[Commlist] Media Studies: New special issue published - Gendering Character Assassination

We are pleased to announce the publication of a new issue of /Media 
Studies/ (/Medijske studije/), Vol. 17, No. 33 (2026), featuring a 
special issue on Gendering Character Assassination, together with two 
articles in the regular section. The special issue is edited by guest 
editors Jennifer Keohane and Eric Shiraev.
All articles are available open access, and the online issue is 
available at: https://hrcak.srce.hr/en/broj/27135 
<https://hrcak.srce.hr/en/broj/27135>
The special issue includes following articles:
Jennifer Keohane and Eric Shiraev
*Editor’s Note*
Oleg Kashirskikh and Katerina Tsetsura
*Kamala Harris in Russian Media: Gendered Character Assassination and 
the Deligitimization of Political Femininity in Authoritarian Discourse*
Leslie Reynard
*Lilith the Demon, Media Evolution and the Origins of Gendered Character 
Assassination*
Florian Krüpe
*Messalina – or: Once Your Reputation Is Ruined ...*
Tyler Johnson
*Minnesota Nice? Leadership, Sexism, and Attacks on the Launch of 
Senator Amy Klobuchar’s Presidential Campaign*
Clara-Sophie Höhn
*Of “Outside Agitators”, “Peculiar Whites”, and “Poor Excuses for White 
Women”: The Character Assassinations of White Southern Female Civil 
Rights Activists in the 1960s*
Kunjika Apurvabhai, M. Riley Tinlin, Leticia Bode, Merielle Angelie 
Agorilla, Carol Balass, Evan Cain, Randy Cantz, Maria Fernanda Chanduvi, 
Yanpei Chen, Yige Chen, Giselle Guadiana, Meghan Landsberg, Hannah 
McDonnell, Bryan Murphy, and Kashaf Rashid
*Stitching Refutations: Debunking Misogyny and Misinformation on TikTok*
Kevin A. Stein and Matthew H. Barton
*“The Orange Emperor, the Bitch, and the Slut”: Meme Attacks on Trump, 
Clinton, and Harris*
The issue also includes two articles in the regular section:
Ashneet Khandpur Singh, Pau Perea Paños, Mario Reyes de los Mozos, and 
Gary Munnelly
*Enhancing Fact-Checking with RAG and Knowledge Graphs*
Kristina Posavec and Ana Malnar
*Migration and Demographic Policy Measures in Croatian Media: A Critical 
Discourse Analysis*
The issue concludes with reviews of recent books.

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