C&C CFP🔥: “Dynamics of Human Communication” guest-edited by Drs. Robert F. Potter & Jingjing Han @jingjinghan.bsky.social. 📅Abstract ddl: Oct 15, 2025. 📅Paper ddl: Feb 15, 2026. Word count: 6,000-10,000 words. APC fully sponsored by Fudan University. More info: link.springer.com/journal/4438...

📚Inaugural Issue How do communication journals respond to "change" in 100 years? Drs Lee Humphreys, Didem Özkul, & Stephanie Belina sampled the top 50 journals and found that the opportunities and concerns about change have long shaped the field. Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

📚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/10.1...

📚Inaugural Issue Mobility & AI: Gerard Goggin 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/10.1...

📚Inaugural Issue What are the true ethical dilemmas of AI (right vs. right)? Of various ethical theories, Dr. Peng Hwa Ang @angph.bsky.social concludes that the most appropriate is Aristotle's Golden Mean, which should be seen as a creative solution. Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

📚Inaugural Issue Drs. Seth C. Lewis @sethclewis.bsky.social, Andrea L. Guzman @teachguz.bsky.social, Thomas R. Schmidt, & Bibo Lin situate GenAI as a transformative force within journalism while also being an emerging institution in its own right. Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

📚Inaugural Issue How does AI-Mediated Communication lead to self-extension perceptions? Drs. Scott W. Campbell, Nicole Ellison @nellison.bsky.social, & Morgan Quinn Ross @mqrmobile.bsky.social explore functional, ontological, and anthropomorphic aspects. See: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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📚Inaugural Issue How does an ecological approach apply to communication research? Drs. Jonathan J. H. Zhu & Tai-Quan Peng advocate this using three notable debates: issue competition, media convergence, and AIGC. Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

📚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/10.1...

📚Inaugural Issue Dedicated to rigorous, transparent & innovative empirical research, here is our Launch Editorial#2: “Introducing Communication and Change: A journal for empirically grounded communication research and theory” by James E. Katz. View the full-text: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

📚Inaugural Issue Why does “change” matter? Here is what C & C has to offer in our Launch Editorial#1 "Communication and Change: Our Vision" by Dr. James E. Katz, Baohua Zhou, Lei Guo @guolei2025.bsky.social, Jianhua Yao. View the full-text: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

C & C inaugural issue just PUBLISHED! 🎉 🎉 This issue features two launch editorials, seven research articles, accompanied by a special thematic introduction around the theme “Communication Research in the Age of AI.” Read more: link.springer.com/journal/44382

C&C Call For Papers:“AI Agents and Emerging Social Relationships,” guest edited by Drs Jonathan Zhu & Bolin Cao. 📅Abstract DDL: August 10, 2025 📅Full Paper DDL: October 10, 2025 📖Closed workshop (invite only): Late November 2025 See also: link.springer.com/journal/4438...

C&C Call For Papers:“Revisiting Agenda-Setting Theory in the Age of AI,” edited by Dr. Lei Guo and Chris Vargo, David Weaver. 📅 Abstract Deadline: June 30, 2025 📅 Full Paper Deadline: October 1, 2025 📰 More info: link.springer.com/journal/4438...

We are thrilled to announce Communication and Change (C&C)!🎉🎉 Led by Editors-in-Chief Dr. James E Katz (Boston University) and Dr. Baohua Zhou (Fudan University), we aim to foster impactful scholarship in rapid technological and societal transformation. Explore: link.springer.com/journal/44382.