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Human Communication Research (HCR) is a scholarly journal, and an official journal of the International Communication Association.
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📢 New in HCR:

Interviews with 26 missionaries show metaphors, memorable messages, & personification, grounded in Christian in-group vernacular, support sense-making during reentry. This extends the CSM model with personification & in-group vernacular.

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Extending communicated sense-making theorizing to social groups: missionaries’ use of metaphor, personification, and in-group vernacular
Abstract. Exiting the totalistic and intensively focused structure of missionary service prompts sense-making as missionaries return and adapt to life at h
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November 29, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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📢 New in HCR: Two preregistered experiments show that Instagram self-presentation can be self-affirming and, when it occurs before upward social comparison, can buffer against envy. The well-being effects of social media can depend on the sequence of activities.

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The combined well-being effects of social media activities: how self-affirmation can buffer against upward social comparisons on Instagram
Abstract. Social media activities do not occur in isolation, and it is possible that the well-being effects of an initial activity modify the effects of a
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November 16, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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New in HCR by @pmerz.bsky.social & @cvsikorski.bsky.social:

Influencer posts with collective response efficacy increased these beliefs and collective action intentions. Effects were strongest for followers with strong parasocial bonds; repeated exposure amplified effects.

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Social media influencers can increase collective political beliefs and actions: findings from experiments and a quasi-experimental field study
Abstract. The belief in the capabilities of one’s own group is crucial for joining collective action aimed at addressing large-scale societal crises like c
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November 3, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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📢 New in HCR by @janadreston.bsky.social and @andreasnanz.bsky.social:

Both intentional search and accidental exposure to election info on social media boost political knowledge—but don’t improve vote-choice alignment. Intentional seekers just feel more confident.

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Incidental and intentional exposure in a mock election setting on social media: effects on subjective and objective political knowledge and aligned voting
Abstract. As political campaigns increasingly use social media to reach voters, scholars debate whether users actually acquire election-related knowledge o
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October 24, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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📢 New in HCR! Vol. 51, Issue 4 (Oct 2025)!

Studies on intellectual humility, AI imaginaries, media parenting, gender and sexist behavior, political communication, identity, and parent-child conversations about mental health.

Read the full issue here: academic.oup.com/hcr/issue/51/4
October 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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📢 New in HCR:

“What do people watch under adversity?"

By combining Netflix viewing histories with diary data, this study finds no evidence that daily adversity predicts content choice. Instead, coping strategies shape genre preferences.

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#Coping #MoodManagement
What do people watch under adversity? Testing interactions of semantic affinity and coping style using Netflix data donations
Abstract. Media are frequently used for coping with everyday stressors, but little is known about what content individuals choose under such adversity. Bui
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September 29, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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📢 Editorial Note from the Editor-in-Chief of Human Communication Research

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Human Communication Research at a crossroads: reaffirming standards, reimagining possibilities
Abstract. As Human Communication Research begins a new editorial chapter, this editorial reaffirms the journal’s longstanding commitment to theory-driven s
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September 29, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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⏰ Deadline Day!

🚨 Don't forget to submit your extended abstract to HCR's Special Issue: "Advancements in the Study of Causal Mechanisms across Communication Contexts."

📌 Due: Sep 15, 2025
👤 Guest Editor: R. Lance Holbert (UPenn)
🔗 For details: academic.oup.com/hcr/pages/ca...
Special Issue – Call for Papers
Guest Editor R. Lance Holbert University of Pennsylvania
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September 15, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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⏳ Countdown: 10 days left!

Human Communication Research is accepting submissions for a Special Issue: "Advancements in the Study of Causal Mechanisms across Communication Contexts"

📌 Guest Editor: R. Lance Holbert (UPenn)
📝 Extended abstracts due Sept 15, 2025
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September 5, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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⏰ 21 days left!

HCR Special Issue: "Advancements in the Study of Causal Mechanisms across Communication Contexts"

Guest Editor: R. Lance Holbert (University of Pennsylvania)

📌 Extended abstracts due September 15, 2025
🔗 Full details: academic.oup.com/hcr/pages/ca...
Special Issue – Call for Papers
Guest Editor R. Lance Holbert University of Pennsylvania
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August 25, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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New Publication Alert from HCR!

How is AI constituted as valuable in organizations?
Emma Christensen shows how communicative practices mobilize expectations and imaginaries to shape what AI means.

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#AI #HumanCommunicationResearch #SociotechnicalImaginaries
Organizing expectations: the co-constitutive dynamics of AI imaginaries
Abstract. This study examines how artificial intelligence (AI) is constituted as valuable within organizational settings through communicative practices th
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July 30, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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🚨Call for Papers – HCR🚨

Special Issue: Advancements in the Study of Causal Mechanisms across Communication Contexts

Guest Editor: R. Lance Holbert (University of Pennsylvania)

📌 Abstracts due: September 15, 2025
📝 Full papers due: March 2026

🔗 Details: academic.oup.com/hcr/pages/ca...
Special Issue – Call for Papers
Guest Editor R. Lance Holbert University of Pennsylvania
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July 17, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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New Article from HCR!

A global study by Jane Shawcroft & Drew P. Cingel identifies five media parenting profiles across four world regions, showing how culture shapes which parenting approaches best support adolescent well-being in the digital age.

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There is more than one way to engage in effective media parenting: An analysis of parenting with media in four world regions and associations with adolescent well-being
Abstract. We examined whether multiple approaches to media parenting could be supportive of adolescent well-being. Using a Latent Profile Analysis, we iden
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July 14, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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Special Issue Alert from HCR – Now Available!

Theme: Communication and the Self: Past, Present, and Future
Guest Editors: Dr. Markus Appel and Dr. Amanda Holmstrom

Read here: academic.oup.com/hcr/issue/51/3

#HumanCommunicationResearch #HCRSpecialIssue
Volume 51 Issue 3 | Human Communication Research | Oxford Academic
A journal of the International Communication Association, Human Communication Research concentrates on presenting the best empirical work in the area of human communication.
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July 9, 2025 at 7:34 AM