media
Drew B. Margolin, Yunyun S. Wang

I’ll Share It When I Believe It! An Experimental Study on the Effects of Hateful and False Content on Credibility and Sharing Intention
David Blanco-Herrero, Damian Trilling, Carlos Arcila-Calderón

Cultural Intertextuality in Olympic-Themed International Publicity: A Media Discourse Analysis
Yubin Qian

Smart-Washing the City: A Study on the Privatization of Urban Digital Infrastructures in the Global South
Jess Reia, Luã Cruz

BOOK REVIEWS

Simeon Yates and Elinor Carmi (Eds.), Digital Inclusion: International Policy and Research
Yan Wang

Phillip Santos and Cleophas T. Muneri (Eds.), Reading Justice Claims on Social Media: Perspectives from the Global South
Sarah Witmer

Avery Dame-Griff, The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet
Mack Brumbaugh

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

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.