New in HCR: What makes a television show feel like “a show for us”?
@stewartcoles.bsky.social (2026) finds that co-partisan endorsement increased exposure intentions for a fictitious television program, while racial ingroup endorsement alone did not.
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Abstract. Current explanations for political divides in entertainment media use identify divergent preferences for or evaluations of content. According to
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Dive into cutting-edge research on interparental conflict and parent-child triangulation, body-positive and fitspirational influencers, communicated sense-making in social groups, and digital panopticon/dataveillance.
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Great work by Priska L. Breves, Sophie C. Boerman, Jan-Philipp Stein, Carolin Ischen, and @zmcvanberlo.bsky.social on this study!