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Policing the Political Boundary: How the r/BarstoolSports Audience Confronts Politicization 政治边界的监管：BarstoolSports观众如何面对政治化

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Political Communication Pub Date : 2026-08-12 DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2026.2715700

Elliott Edsall

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Political Communication Pub Date : 2026-08-10 DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2026.2708127

Margot Lissens,Cato Waeterloos,Laura Vandenbosch,Desirée Schmuck

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Examining the Influence of Media Coverage on Information-Seeking of Judicial Candidates 论媒体报道对司法候选人信息获取的影响

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Political Communication Pub Date : 2026-08-10 DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2026.2716378

Marcy Shieh

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The Knowledge Gap in a High-Choice Media Environment: Experimental Evidence from Online Search 高选择媒体环境中的知识鸿沟：来自在线搜索的实验证据

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Political Communication Pub Date : 2026-08-06 DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2026.2708131

Roberto Ulloa,Leonard Tiedemann,Peter Selb,Celina Kacperski

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Happiness in Political Communication by Men and Women Members of the US Congress 美国国会男女议员在政治沟通中的幸福感

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Political Communication Pub Date : 2026-07-29 DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2026.2705676

Constantine Boussalis,Travis G. Coan,Mirya R. Holman

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Networked Counterpublics and Contentious Publicity: A Cross-Platform Analysis of QAnon on Parler and Twitter 网络反公众和争议性宣传：Parler和Twitter上QAnon的跨平台分析

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Political Communication Pub Date : 2026-07-27 DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2026.2708132

Sang Jung Kim,Jordan Foley,Yunkang Yang,Keyeun Lee

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Common Identities and Political Talk: Evaluating Cross-Cutting Political Discussions in Sports Communities on Reddit 共同身份和政治谈话：评价Reddit体育社区的跨领域政治讨论

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Political Communication Pub Date : 2026-07-23 DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2026.2704899

Ashwin Rajadesingan

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Studying Propaganda as a Social Process 作为社会过程的宣传研究

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Political Communication Pub Date : 2026-07-22 DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2026.2706643

Christian Baden,Anna Litvinenko,Gregory Asmolov

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Affective Publics in the YouTube Live Chat: Multimodal Emotional Contagion During the 2024 U.S. Presidential Debate YouTube实时聊天中的情感公众：2024年美国的多模态情绪感染总统辩论

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Political Communication Pub Date : 2026-07-22 DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2026.2704891

Sungwon Jung,Zhi Lin,Joseph M Stepniewski,Jennifer Castillo Cortes,Yuzhe Lei

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Political Fact-Checking Efforts are Constrained by Deficiencies in Coverage, Speed, and Reach 政治事实核查工作受到覆盖面、速度和覆盖面不足的限制

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Political Communication Pub Date : 2026-07-19 DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2026.2704896

Morgan Wack,Kayla Duskin,Damian Hodel

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