[Air-L] Communication and Change, Articles published in 2025

[Yu Tian]

Hi AoIR,

Happy 2026! We are pleased to share that 2025 marks a milestone for Communication and Change with 20 peer-reviewed and editorial articles published and several special issues scheduled for publication in 2026! We invite you to take a look.


https://link.springer.com/journal/44382

Table of Contents


  1.  Building a methodological profile for communication’s study of the passive generation of information

Huma Rasheed & Robert Holbert


  1.  Stuck in the middleware with you: the challenges of capitalizing a market-oriented approach to platform governance

Blake Hallinan, Omer Rothenstein & Nicholas A. John


  1.  The end of experimental research as we know it? A perspective on generative artificial intelligence in communication science

Jörg Matthes & Sofie Vranken


  1.  The evolution of agenda-setting research and theory from 1972 to 2025: from newspapers and TV to social media and artificial intelligence

David H. Weaver


  1.  Media History vs. Media Change: ahistoricism, technological determinism, and other problems

Otávio Daros


  1.  A chatbot for the soul: mental health care, privacy, and intimacy in AI-based conversational agents

Tamara Kneese, Briana Vecchione & Alice Marwick


  1.  Using large language models for survey research in communication: opportunities and challenges

Sebastián Valenzuela, Stephan Winter & Sebastián Rivera


  1.  A bias towards neutrality? How LLM guardrail sensitivity affects classification

Richard Rogers & Xiaoke Zhang


  1.  Reimagining AI in Latin America: situated narratives of users, developers, and decision-makers on understanding and governing AI

Teresa Correa, Francisca Luco, Mónica Humeres, Dusan Cotoras, Alexandra Davidoff, Yelena Hernández-Estrada, Iñaki Oyarzún-Merino & Claudia López


  1.  Emerging AI individualism: how young people integrate social AI into everyday life

Petter Bae Brandtzaeg, Asbjørn Følstad & Marita Skjuve


  1.  Communication, change, and the challenge of AI: an introduction to the inaugural issue of Communication and Change

James E. Katz


  1.  Generative AI and its disruptive challenge to journalism: An institutional analysis

Seth C. Lewis, Andrea L. Guzman, Thomas R. Schmidt, Bibo Lin


  1.  Introducing Communication and Change: A journal for empirically grounded communication research and theory

James E. Katz


  1.  100 years of communication: Change and continuity in inaugural communication journals 1924–2024

Lee Humphreys, Didem Özkul & Stephanie Belina


  1.  Artificial intelligence as primitive accumulation: Enclosure, extraction, exploitation

Graham Murdock


  1.  Mobile AI: Communication and mobility after the smartphone

Gerard Goggin


  1.  A framework for thinking about and deploying ethics in AI

Peng Hwa Ang


  1.  Extending the self through AI-mediated communication: Functional, ontological, and anthropomorphic extensions

Scott W. Campbell, Nicole B. Ellison & Morgan Quinn Ross


  1.  An ecological approach to debated questions in communication research: Issue competition, media convergence, and AI-generated content

Jonathan J. H. Zhu & Tai-Quan Peng


  1.  Communication and Change: Our Vision

James E. Katz, Baohua Zhou, Lei Guo & Jianhua Yao



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