Vol. 20 (2026)

Published: 2026-01-05

Articles

What Are Media? A Hedonic Model for the Second Digital Convergence

Eli Noam, Gregory Ferrell Lowe, Jason Adam Buckweitz

1558–1581
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The Politics of Diversity: Netflix and the Transformation of Korean Drama Production in the Streaming Era

Woochul Kim

1428–1450
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From Navigating Discrimination to Developing Professional Digital Intimacy: How Indonesian LGBTQ+ Users Harness the Affordances of Healthcare Apps

Ferry Fauzi Hermawan, Verity Trott

1451–1471
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Can Pandora’s Box Be Closed? How People in Myanmar Access and Identify Trustworthy Information After the Coup

Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung, Jenifer Whitten-Woodring, Tun Tun Lynn, Catherine Abou-Khalil

1472–1491
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Resilience in Newsrooms in Times of Authoritarian Resurgence: We Went From the Sky to Under the Ground

Fatima El Issawi, Joshua E. Rigg

1492–1512
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“Freaks” and Raids: A Study of Networked Harassment and Misogyny in Turkey’s Authoritarian Landscape

Nora Suren

1513–1534
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Visibility Under Constraint: Format Publics and the Politics of Visibility on TikTok Protest Videos During the Mahsa Amini Movement in Iran

Fatemeh Oudlajani

1331–1361
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When Identities Go Viral: Themes and Aversiveness in TikTok Discourse on Kamala Harris’s Intersectional Identities During the 2024 U.S. Election

Gyo Hyun Koo, Dasia Clemente

1362–1379
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Speculators Inside the Slop Factory: Shovelware and Financialized Game Development in Roblox

Daniel Nielsen, Aleena Chia

1380–1400
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Between Duty and Discipline: Kantian Ideals and Techno-Governmental Realities in the European Union Artificial Intelligence Act and the United Nations Artificial Intelligence Framework

Mir Hasib, Lyombe Eko

1190–1213
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The Industrialization of Digital Entrepreneurship: The Case of Beauty Influencers in China’s Multichannel Networks Economy

Qingyue Sun, Huiqian Lai, Runze Ding

1214–1235
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Informational Sovereignty: The Commercial and Geopolitical Risk of Newsroom Dependency on Third-Party Infrastructure in Latin America

Juan Ortiz-Freuler

1236–1261
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Cultivating Self-Care: Health Television and the Internalization of Individual Responsibility for Health in Contemporary China

Ge Zhu, Rachel Young

1262–1284
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Hybrid Platformism: Thailand’s Online Political Media Landscape

Alexandra Colombier Vanijaka, Duncan McCargo

1285–1306
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Navigating Credibility on TikTok: How Young Adults Evaluate and Verify Information on the Platform

Luise Anter, Anna Sophie Kümpel

1058–1078
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Media-Saturated and Morally Contested Teenage Lives: No Space or Time for Nonmedia Moments (and for Being Bored)?

Marika Lüders

1079–1099
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Angry Posts: Myanmar’s Anti-Military Rhetoric on the Internet

Yao-Tai Li, Moh Moh Thet

1100–1123
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Deep State Conspiracism and/as Disinformation: A Journey to the Heart of Democracy’s Truth Crisis

Stephen Hutchings

1124–1146
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Communicating the Crisis or Misinforming the Public? Analyzing the AI-Generated Visual Rhetoric of the 2025 California Wildfires

Menna Elhosary, Barikisu Issaka, Inusah Mohammed, Balkisa Sissy, Sabena Abdul Raheem

1147–1166
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Shame, Suspicion, Surveillance, and Blame: The Neoliberal Undergirding of Stigma Experienced and Managed by Latinos/as in the United States

Alcides Velasquez, Rikki A. Roscoe, Umar O. Ajetunmobi

1167–1186
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The Ventriloquial Configuring of Communication: International Communication Association Presidential Addresses as Legitimizing Rituals

Nicolas Bencherki, Dominique Trudel

1035–1057
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“I Am Not a Conspiracy Theorist, But . . .”: Communicative Norms in Conspiracy Theory Supporters’ Interactions With Other News Users in Germany, Israel, Sweden, and the United States

Christian Baden, Nina Springer, Benjamin Krämer, Nina Steindl

1013–1034
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The Quotidian Web and the Accidental Archive

Ethan Zuckerman, Ryan McGrady

993–1012
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Digital Feminism and Anti-Feminism in Interaction: Relational Dynamics and Hybridization Across Seven Spanish-Speaking Communities on Twitter

Catalina Farías, Elohim Monard, Fernanda Carvajal, Jiyoun Suk, Teresa Correa, Ingrid Bachmann, Christine Garlough, Dhavan V. Shah

967–992
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Online Eudaemonic Spaces for Students During COVID-19: A Cross-National Comparison of Confession Discourses on Facebook

Ofer Shinar, Elad Segev

940–966
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Testing the Effects of Relative Newsworthiness on News Selection

Minchul Kim, Yanqin Lu

899–918
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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

744–767
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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

768–791
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The Short Video Format: Conceptualizing a Ubiquitous Artifact of Visual Platforms

Giulia Isabella Guerra

792–816
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“Closed by Default”: Authoritarian Data Governance and Civil Society in Singapore

Kai Xiang Teo

817–837
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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

838–862
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Data Publics: An Empirical and Comparative Approach to Datafication

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

862–883
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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

669–692
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Drawing the Faces of “Perpetual Foreigners”: A Multimodal Narrative Analysis of #StopAsianHate on Instagram

Weiyu Zhang

693–713
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Voices of Disagreement: Participatory Media and Agonistic Democracy in Cyprus

Chris Voniati

481–502
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Performing the People and Depleting the Commons: Bottom-up Populism in Canada and France

Liwen Zhang

503–522
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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

523–544
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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

545–566
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Regressive Futuring: Zuckerberg’s Rebranding Against Techlash’s “Crisis”

Emilie Grybos

567–587
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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

588-613
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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

614–631
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Communicating Mobile Borders: Urban Conviviality and More-Than National Belonging in Trieste’s Interethnic Friendships

Zlatan Krajina

632–649
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Political Manipulation of the Israel-Hamas Conflict on WhatsApp in India

Kiran Garimella

213–234
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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

148–171
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Oneness With the Source as a Means of Reducing Motivated Reasoning About Climate Policy

Christopher J. Carpenter, Shannon M. Cruz

172–198
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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

18–47
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Talking About the Voice: Everyday Political Talk About Indigenous Constitutional Recognition

Kate Nash, Caitlin Mollica, Kate Senior

48-66
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Global Communication and the Scalar Politics of Race: Tensions in Transnational Articulations of (Anti)-Racism(s)

Wendy Willems

67–87
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Expert Reports as Epistemic Participation: Knowing and Doing in Artificial Intelligence’s Environmental Debate

Théophile Lenoir, Christopher Anderson

88–109
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Scrolling Past Suffering: Ethnocentric Media, Distrust, and Humanitarian Responsibility

Inbar Illouz, Tal Orian Harel, Ifat Maoz

110–133
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Special Sections

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

Charlotte Knorr, Christian Pentzold

235–239
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Big Data Discourses| A Model of Frame Categories for Analyzing Media Discourse of Emerging Technologies

Emma Kaylee Graves-Sandriman

240–263
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Big Data Discourses| Reframing Datafication: News Media Discourses on Big Data and AI

Maria Cristina Paganoni, Gastón Becerra

264–284
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Big Data Discourses| Ask Me Anything! ◕‿◕ - How ChatGPT Got Hyped Into Being

Jascha Bareis

285–311
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Big Data Discourses| Curating AI Into Being: Hacks/Hackers as Amplifiers of Journalism’s Digital Futures

Andreas Hepp

312–335
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Big Data Discourses| Data Feelings: Everyday Affects and Sensory Dimensions of Personal Digital Data

Ash Watson, Deborah Lupton

336–357
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Big Data Discourses| Aesthetics of Boundless Insight: On the Scalar Ideology of the Data Imaginary

Magdalena Krysztoforska, Oliver Kenny

358–376
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Big Data Discourse| A New Source of the Self? A Critical View on the Domestication of Data

Jun Yu

377–396
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Big Data Discourses| Deceptive Stories About Scale: Digital Technology, Public Services, and the Promise of Efficiency

Alison B. Powell

397–416
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Big Data Discourses| Data in India’s Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI): A Deliberative Policy Ecology Approach

Preeti Raghunath

417–434
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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

435–455
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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

456–480
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Features

Anti-Media Media: A Normative Approach to Media Positionality

Ayala Panievsky

714–730
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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

1–10
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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

11–17
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Book Reviews

Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed, Media, Culture, and Decolonization: Re-righting the Subaltern Histories of Ghana

Ignatius G. D. Suglo

1582–1584
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Christopher Pinney with the PhotoDemos Collective (Eds.), Citizens of Photography: The Camera and the Political Imagination

Kaitlyn E. Rich

1585–1588
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Zeynep Bulut, Building a Voice: Sound, Surface, Skin

Can Cui

1589–1591
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Burcu Baykurt, Smart as a City: The Politics of Test-bed Urbanism

Jian Xiao

1535–1537
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Bo Ruberg, How to Queer the World: Radical Worldbuilding through Video Games

Sabrina "Bri" Sonner

1538–1540
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Benjamin Toff, Ruth Palmer, and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Avoiding the News: Reluctant Audiences for Journalism

Trish Audette-Longo

1541–1544
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Phaedra C. Pezzullo, Beyond Straw Men: Plastic Pollution and Networked Cultures of Care

Sohinee Bera

1545–1547
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Noor Ghazal Aswad, Searching for Solidarity: Revolutionary Dreams and Radical Social Movements

Marwa Abdalla

1548–1551
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Dara Z. Strolovitch, When Bad Things Happen to Privileged People: Race, Gender, and What Makes a Crisis in America

Aaron A. Toscano

1552–1554
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Dal Yong Jin, Cultural Production of Hallyu in the Digital Platform Era: Industry Perspectives

Miri Moon

1555–1557
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Curtis Marez, Producing Precarity: The Costs of Making TV in Poor Places

David Frank

1401–1404
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Karrmen Crey, Producing Sovereignty: The Rise of Indigenous Media in Canada

Oluwasemilore Adeyemi , Ian Reilly

1405–1407
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Robin L. Nabi and Jessica Gall Myrick (Eds.), Emotions in the Digital World: Exploring Affective Experience and Expression in Online Interactions

Felicia Lu

1408–1411
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Judit Bayer, Digital Media Regulation Within the European Union: A Framework for a New Media Order

Guosong Shao

1412–1414
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Francesco Casetti, Screening Fears: On Protective Media

Stephen Hickson

1415–1417
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Mora Matassi and Pablo J. Boczkowski, To Know Is to Compare: Studying Social Media Across Nations, Media, and Platforms

Shahid Minhas

1418–1421
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Emma L. Briant and Vian Bakir (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of the Influence Industry

Rory Gates

1422–1424
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Peter Neijens, Theo Araujo, Judith Möller, and Claes de Vreese (Eds.), Measuring Exposure and Attention to Media and Communication: Solutions to Wicked Problems

Yuhui Zhu

1425–1427
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Giota Alevizou, The Web of Knowledge: Encyclopedias and Authority in the Digital Age

Matthew A. Vetter

1307–1310
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Rob Kitchin, Critical Data Studies: An A to Z Guide to Concepts and Methods

Ivo Furman

1311–1314
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Jeffrey Boase, The Digital Bind: Constant Connectivity and the Reconfiguring of Family, Work, and Friendship

S M Mehedi Zaman

1315–1318
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Héctor Beltrán, Code Work: Hacking Across the US/México Techno-Borderlands

Shukadev Amgain

1319–1322
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Karen Tongson, Normporn: Queer Viewers and the TV That Soothes Us

Em Hathaway

1323–1326
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Julieta Brambila, Mexico’s Resilient Journalists: How Reporters Manage Risk and Cope with Violence

Sumana Chattopadhyay

1327–1330
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Fan Yang, Disorienting Politics: Chimerican Media and Transpacific Entanglements

Narmin Gezer

1187–1189
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Oliver L. Haimson, Trans Technologies

Jack McLaren

937–939
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Matt Sienkiewicz and Nick Marx, That’s Not Funny: How the Right Makes Comedy Work for Them

Madelijn Strick

919–922
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Mirca Madianou, Technocolonialism: When Technology for Good is Harmful

Jillian C. York

923–925
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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

926–928
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Vassil Girginov and Katerina Girginova (Eds.), Handbook on Sport and Culture

Argyro Elisavet Manoli

929–932
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Hanan Badr and Karin G. Wilkins (Eds.), Critical Communication Research With Global Inclusivity

Yujie Huang

933–936
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Samuel Woolley, Manufacturing Consensus: Understanding Propaganda in the Era of Automation and Anonymity

Chang Sup Park

884–887
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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

888–891
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Steffan Blayney, Joey Hornsby, and Savannah Whaley (Eds.), The Body Productive: Rethinking Capitalism, Work and the Body

Whitney-Jocelyn Kouaho

892–894
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Jathan Sadowski, The Mechanic and the Luddite: A Ruthless Criticism of Technology and Capitalism

MC Forelle

895–898
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Bohyeong Kim, Critically Capitalist: The Spirit of Asset Capitalism in South Korea

Micky Lee

731–733
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Catherine D’Ignazio, Counting Feminicide: Data Feminism in Action

Muge Yuce

734–737
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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

738–740
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Laila Shereen Sakr, Arabic Glitch: Technoculture, Data Bodies, and Archives

Nathaniel Greenberg

741–743
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Aeron Davis, Political Communication: An Introduction for Crisis Times (2nd ed.)

Cleves Nkie Mongo

650–653
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Thomas S. Mullaney, The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age

Weilin Zhu

654–657
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Beth A. Haller, Disabled People Transforming Media Culture for a More Inclusive World (1st ed.)

Russell Adzedu

658–660
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Alfred L. Martin Jr., Fandom for Us by Us: The Pleasures and Practices of Black Audiences

Gordon Alley-Young

661–664
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Timothy Recuber, The Digital Departed: How We Face Death, Commemorate Life, and Chase Virtual Immortality

Terilee Edwards-Hewitt

665–668
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Göran Bolin and Per Ståhlberg, Managing Meaning in Ukraine: Information, Communication, and Narration Since the Euromaidan Revolution

Andrei Richter

210–212
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Eviane Leidig, The Women of the Far Right: Social Media Influencers and Online Radicalization

Shahla Shahnaz Dyuti

207–209
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Jabari M. Evans, Hip-Hop Civics: Connected Learning in the Rap Classroom

Rachel Williams

203–206
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Amanda D. Lotz, After Mass Media: Storytelling for Microaudiences in the Twenty-First Century

Damián Fernández Pedemonte

199–202
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Rodney Benson, Mattias Hessérus, Timothy Neff, and Julie Sedel, How Media Ownership Matters

Murat Akser

134–137
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Natalie Fenton, Democratic Delusions: How the Media Hollows Out Democracy and What We Can Do About It

Fritz Kessler

138–140
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Michelle Cho and Jesook Song (Eds.), Mediating Gender in Post-Authoritarian South Korea

Young A. Jung

141–143
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John M. Jordan, The Rise of the Algorithms: How YouTube and TikTok Conquered the World

Chang Sup Park

144–147
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