Special issue editors’ introduction

Year 2025, Issue: 69, 1 - 1, 12.01.2026

Vijaya Lakshmi Peddiboyina Erol Nezih Orhon

https://izlik.org/JA82DR57CR

Abstract

In an increasingly interconnected world, health communication stands as a vital scholarly and practical domain that shapes how individuals, communities, and societies understand, experience, and respond to health and illness. Connectist's current edition is founded on the premise that health is not produced in isolation, but through dynamic networks of communication that link people, institutions, technologies, cultures, and systems of knowledge. As an international scientific journal, this edition of Connectist seeks to advance critical, interdisciplinary, and globally relevant research that illuminates how communication functions as a central connective force in health and well-being.

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