International Journal of Communication invites you to read these 38 papers that published in October

The International Journal of Communication is pleased to announce the publication of 38 papers in OCTOBER 2022, which includes the “Special Section on Unsettled Debts: 1968 and the Problem of Historical Memory.” 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

Environmental Mobilizations Through Online Networks: An Analysis of Environmental Activism on Turkey’s Twittersphere
Burak Doğu, Hayriye Özen, Begüm Pasin

Populists or Influencers? The Use of Facebook Videos by Populist Leaders
Alessandro Gandini, Andrea Ceron, Patrizio Lodetti

Public Relations in Mongolia: The Missing Part on the Global Public Relations Map
Milen Filipov, Aimira Dybyssova

Colonizing the Home as Data-Source: Investigating the Language of Amazon Skills and Google Actions
Louise Marie Hurel, Nick Couldry

Community Storytelling Networks and Empowerment of Migrant Domestic Workers: A Communication Infrastructure Approach
Jeffry Oktavianus, Wan-Ying Lin  

Environmental Communication at a Time of Planetary Crisis: Five Theoretical and Analytical Resources for Academic Research and Practice
Trish Morgan 

BLM Movement Frames Among the Muted Voices: Actor-Generated Infographics on Instagram During #BlackoutTuesday
Kirsten M. Weber, Holly A. V. Smith, Bradley Madsen, Tisha Dejmanee, Zulfia Zaher 

Engagement With Social Media Posts in Experimental and Naturalistic Settings: How Do Message Incongruence and Incivility Influence Commenting?
Xudong Yu, Teresa Gil-López, Cuihua Shen, Magdalena Wojcieszak

International Students’ Direct and Parasocial Contact and Attitudes Toward American Host Nationals: The Mediating Role of Cultural Identification
Teri Terigele, Yan Bing Zhang, Huang Jiang 

Differing Influences of Political Communication: Examining How News Use and Conversation Shape Political Engagement in Nigeria
Oluseyi Adegbola, Sherice Gearhart, Bingbing Zhang

Building Ideal Workplaces: Labor, Affect, and Identity in Tech for Good Projects
Karina Rider

Russian Popular Geopolitics During Crisis and War
Yasemin Y. Celikkol

Anger Yes, Boycott No: Third-Person Effects and the China–U.S. Trade War
Ven-hwei Lo, Liangwen Kuo, Ran Wei, Zongya Li

Ego-Network Difference, Political Communication, and Affective Polarization During Political Contention 
Francis L. F. Lee 

The Impact of Digital Media on Daily Rhythms: Intrapersonal Diversification and Interpersonal Differentiation
Yixin Zhou, Jonathan J. H. Zhu

Social Media Use and Political Consumerism During the U.S.-China Trade Conflict: An Application of the O-S-R-O-R Model
Yanqin Lu, Tanja Vierrether, Qianxi Wu, Morgan Durfee, Peiqin Chen

Testing Risk Information Seeking and Avoidance in the Context of HPV Vaccination: A Comparison of Disease Risks and Vaccine-Related Risks
Soo Jung Hong, Yungwook Kim

Job Satisfaction and Social Media Use: Cognitive Reflection and Journalists’ Utilization in Egypt and the United States
Rasha El-Ibiary, Brian Calfano    

Imagining 5G Networks: Infrastructure and Public Accountability
Robin Mansell, Jean-Christophe Plantin

Mediatized Skill: How Capabilities With Application Software Are Collectively Performed, Perceived, and Organized as Part of Contemporary Media Practices
Frédérik Lesage

Older Adults and “the Biggest Lie on the Internet”: From Ignoring Social Media Policies to the Privacy Paradox
Jonathan A. Obar, Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch

Gender-Based Hate Speech: Contributions to the Global Policy Debate From Latin America
Paulina Godinez, Stephanie Rico, Katharine Sarikakis

FEATURE

The Copyright Claims Board: Good News or Bad News for Communication Scholars? 
Patricia Aufderheide, Aram Sinnreich 

BOOK REVIEWS

Johanna Sumiala, Mediated Death
Tal Morse

Jacob Mchangama, Free Speech: A History From Socrates to Social Media 
Sue Curry Jansen 

Jérémy Vachet, Fantasy, Neoliberalism and Precariousness: Coping Strategies in the Cultural Industries
Zhang Keren

Mazyar Lotfalian, What People do With Images: Aesthetics, Politics and the Production of Iranian Visual Culture in Transnational Circuits 
Babak Rahimi 

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Larry Gross, Editor
Arlene Luck, Founding Managing 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 Unsettled Debts: 1968 and the Problem of Historical Memory

How might scholars of communication orient to the contested past in order to foster decisive action in the present?

Back in 2018, the 50th anniversary of 1968 gave rise to a small industry devoted to commemoration. Scholars and journalists revisited that year’s insurgencies in dozens of essays and books, activists paid tribute to its emancipatory legacy in the streets, and companies exploited it on our screens. In one egregious display, Dodge Ram used an excerpt from a 1968 speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., to narrate a Super Bowl truck commercial. Within hours, a hijacked version of the ad began circulating online, featuring the same speech but using an alternate excerpt, in which King denounced consumer society. Such correctives defend the radicalism of an era that is distant yet reverberant.

With each correction, however, we are reminded that history is more than a record for us to set straight. It is a process of production in which we participate, where even our principled longings in the present can become obstacles to confronting our co-implication with the past.

Guest-edited by Clare O’Connor and featuring a Foreword by Robin D.G. Kelley, this Special Section on Unsettled Debts: 1968 and the Problem of Historical Memory considers how we might revisit the “spirit of ’68” without succumbing to distorted forms of memory such as nostalgia and myth. Based on the proceedings of a 2018 conference dedicated to this theme, the essays in this Section analyze media objects and moments from 1968 that have been activated in the service of contemporary social movements, obscured through superficial citation, or omitted from the dominant record altogether.

We invite you to read these articles that published in the International Journal of Communication on October 5, 2022. Please log into ijoc.org to read the papers of interest. We look forward to your feedback! 

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Unsettled Debts: 1968 and the Problem of Historical Memory—Foreword 
Robin D. G. Kelley

Unsettled Debts: 1968 and the Problem of Historical Memory—Introduction  
Clare O’Connor

“Thái Bình Means Peace”: (Re)positioning South Vietnamese Exchange Students’ Activism in the Asian American Movement  
Ly Thúy Nguyễn 

Con Che? The Specter of Communism in the 1968 Chicano Blowouts 
Magally Miranda, Efren Michael Lopez

The American Indian Movement and the Politics of Nostalgia: Indigenous Representation From Wounded Knee to Standing Rock  
Clementine Bordeaux

Reborn as Fida’i: The Palestinian Revolution and the (Re)Making of an Icon  
Loubna Qutami 

Lost in Citation: Afterlives of the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike  
Clare O’Connor 

The Limits of Smooth Legacies: 1968, Feminist History, and the Tradition of Athlete Activism: An Interview With Amira Rose Davis  
Courtney M. Cox 

Afterlives of Tlatelolco: Memory, Contested Space, and Collective Imagination  
Paulina Lanz

Once Lost, Painfully Present: Maya Angelou’s Blacks, Blues, Black! (1968)
Adrien Sebro 

The Sociotechnical Imaginaries of 1968 
Andrea Alarcon, Soledad Altrudi, Frances Corry, MC Forelle

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Larry Gross, Editor
Arlene Luck, Founding Managing Editor  
Kady Bell-Garcia, Managing Editor
Chi Zhang, Managing Editor, Special Sections
Clare O’Connor, Guest Editor

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 22 papers that published in September

The International Journal of Communication is pleased to announce the publication of 22 papers in SEPTEMBER 2022. To access these papers, Ctrl+Click on the titles below for direct hyperlinking.
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ARTICLES

Why Do Fact-Checking Organizations Go Beyond Fact-Checking? A Leap Toward Media and Information Literacy Education
Mehmet Fatih Çömlekçi 

Press “Taboos” and Media Policy: West German Trade Unions and the Urge to Gain Media Attention During the Era of Press Concentration
Maria Löblich, Niklas Venema

Localizing Graphic Design in a Global Media Environment: A Visual Social Semiotic Analysis of Vogue 
Melissa McMullen

Representation and Recognition: The Perceptions of Finnish and Spanish Viewers of Their Media Ecosystems and Public Service Newscasts
María Lamuedra Graván, Elisa Alonso, Marko Ala-Fossi

Extending the Reminiscence Bump Effect in Nostalgic Advertising from the United States to South Korea 
Ilyoung Ju, Eunjin (Anna) Kim, Susan Bluck, Jong Woo Jun

Sincerity Over Accuracy: Epistemic Preferences and the Persuasiveness of Uncivil and Simple Rhetoric 
Chiara Vargiu, Alessandro Nai

Media and Grassroots Activism for the Achievement of Sustainable Development Goals: A Study of Postcolonial Macau From 2002 to 2021
Min Xu

Comparative Perspectives on the Link Between News Media Consumption and Attitudes Toward Immigrants: Evidence From Europe, the United States, and Colombia
David De Coninck, Willem Joris, Maria Duque, Seth J. Schwartz, Leen d’Haenens

The Rear Window Effect: How Users Respond to Political Discussions and Persuasive Discourses in Social Media
Beatriz Jordá, Manuel Goyanes

From Fork Hands to Microchips: An Analysis of Trending #CovidVaccine Content on TikTok
Monique Lewis, Susan Grantham

Engagement in Newspaper Newsrooms: A View From the Editors in Chief
Cristóbal Benavides, Alfonso Vara, Alfonso Sánchez-Tabernero, Juan-Ignacio Brito

“Let’s Check it Seriously”: Localizing Fact-Checking Practice in China
Yusi Liu, Ruiming Zhou

FEATURE

Home-No-Home: Academic Immigrants in the Fields of Communication
Dafna Lemish

BOOK REVIEWS

Darryl Hocking, The Impact of Everyday Language Change on the Practices of Visual Artists 
Qiuying Zhao 

H. Dan O’Hair and Mary John O’Hair (Eds.), Communicating Science in Times of Crisis: COVID-19 Pandemic
Ronald Douglas Aiken II

Robyn Blakeman, Advertising Design by Medium: A Visual and Verbal Approach
Meimei Xiang, Renhua Zheng

Tiffany Petricini, Friendship and Technology: A Philosophical Approach to Computer-Mediated Communication
Miao Hao

Silvia Pettini, The Translation of Realia and Irrealia in Game Localization: Culture-Specificity Between Realism and Fictionality
Chenjing Li

Susanna Paasonen, Feona Attwood, Alan Mckee, John Mercer, and Clarissa Smith, Objectification: On the Difference between Sex and Sexism
Di Wang

Tero Karppi, Urs Stäheli, Clara Wieghorst, and Lea P. Zierott, Undoing Networks
Yao Yao

Katarzyna Kopecka-Piech and Bartłomiej Łódzki (Eds.), The Covid-19 Pandemic as a Challenge for Media and Communication Studies
Wenliang Chen

Amit Pinchevski, Echo
Jérôme Bourdon

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Larry Gross, Editor
Arlene Luck, Founding Managing 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 invites you to read these 28 papers that published in August

The International Journal of Communication is pleased to announce the publication of 28 papers in AUGUST 2022, which includes the “Special Section on Media and Uncertainty.” 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

Journalistic Roles and News Framing: A Comparative Framing Analysis of COVID-19 Pandemic Across China, South Korea, and the United States
Bin Chen, Gyo Hyun Koo

Brands Are Human on Social Media: The Effectiveness of Human Tone-of-Voiceon Consumer Engagement and Purchase Intentions Through Social Presence
Hyun Ju Jeong, Deborah S. Chung, Jihye Kim 

Whose Voices Count?: Sourcing U.S. American Television News About the World
David C. Oh, Omotayo O. Banjo, Nancy A. Jennings 

Visualizing Politics in Indonesia: The Design and Distribution of Election Posters
Colm A. Fox 

Toward an Employee Communication Mediation Model: Exploring the Effects of Social Media Engagement on Employee–Organization Relationships and Advocacy
Yuan Wang, Yang Cheng, William J. Gonzenbach

Evaluating the Influence of Metaphor in News on Foreign-Policy Support
Kathleen Ahrens, Christian Burgers, Yin Zhong 

Influence of Fake News Exposure on Perceived Media Bias: The Moderating Role of Party Identity
Alberto Ardèvol-Abreu

“Pivoting to Instability”: Metajournalistic Discourse, Reflexivity and the Economics and Effects of a Shrinking Industry
Patrick Ferrucci, Michelle Rossi 

Affective Networked Space: Polymedia Affordances and Transnational Digital Communication Among the Rohingya Diaspora
Abdul Aziz

Mapping the Global Audiences of Russia’s Domestic News: How Social Networks Function as Transmitters of Authoritarian News to Foreign Audiences
Julia Kling

Thirty Years After the German Reunification—Exploring Stereotypes About East Germans on Twitter
Maximilian Zehring, Emese Domahidi             

Mediatization Research and Causality: Toward a Critical Realist Ontology
Sebastián Ansaldo

Making the COVID-19 Pandemic Visible: The Power of Grassroots Mapping Initiatives 
Adriana de Souza e Silva 

Consumptive News Feed Curation on Social Media: A Moderated Mediation Model of News Interest, Affordance Utilization, and Friending 
Yan Su, Xizhu Xiao, Porismita Borah, Xin Hong, Chang Sun

The Role of a Bystander in Targets’ Perceptions of Teasing Among Friends: Are You Really Teasing Me? 
Ildo Kim, Nicholas A. Palomares 

Now Dating on Steroids: Play and Nostalgia in the Mediatization of Gay Cruising in the Philippines
Randy Jay Canillo Solis

BOOK REVIEWS

Samuel Mateus (Ed.), Media Rhetoric: How Advertising and Digital Media Influence Us
Kincső Szabó

Katarzyna Kopecka-Piech and Bartłomiej Łódzki (Eds.), The Covid-19 Pandemic as a Challenge for Media and Communication Studies
Zhang Keren

Lawrence R. Samuel, Freud on Madison Avenue: Motivation Research and Subliminal Advertising in America
Hannah Block

Paul Baker and Gavin Brookes, Analysing Language, Sex and Age in a Corpus of Patient Feedback: A Comparison of Approaches
Qiuying Zhao

Alexander Monea, The Digital Closet: How the Internet Became Straight 
Tyler Quick

Zachary J. McDowell and Matthew A. Vetter, Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality 
Isabelle Langrock 

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Larry Gross, Editor
Arlene Luck, Founding Managing 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 Media and Uncertainty

Within media environments, uncertainty builds from the rapid unfolding and often unforeseen ramifications of digital technology, the collapse of traditional business models, new degrees of irrelevance, the emergence of new players and platforms, the development of new reception practices, changing expectations of what media are for, and a shift in the very relationship of the media to the outside world. In an era marked by widespread dis- and mis-information, how and in what ways will the media—as institutions, as occupational and professional contexts, as a diverse set of practices—adapt to this age of uncertainty?

Guest-edited by Nelson Ribeiro and Barbie Zelizer, this Special Section on Media and Uncertainty aims to discuss the uncertainty faced by media practitioners and journalists, as well as the institutional settings in which they work.

Two of the papers in this Section focus on video production, discussing how the video influencer industry has been captured by the neoliberal agenda that is taking over several cultural industries. They also consider how states and governments use video footage to promote and legitimize their narratives in the digital ecosystem. Three additional articles deal with journalism and the challenges posed by the transformation of its business models and relations with the public. They call for the need to distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate forms of market and state influence, shed light on how media professionals navigate the uncertainty brought about by local newspapers closing, and discuss how social media can function as ephemeral memory sites used to share memories about journalistic projects that have been shut down.

All of the articles in this Section exemplify how central the concept of uncertainty has become for understanding the new media ecology, and how the media both foster and complicate how citizens can navigate uncertain times. They raise questions about the viability of media institutions when uncertainty looms large.

We invite you to read these articles that published in the International Journal of Communication on August 11, 2022. Please log into ijoc.org to read the papers of interest. We look forward to your feedback! 

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Media and Uncertainty—Introduction
Nelson Ribeiro, Barbie Zelizer

“We’re All Told Not to Put Our Eggs in One Basket”: Uncertainty, Precarity and Cross-Platform Labor in the Online Video Influencer Industry
Zoë Glatt

In One Hand, a Camera, and in the Other, a Gun: State Adoption of Visual Activist Strategies for Narrative Legitimacy     
Anat Leshnick

Understanding the Institutional Precarity of Journalism: A Macro Approach to the Civil Diminishment of Journalism
Sara Torsner

Local Journalism in the Age of Uncertainty: The Case of Youngstown, Ohio’s The Vindicator      
Carla Randolph Everstijn 

Connective Memory Practices: Mourning the Restructuring of a War Desk       
Muira Mccammon 

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Larry Gross, Editor
Arlene Luck, Founding Managing Editor  
Kady Bell-Garcia, Managing Editor
Nelson Ribeiro and Barbie Zelizer, 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.