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Researchers Across Asia-Pacific Are Reading These – Are You?
Explore the most-read journals by students and researchers across Singapore, Seoul, Sydney, and beyond. Our handpicked selection features titles across these regions in Asia-Pacific in 2025 that will be broaden your knowledge and enhance the quality of your work.
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Information, Communication & Society
by Judith Hefetz & Sharon Haleva-Amir
From connective to disconnective action: how safety shapes political participation repertoires in instant messaging groups
by Qinfeng Zhu
What are teens doing with social media? Mapping everyday practices and uses
by Marta Meneu & Maria-José Masanet
Digital Journalism
by Antonis Kalogeropoulos et al.
Dancing with AI: The Impact of AI-Generated Images and Videos on Chinese Visual Journalism
by Jing Meng & Haiyan Wang
What Makes for a Good News Experience: Developing a UX Perspective to Advance Audience Studies in Journalism
by Emmanuel Maduneme & Seth C. Lewis
Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
by Frida Akmalia & Khoirul Faizin
Developing a multilingual library of picturebooks: the impact of a linguistically diverse collection and multilingual storytime on representation and visibility of minoritized languages, speakers, and communities
by Hannah M. King & Gonzalo Pérez Andrade
Towards sustainable translanguaging: reconsidering its role in minority language education
by Artzai Gaspar
Journalism Studies
by Zhieh Lor & Jihyang Choi
Allies, Antagonists, and Apathetic: A Synthesis and Path Forward for News Audience Research
by Jacob L. Nelson et al.
How Safe Is Journalism? Unpacking Risks and Implications for the Profession in Romania
by Natalia Vasilendiuc et al.
Information, Communication & Society
by Judith Hefetz & Sharon Haleva-Amir
Organizing privacy: cultural and structural constraints on activist use of privacy enhancing technologies
by Kelsy Kretschmer et al.
Refugee, tourist, or colonizer: scrutinizing the dramaturgical performance of ‘TikTok refugee’ on RedNote
by Yukun Yang et al.
Health Communication
by Lutong Sun & Yu Wang
The Congruency Effects of Multiple Components of Persuasion: Target Framing, Gain-Loss Framing, and Regulatory Focus
by Jarim Kim
Framing the Coronavirus Epidemic Through Intertextual Practices: A Comparative Study of Japanese and South Korean Press Reports
by Narisara Traiboot et al.
Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
by Bita Moradi & Stephanie N. Del Tufo
Finding voice as a writing teacher: an ecological perspective on English LX teachers’ emotions and identity development
by Maryam Vaezi
Investigating the linguistic and semiotic landscape of science centre Singapore: a geosemiotic perspective on public educationscapes
by Yu Sherry Xiang & Mark Fifer Seilhamer
Digital Journalism
by Nicole K. Stewart et al.
A Way Out or Another Hurdle? Assessing the Impact of the “News Partnership Evaluation Committee” on Platform Dependence in South Korea
by Ahran Park & Yoonmo Sang
Reality Re-Imag(in)ed. Mapping Publics’ Perceptions and Evaluations of AI-Generated Images in News Contexts
by Edina Strikovic & Hannes Cools
Information, Communication & Society
by Grant William Bailey et al.
Automating remix: generative AI, creative labor, and the decay of aura
by Jared T. Jensen et al.
Artificial intelligence, privacy utility and perceived legitimacy: the nonlinear moderating effect of knowledge
by Shangrui Wang et al.
Continuum
by Rob Cover et al.
Kind Regards: fire-making as ethical resistance and anticolonial praxis with River
by Bethaney Turner et al.
‘The market for single attractive Asian guys is a lot bigger now’: monetization strategies of Asian Irish male TikTokers
by Rebecca Chiyoko King-O’Riain
Feminist Media Studies
by Sizhe Wu
“Manufacturing princesses”: the illusion of consumerism and the masquerade of pseudo-feminism in light photography
by Tingli Liu & Weitong Xu
From salad bar feminism to denotative portraiture: How neoliberalism shapes feminism in AI-Generated visuals
by Catherine Bouko et al.
Australian Historical Studies
by Sharon Crozier-De Rosa
Australia and War Reparations from Germany, 1945–69
by James Mills et al.
Whistleblowing on Indigenous Labour Abuses in Western Australia: Motivations of Settler Humanitarianism in the Late Nineteenth Century
by Darren Reid
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