Every day @theonion.com gets closer to discovering STS

🚨New pub alert!🚨 Now available open-access in @journal-of-comm.bsky.social, we (w/ @dkreiss.bsky.social, @danlane.bsky.social, & @shannimcg.bsky.social) critique political communication's "Identity Turn" and offer instead a foundation for studying #polcomm from a *group* perspective. 🧵

Secretary of Defense Hegseth says he doesn’t know if Russia invaded Ukraine. This you?

Do you know an MA student or undergrad with a bright future working at the intersections of technology, society, and communication? Encourage them to apply to Predoc position with Microsoft Research's Social Media Collective! I can't recommend enough! socialmediacollective.org/2025/01/22/s...

🗣️New Communication Theory article! With @carolynschmitt.bsky.social and @shannimcg.bsky.social Communication can benefit from clarity, but what about a tactical lack of clarity? Here, we explicate "strategic ambiguity" and argue for its importance in political communication. 1/🧵 bit.ly/StratAm

If SNL doesn’t bring in Tim Robinson to play NYC mayoral candidate Brad Lander I will riot

Help my friend and cohort-mate do important dissertation research!

Did we need experts to “question” this for us??? Why can’t we just say it??? Shout out to all my fellow “experts” being asked to confirm that bad things are indeed bad to preserve a misguided sense of journalistic neutrality in outlets that the Right doesn’t read.

It’s not just sports. Prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket are now operating legally in the US and were able to ride the wave of sports gambling app popularity and the US presidential election to some pretty major numbers.

I just hate how dumb the fascist shift in the US has been. There was no Machiavellian plot. No critically overlooked flaw in the system. They just said they were gonna do dumb, evil things. And we didn’t stop them. So they did.

I would love for someone to ask Zuck/Meta what “once again prioritizing speech” means in this context. I mean, minoritized subjects understand that he’s removing the flimsy guardrails meant to protect us, but I’m curious what they THINK they are communicating here.

well that turned out to be a bit of an understatement

NEW PUB with Lee McGuigan! 🎉 We the Consumers: The Conservative “Parallel Economy” as Reactionary Commodity Activism ijoc.org/index.php/ij...