An "Identity Turn" in political communication?: testing the relationship between media use and identity alignment in the United States.
Despite a rise in identity-centric communication scholarship, there is a lack of theory and evidence regarding how media use relates to the on-going alignment between political and social identities (i.e. identity alignment). We offer a framework for theorizing this dynamic and apply it to examine t...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Communication Vol. 76; no. 4; pp. 290 - 303 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Aug2026
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