Abstract. Investigating the role of identity in mediated experiences involves a great deal of complexity. However, media psychologists all too often explore the antecedents and consequences of identity in ways that less than optimally grapple with this complexity. In this essay, we build on the critical media effects (CME) approach to offer innovative ways to theorize about intersectionality within media psychology scholarship. We apply and elaborate on an intersectional approach to identity within media psychology to advance our understanding of media experiences within three key areas: media selectivity, media use, and media effects. We provide recommendations and salient examples for using critical media effects theorizing to examine intersectionality and better realize the complex dynamism of social identity.

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批判性媒体效果框架内的理论发展和评估

摘要。调查身份在中介体验中的作用涉及很多复杂性。然而，媒体心理学家常常以无法最佳应对这种复杂性的方式探索身份的前因和后果。在这篇文章中，我们建立在批判性媒体效应（CME）方法的基础上，提供创新的方法来理论化媒体心理学学术中的交叉性。我们应用并详细阐述了媒体心理学中身份认同的交叉方法，以促进我们在三个关键领域内对媒体体验的理解：媒体选择性、媒体使用和媒体效果。我们提供了使用批判性媒体效应理论来检验交叉性并更好地实现社会认同的复杂活力的建议和突出示例。