International Journal of Communication

USC Wallis Annenberg Hall - Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism

About the Journal

The International Journal of Communication is an online, multi-media, interdisciplinary, academic journal that adheres to the highest standards of peer review and engages established and emerging scholars from anywhere in the world.

Current Issue

Vol. 20 (2026)

Jump to: Articles | Special Sections | Features | Forum | Book Reviews

Published: 2026-01-05

Articles

Testing the Effects of Relative Newsworthiness on News Selection

Minchul Kim, Yanqin Lu

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Personal Testimonials and Empathy in Environmental Risk Communication—Their Effects on Reflective Thoughts, Risk Perception, and Behavioral Intentions

Anne Bartsch, Christal Bürgel, Felix Frey, Sonja Kretzschmar, Verena Wassink

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When Over-The-Top Is Over the Top: A Political Economic Analysis of Network Usage Fees in South Korea

DongWook Jeong, Christopher Ali

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The Short Video Format: Conceptualizing a Ubiquitous Artifact of Visual Platforms

Giulia Isabella Guerra

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“Closed by Default”: Authoritarian Data Governance and Civil Society in Singapore

Kai Xiang Teo

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Enhancing Media Literacy in Higher Education: An Experimental Study on Misinformation Through a Gamified Intervention in Peru

Julio-César Mateus, Manuel Etesse, Diego Vásquez-Cubas, Elohim Monard, Giancarlo Cappello

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Data Publics: An Empirical and Comparative Approach to Datafication

Florence Millerand, Mélanie Millette, Alexandre Coutant, Guillaume Latzko-Toth

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What Is at Stake? The Co-Encoding/Decoding Model of Human–Generative Artificial Intelligence Communication

Marco Guglielmo, Ben O'Loughlin, Henry Snowball

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Drawing the Faces of “Perpetual Foreigners”: A Multimodal Narrative Analysis of #StopAsianHate on Instagram

Weiyu Zhang

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Voices of Disagreement: Participatory Media and Agonistic Democracy in Cyprus

Chris Voniati

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Performing the People and Depleting the Commons: Bottom-up Populism in Canada and France

Liwen Zhang

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Knowledge and Expertise in the Digital Age: How People Engage With Sex Advice on TikTok

Facundo N. Suenzo, Annika Pinch, Ignacio F. Cruz, Calvin A. Liang, Amy Ross Arguedas

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Understanding Public Concerns About Fake News: Linking Social Media News Use, Cognitive Elaboration, and Perceived Fake News Exposure

Manuel Goyanes, Taeyoung Lee

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Regressive Futuring: Zuckerberg’s Rebranding Against Techlash’s “Crisis”

Emilie Grybos

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Biased Judgment or Lack of Skill? The Role of News Consumption in (Mis)Information Identification in the Context of Russia’s War Against Ukraine

Luisa Gehle, Christian Schemer, Marina Tulin, Michael Hameleers

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Decentering Technology in the Datafied Workplace: Data (In)Justice and Workers’ Experiences of Algorithmic Management in Call Centers in the United Kingdom and Greece

Lina Dencik, Jess Brand, Philippa Metcalfe

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Communicating Mobile Borders: Urban Conviviality and More-Than National Belonging in Trieste’s Interethnic Friendships

Zlatan Krajina

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Political Manipulation of the Israel-Hamas Conflict on WhatsApp in India

Kiran Garimella

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The Dark Side of Algorithms: How Ethical and Privacy Considerations Affect Individuals’ Engagement With Health Information on Social Media?

Mengxue Ou, Han Zheng, Baijue Li, Chen Luo

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Oneness With the Source as a Means of Reducing Motivated Reasoning About Climate Policy

Christopher J. Carpenter, Shannon M. Cruz

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“Is It So Bothersome That a Woman Has a Senior Position?”: False Empowerment in the Representation of Women in Sports TV Series

Anna Tous Rovirosa, Raquel Crisóstomo, Elena Fedotova, Natividad Ramajo

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Talking About the Voice: Everyday Political Talk About Indigenous Constitutional Recognition

Kate Nash, Caitlin Mollica, Kate Senior

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Global Communication and the Scalar Politics of Race: Tensions in Transnational Articulations of (Anti)-Racism(s)

Wendy Willems

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Expert Reports as Epistemic Participation: Knowing and Doing in Artificial Intelligence’s Environmental Debate

Théophile Lenoir, Christopher Anderson

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Scrolling Past Suffering: Ethnocentric Media, Distrust, and Humanitarian Responsibility

Inbar Illouz, Tal Orian Harel, Ifat Maoz

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Special Sections

Big Data Discourses| Big Data Discourses: Introduction to the Special Section

Charlotte Knorr, Christian Pentzold

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Big Data Discourses| A Model of Frame Categories for Analyzing Media Discourse of Emerging Technologies

Emma Kaylee Graves-Sandriman

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Big Data Discourses| Reframing Datafication: News Media Discourses on Big Data and AI

Maria Cristina Paganoni, Gastón Becerra

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Big Data Discourses| Ask Me Anything! ◕‿◕ - How ChatGPT Got Hyped Into Being

Jascha Bareis

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Big Data Discourses| Curating AI Into Being: Hacks/Hackers as Amplifiers of Journalism’s Digital Futures

Andreas Hepp

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Big Data Discourses| Data Feelings: Everyday Affects and Sensory Dimensions of Personal Digital Data

Ash Watson, Deborah Lupton

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Big Data Discourses| Aesthetics of Boundless Insight: On the Scalar Ideology of the Data Imaginary

Magdalena Krysztoforska, Oliver Kenny

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Big Data Discourse| A New Source of the Self? A Critical View on the Domestication of Data

Jun Yu

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Big Data Discourses| Deceptive Stories About Scale: Digital Technology, Public Services, and the Promise of Efficiency

Alison B. Powell

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Big Data Discourses| Data in India’s Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI): A Deliberative Policy Ecology Approach

Preeti Raghunath

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Big Data Discourses| Toward Disability Data Justice: A Critical Discussion of Disability and Big Data Discourses

Kuansong Victor Zhuang, Gerard Goggin

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Big Data Discourses| Cultural Motifs of Big Data in User-Generated Content: A Semiautomated Analysis of 10 Years of Discourse

Charlotte Knorr, Andreas Niekler, Christian Pentzold

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Features

Anti-Media Media: A Normative Approach to Media Positionality

Ayala Panievsky

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Forum

Not Entirely Artificial, Not That Intelligent| AI and Communication Research: A Conversation on Hype, Contexts, and Practices (Part 1)

Roni Danziger, Hadar Levy-Landesberg, Aya Yadlin, Ido Ramati, Lidor Ivan, Ilan Manor

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Not Entirely Artificial, Not That Intelligent| AI and Communication Research: A Conversation on Trust, Authenticity, and (Emerging) Futures (Part 2)

Roni Danziger, Hadar Levy-Landesberg, Aya Yadlin, Ido Ramati, Lidor Ivan, Ilan Manor

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Book Reviews

Matt Sienkiewicz and Nick Marx, That’s Not Funny: How the Right Makes Comedy Work for Them

Madelijn Strick

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Mirca Madianou, Technocolonialism: When Technology for Good is Harmful

Jillian C. York

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Amit M. Schejter, Baruch Shomron, Muhammad Abu-Jaffar, Ghalia Abu-Kaf, Jonathan Mendels, Shula Mola, Malka Shacham, Amneh Al Sharha, and Noam Tirosh, Digital Capabilities: ICT Adoption in Marginalized Communities in Israel and the West Bank

Tamar Ashuri

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Vassil Girginov and Katerina Girginova (Eds.), Handbook on Sport and Culture

Argyro Elisavet Manoli

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Hanan Badr and Karin G. Wilkins (Eds.), Critical Communication Research With Global Inclusivity

Yujie Huang

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Samuel Woolley, Manufacturing Consensus: Understanding Propaganda in the Era of Automation and Anonymity

Chang Sup Park

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RonNell Andersen Jones and Sonja R. West (Eds.), The Future of Press Freedom: Democracy, Law, and the News in Changing Times

Andrei Richter

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Steffan Blayney, Joey Hornsby, and Savannah Whaley (Eds.), The Body Productive: Rethinking Capitalism, Work and the Body

Whitney-Jocelyn Kouaho

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Jathan Sadowski, The Mechanic and the Luddite: A Ruthless Criticism of Technology and Capitalism

MC Forelle

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Bohyeong Kim, Critically Capitalist: The Spirit of Asset Capitalism in South Korea

Micky Lee

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Catherine D’Ignazio, Counting Feminicide: Data Feminism in Action

Muge Yuce

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Nick Couldry, The Space of the World: Can Human Solidarity Survive Social Media and What If It Can’t?

Terry Flew

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Laila Shereen Sakr, Arabic Glitch: Technoculture, Data Bodies, and Archives

Nathaniel Greenberg

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Aeron Davis, Political Communication: An Introduction for Crisis Times (2nd ed.)

Cleves Nkie Mongo

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Thomas S. Mullaney, The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age

Weilin Zhu

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Beth A. Haller, Disabled People Transforming Media Culture for a More Inclusive World (1st ed.)

Russell Adzedu

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Alfred L. Martin Jr., Fandom for Us by Us: The Pleasures and Practices of Black Audiences

Gordon Alley-Young

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Timothy Recuber, The Digital Departed: How We Face Death, Commemorate Life, and Chase Virtual Immortality

Terilee Edwards-Hewitt

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Göran Bolin and Per Ståhlberg, Managing Meaning in Ukraine: Information, Communication, and Narration Since the Euromaidan Revolution

Andrei Richter

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Eviane Leidig, The Women of the Far Right: Social Media Influencers and Online Radicalization

Shahla Shahnaz Dyuti

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Jabari M. Evans, Hip-Hop Civics: Connected Learning in the Rap Classroom

Rachel Williams

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Amanda D. Lotz, After Mass Media: Storytelling for Microaudiences in the Twenty-First Century

Damián Fernández Pedemonte

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Rodney Benson, Mattias Hessérus, Timothy Neff, and Julie Sedel, How Media Ownership Matters

Murat Akser

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Natalie Fenton, Democratic Delusions: How the Media Hollows Out Democracy and What We Can Do About It

Fritz Kessler

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Michelle Cho and Jesook Song (Eds.), Mediating Gender in Post-Authoritarian South Korea

Young A. Jung

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

Chang Sup Park

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