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Mapping global digital political inequality

Daniel S. Lane, Emilija Gagrčin, &Ying Qi Pan 

Cambridge Elements in Politics and Communication | 2026

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An “Identity Turn” in political communication?: Testing the relationship between media use and identity alignment in the United States

Daniel S Lane, Melody Chen, & Yifei Wang 

Journal of Communication | 2026

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Political identity threats on social media

Daniel S Lane, Yifei Wang, & Alcides Velasquez 

Communication Research | 2026

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AI as “Artificial Immigrants”? A content analysis of the U.S. news media framing of AI threats

Ying Qi Pan, Stephanie Herrera, & Yifei Wang 

Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media | 2026

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A longitudinal test of political self-effects on social media

Daniel S Lane, Cassandra M Moxley, Gwen Petro, Arvin Jagayat 

Media Psychology | 2025

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The story of social media: Evolving news coverage of social media in American politics, 2006–2021

Daniel S Lane, Hannah Overbye-Thompson, & Emilija Gagrčin

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication | 2024
 

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Worn out & tuned out: Does politics fatigue on social media foster participatory inequality among Americans?

Daniel Lane, Nancy Molina-Rogers, & Emilija Gagrčin

Mass Comm & Society | 2025
 

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An “Identity Turn” in political communication?: testing the relationship between media use and identity alignment in the United States

Daniel Lane, Melody Chen, & Yifei Wang

Journal of Communication | 2025
 

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Me against myself: How right-partisan media use predicts support for redistribution across class and partisan identities

Yifei Wang, Miriam Metzger, Daniel Lane,

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly | 2025
 

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Introduction: Race and ethnicity as foundational forces in political communication

Stewart M. Coles & Daniel Lane

Book: Race and Ethnicity as Foundational Forces in Political Communication | 2024
 

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The group roots of social media politics: Social sorting predicts perceptions of and engagement in politics on social media

Daniel S. Lane, Cassandra M. Moxley, & Cynthia McLeod

Communication Research | 2023

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Uninterested and unequal?: examining SES-based gaps in youth political behavior on social media

Daniel S. Lane, Kjerstin Thorson, and Yu Xu

Information, Communication & Society | 2023
 

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