APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions

News Use, Political Knowledge, and Misperceptions in 18 Countries across the Global North Cambridge Core - Politics: General Interest - News Use, Political Knowledge, and Misperceptions in 18 Countries across the Global North

Feeling very happy that this new book has just been published. It was a true pleasure writing this with @pvanaelst.bsky.social, @luisagehle.bsky.social, Christian Schemer and Alon Zoizner.

And it is open access until March 11, so get it now :-)!

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Participation is competitive.

To apply, submit:
• Application form
• CV
• Political communication research proposal or extended abstract (max. 3 pages)
• Recommendation letter from an academic referee

An immersive week of training & mentoring featuring master classes and discussions with:

@cbaden.bsky.social
Stephen Coleman
Dam Hee Kim
Regina Lawrence
Jorg Matthes
Patricia Moy
fei “chris” shen
Lone Sorensen
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⭐ Call for Applications - ICA PolComm Summer School 2026

📍 University of Leeds
🗓 13–17 July

📅 Deadline: 17:00 GMT, Monday, 30 March 2026
📢 Cohort selected by: 15 April 2026

Full details: polcomm.github.io/summer-school/

🚨 Just a handful of days left, DL March 1!🚨

🔥 Walter Lippmann Award for Best Published Article in the field of political communication (2025)🔥

SELF NOMINATIONS WELCOME & EASY: Just send me email with article

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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)

📣 Extension of Deadline for Travel Grants Applications!

We invite applications for travel grants from ICA attendees without sufficient funding. These grants are especially directed at students and junior scholars from Tier B/C.

Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I'm chairing the brand new "Excellence in Mentoring in Political Communication" award, with @lpargyle.bsky.social, Michael Chan and Dan Myers--please nominate scholars who you believe have supported the next generation of scholars through advising and other forms of mentorship!

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I’m chairing the Thomas E. Patterson Best Dissertation Award in Political Communication committee. The award recognizes the best dissertation successfully defended in 2025.

Please nominate your students and forward this call to colleagues working in political communication.

🚨 Two weeks left 🚨

Walter Lippmann Award for Best Published Article in the field of political communication (2025)

SELF NOMINATIONS WELCOME! Just send me email with link to article

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⏰ Reminder: Only two weeks left to submit nominations for an APSA Political Communication Section Award!

#APSA #PolComm

The APSA Political Communication section is accepting nominations for its annual awards. Please send nominations directly to the chair of each committee.

🔎 More details on awards, committee, and eligibility criteria:
politicalcommunication.org/awards/

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

📣 Travel Grants – ICA Political Communication Division

We invite applications for travel grants from ICA attendees without sufficient funding. These grants are especially directed at students and junior scholars from Tier B/C.

Apply here: forms.gle/iL6asnCvBF7x...

📢 Call for Papers | Communication and the Public

Special Issue: Co-Producing Environmental Publics: Technology, Communication & Ecological Transformation

🗓️ Abstract deadline: 20 March 2026

Please RT & share with interested colleagues 🌍📣

Handbook on Critical Discourse Studies Edited by Bernhard Forchtner and Franco Zappettini Featuring a series of engaging conversations with key figures in the field, this accessible Handbook outlines the crucial concepts of Critical Discourse Studies (CDS). Mapping the existing literature, contributors use qualitative and quantitative research to invite new engagements with CDS and to provide insight into primary debates.

📢 OUT NOW: Handbook on Critical Discourse Studies (2026)

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Postdoc position(s) at The Digital Democracy Centre Application deadline: February 15th, 2026, 23:59 CET/CEST.

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The DDC is expanding its team with *4* new opportunities for researchers passionate about the intersection of AI, media, democracy, & society.

Deadline: 📅 Feb 15 for 3 of these roles!
The Professorship deadline follows in March.🧵👇

Call for Abstracts open for the 3rd Annual Communication Horizons Conference at UC Davis. This year’s theme is Communication in the Age of AI and Algorithms

📌 Submission deadline: March 1, 2026 (AOE)
📌 Conference dates: May 15–17, 2026 T

communication.ucdavis.edu/horizonconf2...

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

AMSTERDAM ❤️ ALSO BEAUTIFUL IN WINTER 😍 🎿🧀

One more week to apply to this postdoc position in Political Communication @ascor.bsky.social

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The 📚 Encyclopedia of Political Communication 📚 is now out in the wild, and a first awesome batch of entries is available in open access!

Read them, love them, use them for your courses! 🔥

Check the 🧵 below to access them

Plz repost for maximum diffusion

Going Local? Localized Rhetoric in Congressional Communications In the face of the purported nationalization of political discourse in the United States, to what extent do congressional representatives still engage locally through their public communications? B...

🚨NEW PAPER
Going Local? Localized Rhetoric in Congressional Communications

Is congressional comms really nationalized?
Analyzing 9M+ social media posts from Members of Congress, I show that local messaging is still common & strategic. New ML + domain sharing data
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Logic of Connective Faction: How Digitally Networked Elites and Hyper-Partisan Media Radicalize Politics Across democratic systems, ideological cleavages increasingly emerge not only between but also within political parties. At the same time, hyperpartisan and digitally networked media ecosystems amp...

🚨NEW PAPER
The Logic of Connective Faction:
How Digitally Networked Elites and Hyper-Partisan Media Radicalize Politics
w/ @yunkangyang.bsky.social & @mikecowburn.bsky.social

Online radicalization doesn't just affect the public.
It also reshapes how elites & parties behave. doi.org/10.1080/1058...

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Are you interested in political communication, negative campaigning, and social norms? Are you experienced in quantitative methods? Do you have good rain clothes?

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This may be of interest to researchers of #PolComm #DiscourseStudies #TeamRhetoric

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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

After 3 years and 5,322 emails (and counting) our Encyclopedia of Political Communication is finally out at @elgarpublishing.bsky.social

📚 Three volumes
⭐ 431 entries
🎓 581 wonderful authors from across the world

A very short 🧵

5️⃣Meltzer (2025) shows how intersectional identities shape responses to political messages.

6️⃣Rovira-Sancho (2025) makes the case for ethnography to capture lived identities in social movements.

3️⃣Neumann (2025) calls for conceptual precision and multi-level approaches to studying affective polarization.

4️⃣Orchard & Santos (2025) highlight identity-based information repertoires in news use.

1️⃣ McGregor & @kcoe.bsky.social Coe (2025) argue that political communication scholarship must adopt a clearer stance on the role of identity.

2️⃣Boyer (2025) introduces the Political Group Communication framework with four archetypes of group-based communication.