APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions

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

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

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Please reach out if you have any questions.

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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...

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

Then our postdoc position might be just for you: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Thank you for sharing. Merry Christmas

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.

We’re excited to share Issue 32 of the Political Communication Report!

This issue explores the emerging role of identity in Political Communication and features 6 contributions! You can also read interviews with award winners!

politicalcommunication.org/issue/winter...

The ICA review deadline is now Dec 12.

If you’re able to submit your #PolComm reviews ahead of the new deadline, it would greatly help us keep the process running smoothly.

Thanks so much for your time and commitment! 💙

Abstract: 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, preventing a broader group-centric theoretical framework from emerging. We synthesize disparate bodies of theory on groups, politics, and communication to offer three basic propositions underlying a group theory of political communication. First, it is the group—not the individual—that is the fundamental organizing unit of social and political life. Second, groups are constituted through communication, which is central to how they define their politics. Third, groups and politics are reciprocally influencing forces through political communication, oriented around power. We offer a framework for studying the role of groups in political communication at the micro, meso, and macro levels, providing a concrete agenda for the study of groups in political communication.

🚨New pub alert!🚨 Now available open-access in @journal-of-comm.bsky.social, we (w/ @dkreiss.bsky.social, @danlane.bsky.social, & @shannimcg.bsky.social) critique political communication's "Identity Turn" and offer instead a foundation for studying #polcomm from a *group* perspective. 🧵

📢 Reminder: Call for Applications — Editor(s) of Political Communication

There’s still time to apply to be the next editor(s) of Political Communication!

📅 Deadline for application packages: December 31, 2025

Full details here: shorturl.at/gl8XO

Who shares which sources on social media, and why does this matter politically? Our open-access @polcommjournal.bsky.social article shows how far-right French Twitter/X users strategically post and cite sources to achieve their goals. doi.org/10.1080/1058... #polisky #commsky #migcitsky A 🧵:

Call for Papers: AI, Public Opinion, and Democratic Resilience Special Issue of the International Journal of Public Opinion Research Guest Editors: Homero Gil de Zuñiga and Hugo Marcos-Marne Editor-In-Chief: Porismita Bora

Call for papers:

IJPOR has a call for a special issue on AI, public opinion and democratic resilience.

1000 word initial abstract submission

🗓️: deadline February 15, 2026

@ddc-sdu.bsky.social @aimediademlab.bsky.social @algosoc.org @polcomm.bsky.social #commsky

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IN NEW ISSUE: Racial Inequality & Democracy - @janamorgan.bsky.social, @leahchristiani.bsky.social & Nathan J Kelly argueethnoracial inequalities undermine support for democracy. Read in @polstudies.bsky.social: buff.ly/VaeXszt

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📖DDC PUBLICATION UPDATE📖
@hannescools.bsky.social on...
THE EVOLVING ROLE OF JOURNALISTS AS GATEKEEPERS IN THE AGE OF (GENERATIVE) ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

...in The Handbook of Artificial Intelligence and Journalism.

📢 ONE WEEK REMINDER!: the Department of Politics and International Relations and Oxford School of Global and Areas Studies seeks to appoint an Associate Professor in the Politics of Latin America.🗓️ CLOSES: Noon (GMT), Mon 24 Nov: www.politics.ox.ac.u...

🚨 Call for Papers!

The Polcomm Section invites submissions for #APSA2026, taking place September 3–6.

Next year’s theme is “Democracy Under Threat: How to Understand, Protect & Rebuild.”

👉 Submit now: buff.ly/PRvg2Wq

Don´t forget to submit your work to the Polcomm Section for the APSA Annual Meeting!

How News Media, Climate Anxiety, and Trust Shape Pro-Climate Behaviour Across Eight Countries - Waqas Ejaz, Mary Sanford, Richard Fletcher, 2025 Despite the importance of climate news in shaping public engagement, little is known about how different types of media – mainstream and non-mainstream – relate...

Research by our own @waqasejaz.bsky.social and others proves that climate journalism truly matters.

Drawing on online survey data from 🇧🇷🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇳🇯🇵🇵🇰🇬🇧🇺🇸 they show that mainstream news use is consistently associated with pro-climate behavioural intentions (using less energy, flying less often)