International Journal of Communication invites you to read these 54 publications that published in January

The International Journal of Communication is pleased to announce the publication of 54 papers in JANUARY 2025, which includes the “Special Section on Unpacking Property: Media, Ownership, and Power in Transformation” and the “Forum on Groundhog Day.” To access these papers, Ctrl+Click on the titles below for direct hyperlinking, or go to ijoc.org.
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ARTICLES

The “Good” Dictator: The Semiotics of “Desirable” Authoritarianism
Sameera Durrani

Difference in and Influences on Public Opinion About Artificial Intelligence in 20 Economies: Reducing Uncertainty Through Awareness, Knowledge, and Trust
Ronald E. Rice, Ming-Yi Wu

The Role of Trust in Social Media Platforms in Shaping Political Effects of Dissident Information Flows: A Case of Facebook in Kazakhstan
Jason Gainous, Kevin Wagner, Amanzhol Bekmagambetov, Adil Rodionov, Serik Beimenbetov,
Aigul Zhanadilova, Zhanna Karimova

How, When, and Why to Use AI: Strategic Uses of Professional Perceptions and Industry Lore in the Dubbing Industry
Laurena Bernabo

Unveiling the Veil: Examining the Stereotyping of Hijab in Internet Memes and GIFs
Omneya Ibrahim, Shahira Fahmy

The Evolution of Twitter: An Entangled History of Intermedia Relationships
Carlos A. Scolari

A Territorialized Business Model? Exploring the Objective and Subjective Conceptualizations of the Local Scale Built by Mid-City Digital News Media in Chile
Antoine Faure, David Jofré, René Jara-Reyes, Claudia Lagos Lira

Dark Cycles: Social Engineering and Political Chatbots in Netanyahu’s 2019 Election Campaigns
Anat Ben-David, Elinor Carmi

The Thin Line Between Conspiracy Theories and Opinion: Why Humans and AI Struggle to Differentiate Them
Paula Carvalho, Danielle Caled, Mário J. Silva

What Makes You Happy Also Makes You Sick: Mental Health and Well- Being in Media Work
Mark Deuze

Autonomy and Algorithms: Tracing the Significance of Content Personalization
Henrik Rydenfelt, Tuukka Lehtiniemi, Jesse Haapoja, Lauri Haapanen

We the Consumers: The Conservative “Parallel Economy” as Reactionary Commodity Activism
Carolyn E. Schmitt, Lee McGuigan

News Corp Australia’s Conservative Advocacy Against the Indigenous Voice to Parliament
Victoria Fielding, Catherine Son, Robert Boucaut, Alexander H. Beare

The Women Who Proposed Two-Step Flow: A Gendered Revisit to the Intellectual History of a Mass Communication Theory
Esperanza Herrero

When Corrections Fail: Effects of Misinformation Targets, Repeated Exposure, and Partisanship on Misinformation Beliefs
Yunya Song, Yuanhang Lu, Stephanie Jean Tsang, Jingwen Zhang, Kelly Y. L. Ku

Voice-Based Assistants as Intermediaries for Sociopolitical Issues: Investigating Use Patterns, Expectations, and Prior Indirect Experiences
Esther Greussing, Evelyn Jonas, Monika Taddicken

Seeing a New Type of Economic Inequality Discourse: Inequality as Spectacle in the “Billionaire Space Race”
Michael Vaughan, David Schieferdecker

Variation and Selection During Pandemic: Toward A Multiplex Framework for Understanding Nonprofit Community Network Evolution in Crisis Time
Yiqi Li, Aimei Yang, Wenlin Liu, Jingyi Sun, Chuqing Dong, Lichen Zhen

Between Morality and the Market: The Circulation of Humanitarian Photography
Lilie Chouliaraki, Richard Stupart

Privacy Activism: (Anti-)Surveillance Discourse in Pandemic Days
Tamar Ashuri

Knowledge Mediation and Narrowed Polysemy in Journalistic Interactive Visualizations
Inbal Klein-Avraham, Zvi Reich

Rethinking the Protest Paradigm: Media Kettling in the Television Coverage of the 2019 Chilean Uprising
César Jiménez-Martínez, Ximena Orchard, Nadia Herrada

Paid to Play: Gender, Intersectionality, and Labor in Online Game Companionship
Ting He

Revealing the True Self Online: How Lurking Behavior Interacts With Exposure to Positivity Bias and Affects Self-Disclosure on Social Media
Briana Marie Trifiro, Manuel Goyanes

How Far Can Political Deepfakes Credibly Deviate From Reality? Responses to Political Deepfakes With Varying Degrees of Deception
Michael Hameleers, Toni Van der Meer, Tom Dobber

Confronting Anti-Press Violence in Mexico: Strategies of Resistance in Mexican and U.S. News Coverage of Journalist Killings
Elizabeth M. Chambers, Jennifer R. Henrichsen

Rooting Platform Dependencies in the Digital News Economy: Google News Initiative in India
Simran Agarwal

“Is That It?”: Veteran Reflections on the Falklands 40th Anniversary and Northern Ireland Peacekeeping Exhibitions at the Imperial War Museum London
Jenna Pitchford-Hyde, Katy Parry

SVoD in Europe and the Americas: A Comparative Approach to Regulatory Regimes
María Trinidad García Leiva, Ana Bizberge, Guillermo Mastrini

Mobile Without Fear: Personal Control, Information, and Communication Support in ICT-Mediated Urban Public Transportation
Gerit Götzenbrucker, Kai Daniel Preibisch, Michaela Griesbeck

Rethinking Crisis Response: Cross-Cultural Insights From Comparing American and Korean Corporate Apologies
Jeongwon Yang, Ploypin Chuenterawong

Platform Cultures and Emotional Communication About Climate Change: A Comparison of Affective Language in the Climate Change Blogo- and Twittersphere
Christel W. van Eck, Jon Roozenbeek, Tim M. Stevens, Art Dewulf

Online Behaviors, Offline Consequences? Linking Online Traces of Health Information Use to Observed Communication During Medical Consultations
Minh Hao Nguyen, Nadine Bol, Inge S. van Strien, Kirsten van der Eijken, Kristien M. A. J. Tytgat, Hanneke W. M. van Laarhoven,
Mark I. van Berge Henegouwen, Ellen M. A. Smets, Julia C. M. van Weert

BOOK REVIEWS

Rachael Kent, The Digital Health Self: Wellness, Tracking, and Social Media
Xinna Li

Hunter Hargraves, Uncomfortable Television
Gabriele Prosperi

Sara J. Grossman, Immeasurable Weather: Meteorological Data and Settler Colonialism from 1820 to Hurricane Sandy
Pamela C. Perrimon

Nevine El Nossery, Arab Women’s Revolutionary Art: Between Singularities and Multitudes
Noha Mellor

Aram Sinnreich and Jesse Gilbert, The Secret Life of Data: Navigating Hype and Uncertainty in the Age of Algorithmic Surveillance
John Cheney-Lippold

Jian Lin, Chinese Creator Economies: Labor and Bilateral Creative Workers
Daniela Mazur

Mel Stanfill, Fandom Is Ugly: Networked Harassment in Participatory Culture
Lauren Nicole Balser

Allen Munoriyarwa and Admire Mare, Digital Surveillance in Southern Africa: Policies, Politics and Practices
Sheila B. Lalwani

Andrea Wenzel, Antiracist Journalism: The Challenge of Creating Equitable Local News
Anita Varma

Guobin Yang, The Wuhan Lockdown
Yiyan Zhang

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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.

International Journal of Communication Publishes a Special Section on Unpacking Property: Media, Ownership, and Power in Transformation

How does who owns the media shape what we see, read, and believe?

Property is a cornerstone of modern capitalist societies, shaping the distribution of wealth, power, and access. Yet, in media and communication studies, it has long been overlooked as a subject in its own right. This Special Section on Unpacking Property: Media, Ownership, and Power in Transformation, guest edited by Sebastian Sevignani and Hendrik Theine, sets out to change that.

The Special Section explores how property in the media intersects with today’s social and economic shifts. It delves into transformations in media ownership, the implications for public interest, and how narratives around property and wealth are constructed and legitimized. Key topics include media concentration, feminist political economy, and the expanding dominance of global tech giants in the media landscape.

Through these lenses, the contributions offer fresh perspectives on pressing questions: How does media ownership shape journalistic content? What happens when Big Tech extends its grip to the media, influencing everything from the value chain to the working conditions of journalists? How do surveillance capitalists justify large-scale data dispossession? And can philanthropy-funded journalism provide a viable alternative to commercial media?

This Special Section broadens the scope of property research within communication studies, showing why it’s an essential lens for understanding media’s role in a rapidly changing world. The articles in this special section address crucial intersections—examining how gendered ownership structures link to authoritarian-populist politics and uncovering how the rich use media to construct and legitimize their wealth and property.

Contributors include: Sebastian Sevignani (Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany), Hendrik Theine (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria; University of Pennsylvania, USA), Mandy Tröger and Nils S. Borchers (University of Tübingen, Germany), Julia Bartsch (University of Leipzig, Germany), Marlene Radl and Birgit Sauer (University of Vienna, Austria), Burçe Çelik (Loughborough University London, UK), Mojca Pajnik (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia), Louisa Lincoln (University of Pennsylvania, USA), Stefan Wallaschek (Europa University Flensburg, Germany), and Nora Waitkus (London School of Economics, UK).

We invite you to read these articles that published in the International Journal of Communication on January 27, 2025. Please log into ijoc.org to read the papers of interest. We look forward to your feedback!  

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Media Property: New Explorations in Media and Communication Studies—Introduction
Sebastian Sevignani, Hendrik Theine

Toward Media Environment Capture: A Theoretical Contribution on the Influence of Big Tech on News Media
Sebastian Sevignani, Hendrik Theine, Mandy Tröger

The Internet of Things Presents: A Case Study on Ensuring Legitimacy for Building Data Supply Routes in Surveillance Capitalism
Nils S. Borchers

Structural Masculinism and Women’s Media Ownership in the Context of Authoritarian Populism: A Feminist Political Economy of Communication Perspective
Marlene Radl, Burçe Çelik, Mojca Pajnik, Birgit Sauer 

Does Media Ownership Matter for Journalistic Content? A Systematic Scoping Review of Empirical Studies
Hendrik Theine, Julia Bartsch, Mandy Tröger

Examining the Journalism Philanthropy Model: A Literature Review
Louisa Lincoln

The Past, the Present, the Future: Self-Portrayals of Wealthy Business Owners in the Media
Stefan Wallaschek, Nora Waitkus 

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Silvio Waisbord, Editor 
Kady Bell-Garcia, Managing Editor
Chi Zhang, Managing Editor, Special Sections
Sebastian Sevignani, Hendrik Theine, 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 Publishes a Forum on Groundhog Day

The latest International Journal of Communication Forum collection Groundhog Day, guest edited by Crystal Abidin, is based on a one-day online-only open-access collection of roundtables recently hosted by the Influencer Ethnography Research Lab at Curtin University, Australia. Contributors focused on the cyclical nature of academic spotlights and hot topics in the field of Internet studies, and some of the frustrations related to the ahistoricity of the discussions and moral panics across some scholarship, the media, and public discourse. Over four panels, this event addressed the cycles, patterns, templates, and related fatigue on digital media discourse. Collectively, our articles draw on empirical research to address and challenge some popular and oft-regurgitated conceptions about uses of digital media: Are influencers just vain? Is digital media fake and does it teach young people the wrong things about sexuality? Does the Internet destroy and save our mental health? Are memes new? 

Contributors include Crystal Abidin (Curtin University), Srikanth Nayaka (GITAM & Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati), Earvin Charles B. Cabalquinto (Monash University), Jia Guo (Curtin University & University of Sydney), Kath Albury (Swinburne University of Technology), Samantha Mannix (Swinburne University of Technology), Barrie Shannon (University of South Australia), Hao Zheng (Curtin University), Natalie Ann Hendry (University of Melbourne), Natasha Zeng (Monash University), Tom Short (RMIT), Clare Southerton (La Trobe University), Gabriele de Seta (University of Bergen), Idil Galip (University of Amsterdam), Lucie Chateau (Tilburg University), and Günseli Yalcinkaya (Dazed).

We invite you to read these articles that published in the International Journal of Communication on January 6, 2025. Please log into ijoc.org to read the papers of interest. We look forward to your feedback! 

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Influencers Are Just Vain
Crystal Abidin, Srikanth Nayaka, Earvin Charles B. Cabalquinto, Jia Guo 

Digital Media Is Fake and Teaches Young People the Wrong Things About Sexuality
Kath Albury, Samantha Mannix, Barrie Shannon, Hao Zheng

The Internet Destroys and Saves Our Mental Health
Natalie Ann Hendry, Tom Short, Clare Southerton, Natasha Zeng

Memes Are New
Gabriele de Seta, Idil Galip, Lucie Chateau, Günseli Yalcinkaya

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

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 November

The International Journal of Communication is pleased to announce the publication of 35 papers in NOVEMBER 2024, which includes the “Special Section on The Ultra-Right: Media, Discourses, and Communicative Strategies.” To access these papers, Ctrl+Click on the titles below for direct hyperlinking, or go to ijoc.org.

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ARTICLES

Populism Fuels Hate Speech and Disinformation: Evidence From Political Discourse on X (Formerly Twitter) in India and Pakistan
Shabir Hussain, Qamar Abbas, Sayyed Fawad Ali Shah

Ghost in Dissent: Artifacts and the Architecture of Activism in Digital China
Mengyang Zhao, Anosartor

Racism in the Platformized Cultural Industries: Precarity, Visibility, and Harassment in Canada
Daniela Zuzunaga Zegarra

Exposure to Online Hateful Content and Users’ Engagement: A Silencing Effect
Nicoleta Corbu, Raluca Buturoiu, Oana Ștefăniță, Alexandru Dumitrache

Can This Platform Survive? Governance Challenges for the Fediverse
Thomas Struett, Aram Sinnreich, Patricia Aufderheide, Robert W. Gehl

OK, Boomer: Activating Intergroup Perceptions to Facilitate Intergenerational Contact in Social Media
Alexandra S. Hinck, Caleb T. Carr

“Woman, Life, Freedom”: A Visual Rhetoric Analysis of #MahsaAmini on X
Menna Elhosary, Laila Abbas, Shahira S. Fahmy

Watching Grey’s Anatomy as Sexual Assault Prevention? Examining Factors Related to College Students’ Attitudes and Intended Behaviors
Valerie Ellen Kretz, Anna Marie VanSeveren

Divisive, Negative, and Populist?! An Empirical Analysis of European Populist and Mainstream Parties’ Use of Digital Political Advertisements
Simon Kruschinski, Márton Bene, Jörg Haßler, Uta Rußmann, Darren Lilleker, Delia Cristina Balaban, Paweł Baranowski, Andrea Ceron, Vicente Fenoll, Daniel Jackson

Playing With Visibility: Underground Electronic/Dance Music Culture in the Smartphone Era
Stephen Yang

In/Visibility in the Digital Age: A Literature Review From a Communication Studies Perspective
Helena Stehle, Annekatrin Bock, Claudia Wilhelm, Nina Springer, Merja Mahrt, Katharina Lobinger, Christine Linke, Ines Engelmann, Hanne Detel, Cornelia Brantner

Cross-Cultural TV Drama Viewing, Parasocial Acculturation, and Host Country Branding: Empirical Evidence and Implications
Young Han Bae, Jong Woo Jun, Hyung Min Lee

The Impact of Methodological Diversity on Productivity, Views, and Citations: An Empirical Examination of Communication and its Most Productive Scholars
Manuel Goyanes, Beatriz Jordá, Gergő Háló

Visible Beyond Control? Fragmented Attention and Hypervisibility Trap in the Online Media Coverage of Politically Active Youth
Jana Rosenfeldová, Lenka Vochocová

Are Public Service Media Innovative? Developing a Tool for Assessing Innovation in Production Processes
Mónica López-Golán, Azahara Cañedo, Olga Blasco-Blasco

Longtermism, Big Tech, and the Rebalancing of Historical Time: A Benjaminian Critique
Asher Kessler

Bad Data Better Than No Data? How Journalists Use Numeric Data in Reporting Armed Conflicts
Iris Lambert

Commerce Meets Activism: #StopMenstualShaming and the Dynamics of Feminist Advocacy on Xiaohongshu
Yuejie Gu, Ying Yang, Ariel Saiyinjiya, Wanyu Wu, Qingyun Chen, Siqi Chen, Ioana Literat

K-Pop Fandom and Political Activism in Thailand’s 2020 Student Uprising
Penchan Phoborisut, Jiwoo Park

Image-Text Congruency in Legacy Press Coverage of Iran’s 2019 Bloody November: A Shift Away From the Protest Paradigm?
Afrooz Mosallaei, Douglas Porpora

Creating a New South Korean Style Beyond Hybridity: An Analysis of Why South Korean Dramas Appeal to Americans
Chang Sup Park, Hyerim Jo

News Distortion in Times of Crises: Covid-19 Case in the Arab Media
Mostafa Shehata, Noha Adel

U.S. Military Service Members and Romantic Relationships: Identity Gaps, Mindfulness, and Relational Quality
William Thomas Howe, Leanna Lynne Hartsough

Constructing Jerusalem in English-Language News Media
Abeer Al-Najjar

We Deserve Better: Spanish Adolescents’ Perspectives of the Portrayal of LGBTQ+ Characters in Fiction
María T. Soto-Sanfiel, Esmeralda A. Vázquez-Tapia

How Effective Are Anthropomorphic Chatbots? A Study of Consumer-Chatbot Communication in Taiwan
Wan-Hsiu Sunny Tsai, Ching-Hua Chuan

Universal Access? Investigating News Deserts in the American Public Media System
Louisa Lincoln

BOOK REVIEWS

Julia Sonnevend, Charm: How Magnetic Personalities Shape Global Politics
Robert Watson

Luke Munn, Red Pilled: The Allure of Digital Hate
Neelam Sharma

Jean K. Chalaby, Television in the Streaming Era: The Global Shift
Taeyoung Kim

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Silvio Waisbord, Editor 
Kady Bell-Garcia, Managing Editor
Chi Zhang, Managing Editor, Special Sections
Mark Mangoba-Agustin, 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 The Ultra-Right: Media, Discourses, and Communicative Strategies

Where does the resilience of the ultra-right reside? What is the role of self-representation and extreme right media in supporting the rise of neofascist movements since the early 2000s? How can we resist and oppose this upsurge? What is the role of critical scholarship in pursuing this field of study? 

In its multiple renditions, the extreme right has been on the rise for decades in part thanks to its ability to continuously repurpose old language into new formats and (new) media. History has shown that when a particular neo-fascist group or social movement disappears, another one springs up, ready to take its place. This has been the trajectory of the ultra-right since the end of World War II. For this reason, we need to tirelessly investigate its ebb and flow: we must pay attention when it is out in plain sight, but we should not underestimate it when it is hiding and apparently defeated. This Special Section on The Ultra-Right: Media, Discourses, and Communicative Strategies, guest-edited by Cinzia Padovani and John E. Richardson, intends to continue shedding light on extreme right movements and their media from a multiplicity of vantage points and national contexts.

Each article in this Special Section invites us to reflect on a different aspect of ultra-right discourses. From the topic of social media regulation and freedom of speech, to misogynistic discourse on the Internet and how that permeates various areas of our societies, from transnational conspiracy discourse in Greece and beyond, to the meta-political strategies of the Austrian Identitarians, the scholars in this Special Section analyze the ability of ultra-right movements and activists to exploit social media affordances and the ties to public discourse at large. In each one of these topics, from regulation to misogyny, from conspiracies to the tendency to disseminate and repurpose old arguments, we observe and study the neofascists as they continue to influence the cultural sphere at the national and international levels. Critical social science, of all forms, should be aimed at exploring and counteracting power abuse. The articles in this Special Section offer ways of understanding and, importantly, opposing contemporary neofascisms through sustained ideological critique of their mediated politics. 

To this end, we invite you to read these articles published in the International Journal of Communication on November 8, 2024

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The Ultra-Right: Media, Discourses, and Communicative Strategies—Editorial Introduction
Cinzia Padovani, John E. Richardson

Social Media, the Ultra-Right, and Freedom of Speech
Cinzia Padovani

“Time to Abandon Swedish Women”: Discursive Connections Between Misogyny and White Supremacy in Sweden
Tina Askanius, Maria Brock, Anne Kaun, Anders Olof Larsson

Transnational Conspiracies Echoed in Emojis, Avatars, and Hyperlinks Used in Extreme-Right Discourse
Fabienne Baider, Maria Constantinou

“Our Only Weapons are Good Arguments and Dissemination”—The Austrian Identitarians Taken at Their Word
Judith Goetz

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Silvio Waisbord, Editor
Kady Bell-Garcia, Managing Editor 
Chi Zhang, Managing Editor, Special Sections
Mark Mangoba-Agustin, Webmaster
Cinzia Padovani, John E. Richardson, 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.