Global news – global identity? The relationship between media consumption, perception of identity, and ethnocentrism

Abstract In line with the common ingroup identity model, present research investigated whether factors beyond contact conditions are associated emergence of a shared perception and outgroup attitudes. Concretely, we reasoned that higher consumption global news would be positively related to stronger identity, which in turn negatively correlated ethnocentrism. contrast, local should then To test these ideas, one cross‐sectional ( N = 576) longitudinal study 410) were carried out at an Austrian university. As hypothesized, was accounted for reduced However, only study, found empirical evidence interest is ethnocentrism mediated by identity.