Talia Stroud
Partisan Polarization and the News Media
This talk will discuss the media’s role in exacerbating and reducing political polarization in the United States.
SESSION 2
Polarization and Identity in the Public Sphere
Focus
- Polarization
- News Media
- Identity
Drawing from theories such as inoculation…
and intergroup contact, I will describe how people orient toward the news media based on their partisan identities. I will review both what we know and what remains to be tackled in future research on the relationship between the media and polarization.