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Communication and Change @CAC_Springer

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

Joined October 2024
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📚 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: link.springer.com/article/10…

Toward an integrative model of agenda setting theory: a sociotechnical typology for the age of...

Communication and Change - Agenda setting theory has traditionally been framed as a linear, top-down process linking media agendas to public agendas, with agenda actants conceptualized primarily as...

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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: link.springer.com/article/10…

The agenda game: rethinking the basis of agenda-setting and related research in the age of AI

Communication and Change - The mass adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) systems, ranging from relatively simple bots to complex large language models (LLMs), poses deep challenges to the...

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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: link.springer.com/article/10…

Synthesizing agendas: mapping the transformative potential of generative AI for agenda setting...

Communication and Change - From an agenda-setting perspective, the present study compares the structure of issue, candidate, and party emphasis in AI chatbot responses during the 2025 Norwegian...

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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: link.springer.com/article/10…

The responsibility to inform: How AI companies’ transparent communication practice influences...

Communication and Change - Artificial intelligence (AI) companies face increasing societal scrutiny as their technologies diffuse rapidly, creating both benefits and risks. A central challenge lies...

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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: link.springer.com/article/10…

When the AI author is not disclosed: how cognitive dispositions affect audience perceptions of...

Communication and Change - Without explicit cues that specify the AI-authorship, how would individuals evaluate AI-generated news? This study examines this question by focusing on user-level...

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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: link.springer.com/article/10…
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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: link.springer.com/article/10…

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

Communication and Change - Social AI services like ChatGPT and My AI are increasingly integrated into the lives of young people. Despite this growing use, there is limited research on how youth...

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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: link.springer.com/article/10…

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

Communication and Change - AI technologies are rapidly transforming societies, yet dominant narratives about AI development and governance often emerge from the Global North, overlooking...

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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: link.springer.com/article/10…

A bias towards neutrality? How LLM guardrail sensitivity affects classification

Communication and Change - The advent of generative AI platforms and large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT has prompted scholarly work in two seemingly disconnected directions:...

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📚 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…

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

Communication and Change - Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming survey research, offering powerful tools like large language models (LLMs) to analyze human beliefs, opinions, and behaviors....

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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: link.springer.com/article/10…

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

Communication and Change - Artificial intelligence-based conversational agents—chatbots—are increasingly integrated into telehealth platforms, employee wellness programs, and mobile...

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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: link.springer.com/article/10…

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

Communication and Change - By examining fashionable concepts such as Media Change and Media Evolution, this article argues that, although they are often presented as updating or replacing...

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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: link.springer.com/article/10…

The evolution of agenda-setting research and theory from 1972 to 2025: from newspapers and TV to...

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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: link.springer.com/article/10…

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

Communication and Change - Given the growing role of artificial intelligence (AI) in research, most scholars have focused on how AI can facilitate the research process. While these reflections are...

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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: link.springer.com/article/10…

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

Communication and Change - Social media faces a crisis of trust over the management of speech, with critics simultaneously arguing platforms remove too much and too little. Middleware, a recent...

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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: link.springer.com/article/10…

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

Communication and Change - As a communication revolution, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is expected to rival the introduction of print in terms of the pervasiveness of its influence. Havelock...

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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: link.springer.com/journal/44…

Communication and Change

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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: link.springer.com/article/10…

100 years of communication: change and continuity in inaugural communication journals 1924–2024

Communication and Change - The 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...

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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: link.springer.com/article/10…

Artificial intelligence as primitive accumulation: enclosure, extraction, exploitation

Communication and Change - AI systems are imposing escalating calls on the key resources of energy, water, land and minerals and on the hidden labour, often located ‘offshore’, required...

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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: link.springer.com/article/10…

Mobile AI: Communication and Mobility After the Smartphone

Communication and Change - Over 4 decades, mobile phones have become a near universal service that underpin digital connectivity global societies rely upon. This taken-for-granted status...

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