Chinese Journal of Communication

New pub alert! A new study by Li and Li examines how children’s media agency emerges through everyday practice rather than existing as a pre-given capacity. Read here: doi.org/10.1080/17544750.202…

New pub alert! Drawing on 16 months of ethnography, Zhang’s study shows how Chinese DAOs enact autonomy in practice by combining Web2 and Web3 tools and localizing digital nomad identities to build nonprofit, public-oriented communities. Read here: doi.org/10.1080/17544750.202…

New pub alert! Mhondera et al. use a case study of China’s Jinyun County in Zhejiang Province to analyze how the country’s local governments translate and legitimize the nation’s ecological civilization discourse.  Read here:  doi.org/10.1080/17544750.202…

New pub alert! Drawing on social vision theory and the concept of epistemic authority, Luo et al. examine how color tone and information design complexity in AI-mediated healthcare interfaces shape perceived authority and usage intention.  Read here: doi.org/10.1080/17544750.202…

New pub alert! Liu & Fong introduce the concept of discursive channeling to explore how sympathetic official discourse can be used to channel protests, redirecting radical claims into more moderate ones. Read here: doi.org/10.1080/17544750.202…

New pub alert! Bai and Yao’s new study challenges the monolithic view of technology adoption by proposing an Intraorganizational Domestication Dynamics Framework and conceptualizing the newsroom as a contested domestication field. Read here:  doi.org/10.1080/17544750.202…

New pub alert! The post-pandemic era has witnessed a surge in Chinese transnational migration. Liu’s new article focuses on the new forms of overseas Chinese grassroots activism and the formation of transnational dissident communities. Read here: doi.org/10.1080/17544750.202…

New pub alert! Wang and Feng show how e-commerce livestreaming reshapes rural China through “co-constitutive gentrification from within,” where who tells the story matters as much as who owns the land. Read here: doi.org/10.1080/17544750.202…

New pub alert! A new study by Li et al. extends moral elevation theory to digital contexts, demonstrating how fan communities transform grief into moral and cultural practices. Read here: doi.org/10.1080/17544750.202…

New pub alert! Based on 27 semi-structured interviews with Douyin content creators, Ma et al. conceptualize self-censorship as an iterative practice of managing visibility, legitimacy, and safety. Read here: doi.org/10.1080/17544750.202…

New pub alert! Zheng et al. investigated how authentic crisis communication impacts crisis efficacy and integrity-based organizational trust. Read here: doi.org/10.1080/17544750.202…

New pub alert! Chang and Hong's study examines how algorithmic systems, user practices, and governance arrangements are co-constitutive in shaping boundary-making and internal ordering in interest-based communities. Read here: doi.org/10.1080/17544750.202…

New pub alert! A study by Zhang et al. proposes a “response–emotion–communication” model to examine how corporate crisis response strategies and response framing shape public emotion and communication behavior. Read here: doi.org/10.1080/17544750.202…

New pub alert! A new study by Zhang et al. introduces the Human–AI Communication Pathway Optimization Model to explain how transparency of thinking, source referencing, and response latency can influence adoption intention. Read here: doi.org/10.1080/17544750.202…

New pub alert! Chen’s new study examines how female rappers strategically navigate gender expression, affective alliances, and negotiated authenticity within the field of Chinese hip-hop reality shows. Read here: doi.org/10.1080/17544750.202…

New pub alert! Jin and Fu’s research adopts a translocality perspective to examine how mainland Chinese professional migrants in Hong Kong (re)configure digital habitus through WeChat and WhatsApp. Read here: doi.org/10.1080/17544750.202…

New pub alert! A new study by Feng et al. fills a gap in the research on stand-up comedy in China by shifting attention from mainstream Chinese-language scenes to the expatriate circuit, a key site of intercultural negotiation. Read here: doi.org/10.1080/17544750.202…

New pub alert! In 2025, RedNote witnessed a surge of users identifying as “TikTok refugees”. A new study from Meng et al. examined how memes under the viral hashtag #tiktokrefugee were used by groups during cross-cultural platform migration. Read here: doi.org/10.1080/17544750.202…

New pub alert! Han and Ge’s new study examines the “easy girl” discourse in contemporary Chinese digital spaces, specifically its construction, circulation, and public contestation following a high-profile transnational scandal. Read here: doi.org/10.1080/17544750.202…

New pub alert! Lu and Liu’s study shows how the talent show Infinity and Beyond turns Cantopop into a tool of cultural governance, reshaping memory for national unity while erasing its more complex, hybrid, gender-fluid, and avant-garde past. Read here:  doi.org/10.1080/17544750.202…