Call for Papers - Human Communication Research
We're now accepting submissions for a special issue: "Who Are We Studying in Communication Research? Revisiting Audience in a Transforming Media Environment"
Extended abstract deadline: August 31, 2026
Full details: academic.oup.com/hcr/pages/sp...
Who Are We Studying in Communication Research? Revisiting Audience in a Transforming Media Environment
Guest Editors:
Ye Sun | City University of Hong Kong
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We’re excited to announce that HCR is now on LinkedIn!
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New HCR issue out now! Vol. 52(2), April 2026.
Dive into cutting-edge research on interparental conflict and parent-child triangulation, body-positive and fitspirational influencers, communicated sense-making in social groups, and digital panopticon/dataveillance.
academic.oup.com/hcr/issue/52/2
New in HCR: What makes a television show feel like “a show for us”?
@stewartcoles.bsky.social (2026) finds that co-partisan endorsement increased exposure intentions for a fictitious television program, while racial ingroup endorsement alone did not.
Read more: doi.org/10.1093/hcr/...
New in HCR: Zhu et al. (2026) find that larger choice sets increased overall and cross-cutting news selection. Choice set composition shaped cross-cutting exposure, but attitudes and behavioral intentions did not significantly change in the short term.
Read: doi.org/10.1093/hcr/...
New in HCR: @markusappel.bsky.social et al. (2025) show that congeniality bias persisted regardless of fiction vs. non-fiction labeling, emerging for positive portrayals but not for negative ones, with non-fiction slightly preferred overall.
Read the full article: doi.org/10.1093/hcr/...
Great work by Priska L. Breves, Sophie C. Boerman, Jan-Philipp Stein, Carolin Ischen, and @zmcvanberlo.bsky.social on this study!
