SUMMER RECAP 3: Sunday @aejmc.bsky.social 2025 Closing out the conference and our summer recap, @manshipschool.bsky.social Morgan Badurak and @ramirez-fa.bsky.social were co-authors on “Beyond Censorship: Understanding the Complexities of Social Media Bans and the Rejection of Regulation” (10/10)

SUMMER RECAP 3: Friday @aejmc.bsky.social 2025 pt.1/2 Caley Hewitt and Hayley Booth presented the extended abstract for their paper “From Airwaves to Ballots: Presidential Candidates’ Podcast Appearances And Their Impact on Their Credibility” (4/10)

SUMMER RECAP 3: Friday @aejmc.bsky.social 2025 pt.2/2 The paper “Understanding the Role of Political Affiliation in Childhood Vaccination Intention in Louisiana” was presented, which SMAC’s Dr. Jeonghyun (Janice) Lee is a co-author of (5/10)

SUMMER RECAP 3: [email protected] 2025pt1/4 @manshipschool.bsky.social @masscommgrad.bsky.social SMAC’s Hayley Booth co-authored “National Security vs. Freedom of Speech: How Media Exposure, Personal Values, and Media Framing Influence Non-Users’ Support for A National Ban on TikTok”(6/10)

SUMMER RECAP 3: Saturday @aejmc.bsky.social 2025 pt.3/4 The extended abstract for “From Red Scare to RedNote: TikTok Refugees and the Rejection of U.S. Digital Hegemony” was a paper written and presented by Morgan Badurak and Dr. @ramirez-fa.bsky.social (8/10)

Excited to see this article published! A wonderful collaboration with two Manship grads @masscommgrad.bsky.social @manshipschool.bsky.social Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

SUMMER RECAP 3: Thurs @aejmc.bsky.social 2025 pt.2/2 Morgan Badurak & @caleyrose1998.bsky.social presented their paper “Should Influencers Speak Up? Political Expectancy Violations Among Gen Z” & Dr. Jeonghyun (Janice) Lee moderated “Issue Management and Social Advocacy for Various Contexts” (3/10)

SUMMER RECAP 3: Thursday @aejmc.bsky.social 2025 pt.1/2 SMAC’s @manshipschool.bsky.social @masscommgrad.bsky.social @lsu.bsky.social first presentation was an extended abstract for the paper “From Headlines to Hashtags: Comparing U.S. News and User Discourses on China’s DeepSeek AI” (2/10)

SUMMER RECAP 3: Finally, @aejmc.bsky.social 2025 in San Fran, CA this August, SMAC members had 9 presentations, 2 of which came directly from SMAC Lab @lsu.bsky.social @manshipschool.bsky.social @masscommgrad.bsky.social: "From Headlines to Hashtags" & "The Digital Archive Collective Memory" (1/10)

SUMMER RECAP 2: In August, @nabilamushtarin.bsky.social did her two weeks in the SICSS program at @stanforduniversity.bsky.social working with others in the program to present a research project titled "From Aprons to Almond Milk: Femininity in Online Womens' Subcultures" (3/3)

SUMMER RECAP 1: Drs. @ramirez-fa.bsky.social and Jeonghyun (Janice) Lee also participated in @icahdq.bsky.social panels during the conference with discussions around digital affordances and agency in gendered contexts, community engaged health research, and media coverage of health topics (3/3)

While school was out @lsu.bsky.social the @manshipschool.bsky.social @masscommgrad.bsky.social SMAC Lab stayed BUSY! After conferences, summer programs, publications and awards, we're gearing up for more research, new and old. In the mean time, watch for a #recap of everything we got up to!

SUMMER RECAP 1: ICA 2025 Members in the SMAC Lab @lsu.bsky.social @manshipschool.bsky.social @masscommgrad.bsky.social had 4 papers at the annual @icahdq.bsky.social conference in June this year with papers in Political Communication, Health Communication, and Feminist Scholarship (1/3)

SUMMER RECAP 1: This was SMAC Lab's Adwoa B's first @icahdq.bsky.social where she presented her paper "Scroll, Share, Vote: The Influence of Social Media and Peer Influence on the Voting Intention and Political Engagement of Teen First-Time Voters" for which she received a travel grant (2/3)

SUMMER RECAP 2: Morgan Badurak spent her two weeks of June/July in the SICSS program at the University of Pennsylvania, working with other members to create and present a research project titled "Progressive Insurgencies and Intersectional Backlash" (2/3)

SUMMER RECAP 2: SICSS More in our #recap, Morgan Badurak and @nabilamushtarin.bsky.social were at U of Penn and @stanforduniversity.bsky.social through the SICSS sicss.io, a program designed to educate and train researchers in new social science and media research methods (1/3)

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🚨🚨 New article out in SM+S with the awesome @ramirez-fa.bsky.social & Calyee Hewitt! We explore predictors of digital monitoring practices in romantic relationships among WOC in the context of IPV. #AcademicSky #Surveillance #Gender OPEN ACCESS: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Life under authoritarianism can feel normal—until dissent is silenced and fear takes hold. Routines continue, but freedoms erode. Only when people start disappearing—arrested without cause, taken in the night, or never heard from again—does the illusion of normalcy shatter. slate.com/culture/2025...

Cell-site simulators (CSS, also known as Stingrays or IMSI catchers) are devices that masquerade as legitimate cell-phone towers, tricking phones within a certain radius into connecting to the device rather than a tower. Our new tool, Rayhunter, can help you find them.

The Department of Government Efficiency is ransacking multiple federal agencies, without oversight or safeguards, and EFF is glad to join the brigade of lawsuits to protect this critical information.

Every year, EFF and a number of diverse organizations participate in Copyright Week. We pick five copyright issues to highlight and advocate a set of principles of copyright law. Join us for Copyright Week 2025. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

From scrolling through TikTok to asking Google for homework help, #algorithms are shaping young people’s everyday lives in powerful and often invisible ways. #LizzyWinstone highlights the importance of #AlgorithmicLiteracy. blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4di...

A federal court has declared that warrantless searches of US person’s communications collected for national security purposes is unconstitutional. Now it’s our job to make sure Congress knows that when they renew this law in a little over a year.

Moon premiered 16 years ago at Sundance. And I'd like to take this opportunity to thank @manmademoon.bsky.social once again for what I consider to be one of the best sci-fi films of the turn of the century. 🫡

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