Core Readings

Panel 1: The Centrality of Identity in Political Communication

Grundlage für die Diskussion: McGregor, S. C., & Coe, K. (2025). The Centrality of Identity in Political Communication. Political Communication Report, Winter (2025)(32). https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/106548

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1 McGregor, S. C., Coe, K., Saldaña, M., Griffin, R. A., Chavez-Yenter, D., Huff, M., … Riles, J. M. (2025). Dialogue on difference: Identity and political communication. Communication Monographs, 92(2), 217–238. https://doi.org/10.1080/03637751.2025.2459648
2 Lane, D. S., Chen, M., & Wang, Y. (2025). An “identity turn” in political communication? Testing the relationship between media use and identity alignment in the United States. Journal of Communication. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqaf026
3 Kreiss, D., Lawrence, R. G., & McGregor, S. C. (2024). Trump Goes to Tulsa on Juneteenth: Placing the Study of Identity, Social Groups, and Power at the Center of Political Communication Research. Political Communication, 41(5), 845–856. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2024.2343757
4 Wells, C., & Friedland, L. A. (2023). Recognition Crisis: Coming to Terms with Identity, Attention and Political Communication in the Twenty-First Century. Political Communication, 40(6), 681–699. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2023.2222267
5 Kreiss, D., & McGregor, S. C. (2024). A review and provocation: On polarization and platforms. New Media & Society, 26(1), 556–579.

Panel 2: Political Group Communication: Social Groups as Active Communicators

Grundlage für die Diskussion: Boyer, M. M. (2025). Political Group Communication: Social Groups as Active Communicators. Political Communication Report, Winter (2025)(32). https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-106554-7

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6 Boyer, M. M., Aaldering, L., & Lecheler, S. (2022). Motivated Reasoning in Identity Politics: Group Status as a Moderator of Political Motivations. Political Studies, 70(2), 385–401.
7 Boyer, M. M., & Lecheler, S. (2022). Social mobility or social change? How different groups react to identity-related news. European Journal of Communication. https://doi.org/10.1177/02673231221105168
8 Appiah, O., Knobloch-Westerwick, S., & Alter, S. (2013). Ingroup favoritism and outgroup derogation: Effects of news valence, character race, and recipient race on selective news reading. Journal of Communication, 63(3), 517–534. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcom.12032
9 Ramasubramanian, S., & Banjo, O. O. (2020). Critical media effects framework: Bridging critical cultural communication and media effects through power, intersectionality, context, and agency. Journal of Communication, 70(3), 379–400. https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqaa014
10 Droogendyk, L., Wright, S. C., Lubensky, M., & Louis, W. R. (2016). Acting in Solidarity: Cross‐Group Contact between Disadvantaged Group Members and Advantaged Group Allies. Journal of Social Issues, 72(2), 315–334. https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.12168

Panel 3: Affective Polarization

Grundlage für die Diskussion: Neumann, R. (2025). The Role of Identity in Affective Polarization. Political Communication Report, Winter (2025)(32). https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-106551-2

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11 Balinhas, D. (2023). Bringing critical social psychology to the study of political polarization. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 17(1), e12721. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12721
12 Iyengar, S., Sood, G., & Lelkes, Y. (2012). Affect, not ideology: A social identity perspective on polarization. Public Opinion Quarterly, 76(3), 405–431. https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfs038
13 Kim, S. J., Villanueva, I. I., & Chen, K. (2024). Going beyond affective polarization: How emotions and identities are used in anti-vaccination TikTok videos. Political Communication, 41(4), 588–607. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2023.2243852
14 Renström, E. A., Bäck, H., & Carroll, R. (2023). Threats, emotions, and affective polarization. Political Psychology, 44(6), 1337–1366. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12899
15 Bantel, I. (2023). Camps, not just parties. The dynamic foundations of affective polarization in multi-party systems. Electoral Studies, 83, 102614. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2023.102614
16 Dawkins, R., & Hanson, A. (2024). ‘American’ is the eye of the beholder: American identity, racial sorting, and affective polarization among white Americans. Political Behavior, 46(1), 501–521. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-022-09834-x

Panel 4: Information repertoires and political identities

Grundlage für die Diskussion: Orchard, X., & Santos, M. (2025). Information repertoires in algorithmic platforms and political identities in post-partisan scenarios. Political Communication Report, Winter (2025)(32). https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-106552-7

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17 Hasebrink, U., & Domeyer, H. (2012). Media repertoires as patterns of behaviour and as meaningful practices: A multimethod approach to media use in converging media environments. Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, 9(2), 757–779.
18 Tóth, F., Mihelj, S., Štětka, V., & Kondor, K. (2022). A Media Repertoires Approach to Selective Exposure: News Consumption and Political Polarization in Eastern Europe. The International Journal of Press/Politics, 28(4), 884–908. https://doi.org/10.1177/19401612211072552
19 Snow, D. (2024). Polarising Press: The Effect of Media Consumption on Brexit Identity. SocArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/7qcyu
20 Foos, F., & Bischof, D. (2022). Tabloid Media Campaigns and Public Opinion: Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Euroscepticism in England. American Political Science Review, 116(1), 19–37. https://doi.org/10.1017/S000305542100085X
21 Berk, N. (2025). The Impact of Media Framing in Complex Information Environments. Political Communication, 42(5), 757–773. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2025.2456519
22 Törnberg, P. (2025). Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use, 2020–2024: Decline, Fragmentation, and Enduring Polarization. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2510.25417

Panel 5: Intersectional Identity and Differential Media Effects

Grundlage für die Diskussion: Meltzer, C. E. (2025). Intersectional Identity and Differential Media Effects. Political Communication Report, Winter (2025)(32). https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-106550-7

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23 Meltzer, C. E., Jost, P., Schemer, C., Kruschinski, S., & Maurer, M. (2025). How (Gendered) Media Portrayals of Refugees Affect Attitudes Toward Immigration: The Moderating Role of Political Ideology. Political Communication, 42(5), 882–900. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2025.2472765
24 Coles, S. M., & Saleem, M. (2021). Social media expression and user predispositions: Applying the differential susceptibility to media effects model to the study of issue polarization. Social Media + Society, 7(4), 20563051211052907. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051211052907
25 Rosenberger, J. S., Dierenfeldt, R., & Ingle, H. (2023). Media Consumption and Fear of Crime: Evidence of the Need for an Intersectional Approach. Victims & Offenders, 18(4), 691–714. https://doi.org/10.1080/15564886.2021.1991069
26 Borah, P., & Irom, B. (2021). To Donate or Not To Donate: Visual Framing of the Rohingya Refugees, Attitude Towards Refugees and Donation Intentions. Journal of Refugee Studies, 34(4), 4381–4405. https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/feab023
27 Conlin, L., & Davie, W. R. (2015). Missing White Woman Syndrome: How Media Framing Affects Viewers’ Emotions. Electronic News, 9(1), 36–50.