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Communication and Change

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A peer-reviewed journal dedicated to advancing the understanding of communication in the context of rapid technological and societal transformation.

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Communication and Change @cacspringer.bsky.social · Jul 4

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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Communication and Change

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

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Communication and Change @cacspringer.bsky.social · Jul 4

📚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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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...

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Communication and Change @cacspringer.bsky.social · Jul 4

📚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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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 ...

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Communication and Change @cacspringer.bsky.social · Jul 4

📚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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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...

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Communication and Change @cacspringer.bsky.social · Jul 4

📚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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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...

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Communication and Change @cacspringer.bsky.social · Jul 4

📚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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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...

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Communication and Change @cacspringer.bsky.social · Jul 4

📚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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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...

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Communication and Change @cacspringer.bsky.social · Jul 4

🎉🎉🔥🔥Want to know more about how scholars should study self-extension afforded by AI-MC? Check this out!😊

Morgan Quinn Ross @mqrmobile.bsky.social · Apr 30

Excited to share a new article on AI self-extension 🤖 Led by Scott Campbell + w @nellison.bsky.social, we consider how aspects of AI facilitate dimensions of self-extension 🤳 as well as AI-mobile convergence 📲 Check it out in Communication + Change: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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...

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Communication and Change @cacspringer.bsky.social · Jul 4

📚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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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...

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Communication and Change @cacspringer.bsky.social · Jul 4

📚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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Communication, change, and the challenge of AI: an introduction to the inaugural issue of Communication and Change - Communication and Change

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Communication and Change @cacspringer.bsky.social · Jul 4

📚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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Introducing Communication and Change: a journal for empirically grounded communication research and theory - Communication and Change

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Communication and Change @cacspringer.bsky.social · Jul 4

📚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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Communication and Change: our vision - Communication and Change

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Communication and Change @cacspringer.bsky.social · Jul 4

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 @cacspringer.bsky.social · Jun 18

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 ...

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Communication and Change @cacspringer.bsky.social · Jun 18

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 ...

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Communication and Change @cacspringer.bsky.social · Jun 18

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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Communication and Change

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

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