Toward a group theory of political communication.
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, pre...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Communication Vol. 76; no. 3; pp. 260 - 272 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jun2026
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