From Chance to Serendipity: Knowledge Workers’ Experiences of Serendipitous Social Encounters by Ekaterina Olshannikova, Thomas Olsson, Jukka Huhtamäki, Susanna Paasovaara, Hannu Kärkkäinen

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The Ecstasy of Communication. Critical remarks on Jean Baudrillard by Pieter Duvenage

“… The socio-cultural criticism of Jean Baudrillard (born 1929), spans from the political turmoil of France in the late-1960s, to the mediatised world of the 1990s and early 21st century.1 In this process his provocative work on the socio-political role of signs, symbolic exchange, simulation, and hyperreality has important implications for communication studies – and more specifically communication theory. …”
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Impact of Ethical Leadership on Autonomy and Self-Efficacy in Virtual Work Environments: The Disintegrating Effect of an Egoistic Climate by Carlos Santiago-Torner, José-Antonio Corral-Marfil, Yirsa Jiménez-Pérez, Elisenda Tarrats-Pons

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Communicare's 2022 reviewers by Anna Oksiutycz-Munyawiri

“… The editorial team of Communicare: Journal for Communication Studies in Africa would like to thank our 2022 reviewers …”
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The Representation of Poverty and the Poverty of Representation by Pablo J. Boczkowski

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A Network-Based Approach to Modeling and Predicting Product Coconsideration Relations by Zhenghui Sha, Yun Huang, Jiawei Sophia Fu, Mingxian Wang, Yan Fu, Noshir Contractor, Wei Chen

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The differential impacts of team diversity as variability versus atypicality on team effectiveness by Neelam Modi, Alina Lungeanu, Leslie DeChurch, Noshir Contractor

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The Last Word by Pieter Fourie

“… WHERE DO WE STAND WITH THE “AFRICANISATION” OF COMMUNICATION STUDIES? As academics and lecturers we are well aware of the demands of transformation. …”
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A Quantitative Study on Dream of the Red Chamber: Word-Length Distribution and Authorship Attribution by Yue Yu, Wei Liu, Ying Feng

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Editorial by Anna Oksiutycz

“… This issue marks three years of Communicare: Journal for Communication Studies in Africa publishing in an open-access format under UJ Press. …”
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Self-Discipline Makes Policy Advice Better by Gert G. Wagner

“…Of course, the relevant literature in communication studies is not discussed in detail in this article, but it is pointed out that (selective) examination of this literature might also be worthwhile with regard to policy advice.…”
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A platform approach to experiential learning by Sandra Robinson

“…The paper argues that by emphasizing a clear link between theory, information ethics, and practice, students can build critical analysis skills necessary to understand the complex relationship between social data and communication and develop data literacy skills that extend their training in critical communication studies.…”
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The Making of The Tourist by Dean MacCannell

“…Its approach is antithetical to the domain fragmentation occurring in the university whereby knowledge of society is broken up and distributed across disconnected fields such as women’s studies, ethnic studies, cultural studies, communication studies, et cetera. As tourists cross all these domains they open new pathways toward holistic understanding of emergent societal arrangements. …”
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Qualitative research is about listening and growing by Warren Bareiss

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Editorial by Anna Oksiutycz

“…The articles published in the journal are read worldwide, so it is only fitting that the title of the journal has changed from Communicare: Journal for Communications Sciences in Southern Africa to Communicare: Journal for Communication Studies in Africa. Since its inception in 1980, Communicare has been a subscription journal, but this year we are leaping into the future as the journal has become an open access journal. …”
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ARE THE MEDIA SERVING BOKO HARAM TERRORIST ACTIVITIES IN NIGERIA? by OKECHUKWU GABRIEL MOWETE, CORNELIUS CHIEDOZIE OZEH

“…Through a nuanced exploration and analysis of data collected from secondary sources guided by framing theory of communication studies, the study aims to shed light on the multifaceted interplay of media narratives, terrorism, and counterterrorism efforts, offering insights into the role of the media in shaping public perceptions and responses to the Boko Haram insurgency. …”
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15-17 May 2024, 16th Global Communication Association Conference “The Future(s) of Communication: Promises and Predicaments” by Büşra Tosun Durmuş

“…The 16th Global Communication Association Conference was held between May 15-17, 2024, hosted by Marmara University, to address the interdisciplinary nature of communication studies and the challenges of the 21st century. …”
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Mansplaining explained: The role of the better-than-average effect and the interpretation bias in acts and accusations of mansplaining by Fokkema Astrid, Pollmann Monique

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Human studies and user studies: a call for methodological inter-disciplinarity (Brenda Dervin) by Brenda Dervin

“…Drawing on extensive literature reviews focusing, in particular, on user (and audience) research in the fields of library and information science and communication studies, the author describes the increasing chaos of human studies and user studies--the plethora of theories, concepts, approaches, methods, and findings which plague researchers within and between fields and bewilder policy maker and practitioner observers. …”
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