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Vol 17 (2023)
Table of Contents
Articles
| Googling in Russian Abroad: How Kremlin-Affiliated Websites Contribute to the Visibility of COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories in Search Results |
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Florian Toepfl, Anna Ryzhova, Daria Kravets, Arista Beseler |
21 pgs. |
| Echo Chambers, Cognitive Thinking Styles, and Mistrust? Examining the Roles Information Sources and Information Processing Play in Conspiracist Ideation |
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Brian McKernan, Patrícia Rossini, Jennifer Stromer-Galley |
24 pgs. |
| Meditating the Revolution: Analysis of the Sudanese Professionals Association Communicative Strategies During Sudan’s 2018–2019 Revolution |
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Hala A. Guta |
19 pgs. |
| A Persuadable Type? Personality Traits, Dissonant Information, and Political Persuasion |
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Alessandro Nai, Yves Schemeil, Chiara Valli |
22 pgs. |
| More a Red Herring Than a Harbinger of Democracy: Myanmar’s Experiment With Media Freedom and Domestic Media Coverage of the Rohingya |
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Halle M. Young, Nicole Anderson, Mona S. Kleinberg, Jenifer Whitten-Woodring |
23 pgs. |
| The Politics of Being a K-Pop Fan: Korean Fandom and the “Cancel the Japan Tour” Protest |
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Jennifer M. Kang |
19 pgs. |
| “Seeing but not Believing”: Undergraduate Students’ Media Uses and News Trust |
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Ana Isabel Melro, Sara Pereira |
26 pgs. |
| Blame It on the Algorithm? Russian Government-Sponsored Media and Algorithmic Curation of Political Information on Facebook |
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Elizaveta Kuznetsova, Mykola Makhortykh |
22 pgs. |
| Making Sense of Human Advocacy Narrative: Raising Support for People Seeking Asylum Seekers Among Diverse Audiences |
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Merrilyn Delporte, Bree Hurst, Jennifer Bartlett, Caroline Hatcher |
24 pgs. |
| Migrating Counterpublics: German Far-Right Online Groups on Russian Social Media |
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Vadim Voskresenskii |
21 pgs. |
| Diraya.media—Learning Media Literacy With and From Media Activists |
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Philipp Seuferling, Ingrid Forsler, Gretchen King, Isabel Löfgren, Farah Saati |
19 pgs. |
| “We Have No Newspapers . . . Dull! Dull!”: Mass Media Dependency During the American Civil War |
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Betty Houchin Winfield, Chad Painter |
19 pgs. |
| From the Global to the Local and Back Again: MFAs’ Digital Communications During COVID-19 |
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Ilan Manor, Moran Yrachi |
22 pgs. |
| Collaborative I-Docs Beyond the Screens: Face-to-Face Participation Processes in Interactive Non-Fiction |
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Juanjo Balaguer, Arnau Gifreu-Castells |
19 pgs. |
| Cuteness in Mobile Messaging: An Exploration of Virtual “Cute” Sticker Use in China and the United States |
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Dongdong Yang, Laura Labato, Shardé M. Davis, Yuren Qin |
22 pgs. |
| Health, Concerns, and Finance: News Framing of Wearing Masks in China From 2001 to 2020 |
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Zhifei Mao, Huaxin Peng, Di Wang, Mengfan He, Kun Zhou |
18 pgs. |
| Language Ideologies and Behavioral Attitudes Toward Ethnolinguistic Outgroups: Perceived Linguistic Competence and Intergroup Anxiety as Explanatory Variables |
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Gretchen Montgomery-Vestecka, Yan Bing Zhang |
21 pgs. |
| Social Entrepreneurship Versus Conventional Entrepreneurship: How Entrepreneurship Orientation Moderates the Effects of Human Capital and Social Capital Signals on Media Crowdfunding Success |
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Jiyoung Cha |
25 pgs. |
| Crisis Communication on Twitter: Differences Between User Types in Top Tweets About the 2015 “Refugee Crisis” in Germany |
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Sanja Kapidzic, Felix Frey, Christoph Neuberger, Stefan Stieglitz, Milad Mirbabaie |
20 pgs. |
| “A Very Difficult Choice”: Bolsonaro and Petismo in Brazilian Newspapers |
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Juliana Gagliardi, Camilla Tavares, Afonso de Albuquerque |
19 pgs. |
| Processing Vaccine Misinformation: Recall and Effects of Source Type on Claim Accuracy via Perceived Motivations and Credibility |
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Michelle A. Amazeen, Arunima Krishna |
23 pgs. |
| From System to Skill: Palo Alto Group’s Contested Legacy of Communication |
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Yonatan Fialkoff, Amit Pinchevski |
19 pgs. |
| User Perceptions and Trust of Explainable Machine Learning Fake News Detectors |
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Jieun Shin, Sylvia Chan-Olmsted |
23 pgs. |
| Activists and Journalists as Co-Creators and Co-Revisionists of U.S. Histories: The 1619 New York Times Project |
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Elaine Almeida, Sue Robinson |
19 pgs. |
| When Do Data Collection and Use Become a Matter of Concern? A Cross-Cultural Comparison of U.S. and Dutch Privacy Attitudes |
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Jessica Vitak, Yuting Liao, Anouk Mols, Daniel Trottier, Michael Zimmer, Priya C. Kumar, Jason Pridmore |
28 pgs. |
| Cues Signaling Gender Segregation and Gender Inclusion in Public Spaces Affect Adolescents’ Binary Conceptualization of Gender and Attitudes Toward Transgender and Nonbinary People |
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Traci K. Gillig, Sonia Jawaid Shaikh, Leila Bighash |
24 pgs. |
| Self- and Social Corrections on Instant Messaging Platforms |
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Sheryl Wei Ting Ng, Taberez Ahmed Neyazi |
21 pgs. |
| Is the MENA Surfing to the Extremes? Digital and Social Media, Echo Chambers/Filter Bubbles, and Attitude Extremity |
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Kevin M. Wagner, Jason Gainous, Allison Warnersmith, Dane Warner |
21 pgs. |
| The New American Dream: Neoliberal Transformation as Character Development in Schitt’s Creek |
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William Joseph Sipe |
17 pgs. |
| Distinction and Cosmopolitanism: Latin American Middle-Class, Elite Audiences and Their Preferences for Transnational Television and Film |
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Joseph Straubhaar, Melissa Santillana, Vanessa de Macedo Higgins-Joyce, Luiz G. Duarte |
23 pgs. |
| Social Media and Protest Behavior in a Restrictive Traditional Media Environment: The Case of the Philippines |
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Jason P. Abbott, Jason Gainous, Kevin M. Wagner |
20 pgs. |
| The Mediating Role of Depression in the Relationship Between News Consumption and Interparty Hostility During Covid-19 |
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Meital Balmas, Renana Atia, Eran Halperin |
27 pgs. |
| “They Just Want to Erase Us”: Triumphant Modernity and Catastrophic Witnessing in Debates About Genocide in Xinjiang |
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Stephen J. Hartnett, Andrew Gilmore |
23 pgs. |
| A Systematic Literature Review of Research From 2010 to 2020 Addressing User-Generated Online Comments Related to Health Issues and Recommendations for Future Research |
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Muhammad Ittefaq, Mauryne Abwao, Ioana A. Coman, Waqas Ejaz |
25 pgs. |
| A Leader and a Lady? A Computational Approach to Detection of Political Gender Stereotypes in Facebook User Comments |
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Aliya Andrich, Emese Domahidi |
20 pgs. |
| Believing in Credibility Measures: Reviewing Credibility Measures in Media Research From 1951 to 2018 |
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Anina Hanimann, Andri Heimann, Lea Hellmueller, Damian Trilling |
22 pgs. |
| A Multiple-Stakeholder Perspective of Patient–Provider Communication Among Families With Rare Diseases in Taiwan Through a Cross-Cultural Lens |
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Jinli Wu, Hsinyi Hsiao, Lei Chen, Chun-Ying Weng, Pao-Sheng Chang, Shao-Yin Chu |
22 pgs. |
| Intergroup Contact, Traditional and Social Media Use, and Attitudes Toward Chinese People in COVID-19: U.S. College Students’ Perspective |
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Yan Bing Zhang, Teri Terigele, Molly Han, Sile Li, Yang Yu, Racheal Ruble |
21 pgs. |
More Articles
Special Sections
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COVID-19, Digital Media, and Health| COVID-19, Digital Media, and Health: Lessons Learned and the Way Ahead for the Study of Human Communication—Introduction |
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Kathrin Karsay, Anne-Linda Camerini, Jörg Matthes |
8 pgs. |
| COVID-19, Digital Media, and Health| Communicating About Mental Health During a Pandemic: An Examination of Active and Aware Publics on Twitter |
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Jesse King, Audrey Halversen, Olivia Morrow, Whitney Westhoff, Pamela Brubaker |
18 pgs. |
| COVID-19, Digital Media, and Health| Health Messaging and Social Media: An Examination of Message Fatigue, Race, and Emotional Outcomes Among Black Audiences |
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Hope Hickerson, David Stamps |
20 pgs. |
| COVID-19, Digital Media, and Health| Children’s and Parents’ Worries About Online Schooling Associated With Children’s Anxiety During Lockdown in Ireland |
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Derek A. Laffan, Seffetullah Kuldas, Beatrice Sciacca, James O'Higgins Norman, Tijana Milosevic |
23 pgs. |
| COVID-19, Digital Media, and Health| Beliefs in Times of Corona: Investigating the Relationship Between Media Use and COVID-19 Conspiracy Beliefs Over Time in a Representative Dutch Sample |
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Marloes van Wezel, Emiel Krahmer, Ruben Vromans, Nadine Bol |
20 pgs. |
| COVID-19, Digital Media, and Health| Exposure to COVID-19 Misinformation Across Instant Messaging Apps: Moderating Roles of News Media and Interpersonal Communication |
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Woohyun Yoo, Sang-Hwa Oh, Doo-Hun Choi |
23 pgs. |
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Theorizing the Korean Wave| Theorizing the Korean Wave: Introduction to New Perspectives—Introduction |
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Dal Yong Jin |
8 pgs. |
| Theorizing the Korean Wave| Transnational Proximity of the Korean Wave in the Global Cultural Sphere |
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Dal Yong Jin |
20 pgs. |
| Theorizing the Korean Wave| Shock and Surprise: Theorizing the Korean Wave Through Mediatized Emotions |
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Irina Lyan |
23 pgs. |
| Theorizing the Korean Wave| K(Q)ueer-Pop for Another World: Toward a Theorization of Gender and Sexuality in K-Pop |
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Jungmin Kwon |
20 pgs. |
| Theorizing the Korean Wave| Netflix and Platform Imperialism: How Netflix Alters the Ecology of the Korean TV Drama Industry |
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Ji Hoon Park, Kristin April Kim, Yongsuk Lee |
20 pgs. |
| Theorizing the Korean Wave| K-Pop Without Koreans: Racial Imagination and Boundary Making in K-Pop |
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Ji-Hyun Ahn |
20 pgs. |
| Theorizing the Korean Wave| Translational Audiences in the Age of Transnational K-Pop |
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Kyong Yoon |
18 pgs. |
| Theorizing the Korean Wave| Virtual Technology in Netflix K-Drama: Augmented Reality, Hologram, and Artificial Intelligence |
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Jinhee Park |
19 pgs. |
| Theorizing the Korean Wave| K-Culture Without “K-”? The Paradoxical Nature of Producing Korean Television Toward a Sustainable Korean Wave |
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Taeyoung Kim |
22 pgs. |
More Special Sections
Features
| Renewing Pedagogical Research and Practices: Helping International Students Succeed Post-COVID-19 |
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Piyawan Charoensap-Kelly, Narissra Punyanunt-Carter |
15 pgs. |
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Book Reviews
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Qiao Li, Yanqiu Guan, and Hong Lu (Eds.), Development of the Global Film Industry: Industrial Competition and Cooperation in the Context of Globalization |
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Reviewed by
Youwen Ma |
3 pgs. |
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Elaine J. Yuan, The Web of Meaning: The Internet in a Changing Chinese Society |
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Reviewed by
Eileen Le Han |
3 pgs. |
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Last Moyo, The Decolonial Turn in Media Studies in Africa and the Global South |
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Reviewed by
Burçe Çelik |
3 pgs. |
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María Pia López, Not One Less: Mourning, Disobedience and Desire |
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Reviewed by
Lucila Rozas Urrunaga |
3 pgs. |
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Victor Fan, Cinema Illuminating Reality: Media Philosophy Through Buddhism |
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Reviewed by
Jacob Green |
3 pgs. |
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Zac Gershberg and Sean Illing, The Paradox of Democracy: Free Speech, Open Media, and Perilous Persuasion |
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Reviewed by
Yotam Ophir |
4 pgs. |
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Rolien Hoyng and Gladys Pak Lei Chong (Eds.), Critiquing Communication Innovation: New Media in a Multipolar World |
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Reviewed by
Liting Lu |
4 pgs. |
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Louisa Ha and Lars Willan (Eds.), The U.S.-China Trade War: Global News Framing and Public Opinion in the Digital Age |
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Reviewed by
Tanja Vierrether |
3 pgs. |
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