Colleen Warner, Ellen Jordan, Sophia Richards, Michelle M Miller-Day
{"title":"Children are (Still) Communicators Too: Assessing and Advocating for Child-Focused Communication Scholarship.","authors":"Colleen Warner, Ellen Jordan, Sophia Richards, Michelle M Miller-Day","doi":"10.1080/10510974.2025.2591901","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10510974.2025.2591901","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Children have long been overlooked in communication scholarship. Content analysis of research published 14 communication journals (<i>n</i> = 8662) revealed that child representation remains below 4%, with the majority of these publications utilizing adolescent rather than school-age and younger samples. Findings in the current study underscore the importance of valuing children's communication processes. We present a renewed call for children's communication research by arguing for the need to (1) address discipline barriers to child-focused research, (2) pay attention to younger children, (3) expand research methodologies beyond surveys, (4) explore topic-based opportunities for children's communication beyond media and health contexts, and (5) develop and revise communication theories to specifically address children's unique communication capacities, behaviors, and competencies. By addressing these implications, communication scholars can enrich our understanding of human communication across the lifespan and recognize the significant role of children as communicators.</p>","PeriodicalId":47080,"journal":{"name":"Communication Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12768302/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145913402","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Communicative Ecologies of Displaced Youth Ways of Connecting in Protracted Situations of Encampment","authors":"Valentina Baú","doi":"10.1080/10510974.2024.2395592","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10510974.2024.2395592","url":null,"abstract":"This article offers an exploration of the communicative ecologies of young people in protracted situations of encampment. Findings from research conducted in Kakuma refugee camp (Kenya) and Za’atar...","PeriodicalId":47080,"journal":{"name":"Communication Studies","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142206076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial for the Special Issue: “Communication Research on Coping Strategies During Global Crises”","authors":"Rukhsana Ahmed, Parul Jain","doi":"10.1080/10510974.2024.2398341","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10510974.2024.2398341","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Communication Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":47080,"journal":{"name":"Communication Studies","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142206077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bartosz G. Żerebecki, Suzanna J. Opree, Joep Hofhuis
{"title":"Mediated Contact with LGBTQ Characters: Associations Between Recognizability, Parasocial Friendship, Wishful Identification, and LGBTQ Prejudice","authors":"Bartosz G. Żerebecki, Suzanna J. Opree, Joep Hofhuis","doi":"10.1080/10510974.2024.2390703","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10510974.2024.2390703","url":null,"abstract":"Previous research largely supports the notion that mediated contact and engagement with minority characters can improve viewers’ real-life minority attitudes. However, it is unclear to what extent ...","PeriodicalId":47080,"journal":{"name":"Communication Studies","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142206078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Matthew C. Ramsey, Elizabeth F. Russell, Gary W. Allen
{"title":"Closing the Gaps: An Examination of Student Self-Sabotage, a Willingness to Ask for Help, and Personal-Enacted and Enacted-Relational Identity Gaps in the Student-Instructor Relationship","authors":"Matthew C. Ramsey, Elizabeth F. Russell, Gary W. Allen","doi":"10.1080/10510974.2024.2390210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10510974.2024.2390210","url":null,"abstract":"The authors investigated students’ (N = 262) perceived personal-relational and enacted-relational identity gaps (for communication instructors) as mediators for the relationship between students’ s...","PeriodicalId":47080,"journal":{"name":"Communication Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142206079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Media Network and Citizen Journalism: The Transition from Agenda Setting to Agenda Loop","authors":"Siyu Zhang","doi":"10.1080/10510974.2024.2383342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10510974.2024.2383342","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines agenda-setting and citizen journalism networks between Baidupedia, the Chinese version of Wikipedia, and various media channels, demonstrating the influence of effective agenda-...","PeriodicalId":47080,"journal":{"name":"Communication Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141948788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Black Woman Insighting Future Vision: Amanda Gorman’s The Hill We Climb as a Site of Liberatory Knowledge Production","authors":"Akie Fukushige Wenk","doi":"10.1080/10510974.2024.2380015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10510974.2024.2380015","url":null,"abstract":"Situating a poetry performance as a form of autoperformance, I analyze the first National Youth Poet Laureate of the United States, Amanda Gorman’s 2021 Presidential inaugural poem, The Hill We Cli...","PeriodicalId":47080,"journal":{"name":"Communication Studies","volume":"55 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141780400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What and Where Do I Learn About the Baby Formula Shortage Crisis? Exploring Crisis Communication Patterns, Influencers, and Information Resources","authors":"Xianlin Jin, Patric R. Spence, Kenneth Lachlan","doi":"10.1080/10510974.2024.2370073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10510974.2024.2370073","url":null,"abstract":"The baby formula shortage escalated into a national public health crisis, spurring a public discussion on social media. As media dependency theory suggests, people likely turn to information resour...","PeriodicalId":47080,"journal":{"name":"Communication Studies","volume":"2010 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141609586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lara N. Wolfers, Luca Marie Lüpken, Michelle Schimmel, Sonja Utz, Robin L. Nabi, Franziska Gaiser
{"title":"Coping with the COVID-19 Pandemic by Using Media: Extending the Coping Goodness-of-Fit Hypothesis to Media Use","authors":"Lara N. Wolfers, Luca Marie Lüpken, Michelle Schimmel, Sonja Utz, Robin L. Nabi, Franziska Gaiser","doi":"10.1080/10510974.2024.2365068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10510974.2024.2365068","url":null,"abstract":"During the COVID-19 pandemic, people had to cope with stress in two different ways: engaging in problem-focused behaviors (e.g. seeking information) and regulating their emotions. In particular, du...","PeriodicalId":47080,"journal":{"name":"Communication Studies","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141529799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Art Vandalism and Heritage: Meaning-Making Processes of Climate Activists’ Performance in Museums","authors":"Farhad Davatkhah","doi":"10.1080/10510974.2024.2369475","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10510974.2024.2369475","url":null,"abstract":"In the landmark year of 2022, climate activists staged 38 heritage performances in museums and galleries worldwide to raise awareness about the pressing threats of global warming and climate crises...","PeriodicalId":47080,"journal":{"name":"Communication Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141529800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}