Communication and Change

link.springer.comCommunication and ChangeDedicated to advancing the understanding of communication in the context of rapid technological and societal transformation Promotes communication research ...

27 July

C&C CFP🔥 “AI in Business and Strategic Communication” guest-edited by Drs. Hua Jiang @huajiang.bsky.social, Yi Luo, and Arunima Krishna @arunimakrishna.bsky.social. 📅Abstract ddl: Sept 15, 2026 📅Full article ddl: March 15th, 2027 For more details: link.springer.com/journal/4438...

1 July

🔥C&C Special Issue | The AI Revolution in Communication Research: Methods, Measurements, and Challenges How can AI be studied, and how can AI be leveraged to study communication phenomena? 🔍 Read our special issue featuring five articles：https://link.springer.com/collections/igeidedeji

16 June

C&C CFP🔥: “Algorithms, AI, and Computational Communication: Frontiers in Agent-Based Research” guest-edited by Drs. Jinhui Li, Wen Shi & Mario Haim @marhai.bsky.social. 📅Abstract ddl: Sept 1, 2026. 📅Paper ddl: Jan 15, 2027（6,000-10,000 words). See more: link.springer.com/journal/4438...

link.springer.comToward an integrative model of agenda setting theory: a sociotechnical typology for the age of platformization and agentic AI - Communication and ChangeAgenda setting theory has traditionally been framed as a linear, top-down process linking media agendas to public agendas, with agenda actants conceptualized primarily as human actors. The rise of dig...

📚 Articles in 2026 What are the complex dynamics of agenda flows in emerging communication technologies? Drs. Lindita Camaj @linditacamaj.bsky.social & Md Mahbubul Haque Bhuiyan offer an exploratory integrative model of agenda setting research🤖📰 Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

link.springer.comThe agenda game: rethinking the basis of agenda-setting and related research in the age of AI - Communication and ChangeThe mass adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) systems, ranging from relatively simple bots to complex large language models (LLMs), poses deep challenges to the conceptual foundations of agenda se...

📚Articles in 2026 How does AI challenge the foundations of agenda-setting theory? Drs. Josh T. L. Anderson, Phillip Arceneaux, Qiuyue Cho-Li & Spiro Kiousis rethink the basis of agenda-setting and argue for a significant extension of agenda-setting🤖📰 Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

📚 Articles in 2026 How does AI challenge the foundations of agenda-setting theory? Drs. Josh T. L. Anderson, Phillip Arceneaux, Qiuyue Cho-Li & Spiro Kiousis rethink the role of AI systems and argue for a significant extension of agenda-setting🤖📰 Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

link.springer.comSynthesizing agendas: mapping the transformative potential of generative AI for agenda setting effects - Communication and ChangeFrom an agenda-setting perspective, the present study compares the structure of issue, candidate, and party emphasis in AI chatbot responses during the 2025 Norwegian election campaign with content fr...

📚Articles in 2026 How might GenAI reshape agenda-setting? Dr. Stefan Geiß @gei3s.bsky.social compares how AI chatbots emphasize political issues, candidates, and parties relative to search engines and news websites during the 2025 Norwegian election🗳️ Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

link.springer.comThe responsibility to inform: How AI companies’ transparent communication practice influences public readiness in a cross-national context - Communication and ChangeArtificial intelligence (AI) companies face increasing societal scrutiny as their technologies diffuse rapidly, creating both benefits and risks. A central challenge lies in public readiness – the pre...

📚 Articles in 2026 Are you ready for using 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: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

link.springer.comWhen the AI author is not disclosed: how cognitive dispositions affect audience perceptions of AI-generated news across topics - Communication and ChangeWithout explicit cues that specify the AI-authorship, how would individuals evaluate AI-generated news? This study examines this question by focusing on user-level characteristics, encompassing cognit...

📚Articles in 2026 When AI authorship goes undisclosed, how do audiences evaluate AI-generated news? Dr. Mingxiao Sui explores how cognitive dispositions, attitudinal orientations, and evaluative competencies shape perceptions of AI-written journalism📰🤖 Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

12 May

👤 Q&A with Dr. Brandtzæg @petterbb1969.bsky.social, 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: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

📚 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👥🤖. Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

📚 Articles in 2025 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🌎 Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

📚 Articles in 2025 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🤖 Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

📚 Articles in 2025 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⚠️ Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

📚 Articles in 2025 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. 👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

📚 Articles in 2025 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 🕰️ Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

📚 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: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

📚 Articles in 2025 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 🔬🤖 Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

📚 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⚖️ 👉: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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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🧠🤖 Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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. More info: link.springer.com/journal/4438...

link.springer.com100 years of communication: change and continuity in inaugural communication journals 1924–2024 - Communication and ChangeThe 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. Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

link.springer.comArtificial intelligence as primitive accumulation: enclosure, extraction, exploitation - Communication and ChangeAI 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. Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

link.springer.comMobile AI: Communication and Mobility After the Smartphone - Communication and ChangeOver 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. Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

link.springer.comA framework for thinking about and deploying ethics in AI - Communication and ChangeMany 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. Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

link.springer.comGenerative AI and its disruptive challenge to journalism: an institutional analysis - Communication and ChangeThis 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. Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

link.springer.comExtending the self through AI-mediated communication: functional, ontological, and anthropomorphic extensions - Communication and ChangeIncreasingly, 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. See: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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

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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...

link.springer.comAn ecological approach to debated questions in communication research: issue competition, media convergence, and AI-generated content - Communication and ChangeEcology 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. Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

link.springer.comCommunication, change, and the challenge of AI: an introduction to the inaugural issue of Communication and Change - Communication and ChangeCommunication 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. Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

link.springer.comIntroducing Communication and Change: a journal for empirically grounded communication research and theory - Communication and ChangeCommunication 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. View the full-text: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

link.springer.comCommunication and Change: our vision - Communication and ChangeCommunication 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. View the full-text: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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.” Read more: link.springer.com/journal/44382

18 June 2025

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 See also: link.springer.com/journal/4438...

18 June 2025

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 📰 More info: link.springer.com/journal/4438...