Communication and Change

📚 Articles in 2025
How do young people integrate social AI into everyday life? Drs. Brandtzaeg @petterbb1969.bsky.social, Følstad & Skjuve introduce AI individualism to explain new forms of AI-mediated social support—and emerging risks👥🤖.
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How is AI understood outside the Global North? Dr. Correa et al. examine situated narratives in Chile, revealing how power, transparency, and governance are negotiated in local contexts🌎
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Do AI safety guardrails flatten meaning? Dr. Rogers & Zhang show how bias mitigation in LLMs can push classifications toward neutrality—reshaping how knowledge is automated and interpreted🤖
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LLMs promise efficiency but at what cost? Drs. Valenzuela @sebavalenz.bsky.social, Winter @stephanwinter.bsky.social & Rivera assess how AI reshapes survey, highlighting both methodological opportunities and ethical pitfalls⚠️
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What happens when AI becomes a source of spiritual and mental care🧘? Drs. Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social, Vecchione @briana-v.bsky.social & Marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social use community red-teaming to reveal risks around privacy and intimacy.
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Does “media change” risk erasing history? Dr. Daros critiques ahistoricism and technological determinism, arguing for renewed attention to continuity, context, and human agency in media studies 🕰️
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From newspapers and TV to social media and AI, Dr. Weaver traces over five decades of agenda-setting research—showing how core theories adapt amid profound media transformation➡️
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How does generative AI simplify or complicate experiments? Drs. Matthes & Vranken @sofievranken.bsky.social identify three paradoxes reshaping how communication scholars design, simulate, and interpret experiments 🔬🤖
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📚 Articles in 2025
Can middleware fix platform governance? Drs. Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social, Rothenstein @hebrewuniversity.bsky.social & John examine Bluesky to show why market-based moderation remains as much a cultural struggle as a policy solution⚖️
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📚 Articles in 2025
How should communication research respond to AI as a new mode of passive information generation? Drs. Rasheed @humarasheed.bsky.social & Holbert revisit media history to rethink methods for studying AI-driven communication change🧠🤖
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Communication and Change Dedicated to advancing the understanding of communication in the context of rapid technological and societal transformation Promotes communication research ...

C&C CFP🔥: “Dynamics of Human Communication” guest-edited by Drs. Robert F. Potter & Jingjing Han @jingjinghan.bsky.social.

📅Abstract ddl: Oct 15, 2025.
📅Paper ddl: Feb 15, 2026.
Word count: 6,000-10,000 words.

APC fully sponsored by Fudan University.

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100 years of communication: change and continuity in inaugural communication journals 1924–2024 - Communication and Change The field of communication has responded to changes in the world through its journals. In this study, we examine how our field has responded to ‘change’ over time particularly along the axes of techno...

📚Inaugural Issue
How do communication journals respond to "change" in 100 years? Drs Lee Humphreys, Didem Özkul, & Stephanie Belina sampled the top 50 journals and found that the opportunities and concerns about change have long shaped the field.
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Artificial intelligence as primitive accumulation: enclosure, extraction, exploitation - Communication and Change AI systems are imposing escalating calls on the key resources of energy, water, land and minerals and on the hidden labour, often located ‘offshore’, required to build and service them. These demands ...

📚Inaugural Issue
Demands imposed by AI systems are the latest episodes in the history of capitalist accumulation and exploitation. Dr. Graham Murdock asks what implications these issues have for public policies towards AI.
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Mobile AI: Communication and Mobility After the Smartphone - Communication and Change Over 4 decades, mobile phones have become a near universal service that underpin digital connectivity global societies rely upon. This taken-for-granted status of the smartphone occurs, in the wake of...

📚Inaugural Issue
Mobility & AI: Gerard Goggin focuses on mobile AI as a critical and complex arena in which communication futures–not least after the smartphone–are reimagined, debated, designed, and enacted.
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A framework for thinking about and deploying ethics in AI - Communication and Change Many codes of ethics on Artificial Intelligence (AI), although well-intentioned, have been proposed at a high level of abstraction without much thought to implementation. Companies should adopt a code...

📚Inaugural Issue
What are the true ethical dilemmas of AI (right vs. right)? Of various ethical theories, Dr. Peng Hwa Ang @angph.bsky.social concludes that the most appropriate is Aristotle's Golden Mean, which should be seen as a creative solution.
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Generative AI and its disruptive challenge to journalism: an institutional analysis - Communication and Change This conceptual article examines the transformative impact of generative artificial intelligence (AI) on journalism through the lens of institutionalism. Building on Stephen D. Reese’s definition of i...

📚Inaugural Issue
Drs. Seth C. Lewis @sethclewis.bsky.social, Andrea L. Guzman @teachguz.bsky.social, Thomas R. Schmidt, & Bibo Lin situate GenAI as a transformative force within journalism while also being an emerging institution in its own right.
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Extending the self through AI-mediated communication: functional, ontological, and anthropomorphic extensions - Communication and Change Increasingly, Artificial Intelligence (AI) assistants are used to optimize communication goals by modifying, augmenting, and generating messages in human online interactions. Scholars are just beginni...

📚Inaugural Issue
How does AI-Mediated Communication lead to self-extension perceptions? Drs. Scott W. Campbell, Nicole Ellison @nellison.bsky.social, & Morgan Quinn Ross @mqrmobile.bsky.social explore functional, ontological, and anthropomorphic aspects.
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An ecological approach to debated questions in communication research: issue competition, media convergence, and AI-generated content - Communication and Change Ecology is a scientific discipline focusing on interactions among living organisms and their environment. We advocate for applying ecological theory to communication research, using three notable deba...

📚Inaugural Issue
How does an ecological approach apply to communication research? Drs. Jonathan J. H. Zhu & Tai-Quan Peng advocate this using three notable debates: issue competition, media convergence, and AIGC.
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Communication, change, and the challenge of AI: an introduction to the inaugural issue of Communication and Change - Communication and Change Communication and Change -

📚Inaugural Issue
Before stepping into contributions, C & C presents a special thematic introduction by Dr James E. Katz, synthesizing this collection and urging that we must ask not only what AI can do for us, but also what AI will do to us.
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Introducing Communication and Change: a journal for empirically grounded communication research and theory - Communication and Change Communication and Change -

📚Inaugural Issue
Dedicated to rigorous, transparent & innovative empirical research, here is our Launch Editorial#2: “Introducing Communication and Change: A journal for empirically grounded communication research and theory” by James E. Katz.
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Communication and Change: our vision - Communication and Change Communication and Change -

📚Inaugural Issue
Why does “change” matter? Here is what C & C has to offer in our Launch Editorial#1 "Communication and Change: Our Vision" by Dr. James E. Katz, Baohua Zhou, Lei Guo @guolei2025.bsky.social, Jianhua Yao.
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C & C inaugural issue just PUBLISHED! 🎉 🎉
This issue features two launch editorials, seven research articles, accompanied by a special thematic introduction around the theme “Communication Research in the Age of AI.”
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Communication and Change Dedicated to advancing the understanding of communication in the context of rapid technological and societal transformation Promotes communication research ...

C&C Call For Papers:“AI Agents and Emerging Social Relationships,” guest edited by Drs Jonathan Zhu & Bolin Cao.

📅Abstract DDL: August 10, 2025
📅Full Paper DDL: October 10, 2025
📖Closed workshop (invite only): Late November 2025

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Communication and Change Dedicated to advancing the understanding of communication in the context of rapid technological and societal transformation Promotes communication research ...

C&C Call For Papers:“Revisiting Agenda-Setting Theory in the Age of AI,” edited by Dr. Lei Guo and Chris Vargo, David Weaver.

📅 Abstract Deadline: June 30, 2025
📅 Full Paper Deadline: October 1, 2025
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Communication and Change Dedicated to advancing the understanding of communication in the context of rapid technological and societal transformation Promotes communication research ...

We are thrilled to announce Communication and Change (C&C)!🎉🎉

Led by Editors-in-Chief Dr. James E Katz (Boston University) and Dr. Baohua Zhou (Fudan University), we aim to foster impactful scholarship in rapid technological and societal transformation.

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