Hi AoIR, Happy 2026! We are pleased to share that 2025 marks a milestone for Communication and Change with 20 peer-reviewed and editorial articles published and several special issues scheduled for publication in 2026! We invite you to take a look. https://link.springer.com/journal/44382 Table of Contents 1. Building a methodological profile for communication’s study of the passive generation of information Huma Rasheed & Robert Holbert 1. Stuck in the middleware with you: the challenges of capitalizing a market-oriented approach to platform governance Blake Hallinan, Omer Rothenstein & Nicholas A. John 1. The end of experimental research as we know it? A perspective on generative artificial intelligence in communication science Jörg Matthes & Sofie Vranken 1. The evolution of agenda-setting research and theory from 1972 to 2025: from newspapers and TV to social media and artificial intelligence David H. Weaver 1. Media History vs. Media Change: ahistoricism, technological determinism, and other problems Otávio Daros 1. A chatbot for the soul: mental health care, privacy, and intimacy in AI-based conversational agents Tamara Kneese, Briana Vecchione & Alice Marwick 1. Using large language models for survey research in communication: opportunities and challenges Sebastián Valenzuela, Stephan Winter & Sebastián Rivera 1. A bias towards neutrality? How LLM guardrail sensitivity affects classification Richard Rogers & Xiaoke Zhang 1. Reimagining AI in Latin America: situated narratives of users, developers, and decision-makers on understanding and governing AI Teresa Correa, Francisca Luco, Mónica Humeres, Dusan Cotoras, Alexandra Davidoff, Yelena Hernández-Estrada, Iñaki Oyarzún-Merino & Claudia López 1. Emerging AI individualism: how young people integrate social AI into everyday life Petter Bae Brandtzaeg, Asbjørn Følstad & Marita Skjuve 1. Communication, change, and the challenge of AI: an introduction to the inaugural issue of Communication and Change James E. Katz 1. Generative AI and its disruptive challenge to journalism: An institutional analysis Seth C. Lewis, Andrea L. Guzman, Thomas R. Schmidt, Bibo Lin 1. Introducing Communication and Change: A journal for empirically grounded communication research and theory James E. Katz 1. 100 years of communication: Change and continuity in inaugural communication journals 1924–2024 Lee Humphreys, Didem Özkul & Stephanie Belina 1. Artificial intelligence as primitive accumulation: Enclosure, extraction, exploitation Graham Murdock 1. Mobile AI: Communication and mobility after the smartphone Gerard Goggin 1. A framework for thinking about and deploying ethics in AI Peng Hwa Ang 1. Extending the self through AI-mediated communication: Functional, ontological, and anthropomorphic extensions Scott W. Campbell, Nicole B. Ellison & Morgan Quinn Ross 1. An ecological approach to debated questions in communication research: Issue competition, media convergence, and AI-generated content Jonathan J. H. Zhu & Tai-Quan Peng 1. Communication and Change: Our Vision James E. Katz, Baohua Zhou, Lei Guo & Jianhua Yao Also, consider submitting your articles in 2026! Submission guidelines： https://link.springer.com/journal/44382/submission-guidelines Submission Website： https://link.springer.com/journal/44382 Social Media Handle: X (previously known as Twitter): @CAC_Springer Bluesky: cacspringer.bsky.social