Minchul Kim and Yanqin Lu find evidence for the importance of relative newsworthiness in news selection through an experiment and discuss its implications for news consumption and research in a high-choice and hyper-partisan context.

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Ofer Shinar and Elad Segev analyzed how students across four national contexts utilized Facebook Confession Boards during the global crisis of COVID-19, revealing commonalities and differences across cultures.

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Digital Feminism and Anti-Feminism in Interaction: Relational Dynamics and Hybridization Across Seven Spanish-Speaking Communities on Twitter | International Journal of Communication This study advances a relational and translocal approach to hybridization through a comparative computational analysis of how feminist and anti-feminist discourses coevolve across seven Spanish-speaking Twitter communities. Drawing on 126,978 tweets from the first year of #MeToo, we use time-series analysis, topic modeling, and cross-national comparison to examine how discourses interact and how national contexts shape thematic trajectories. We identify 4 relational patterns—mutual association, feminist-driven dynamic, anti-feminist-driven dynamic, and no association—showing that these movements are not merely reactive, but dynamically shape one another. Topic modeling reveals that specific countries assert discursive leadership, illustrating that linguistic commonality does not imply homogeneous uptake. These findings provide a comparative framework for understanding how polarized movements adapt, compete, and interact in networked publics, with implications for feminist strategizing.

Catalina Farías et al. advance a comparative framework for understanding how feminist and antifeminist discourses coevolved across seven Spanish-speaking Twitter communities, offering insights into the relational and translocal dynamics of online networked publics.

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@ethanz.bsky.social & @antisomniac.bsky.social reach into obscure parts of YouTube to present a methodologically rich exploration of what they call the "accidental archive" of online life and culture

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@cbaden.bsky.social and colleagues study political and epistemic norms in conspiracy theory supporters across four national contexts

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Among the lineup is a paper by @nicolas.recor.ca & Dominique Trudel looking at @icahdq.bsky.social ICA presidential addresses and disciplinary legitimation.

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🌸IJoC publishes 12 #openaccess papers in March, including 6 book reviews. Read at ijoc.org. 🌸

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📢IJoC published 17 #openaccess papers in February, including 8 book reviews. Read the new collection at ijoc.org

Our paper for @ijoc-usc.bsky.social explores that female characters in #sports fiction remain invisible, objectified, have secondary roles, and are underrepresented as players, coaches, and managers: ijoc.org/index.php/ij...

"What happens to communication when AI machines join the conversation?"

IJoC's newly published #openaccess Forum, moderated by @ronidanz.bsky.social and @hadar2l.bsky.social, explores how AI is reshaping the very foundations of the communication discipline. Read at ijoc.org

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Our January publications include the Special Section on "Big Data Discourses," guest edited by Charlotte Knorr & Christian Pentzold, Forum on "AI and Communication Research," moderated by
@ronidanz.bsky.social & @hadar2l.bsky.social, as well as 13 book reviews.

📢IJoC published 43 papers in January, with a new look! Along with our upgraded website and enhanced accessibility, our #openaccess articles now also have DOIs. Read the new collection at ijoc.org

The Special Section "foregrounds the power of concepts, labels, and stories about Big Data that may circulate more widely than data itself. By unpacking these discourses, the contributions open space for critique—and for imagining alternative, more accountable data futures."

"How do we imagine Big Data—and why does our imagination matter?"

The Special Section on Big Data Discourses, guest edited by Christian Pentzold and Charlotte Knorr, probes this question through a collection of 11 interdisciplinary papers, newly published in the IJoC. Read at ijoc.org

New @ijoc-usc.bsky.social CFP on Distributed Citizenship!

How do we share democratic chores across platforms, networks and infrastructures? www4.uib.no/en/research/...

Timeline:
✏️Abstracts: 15 Dec 2025
🏛️Workshop in Bergen (March 2026)
📝Papers: 31 May 2026
#commsky #polisky

Now, if you DO want a more academic evaluation of the book, here's a great review of it in @ijoc-usc.bsky.social by Oscar Gómez Pascual, who I feel really gets what the book is going for!

⚠️The IJoC's website (ijoc.org) will be in a view only state 9/16-10/16 while we complete site maintenance.

❄️During this time, the website login option will be disabled. We will not be accepting new submissions, reviews, or revisions. You may still browse and download our content.

💚Thank you.

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The 21st Century in 100 Games by Aditya Deshbandhu, reviewed by @devinasarwatay.bsky.social

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Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China by Jia Tan, reviewed by Jing Cai / cc @nyupress.bsky.social

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Aesthetics of Pop Music by Diedrich Diederichsen, reviewed by David Z. Gehring / cc @politybooks.bsky.social

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Unruly Souls: The Digital Activism of Muslim and Christian Feminists by Kristin M. Peterson, reviewed by Sahar Khamis / cc @rutgersupress.bsky.social

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Illness Politics and Hashtag Activism by @lisadiedrich.bsky.social, reviewed by Liu Yang / cc @uminnpress.bsky.social

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Black Networked Resistance: Strategic Rearticulations in the Digital Age by Raven Maragh-Lloyd / cc @ucpress.bsky.social

Black Girl Autopoetics: Agency in Everyday Digital Practice by Ashleigh Greene Wade / cc @dukepress.bsky.social

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Communications in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire: A Critical History by Burçe Çelik, reviewed by Aslı Tunç / cc @illinoispress.bsky.social

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🎆IJoC publishes the following 8 #openaccess book reviews in June🎆

The Cancel Culture Panic: How an American Obsession Went Global by @adriandaub.bsky.social, reviewed by Jonathan Turcotte-Summers / cc @stanfordpress.bsky.social

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🎆🎆JUNE PUBLICATION ALERT🎆🎆

Our 18 #openaccess papers published in June are HOT to go, complete with the Special Section on "True Costs of Misinformation," guest edited by
@joncong.bsky.social and @bostonjoan.bsky.social . Read at ijoc.org

Folks at #ica25 might wanna check out @ijoc-usc.bsky.social’s Special Section on True Costs of Misinformation, guest edited by me and @bostonjoan.bsky.social. The collection critiques mainstream frameworks of disinfo studies, written during a more hopeful "peak moment": ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc

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🌳🌳APRIL PUBLICATION ALERT🌳🌳

We published 35 #openaccess papers, including the Forum on "Oops? Interdisciplinary Stories of Sociotechnical Error," guest edited by @mikeananny.bsky.social and Simogne Hudson. Read at ijoc.org

My article on “layered surveillance” and creative ways activists maneuvered it in the 2021 #SaveSheikhJarrah movement is now out in @ijoc-usc.bsky.social
This was a great collab with Dana Hasan and Amal Nazzal @ Birzeit university, so please check their other work as well!
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Finally! I can share that my article "Forced: Perceptions of 'Woke' Politics in Videogames" has been published by @ijoc-usc.bsky.social I dive into a bit of Reddit, a bit of YouTube and a whole lot of very strong opinions. ijoc.org/index.php/ij...