Communication and Change

👤 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: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

📚 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: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

📚 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: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

📚 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: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

📚 Articles in 2025 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: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

📚 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: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

📚 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: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

📚 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/10.100…

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: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

📚 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: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

📚 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: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

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: link.springer.com/journal/44382/…

📚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: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

📚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/10.100…

📚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: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

📚Inaugural Issue What are the true ethical dilemmas of AI (right vs. right)? Of various ethical theories, Dr. Peng Hwa Ang @PengHwaAng concludes that the most appropriate is Aristotle's Golden Mean, which should be seen as a creative solution. Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

📚Inaugural Issue How does AI-Mediated Communication (AI-MC) lead to perceptions of self-extension? Drs. Scott W. Campbell, Nicole B. Ellison, & Morgan Quinn Ross explore functional, ontological, and anthropomorphic self-extension via AI-MC. Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

📚Inaugural Issue Drs. Seth C. Lewis @SethCLewis, Andrea L. Guzman, Thomas R. Schmidt @TRSchmidt16, & Bibo Lin examine the transformative impact of generative artificial intelligence (AI) on journalism through the lens of institutionalism. Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

📚Inaugural Issue How does an ecological approach apply to communication research? Drs. Jonathan J. H. Zhu @cityu_jzhu & Tai-Quan Peng advocate this using three notable debates: issue competition, media convergence, and AIGC. Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

📚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/10.100…