Communication and Change

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

[Communication and Change @CAC_Springer]

📚 Articles in 2026
What are the complex dynamics of agenda flows in emerging communication technologies? Drs. Lindita Camaj @Lindita_Camaj & Md Mahbubul Haque Bhuiyan offer an exploratory integrative model of agenda setting research🤖📰
Read more: https://t.co/20OBVRwIIj

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📚 Articles in 2026
How does AI challenge the foundations of agenda-setting theory?
Dr. Josh T. L. Anderson, Phillip Arceneaux @phil_arceneaux, Qiuyue Cho-Li @Choyaaa__ & Spiro Kiousis @skiousis rethink the role of AI systems📰
Read more: https://t.co/luZovpYQhU

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📚 Articles in 2026
How might GenAI reshape agenda-setting? Dr. Stefan Geiß @gei2s compares how AI chatbots emphasize political issues, candidates, and parties relative to search engines and news websites during the 2025 Norwegian election🗳️
Read more: https://t.co/BUQXuFJznI

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📚Articles in 2026
Are you ready for AI? Drs. Hao Xu @Dr_HaoXu & Chuqing Dong explore how transparent communication from AI companies influence public readiness to engage with AI products in the U.S. and China🤖🌍
Read more: https://t.co/wFYEHDkKnL

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📚Articles in 2026
When AI authorship goes undisclosed, how do audiences evaluate AI-generated news?
Dr. Mingxiao Sui explores how cognitive dispositions, attitude orientations, and evaluative competencies shape perceptions of AI-written news🤖
Read more: https://t.co/9UrB3WLQsz

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👤 Q&A with Dr. Brandtzæg @PetterBB, author of C&C 2025 Top Downloaded Articles

🧠 Emerging AI individualism

“What surprised me most was how quickly and naturally many younger users integrated AI into everyday life.”

🔗 Read more: https://t.co/7Emew9Uwp3

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📚 Articles in 2025
How do young people integrate social AI into everyday life? Brandtzaeg @PetterBB, Følstad @asbjrn & Skjuve introduce AI individualism to explain new forms of AI-mediated social support—and emerging risks. 👥🤖
Read more: https://t.co/7Emew9Uwp3

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📚 Articles in 2025
How is AI understood outside the Global North? Dr. Correa @tcorrear et al. examine situated narratives in Chile, revealing how power, transparency, and governance are negotiated in local contexts🌎
Read more: https://t.co/qsHKWbrpOE

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📚 Articles in 2025
Do AI safety guardrails flatten meaning? Drs. Rogers @richardrogers & Zhang show how bias mitigation in LLMs can push classifications toward neutrality—reshaping how knowledge is automated and interpreted🤖
Read more: https://t.co/gstjpziiwt

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LLMs promise efficiency—but at what cost? Drs. Valenzuela @SebaValenz, Winter @MediaInvierno & Rivera assess how AI reshapes survey design and analysis, highlighting both methodological opportunities and ethical pitfalls⚠️
Read more: https://t.co/pwbOaRik0F

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📚 Articles in 2025
What happens when AI becomes a source of spiritual and mental care🧘? Drs. Kneese @tamigraph, Vecchione & Marwick @alicetiara use community red-teaming to reveal risks around privacy, intimacy, and emotional dependency.
Read more: https://t.co/4fq1i0xP84

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📚 Articles in 2025
Does “media change” risk erasing history? Dr. Daros @OtavioDaros critiques ahistoricism and technological determinism, arguing for renewed attention to continuity, context, and human agency in media studies🕰️
Read more: https://t.co/4Hcu9YQuFA

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📚 Articles in 2025
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➡️
Read more: https://t.co/scFkFPzWJN

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Articles in 2025
Is generative AI transforming experimental research—or complicating it? Drs. Matthes & Vranken @SofieVranken_ identify three paradoxes reshaping how communication scholars design, simulate, and interpret experiments🔬🤖
Read more: https://t.co/ye2T5zibK9

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📚 Articles in 2025
Can middleware really fix platform governance? Drs. Hallinan @blakeplease, Rothenstein & John examine Bluesky to show why market-based moderation remains as much a cultural struggle as a policy solution⚖️📱
Read more: https://t.co/T0Du2NveGR

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📚 Articles in 2025
How should communication research respond to AI as a new mode of passive information generation? Drs. Rasheed & Holbert revisit media history to rethink methods for studying AI-driven communication change🧠🤖
Read more: https://t.co/gGhCtO9hEf

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C&C CFP🔥: “Dynamics of Human Communication” guest-edited by Drs. Robert F. Potter & Jingjing Han @JingjingHan1.

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

APC fully sponsored by Fudan University.

More info: https://t.co/QqG2KPo6Vu

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📚Inaugural Issue
How do communication journals respond to "change" in 100 years? Drs. Lee Humphreys @LeeHumphreys, Didem Özkul, & Stephanie Belina @StephBelina sampled the top 50 communication journals and conducted a discourse analysis.
Read more: https://t.co/AvzAygD2pB

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📚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.
Read more: https://t.co/pw8xYDqxxD

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📚Inaugural Issue
Mobility & AI: Gerard Goggin @ggoggin 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.
Read more: https://t.co/Whz9GhS82J