Wu Chun-Kuang, Lin Chih-An and Hsu Yu-Ming (Fu Jen Catholic University) explores platform-user and brand-user affordances and their impact on reflective engagement and emotional attachment in digital environments. tinyurl.com/3cyfsj5v

Abdullateef Mohammed, Lateef A. Adelakun, Adeola Abdullateef Elega, Aisha Sule-Otu & Murtada Busair Ahmad (Nile University of Nigeria, NOU Nigeria & Al-Hidaayah Academy Abuja) examines existing literature on entrepreneurial journalism and its dominant themes. tinyurl.com/ctf6vzzs

JianXu Deakin University examines China’s regulation of algorithm governance and critiques the limits of its ‘algorithmic transparency’. tinyurl.com/5xw8wrrk

Lim Sun Sun (Singapore Management University) and Gerry Chng (Deloitte Singapore) analyses the governance model by Singapore’s AI Verify Foundation as a public-private collaboration solution. tinyurl.com/4u5mcfmj

Terence Lee (Sheridan Institute of Higher Education) explains how Singapore’s national AI strategy is a proxy for its digital and smart nation global reputation. tinyurl.com/2zftzynk

Jongheon Kim (@UGustaveEiffel) critiques South Korea’s AI regulation that foregrounds economic competitiveness over addressing potential societal harms. tinyurl.com/yu9bt2k7

Nga Than (The City University of New York) and Larry Liu (Morgan State University) investigate the National Digital Transformation Programme in Vietnam and the obstacles faced in domestic AI development and governance. tinyurl.com/46asbsbe

Pauline Leong and Bradley Freeman (Sunway University) examines issues of data privacy, potential bias, infrastructural readiness, job displacements and the lack of regulatory guidelines in Malaysia’s AI initiatives. tinyurl.com/yc57sjf

Soraj Hongladarom and Suppanat Sakprasert (Chulalongkorn U.) critiques the exploitation of ChatGPT algorithms in AI training workshops in Thailand to highlight the need for regulation. tinyurl.com/235t3e9t

The fourth and final issue for 2024 is now out! This is our special issue featuring articles from the AANZCA 2023 conference. Read the introductory article by Lewis Rarm and Emma Tennent (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington) - tinyurl.com/2tmsftnx

From all of us in the CRP team, thank you for journeying with us this year! Wishing everyone happy holidays and the best for the season’s celebrations. Enjoy your break and we’ll catch up again in 2025!

Luigi Di Martino (Western Sydney University) unpacks the School Strike 4 Climate movement in Sydney to highlight ‘strategic authenticity’ used by student protestors to blend content, humour and internet culture. tinyurl.com/3zzyptbk

Sarah Wolff and Elena Maydell (Massey University) use interviews and narrative frameworks to uncover how public discourse on bariatric surgery increases fat stigma among patients. tinyurl.com/bdhv7rxk

Hello 2025! Our first issue for the year is out. Read the editorial by editor-in-chief Prof Terence Lee, as we launch into our second decade. We are also pleased to announce our new team of Associate Editors. Read more - tinyurl.com/5xr33998

Kirsty Anderson (Massey University) uses diaries and focus group studies to explore how news value and uses and gratification affects news consumption among New Zealanders. tinyurl.com/mb6m4t5x

Yao Wang, Md Azalanshah Md Syed & Rosya Izyanie Shamshudeen (Universiti Malaya) examines bilateral cultural interactions in newspapers between Malaysia and China to understand soft power amid evolving regional dynamics. tinyurl.com/c3dex8f3

Umar Hakim Mohd Hasri & Md Azalanshah Md Syed (Universiti Malaya) examines animation franchise Ejen Ali as a case study of transmedia narrative to demonstrate how world building facilitates immersion. tinyurl.com/za3s2ywv

Alison McAdam, Kristy Hess, Angela Blakston & Matthew Ricketson (Deakin University) discovers how adaptability, ownership, loyalty and understanding keeps family newspapers in Australia sustainable. tinyurl.com/2r56t34k

Marino De Luca (Università della Calabria) uses content analysis to examines how the British media’s coverge of the EU-UK relationship might have contributed to media rhetoric of destructive dissent during the #Brexit referendum. tinyurl.com/39bbzrx7

Hue Duong & Akansha Sirohi (Georgia State University) demonstrate the link between social media exposure and risk perception, prevention behaviours and consumption of disease information during #COVID19 in America and Vietnam. tinyurl.com/mj8vme74