Submissions from 2024
The societal context of professional practice: Examining the impact of politics and economics on journalistic role performance across 37 countries, Claudia Mellado, Daniel C. Hallin, Nicole Blanchett, Mireya Márquez-Ramírez, Daniel Jackson, Agnieszka Stępińska, Terje Skjerdal, Marju Himma, Karen McIntyre, Lutz M. Hagen, Pauline Amiel, Yasser Abuali, Nagwa Fahmy, Sandrine Boudana, Yi Ning Katherine Chen, Sergey Davidov, Mariana De Maio, Maximiliano Frías Vázquez, Miguel Garcés, María Luisa Humanes, Petra Herczeg, Misook Lee, Christi I.Hsuan Lin, Jad Melki, Jacques Mick, Roberto Mincigrucci, Danka Ninković Slavnić, and David Nolan
Exploring the concept and the communication principles of negotiation among Islamic corporate organizations, Abbas Ramdani, Ridwan Raji, and Mohd Khairie Ahmad
Interactive frames: user responses to the framing of COVID-19 in the Instagram account of an Emarati news agency, Azmat Rasul and Muna AlSuwaidi
Algorithmic amplification and polarization in social media, Donghee Shin and Emily Y. Shin
Submissions from 2023
Why Do Arabs Share News Online? Motivations for Sharing News on Social Media in the Emirates, Azza Abdel Azim Mohamed Ahmed
Usability Assessment of a University Academic Portal using Eye Tracking Technology, Mohamed Basel Almourad, Emad Bataineh, Mohammed Hussain, and Zelal Wattar
Responses to Sad Emotion in Autistic and Normal Developing Children: Is There a Difference?, Mohamed Basel Almourad, Emad Bataineh, and Zelal Wattar
Tour guides’ interpretation and tourists’ pro-environmental behavior: differences across cultural and natural world heritage sites, Yahya A. Alzghoul, Malek M. Jamaliah, Mohammad M. Alazaizeh, John T. Mgonja, and Zaha J. Al-Daoud
Living with LEGO: A fan’s re-interpretation of the interior domestic space, Vlada Botorić
User-Centered Software Design: User Interface Redesign for Blockly–Electron, Artificial Intelligence Educational Software for Primary and Secondary Schools, Chenghong Cen, Guang Luo, Lujia Li, Yilin Liang, Kang Li, Tan Jiang, and Qiang Xiong
Is the Arab audience willing to pay for online news? Predictors of their paying intent, Elsayed Bekhit Darwish
Arab Media Researchers’ Perceptions of Factors Affecting Their Research Problem Selection, Hossam Mohamed Elhamy and Maha Abdulmajeed
The effects of using photos in Arabic news websites on the audience’s comprehension and recall: A pilot research, Khaled Gaweesh and Manar Daher
Legitimising Emirati women’s expanding economic agency via narratives of the past, Valerie Priscilla Goby
Addressing the inherent ethereality and mutability of organisational identity and image: a Bakhtinian response, Valerie Priscilla Goby and Gulnara Z. Karimova
Do Personality Traits Predict Students’ Interest and Intentions Toward Working in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry? Evidence from a Developing Country, Ayman Harb, Aahed Khliefat, Mohammad M. Alazaizeh, and Khalid Eyoun
An Empirical Study on the Information Formality Motivation, Social Influence, and Goal Commitment of Knowledge Workers, Yujong Hwang, Hui Lin, and Donghee Shin
Iranian Women Traveling in vTime—A Cyberfeminist Approach, Mahtab Kiani, Rokhshad Tavakoli, and Paolo Mura
Stopovers as valued-based experience: A conceptual model, Filareti Kotsi, Kim Johnston, and Steven Pike
Reciprocity and asymmetry in digital diplomacy: Geopolitics of national identity in South Korea–Japan and South Korea–US relations, Kyungsun Karen Lee and Saif Shahin
Understanding religious influence through elevation on green advertising effectiveness among Muslims: an examination from the UAE and the USA, Kang Li, Ridwan Raji, and Azmat Rasul
Irritating or Enjoyable? Exploring the Effects of Soft-Text Native Advertising and Social Media Engagement Metrics, Kang Li and Fuyuan Shen
Correcting E-Cigarette Misinformation on Social Media: Responses from UAE Nationals Who Smoke, Kang Li and Donghee Shin
Does News Platform Matter? Comparing Online Journalistic Role Performance to Newspaper, Radio, and Television, Claudia Mellado, Nicole Blanchett, Agnieszka Stępińska, Cornelia Mothes, Sophie Lecheler, David Blanco-Herrero, Yi Ning Katherine Chen, Akiba A. Cohen, Sergey Davydov, Mariana De Maio, Filip Dingerkus, Hassam Elhamy, Miguel Garcés-Prettel, Cyriac Gousset, Daniel C. Hallin, María Luisa Humanes, Marju Himma-Kadakas, Claudia Kozman, Misook Lee, Christi I.Hsuan Lin, Mireya Márquez-Ramírez, Jorge Maza-Córdova, Kieran McGuinness, Karen McIntyre, Jacques Mick, Ana Milojevic, Cristina Navarro, and Dasniel Olivera
Comparing Journalistic Role Performance Across Thematic Beats: A 37-Country Study, Claudia Mellado, Mireya Márquez-Ramírez, Sarah Van Leuven, Daniel Jackson, Cornelia Mothes, Carlos Arcila-Calderón, Jérome Berthaut, Nicole Blanchett, Sandrine Boudana, Katherine Y.N. Chen, Sergey Davydov, Mariana De Maio, Nagwa Fahmy, Martina Ferrero, Miguel Garcés, Lutz Hagen, Daniel C. Hallin, María Luisa Humanes, Marju Himma-Kadakas, Guido Keel, Claudia Kozman, Aleksandra Krstić, Sophie Lecheler, Misook Lee, Christi I.Hsuan Lin, Marco Mazzoni, Kieran McGuinness, and Karen McIntyre
‘An Gorta Mor (The Great Hunger): Passage to India’ – Exploring genealogy and roots tourism through documentary filmmaking, Ian Michael and Paolo Mura
A passage to India: The Indian film market and the political economy of Disney’s transnational operations, Azmat Rasul
Identification and political advertising: Exploring the role of ethnic identification in political advertising campaigns, Azmat Rasul and Mian Muhammad Asim
Secondary, security threat, and sage: Eulogy effect and the framing of female politicians as political martyrs in the Elite press of South Asia, Azmat Rasul, Mcdowell D Stephen, and Muhammad E Rasul
Algorithmic Nudge: An Approach to Designing Human-Centered Generative Artificial Intelligence, Donghee Shin and Norita Ahmad
The Nudging Effect of Accuracy Alerts for Combating the Diffusion of Misinformation: Algorithmic News Sources, Trust in Algorithms, and Users’ Discernment of Fake News, Donghee Shin, Kerk F. Kee, and Emily Y. Shin
Datas Impact on Algorithmic Bias, Donghee Shin and Emily Y. Shin
Human-Centered AI: A Framework for Green and Sustainable AI, Donghee Shin and Emily Y. Shin
Care-based relationship management during remote work in a crisis: Empathy, purpose, and diversity climate as emergent employee-organization relational maintenance strategies, Hilke Steenkamp and Ganga S. Dhanesh
Submissions from 2022
Tour Guide and Tourist Loyalty Toward Cultural Heritage Sites: A Signaling Theory Perspective, Mohammad M. Alazaizeh, Malek M. Jamaliah, Yahya A. Alzghoul, and John T. Mgonja
The influence of trust and commitment on free-to-play gamers co-creation intentions, Saifeddin Alimamy, Donghee Shin, and Waqar Nadeem
Constructive Roles of Organizational Two-Way Symmetrical Communication: Workplace Pseudo-Information Gatekeeping, Loarre Andreu Perez, Narae Kim, Valentina Martino, and Sihyeok Lee
Implication of Personalized Advertising on Personal Data: A Legal Analysis of the EU General Data Protection Regulation, Noor Ashikin Basarudin and Ridwan Adetunji Raji
Explicating Consumer Adoption Of Wearable Technologies: A Case Of Smartwatches From The Asean Perspective, Veerisa Chotiyaputta and Donghee Shin
What Business Model is Suitable for Online Arab Newspapers? Journalists’ Perspectives, Elsayed B. Darwish
Social media engagement with organization-generated content: Role of visuals in enhancing public engagement with organizations on Facebook and Instagram, Ganga Dhanesh, Gaelle Duthler, and Kang Li
Overcoming the Dark Side of CSR Communication and Employee Relations, Ganga S. Dhanesh
Feminist Pragmatist Salvaging of Victoria Welby’s Theory of ‘Ident’, Zoe Hurley
Thinking with semiotic-dialogism: Re-orientating augmented reality and visual literacy, Zoe Hurley
“Ask Google Assistant Where to Travel” Tourists’ Interactive Experiences With Smart Speakers: An Assemblage Theory Approach, Jano Jiménez-Barreto, Natalia Rubio, Paolo Mura, Erose Sthapit, and Sara Campo
Mapping participation in ICT4D: A meta-analytic review of development communication research, Michael Dokyum Kim and Kyung Sun Lee
An Oscillatory Path to Vaccination: The Roles of Normative and Epistemic Factors in Explaining Vaccination Hesitancy in COVID-19., Narae Kim, Jeong-Nam Kim, Hyelim Lee, and Loarre Andreu-Perez
Native Americans' Responses to Obesity Attributions and Message Sources in an Obesity Prevention Campaign, Narae Kim, Glenn Leshner, and Claude Miller
News Audiences in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Perceptions and Behaviors of Optimizers, Mainstreamers, and Skeptics, Joon Soo Lim, Donghee Shin, Jun Zhang, Stephen Masiclat, Regina Luttrell, and Dennis Kinsey
A Drink on the Terrace With Truus From Delft: Place Attachment at De Efteling Theme Park, William McCarthy
Moderation Effects of Language Skills, Residential Tenure, and Education on Immigrants’ Learning From News, Yulia S. Medvedeva and Glenn M. Leshner
Marketing of luxurious gastronomic experiences on social media: The visual storytelling of luxury hotels, Noela Michael and Francesc Fusté-Forné
To what extent are credibility and attractiveness of social media influencer important in developing positive brand image and customer attitude?, Bahtiar Mohamad, Siti Norain Abdullah, Muslim Diekola Akanmu, and Ridwan Adetunji Raji
A Visual Identity-Based Approach of Southeast Asian City Branding: A Netnography Analysis, Bahtiar Mohamad, Raji Ridwan Adetunji, Ghadah Alarifi, Ahmed Rageh Ismail, and Muslim Diekola Akanmu
Art tourism and urban development in Mussafah, Abu Dhabi – a business owners’ perspective, Paolo Mura and Nataša Slak Valek
Ph.D. Students' experiences and emotions in neoliberal tourism academia, Paolo Mura and Sarah N.R. Wijesinghe
Fictional politainment: Exposure to international television drama and attitude toward female politicians, Azmat Rasul, Donghee Shin, and Park Beede
The actualization of meta affordances: Conceptualizing affordance actualization in the metaverse games, Donghee Shin
Cross-cultural Differences in Information Processing of Chatbot Journalism: Chatbot News Service as a Cultural Artifact, Donghee Shin, Saifeddin Al-Imanmy, and Yujong Hwang
The effects of cultural dimensions on algorithmic news: How do cultural value orientations affect how people perceive algorithms?, Donghee Shin, Veerisa Chotiyaputta, and Bouziane Zaid
Algorithm awareness: Why user awareness is critical for personal privacy in the adoption of algorithmic platforms?, Donghee Shin, Kerk F. Kee, and Emily Y. Shin
Understanding user sensemaking in fairness and transparency in algorithms: algorithmic sensemaking in over-the-top platform, Donghee Shin, Joon Soo Lim, Norita Ahmad, and Mohammed Ibahrine
Cryptocurrency: A Panacea for Economic Growth and Sustainability? A Critical Review of Crypto Innovation, Donghee Shin and John Rice
How does the blockchain find its way in the UAE? The blockchain as a sociotechnical system, Donghee Shin, Nikolaos Stylos, Mian Asim, Yongjin Park, and Russell B. Williams
In Platforms We Trust?Unlocking the Black-Box of News Algorithms through Interpretable AI, Donghee Shin, Bouziane Zaid, Frank Biocca, and Azmat Rasul
Art and tourism – a systematic review of the literature, Nataša Slak Valek and Paolo Mura
Tourism destinations' online representation: a performance assessment, Anastasia E. Spyridou, Evangelos Christou, and Donghee Shin
Once upon a Dystopian Time… the Portrayal and Perception of Environmentalism in Pixar’s Finding Nemo and WALL-E, Iris van Oosterwijk and William McCarthy
Short break drive holiday destination attractiveness during COVID-19 border closures, Di Wang, Filareti Kotsi, Frank Mathmann, Jun Yao, and Steven Pike
Same same but different: the destination image of Dubai and Abu Dhabi on YouTube, Russell B. Williams
Techno-invasion and job satisfaction in China: The roles of boundary preference for segmentation and marital status, Jinnan Wu, Shanshan Guo, Wenpei Zhang, Donghee Shin, and Mengmeng Son
Digital Islam and Muslim Millennials: How Social Media Influencers Reimagine Religious Authority and Islamic Practices, Bouziane Zaid, Jana Fedtke, Don Donghee Shin, Abdelmalek El Kadoussi, and Mohammed Ibahrine
Submissions from 2021
Media students using mobile phones in the Arabian Gulf to improve English writing and video production skills, Najat AlSaied and Fokiya Akhtar
Effective Cross-cultural Advertising: Moderating Roles of Ethnic Identity and Religiosity in Pitching Controversial Vs. Non-controversial Products to Diasporic Communities, Mian Asim, Azmat Rasul, and Donghee Shin
Visual Storytelling: Kuwait's History Told through Photographs, Badran Badran
Periphery fandom: Contrasting fans’ productive experiences across the globe, Vlada Botorić
Reporting Conflict from Afar: Journalists, Social Media, Communication Technologies, and War, Britt Christensen and Ali Khalil
Remote internal crisis communication (RICC) – role of internal communication in predicting employee engagement during remote work in a crisis, Ganga Sasidharan Dhanesh and Gaelle Picherit-Duthler
Visual communication and public relations: Visual frame building strategies in war and conflict stories, Ganga S. Dhanesh and Nadia Rahman
Containing a Corona Misinfodemic and Covidiocy: Political Talk Shows on German Public-Service TV, Jana Fedtke, Mohammed Ibahrine, Bouziane Zaid, and Don Donghee Shin
Contining a Corona Misinfeelernic and Covidiocy: Political Talk Shows on German Public-Service IV, Jana Fedtke, Mohammed Ibahrine, Bouziane Zaid, and Don Donghee Shin
Limited tourism: travel bubbles for a sustainable future, Francesc Fusté-Forné and Noela Michael
The extent of pilgrims and umrah performers’ reliance on the mobile exhibition using hologram technology during the performance of the rituals, Osman Bakur Gazzaz and Hamza Saad Mohamed
Get Vaccinated for Loved Ones: Effects of Self-Other Appeal and Message Framing in Promoting HPV Vaccination among Heterosexual Young Men, Guanxiong Huang and Kang Li
Dialogic pedagogy and semiotic-dialogic inquiry into visual literacies and augmented reality, Zoe Hurley
Dialogic theorising of Emirati women’s technology enhanced learning in the United Arab Emirates, Zoe Hurley
#reimagining Arab Women’s Social Media Empowerment and the Postdigital Condition, Zoe Hurley
What you see is what you hear: creativity and communication in audiovisual texts, Zoe Hurley
Arab women’s veiled affordances on Instagram: A feminist semiotic inquiry, Zoë Hurley
Feminist Postdigital Inquiry in the Ruins of Pandemic Universities, Zoë Hurley and Khadija Al-Ali
The Moderating Effects of Leader-Member Exchange for Technology Acceptance: An Empirical Study Within Organizations, Yujong Hwang, Soyean Kim, Kamel Rouibah, and Donghee Shin
How does interpretive tour guiding promote tourists’ pro-environmental behaviour? Evidence from Tanzania, Malek M. Jamaliah, John T. Mgonja, Mohammad M. Alazaizeh, and Robert B. Powell
Free Mo Robinson: citizen engagement in response to a crime event on social media, Andrea Mayr and Simon Statham
The pedigree of pixie dust: Disneyland and theme parks as a remediation of playful places throughout history, William McCarthy
Escaping From Cultural Practices At Home: An Exploration Of Push And Pull, Noela Michael, Brian King, and Anestis Fotiadis
Social media influencers’ visual framing of Iran on YouTube, Pooya Saeidi Motahar, Rokhshad Tavakoli, and Paolo Mura
Critical theories in tourism - a systematic literature review, Paolo Mura and Sarah N.R. Wijesinghe