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Vol 19 (2025)
Table of Contents
Articles
| Relative Public Disconnection: Poverty and Media Use in the Media Welfare State |
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Ivar Eimhjellen, Torgeir Uberg Nærland |
30 pgs. |
| Who Wants Impartial News? Investigating Determinants of Preferences for Impartiality in 40 Countries |
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Camila Mont'Alverne, Amy Ross A. Arguedas, Sumitra Badrinathan, Benjamin Toff, Richard Fletcher, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen |
23 pgs. |
| Partisan Media and Support for Radical Protest Tactics Across Ideological Lines |
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Melissa Santillana, Joseph J. Yoo, Thomas J. Johnson, Silvia DalBen Furtado |
27 pgs. |
| Influence Operations as Brokerage: Political-Economic Infrastructures of Manipulation in the 2022 Philippine Elections |
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Fatima Gaw, Mariam Jayne Agonos, Kris Ruijgrok, Gerard Martin Suarez |
21 pgs. |
| The Role of Policy Mixes in Enabling Journalism Innovation: A Transnational Study Across Five Countries |
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Anja Noster, Christopher Buschow, Andy Kaltenbrunner, Renée Lugschitz |
22 pgs. |
| The “Star” Correspondent and Parachute Diplomacy: CNN’s Clarissa Ward in Myanmar and Afghanistan |
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Lisa Brooten, Syed Irfan Ashraf |
19 pgs. |
| Transmedia Edutainment for Sustainable Advocacy: How Narrative Engagement and Counterarguments Influence Generation Z’s Response to Sustainable Development Messages |
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Aya Shata, Michelle Seelig, Nicholas Carcioppolo |
24 pgs. |
| Determinants and Challenges of NGO Social Media Communication: Explaining Tensions Around “Looking Cool” for Social Change |
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Michael Dokyum Kim |
20 pgs. |
| Mobile Mundane (Dis)Connections: Examining Older Migrant Adults’ Mobile Media Automation During the COVID-19 Pandemic Through a Digital Kinship Lens |
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Earvin Charles B. Cabalquinto, Larissa Hjorth |
23 pgs. |
| 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 |
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Doo-Hun Choi |
22 pgs. |
| Influence of the Watchdog Role of Nigerian Journalists on Public Perception of President Buhari’s Anti-Corruption Crusade |
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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 |
20 pgs. |
| Toward a Theory of Surplus Blackness: Reception, Media Industries, and Blackness |
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Alfred L. Martin, Jr. |
19 pgs. |
| From Heroic Masculinity to Feminist Dads: Advertising Fatherhood in Türkiye |
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Alparslan Nas |
20 pgs. |
| Memefying Mental Illness: A Qualitative Content Analysis of Mental Illness Portrayals in #Depressionmemes on Instagram |
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Anna Wagner, Linn Temmann |
26 pgs. |
| The Positions of Data-Related Peripheral Actors in Journalism Practice |
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Laura Ahva |
20 pgs. |
| Bad Image, Yet Still Convincing? Examining the Chinese Government’s Image Repair Strategy in Responding to Accusations of COVID-19 Origin |
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Chih-Yao Chang, KyuJin Shim |
22 pgs. |
| Public Opinion and New Communication Technologies: The Impacts of Big Data on Public Opinion Studies From the Pragmatism Perspective |
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Pedro Caldas, Vinicius Romanini |
17 pgs. |
| Media Health Literacy: A Scoping Review and Agenda for Future Research |
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Shadee Ashtari |
24 pgs. |
| Representation in ScienceTok: Communicator Identities, Message Content, and User Engagement on a Short-Form Video Social Media Platform |
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Siyu Chen, Paul R. Brewer |
21 pgs. |
| Tracing Information Flows in the Hybrid Media System: The Agenda-Setting Role of Dark Platforms Surrounding the Ukraine Invasion Discourse |
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Mónika Simon, Savvas Zannettou, Kasper Welbers, Anne C. Kroon, Damian Trilling |
25 pgs. |
| The Sexualization of Boys and Girls in Videos: Proposal for a Self-Sexualization Scale on TikTok |
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Rebeca Suárez-Álvarez, Antonio García-Jiménez |
24 pgs. |
| Decolonizing the Queer Project of Aotearoa New Zealand: Weaving Takatāpui Identity Into Queer Spaces |
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Elena Maydell |
19 pgs. |
| Research Practices in Comparative Communication Research: Visibility, Topical and Geographical Disparities, and their Longitudinal Patterns |
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Fabienne Lind, Hyunjin Song, Hajo G. Boomgaarden, Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam, Kim Pamina Syed Ali, Rens Vliegenthart |
26 pgs. |
| Making Sense of Algorithm: Exploring TikTok Users’ Awareness of Content Recommendation and Moderation Algorithms |
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Cristiano Felaco |
22 pgs. |
| News Credibility on Facebook: The Role of Media and Intermediary Trust and Their Interplay |
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Lukáš Slavík, David Lacko, Jakub Macek |
23 pgs. |
| Everybody Hurts? Reality-Based Entertainment and Mediated Suffering in Sweatshop: Deadly Fashion |
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Vladimir Cotal San Martin, Georgia Aitaki |
21 pgs. |
| Shocking the System: The Athletic, a Journalistic Merger and the (Preventable) Ensuing Fallout |
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Patrick Ferrucci, Gregory P. Perreault |
18 pgs. |
| Creating a Cost to Spread Misinformation on Social Media |
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Drew B. Margolin, Yunyun S. Wang |
21 pgs. |
| I’ll Share It When I Believe It! An Experimental Study on the Effects of Hateful and False Content on Credibility and Sharing Intention |
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David Blanco-Herrero, Damian Trilling, Carlos Arcila-Calderón |
24 pgs. |
| Cultural Intertextuality in Olympic-Themed International Publicity: A Media Discourse Analysis |
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Yubin Qian |
21 pgs. |
| Smart-Washing the City: A Study on the Privatization of Urban Digital Infrastructures in the Global South |
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Jess Reia, Luã Cruz |
23 pgs. |
| The “Good” Dictator: The Semiotics of “Desirable” Authoritarianism |
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Sameera Durrani |
21 pgs. |
| Difference in and Influences on Public Opinion About Artificial Intelligence in 20 Economies: Reducing Uncertainty Through Awareness, Knowledge, and Trust |
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Ronald E. Rice, Ming-Yi Wu |
26 pgs. |
| The Role of Trust in Social Media Platforms in Shaping Political Effects of Dissident Information Flows: A Case of Facebook in Kazakhstan |
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Jason Gainous, Kevin Wagner, Amanzhol Bekmagambetov, Adil Rodionov, Serik Beimenbetov, Aigul Zhanadilova, Zhanna Karimova |
24 pgs. |
| How, When, and Why to Use AI: Strategic Uses of Professional Perceptions and Industry Lore in the Dubbing Industry |
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Laurena Bernabo |
18 pgs. |
| Unveiling the Veil: Examining the Stereotyping of Hijab in Internet Memes and GIFs |
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Omneya Ibrahim, Shahira Fahmy |
24 pgs. |
| The Evolution of Twitter: An Entangled History of Intermedia Relationships |
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Carlos A. Scolari |
23 pgs. |
| A Territorialized Business Model? Exploring the Objective and Subjective Conceptualizations of the Local Scale Built by Mid-City Digital News Media in Chile |
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Antoine Faure, David Jofré, René Jara-Reyes, Claudia Lagos Lira |
22 pgs. |
| Dark Cycles: Social Engineering and Political Chatbots in Netanyahu’s 2019 Election Campaigns |
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Anat Ben-David, Elinor Carmi |
25 pgs. |
| The Thin Line Between Conspiracy Theories and Opinion: Why Humans and AI Struggle to Differentiate Them |
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Paula Carvalho, Danielle Caled, Mário J. Silva |
27 pgs. |
| What Makes You Happy Also Makes You Sick: Mental Health and Well- Being in Media Work |
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Mark Deuze |
21 pgs. |
| Autonomy and Algorithms: Tracing the Significance of Content Personalization |
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Henrik Rydenfelt, Tuukka Lehtiniemi, Jesse Haapoja, Lauri Haapanen |
20 pgs. |
| We the Consumers: The Conservative “Parallel Economy” as Reactionary Commodity Activism |
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Carolyn E. Schmitt, Lee McGuigan |
23 pgs. |
| News Corp Australia’s Conservative Advocacy Against the Indigenous Voice to Parliament |
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Victoria Fielding, Catherine Son, Robert Boucaut, Alexander H. Beare |
21 pgs. |
| The Women Who Proposed Two-Step Flow: A Gendered Revisit to the Intellectual History of a Mass Communication Theory |
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Esperanza Herrero |
20 pgs. |
| When Corrections Fail: Effects of Misinformation Targets, Repeated Exposure, and Partisanship on Misinformation Beliefs |
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Yunya Song, Yuanhang Lu, Stephanie Jean Tsang, Jingwen Zhang, Kelly Y. L. Ku |
25 pgs. |
| Voice-Based Assistants as Intermediaries for Sociopolitical Issues: Investigating Use Patterns, Expectations, and Prior Indirect Experiences |
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Esther Greussing, Evelyn Jonas, Monika Taddicken |
22 pgs. |
| Seeing a New Type of Economic Inequality Discourse: Inequality as Spectacle in the “Billionaire Space Race” |
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Michael Vaughan, David Schieferdecker |
22 pgs. |
| Variation and Selection During Pandemic: Toward A Multiplex Framework for Understanding Nonprofit Community Network Evolution in Crisis Time |
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Yiqi Li, Aimei Yang, Wenlin Liu, Jingyi Sun, Chuqing Dong, Lichen Zhen |
26 pgs. |
| Between Morality and the Market: The Circulation of Humanitarian Photography |
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Lilie Chouliaraki, Richard Stupart |
16 pgs. |
| Privacy Activism: (Anti-)Surveillance Discourse in Pandemic Days |
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Tamar Ashuri |
19 pgs. |
| Knowledge Mediation and Narrowed Polysemy in Journalistic Interactive Visualizations |
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Inbal Klein-Avraham, Zvi Reich |
26 pgs. |
| Rethinking the Protest Paradigm: Media Kettling in the Television Coverage of the 2019 Chilean Uprising |
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César Jiménez-Martínez, Ximena Orchard, Nadia Herrada |
21 pgs. |
| Paid to Play: Gender, Intersectionality, and Labor in Online Game Companionship |
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Ting He |
20 pgs. |
| Revealing the True Self Online: How Lurking Behavior Interacts With Exposure to Positivity Bias and Affects Self-Disclosure on Social Media |
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Briana Marie Trifiro, Manuel Goyanes |
21 pgs. |
| How Far Can Political Deepfakes Credibly Deviate From Reality? Responses to Political Deepfakes With Varying Degrees of Deception |
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Michael Hameleers, Toni Van der Meer, Tom Dobber |
19 pgs. |
| Confronting Anti-Press Violence in Mexico: Strategies of Resistance in Mexican and U.S. News Coverage of Journalist Killings |
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Elizabeth M. Chambers, Jennifer R. Henrichsen |
21 pgs. |
| Rooting Platform Dependencies in the Digital News Economy: Google News Initiative in India |
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Simran Agarwal |
24 pgs. |
| “Is That It?”: Veteran Reflections on the Falklands 40th Anniversary and Northern Ireland Peacekeeping Exhibitions at the Imperial War Museum London |
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Jenna Pitchford-Hyde, Katy Parry |
20 pgs. |
| SVoD in Europe and the Americas: A Comparative Approach to Regulatory Regimes |
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María Trinidad García Leiva, Ana Bizberge, Guillermo Mastrini |
21 pgs. |
| Mobile Without Fear: Personal Control, Information, and Communication Support in ICT-Mediated Urban Public Transportation |
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Gerit Götzenbrucker, Kai Daniel Preibisch, Michaela Griesbeck |
24 pgs. |
| Rethinking Crisis Response: Cross-Cultural Insights From Comparing American and Korean Corporate Apologies |
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Jeongwon Yang, Ploypin Chuenterawong |
23 pgs. |
| Platform Cultures and Emotional Communication About Climate Change: A Comparison of Affective Language in the Climate Change Blogo- and Twittersphere |
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Christel W. van Eck, Jon Roozenbeek, Tim M. Stevens, Art Dewulf |
21 pgs. |
| Online Behaviors, Offline Consequences? Linking Online Traces of Health Information Use to Observed Communication During Medical Consultations |
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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 |
25 pgs. |
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Unpacking Property: Media, Ownership, and Power in Transformation| Media Property: New Explorations in Media and Communication Studies—Introduction |
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Sebastian Sevignani, Hendrik Theine |
7 pgs. |
| Unpacking Property: Media, Ownership, and Power in Transformation| Toward Media Environment Capture: A Theoretical Contribution on the Influence of Big Tech on News Media |
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Sebastian Sevignani, Hendrik Theine, Mandy Tröger |
21 pgs. |
| Unpacking Property: Media, Ownership, and Power in Transformation| The Internet of Things Presents: A Case Study on Ensuring Legitimacy for Building Data Supply Routes in Surveillance Capitalism |
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Nils S. Borchers |
19 pgs. |
| Unpacking Property: Media, Ownership, and Power in Transformation| Structural Masculinism and Women’s Media Ownership in the Context of Authoritarian Populism: A Feminist Political Economy of Communication Perspective |
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Marlene Radl, Burçe Çelik, Mojca Pajnik, Birgit Sauer |
21 pgs. |
| Unpacking Property: Media, Ownership, and Power in Transformation| Does Media Ownership Matter for Journalistic Content? A Systematic Scoping Review of Empirical Studies |
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Hendrik Theine, Julia Bartsch, Mandy Tröger |
24 pgs. |
| Unpacking Property: Media, Ownership, and Power in Transformation| Examining the Journalism Philanthropy Model: A Literature Review |
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Louisa Lincoln |
19 pgs. |
| Unpacking Property: Media, Ownership, and Power in Transformation| The Past, the Present, the Future: Self-Portrayals of Wealthy Business Owners in the Media |
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Stefan Wallaschek, Nora Waitkus |
22 pgs. |
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Groundhog Day| Influencers Are Just Vain |
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Crystal Abidin, Srikanth Nayaka, Earvin Charles B. Cabalquinto, Jia Guo |
8 pgs. |
| Groundhog Day| Digital Media Is Fake and Teaches Young People the Wrong Things About Sexuality |
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Kath Albury, Samantha Mannix, Barrie Shannon, Hao Zheng |
7 pgs. |
| Groundhog Day| The Internet Destroys and Saves Our Mental Health |
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Natalie Ann Hendry, Tim Short, Clare Southerton, Natasha Zeng |
8 pgs. |
| Groundhog Day| Memes Are New |
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Gabriele de Seta, Idil Galip, Lucie Chateau, Günseli Yalcinkaya |
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Book Reviews
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Eva Illouz, The Emotional Life of Populism: How Fear, Disgust, Resentment, and Love Undermine Democracy |
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Reviewed by
Feyda Sayan-Cengiz |
3 pgs. |
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Meryl Alper, Kids Across the Spectrums: Growing Up Autistic in the Digital Age |
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Reviewed by
Molly Martin |
4 pgs. |
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Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez (Eds.), Crip Authorship: Disability as Method |
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Reviewed by
Kuansong Victor Zhuang, Wenqi Tan |
3 pgs. |
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Adrienne Russell, The Mediated Climate: How Journalists, Big Tech, and Activists Are Vying for Our Future |
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Reviewed by
Claire Konkes |
4 pgs. |
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Song Shi, China and the Internet: Using New Media for Development and Social Change |
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Reviewed by
Weiwei Zhang |
4 pgs. |
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Mohamed Zayani and Joe F. Khalil, The Digital Double Bind: Change and Stasis in the Middle East |
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Reviewed by
William Lafi Youmans |
3 pgs. |
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Liane Rothenberger, Martin Löffelholz, David H. Weaver (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Cross-Border Journalism |
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4 pgs. |
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Christina Dunbar-Hester, Oil Beach: How Toxic Infrastructure Threatens Life in the Ports of Los Angeles and Beyond |
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Reviewed by
Shelley Tuazon Guyton |
3 pgs. |
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Simeon Yates and Elinor Carmi (Eds.), Digital Inclusion: International Policy and Research |
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Reviewed by
Yan Wang |
4 pgs. |
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Phillip Santos and Cleophas T. Muneri (Eds.), Reading Justice Claims on Social Media: Perspectives from the Global South |
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Reviewed by
Sarah Witmer |
3 pgs. |
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Avery Dame-Griff, The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet |
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Reviewed by
Mack Brumbaugh |
3 pgs. |
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Rachael Kent, The Digital Health Self: Wellness, Tracking, and Social Media |
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Reviewed by
Xinna Li |
3 pgs. |
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Hunter Hargraves, Uncomfortable Television |
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Reviewed by
Gabriele Prosperi |
4 pgs. |
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Sara J. Grossman, Immeasurable Weather: Meteorological Data and Settler Colonialism from 1820 to Hurricane Sandy |
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Reviewed by
Pamela C. Perrimon |
3 pgs. |
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Nevine El Nossery, Arab Women’s Revolutionary Art: Between Singularities and Multitudes |
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Noha Mellor |
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Aram Sinnreich and Jesse Gilbert, The Secret Life of Data: Navigating Hype and Uncertainty in the Age of Algorithmic Surveillance |
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John Cheney-Lippold |
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Jian Lin, Chinese Creator Economies: Labor and Bilateral Creative Workers |
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Daniela Mazur |
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Mel Stanfill, Fandom Is Ugly: Networked Harassment in Participatory Culture |
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Lauren Nicole Balser |
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Allen Munoriyarwa and Admire Mare, Digital Surveillance in Southern Africa: Policies, Politics and Practices |
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Reviewed by
Sheila B. Lalwani |
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Andrea Wenzel, Antiracist Journalism: The Challenge of Creating Equitable Local News |
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Anita Varma |
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Guobin Yang, The Wuhan Lockdown |
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