OMGC

2026 Summer Issue Volume 5 Issue 2

Table of Contents

Research Articles

Examining perceived generative AI valence on social media and its implications on generative AI attitudes and uses among young adults. A cross-national comparison

Michael Chan, Jörg Matthes, Ljubiša Bojić

“This Emerging Technology is Revolutionary!”: examining quantum science hype on online US national media

Ming (Bryan) Wang, Ding Xu

Global perspectives on content creators’ apologies and image-repair strategies: implications for misinformation across platforms

Hyacinth Bangero, Madison Clatt, Jisha Jacob, Faiswal Kasirye

Digi-morphism in still evolving social tolerance: tracing virtual influencer Maaya Pappaya in Pakistan’s InstaSphere

Maliha Ameen, Inam Ullah Taj, Syed Muhammad Hassan Zaidi

Gaining trust, sowing doubt: the dual use of scientific rhetoric in climate communication on YouTube in South Africa

Rodrigode Oliveira Andrade, Luana Cruz, Thaiane Oliveira, Marina Joubert, Luisa Massaran 

Re-negotiating National Identity in a Global Sinophone Space: A Study of Malaysian Chinese Users on Xiaohongshu (Rednote) 

Hui Yan Chew

Connected Lives, Smartphones, Family Ties and Dataveillance for Syrian Refugees in Greece

Iossif Konstantinou

Online Activism Against Racial Aggression toward Asian Americans in the U.S. during COVID-19

Fangzhu Lu, Wenshan Jia

Review Article

A Review of Digital Communication Research in Indonesia, 2020–2025

Dorien Kartikawang

Featured Translated Research Outside the Anglosphere

Narrative Adaptation of Chinese Short Dramas in the European and American Markets: Exploration of Commensurable Resources and Transcoding Strategies 

Xiuyun Yin,  Shengdong Lin

*Corrigendum to Dai, Zehui, Yao, Shuo “We are no scapegoat.”: analyzing community response to legislative targeting in U.S. Texas State Senate bill 147 discourse on Twitter (X)