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It's obviously a huge honor for me to be part of this volume (thanks Kevin & Diana ☺️❤️) and I highly recommend checking out the other chapters!! Super useful to anyone teaching or learning about #PolComm!
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#DSA #DigitalServicesAct #DigitalGovernance #Polcomm #PolSci
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⏰ Reminder: Only two weeks left to submit nominations for an APSA Political Communication Section Award!
#APSA #PolComm
Hi yeah I am gonna need to read an ENTIRE Pol Comm dissertation on Mamdani's graphic design, please go ahead and put me on your committee, k thx #polcomm
This week, I attended a conference of the 🇩🇪 Communication Associations #polcomm section on "Democratic Resilience" in snowy Hamburg.
Annett Heft & I presented work on conspiracy theories, & @jolukito.bsky.social gave a keynote on right-wing digital surrogates.
Highly impressed with the panels I saw!
How do media storms occur?
What are the dynamics. Clear graphic in "Catching Fire in the News: The Necessary Conditions for Media Storms" by Amber Boydstun & colleagues
#polcomm #commsky @snsoroka.bsky.social 🔥
🚀🚀🚀 Book is available #OpenAccess #free:
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Eligibility:
• Presenting authors of a paper accepted by the Political Communication Division
• Usually only one presenting author per paper can receive a grant
Questions? Contact Rico Neumann (rico.neumann@fu-berlin.de)
#ICA26 #PolComm
This may be of interest to researchers of #PolComm #DiscourseStudies
@polcomm.bsky.social @critdiscstuds.bsky.social @liprg.bsky.social @psarhetoric.bsky.social @discoursenet.bsky.social @theframelab.bsky.social @jlanpol.bsky.social @cadaad.bsky.social @languagepowerpodcast.org #TeamRhetoric
"Can personal political branding from within government be considered as a form of disinformation?"
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Bridge Entertainment Labs & @civichealthproject.bsky.social supported this study. Many thanks to the #PolComm Reading Group at Illinois, @citap.bsky.social, @mmustafaj.bsky.social, @danlane.bsky.social, @gavinploger.bsky.social, Ian Hawkins, & 2023 @apsa.bsky.social attendees for their feedback. /🧵
"A Show for Us: How Racial and Partisan Cues About Television Audiences Affect Exposure Intentions" is available open-access at doi.org/10.1093/hcr/.... All data, code, analyses, and info about the materials is available on @cos.io. #PolComm #PoliSci #Politics #MediaStudies
Current explanations for political divides in entertainment media use identify divergent preferences for or evaluations of content. According to the theory of normative social behavior (TNSB), extratextual information such as cues about the audience may also influence exposure intentions due to viewers’ perceptions of ingroup norms. Social media users discuss and form communities around entertainment content while conveying partisan and racial identities. A preregistered experiment exposed Black and White partisans (N = 1,259) to tweets in which a television show was endorsed by co- or out-partisans who were racial in- or out-group members. Exposure intentions were stronger when endorsement came from co-partisans; however, this effect was stronger for White partisans. Treatment effects were mediated by perceived ingroup norms and perceptions of how much of the audience consisted of ingroup members. Implications of multiple identities (i.e., race and partisanship) for the TNSB and the study of partisan entertainment divides are discussed.
🚨New pub alert!🚨 Now available open-access in @hcr-journal.bsky.social, I show how endorsements of entertainment media from ingroup members, particularly inpartisans, affect exposure intentions, with differential effects across racial lines. #PolComm #PoliSci #Politics #MediaStudies 🧵
Time is running out! You have just a few hours left to submit your work to #APSA2026, taking place September 3–6. The submission deadline is today, 11:59 p.m. Pacific.
👉 Submit now to the Polcomm Division: buff.ly/PRvg2Wq
#Polcomm
PHD AND POSTDOC POSITIONS AT THE DIGITAL DEMOCRACY CENTRE
Topic: AI and the News Ecosystem
See thread by project PI @claesdevreese.bsky.social below.
Please help circulate and/or apply.
#polcomm #academia
This is my favorite project that I have worked on and I think the findings have important implications for how we think about the nationalization of politics in the US. Members are still going local in comms. I hope Congress and comms scholars find this useful.
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This is such an excellent book and a veritable who's-who of #PolComm scholarship, full of prescient observations on the role of journalism, data, race / social identities, and new forms of networked mobilization in the current state of US crisis...
Put it on your syllabi/reading lists!
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Thanks for reading! ❤️
We hope the field of #Polcomm @polcomm.bsky.social @polcommjournal.bsky.social will find this work useful!
#PolSciSky #DigitalPolitics #MediaStudies #Disinformation #AcademicSky #DigitalPolitics #PartyPolitics
This may be of interest to researchers of #PolComm #DiscourseStudies #TeamRhetoric
@polcomm.bsky.social @ecpr-polcom.bsky.social @critdiscstuds.bsky.social @liprg.bsky.social @discoursenet.bsky.social @theframelab.bsky.social @jlanpol.bsky.social
A photography of the beautiful old town of Krakow at sundown.
📣 Call for Abstract!
#PolCom section at @ecpr.bsky.social conference 8-11 Sep 2026 in Krakow on
"Political Communication Between Disruptive Technologies and Democratic Backsliding"
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Deadline: 5 Jan 2026 !
Chairs: @johannaburger.bsky.social & Thomas Milic
#polcom #polcomm
A Show for Us: How Racial and Partisan Cues About Television Audiences Affect Exposure Intentions Stewart M. Coles Assistant Professor Department of Communication University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Current explanations for political divides in entertainment media use identify divergent preferences for or evaluations of content. According to the theory of normative social behavior (TNSB), extratextual information such as cues about the audience may also influence exposure intentions due to viewers’ perceptions of ingroup norms. Social media users discuss and form communities around entertainment content while conveying partisan and racial identities. A preregistered experiment exposed Black and white partisans (N = 1,259) to tweets in which a television show was endorsed by co- or out-partisans who were racial in- or out-group members. Exposure intentions were stronger when endorsement came from co-partisans; however, this effect was stronger for white partisans. Treatment effects were mediated by perceived ingroup norms and perceptions of how much of the audience consisted of ingroup members. Implications of multiple identities (i.e., race and partisanship) for the TNSB and the study of partisan entertainment divides are discussed. Accepted for publication in Human Communication Research. The final article will be available, upon publication, via its DOI: 10.1093/hcr/hqaf032
Forthcoming at @hcr-journal.bsky.social: "A Show for Us: How Racial and Partisan Cues About Television Audiences Affect Exposure Intentions"! More to follow once the final version is published, but just glad this will be out in the world soon! #PolComm #PoliSci #Politics #MediaStudies
Together, these handbook chapters provide a foundational overview of topics of extremely high relevance to the work of the DDC.
We hope they will prove equally useful to the wider field of #PolComm #PoliticalCommunication!
The ICA review deadline is now Dec 12.
If you’re able to submit your #PolComm reviews ahead of the new deadline, it would greatly help us keep the process running smoothly.
Thanks so much for your time and commitment! 💙
Toward a Group Theory of Political Communication is open-access now in @journal-of-comm.bsky.social. Many thanks to the editors, reviewers, and #APSA24 & #ICA25 #polcomm @polcomm.bsky.social attendees whose feedback strengthened this piece.
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A framework for studying political communication from a group perspective at the micro, meso, and macro levels, from problem definition, to theoretical (re)orientations, to methodological approaches.
We offer a more concrete framework for studying political communication from a group perspective at the micro, meso, and macro levels. We apply the framework to the case of public opinion, then conclude with a reflection on what our approach means for group-centric #polcomm research moving forward.
Prop #1: The group—not the individual—is the fundamental organizing unit of human social and political life. Prop #2: Groups are constituted through communication, which is central to how they define their membership, identity, boundaries, and interests–in short, their politics. Prop #3: Groups and politics are reciprocally influencing forces through political communication, oriented around power.
We synthesize disparate bodies of theory on groups, politics, and communication to offer a foundation for a group theory of #polcomm that is underpinned by three basic propositions:
Prop #1: The group—not the individual—is the fundamental organizing unit of human social and political life.
Over the last decade, much attention has been paid to the role of identity in #polcomm. According to the Identity Turn,
1. We can understand social identity through the lens of the individual.
2. There is no necessary basis for distinct social/political identities; they are arbitrary/accidental.
Abstract: Recent political communication scholarship finds that groups and identities play a central role in the crises faced by political and media systems globally, particularly in democracies. Yet an individualist orientation in the literature has resulted in key theoretical and conceptual limitations, preventing a broader group-centric theoretical framework from emerging. We synthesize disparate bodies of theory on groups, politics, and communication to offer three basic propositions underlying a group theory of political communication. First, it is the group—not the individual—that is the fundamental organizing unit of social and political life. Second, groups are constituted through communication, which is central to how they define their politics. Third, groups and politics are reciprocally influencing forces through political communication, oriented around power. We offer a framework for studying the role of groups in political communication at the micro, meso, and macro levels, providing a concrete agenda for the study of groups in political communication.
🚨New pub alert!🚨 Now available open-access in @journal-of-comm.bsky.social, we (w/ @dkreiss.bsky.social, @danlane.bsky.social, & @shannimcg.bsky.social) critique political communication's "Identity Turn" and offer instead a foundation for studying #polcomm from a *group* perspective. 🧵
Kicking off #IJPP25 with welcoming words by our Editor in Chief @taberez.bsky.social, followed by an excellent keynote by @sabinamihelj.bsky.social on how the rise of illiberal public spheres forces us to reconsider normative assumptions in #polcomm. Focusing on publics, media trust, & disinfo.
Behold! We have found the cause of polarization! All will be at peace in the world if we just ban "polarizing yeast-based spread"
#polisky #polcomm #commsky
