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Aware but not verifying: media literacy, verification behaviour, and misinformation resilience at three universities in Somalia
Abdullahi Mohamud Mohamed
Frontiers in Communication
doi 10.3389/fcomm.2026.1986584
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Shared question, divergent verdicts: media framing of the national-disaster threshold in Indonesia’s 2025 Sumatra floods
Rudianto Rudianto · Yan Hendra · Ribut Priadi
Frontiers in Communication
doi 10.3389/fcomm.2026.1988712
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Emotional design and advertising: a systematic review of the literature on consumer behavior
Luis Miguel Viñan-Carrasco · Wilson Xavier Castro-Ortiz · Pablo Xavier Rosas-Chávez · Raúl Guillermo Zambrano-Pontón · Shawnny Daniela Dillon-Abarca
Frontiers in Communication
doi 10.3389/fcomm.2026.1893894
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The impact of social media on job search in Costa Rica: an analysis from digital communication
Carolina Ulate-Vindas · José Pablo Salazar-Aguilar · Nazira Castillo-Alfaro · Marco Andrés Carbonell-Parés
Frontiers in Communication
doi 10.3389/fcomm.2026.1927812
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Diversity, equity and inclusion in EU public communication. Between policy mainstreaming and communicative clashes
Lucia D’Ambrosi · Gabriella Radano · Valentina Taverna · Evandro Oliveira
Frontiers in Communication
doi 10.3389/fcomm.2026.1950049
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Narrating childhood under state violence: media power, territorial stigma and the Malvinas case in Ecuadorian journalism
Fernanda Tusa · Jorge Maza-Córdova · Ignacio Aguaded · Santiago Tejedor
Frontiers in Communication
doi 10.3389/fcomm.2026.1734083
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Correction: ‘Me and my besties in 50 years’. Aspirational aging in Italy’s Sciuraglam content marketing strategy
Gloria Dagnino
Frontiers in Communication
doi 10.3389/fcomm.2026.2008141
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Wicked problems, gender violence, and media ethics: Reflections on improving journalistic coverage of violence against women and girls
Leandra H. Hernández · Stevie Munz
Frontiers in Communication
doi 10.3389/fcomm.2026.1759634
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Algorithmic allure: a theoretical framework for dark AI patterns and the erosion of informed consent in AI-driven digital marketing
Keltoum Bentameur · Zineb Hamadi · Riyad Bouaici
Frontiers in Communication
doi 10.3389/fcomm.2026.1935069
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Layered narrative sovereignty: communicative authority and hybrid infrastructures in Mexican Indigenous and community media
Alma Delia Zamorano-Rojas
Frontiers in Communication
doi 10.3389/fcomm.2026.1995028
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Developing an AI literacy policy framework for responsible AI governance: perspectives from South Korean media experts
Sunkyung Shin · Jooyeun Park
Frontiers in Communication
doi 10.3389/fcomm.2026.1966278
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Cultural and multimodal realization in various AI models: text to image, image to text
Areej Albawardi · Alyaa Olwi
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doi 10.3389/fcomm.2026.1959385
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From sustainability signals to brand attitudes: the roles of locus of control, brand activism beliefs, brand genuineness, and trust among generation Z consumers
Polyxeni Jenny Palla · Evangelia Palla · Dimitris Drossos
Frontiers in Communication
doi 10.3389/fcomm.2026.1904390
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From assimilation to discursive annexation? Tracing ‘multicultural family’ in South Korean government and media discourses
Yidan Luo · Pengfei Bao
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doi 10.3389/fcomm.2026.1962502
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The dark side of marketing deception: a multidimensional analysis of customer punitive intentions and switching behaviour
Manal A. Ghoneim · Wageeh A. Nafei · Abdallah M. Elshaer · Abu Elnasr E. Sobaih · Ali Saleh Alshebami · Ahmed E. Abu Elnasr
Frontiers in Communication
doi 10.3389/fcomm.2026.1886907
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‘We should be in this…’: telling the story of the Missing Piece study
Kassandra Fernando · Ann Grand · Heather Bray · Rebecca Dalton · Bernadette Wong · Asha C. Bowen · Janessa Pickering
Frontiers in Communication
doi 10.3389/fcomm.2026.1827126
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Social media use and cosmetic surgery consideration among Chinese university students: a cross-sectional test of serial mediation through beauty ideal internalization and self-objectification
Xiujie Zhou · Danni Dai · Zhen LV · Fanghao Xiao · Chenyu Wang · Jianchao Ni
Frontiers in Communication
doi 10.3389/fcomm.2026.1932859
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Developmental trajectories of English speaking proficiency and perceived intercultural communicative competence among Japanese university students: a latent growth curve analysis
Takehiko Ito · Atsushi Iino
Frontiers in Communication
doi 10.3389/fcomm.2026.1909213
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Health literacy and patient engagement among Korean immigrants in the U.S.: exploring the emotional, cognitive, and behavioral dimensions
Seulgi Park · Rukhsana Ahmed
Frontiers in Communication
doi 10.3389/fcomm.2026.1894952
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Trauma, memory, and revenge: systemic patriarchy and female resistance in Promising Young Woman
Mathivadhani P. · Revathi P. · Ravisankar R. · Amalraj I. · Priyadarshini S.
Frontiers in Communication
doi 10.3389/fcomm.2026.1925429
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Merger or termination? Re-engineering the journalistic work environment in Egyptian national magazines: a business process re-engineering perspective
Ahmed Fathy Mahmoud
Frontiers in Communication
doi 10.3389/fcomm.2026.1861776
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Digital surveillance shaping the public sphere. The case of the use of spyware on journalists
Sofia Verza · Dimitri Bettoni
Frontiers in Communication
doi 10.3389/fcomm.2026.1930931
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Proximity-diversity paradox: was spatiotemporal proximity to news events associated with greater diversity in news topics?
Zhuo Peng
Frontiers in Communication
doi 10.3389/fcomm.2026.1919228
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A war of words: Wittgenstein, language games, and the loss of trust in the 21st century
Darrell Dooyema
Frontiers in Communication
doi 10.3389/fcomm.2026.1862032
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Platform-mediated organizational communication Microsoft Teams as socio-technical infrastructure in a Kenyan NGO
Josephine K. Mule
Frontiers in Communication
doi 10.3389/fcomm.2026.1884695
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Sharing best practices for publicly communicating about breast cancer screening using a multidisciplinary workflow
Lauren Kriss · Catherine Cunningham · Marlen Trujillo · Paulina Avila-Martinez · Olga DeSantiago · Violet Shockley · Natalia Williams · Shanice Johnson · Kathleen Hanley · Yen-Chi Le · Martha Vieco-Garcia · Monique E. Brown · Brad Love · Michael Mackert · Rosalind Bello · Lorna McNeill
Frontiers in Communication
doi 10.3389/fcomm.2026.1932337
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Responsibilization of purchasing health-related commodities: a genre-based multimodal discourse analysis of advertorials on WeChat
Luojia Wang · Chang Zhang
Frontiers in Communication
doi 10.3389/fcomm.2026.1927623
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Governing the information ecosystem under authoritarian power: epistemic conditions of public reasoning in Türkiye
Gamze Turgaylı Zengin
Frontiers in Communication
doi 10.3389/fcomm.2026.1974057
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Digital bridges or digital divides? Social media use and crosscultural interaction among students at a Chinese university
Pengyu Jiao · Qingjuan Meng
Frontiers in Communication
doi 10.3389/fcomm.2026.1927459
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Language ideology and lexical borrowing: attitudes toward Arabic loanwords among Swahili-speaking academics
Khalid Azzubaidi
Frontiers in Communication
doi 10.3389/fcomm.2026.1907973
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When relief valves leak: directed digital dissidence, curated networks, and critical information exposure across media systems
Maitha Alsaadi · Jason Gainous
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doi 10.3389/fcomm.2026.1780602
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Cultural codes in Kazakh and Nogai traditional dress: a comparative semiotic analysis of museum and documentary evidence
Gulimay Temirova · Seifolla Zhankadyrov · Zaure Ayupova · Daurenbek Kussainov · Ali Rafet Özkan
Frontiers in Communication
doi 10.3389/fcomm.2026.1892616
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Mapping the misinformation landscape: an interdisciplinary review of false and misleading information on social media during crises
Sofia Johansson · Pavel Rodin · Alice Srugies · Bengt Johansson
Frontiers in Communication
doi 10.3389/fcomm.2026.1736525
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Discursive constructions of critical consumer identity on social media: between authentic advocacy and greenwashing accusations
Hilarius Bambang Winarko · Fabianus Fensi · Endah Fantini
Frontiers in Communication
doi 10.3389/fcomm.2026.1950077
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A visual audit of diversity imagery across fortune 500 firms
John Fiset · Anika Nawar
Frontiers in Communication
doi 10.3389/fcomm.2026.1907640
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Tension, torn, or truly stuck? Understanding tensions in multi-stakeholder recommender development at legacy media companies through paradox theory
Hanne Vandenbroucke · Pieter Van der Elst · Annelien Smets · Tim Raats
Frontiers in Communication
doi 10.3389/fcomm.2026.1840975
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Political branding through journalistic disintermediation: a case based approach
Sudesh N. S. · Saradhi Gonela · Tanmoy De · Ravi Kumar Jain
Frontiers in Communication
doi 10.3389/fcomm.2026.1888357
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The role of social media in shaping purchasing behavior among consumers in the Kingdom of Bahrain
Fatima Abdullah Al-Sahhaf · Sherif Badran
Frontiers in Communication
doi 10.3389/fcomm.2026.1897772
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Women in directing and screenwriting: the capital allocation puzzle in commercial film
Anja G. Huwiler
Frontiers in Communication
doi 10.3389/fcomm.2026.1838492
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Correction: Discursive polarization in the construction of contested statehood: positive self and negative other in the Kosovo–Serbia conflict
Krenare Cerkini · Thora Tenbrink
Frontiers in Communication
doi 10.3389/fcomm.2026.1977908
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President Gustavo Petro’s calls for social mobilization as discursive risk: analyzing YouTube automatic transcripts
Joseph Livingston Crawford-Visbal · Fátima Martínez-Gutiérrez · Rolando Pérez-Vela
Frontiers in Communication
doi 10.3389/fcomm.2026.1863039
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Temporal baselines alter cross-platform estimates of brand search attention during sporting events
Tianjun Zhang · Yongqi Miao · Yingjun Jiao
Frontiers in Communication
doi 10.3389/fcomm.2026.1938976
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Transcreation of Chinese heritage food labels for cross-cultural consumption: a multimodal and reception-oriented study
Ning Li
Frontiers in Communication
doi 10.3389/fcomm.2026.1913686
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Automated detection of mutual gaze in mobile eye-tracking studies of multi-party interactions
Danny Dirker · Anja Stukenbrock
Frontiers in Communication
doi 10.3389/fcomm.2026.1857066
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Navigating participatory gaps in digital cultural heritage through BASAibu Wiki—Sulsel engagement practices
Erlin Marbella · Syamsuddin A. · Muliadi Mau
Frontiers in Communication
doi 10.3389/fcomm.2026.1886606
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Toward an integrated framework of media dependency: a theoretical review of uses–dependency and new media dependency models
Safran Safar Almakaty · Mohammad Alquaary · Hossam Fayez
Frontiers in Communication
doi 10.3389/fcomm.2026.1848139
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Operationalising accessibility in marine pollution science communication: the Zeropol Hub case study
Kathrin Kopke · Sonya Agnew · Thomas Heising · Lisa I. Devriese · Nina Vaupotič · Thomas Maes · Rian Ruhl · Sabine Pahl · Andy M. Booth · Thomais Vlachogianni
Frontiers in Communication
doi 10.3389/fcomm.2026.1913207
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Lügenpresse on the right-wing beat: German journalists and their hostile sources
Karin Assmann
Frontiers in Communication
doi 10.3389/fcomm.2026.1773162