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...

Full description

Bibliographic Details

Published in:	Journal of Communication Vol. 76; no. 4; pp. 290 - 303
Main Authors:	Lane, Daniel S, Chen, Melody, Wang, Yifei
Format:	Article
Published:	Oxford University Press / USA Aug2026
Subjects:	United States Political communication Political affiliation Group identity Mass media use
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost