So good.

Matt Gaetz, James O’Keefe, and Laura Loomer have replaced the Pentagon press corps. I am not kidding. Look at the thread below. One of the military’s most critical lines of accountability is now a closed-circuit conspiracy carousel.

If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand” Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions "Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

Poll: Americans say “too divided” Pundit: Dems are being too divisive Poll: Legal system unfair Pundit: The public thinks Trump should get away with crimes Poll: Low trust in media Pundits: MSM is too far left Every time they see a nonspecific term and assume everyone thinks like a Republican.

"Dress for the job you want, not the job you have"

Scandalogy 6: Power, Protest and the Politics of Emotion will be at HAW Hamburg. Call for papers is now open: www.haw-hamburg.de/scandalogy/. Abstracts from all corners of the #commsky welcome! Deadline: 15 Nov 2025

Wenn man TV-Interviews zur NRW-Wahl sieht, fällt auf: Der AfD-Begriff „Altparteien“ ist inzwischen im alltäglichen Sprachgebrauch angekommen. Das ist, was Politikwissenschaftler*innen mit Normalisierung meinen (zu der wir uns die Finger blutig schreiben seit Jahr & Tag 🙄).

Save to assume Trump has destroyed $100's of billions of US over the next few years between trade & investment & high-skilled immigration & tourism. But I bet those ICE agents had some much fun coming up with racist nicknames to shout while tortoring legal foreign workers bsky.app/profile/carl...

People are homeless because they can’t afford rent. Because capitalism wrings out every piece of productivity from people while just barely maintaining their survival so they can continue to work. Because suffering on the streets is a threat to make you go clock in. It’s not a personal failure.

My god…

„Grenzdebil“

$50 says that’s Stephen Miller wearing his skin

Dass Menschen ganz von selbst 'rechts' werden, weil sie sich ohnmächtig fühlen, Zukunftsängste haben, ihre Privilegien sichern und ihre Frustration an Schwächeren ausleben wollen, um sich selbstwirksam zu fühlen - diese schon 80 Jahre alte Analyse ist einfach zu hoch für das deutsche Feuilleton...

It’s incredible how all these quislings spend their time saying Trump’s dictatorial actions are “distractions” from how unpopular he is when…dictatorial actions are obviously necessary to consolidate power despite being unpopular.

Monstrous

Lando's leadership of Cloud City in The Empire Strikes Back turned out to be a tragically prescient parable for our time. Leaders of institutions: Pay attention! A story in four parts. cc: Paul Weiss, Columbia University bcc: all law firms, universities, and civil society organizations

Doesn’t matter how much the @nytimes.com will two-side everything, it will never be enough to satisfy this unstable maniac. So- why continue?

Take notes Columbia!

It's like co-dependency in an abusive relationship.

Elmo just a tad too excited here. Reminds me of something ... 🤔

Investigative practices in alternative publics.. Steve Bannon looking sharp btw

Verlängerte Frist: Einreichung für die Tagung "Ungleichheit und Medienwandel - Akteure und Strukturen in historischer Perspektive" sind noch bis 12. Januar 2025 möglich!

Talking about social media and storytelling with students - this is a great example @jeffsharlet.bsky.social! You don't need many words to say so much.

“Don’t feed the trolls” also extends to bad opinion pieces in papers of record. They run them bc people react to them the most. If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change. It’s not easy and takes constant practice!

The German news desert - some kind of crappy "alternative" will eventually fill the gap nevertheless.

The new puddles of insight, accumulated at #ECREA2024 are bigger than the puddles to be crossed on the way to the venue. Great conference! Thank you & goodbye Ljubljana!

Spread the word: #OpenQDA is available as early access. It’s a new software for #coding of #qualitative #data such as #interviews, #protocols and others. OpenQDA is clear and easy to use, you can work together as a team, extend everything via plugins - and it's #opensource. openqda.org

Maybe it will be a short-lived career but a great platform to better this specific kind of media literacy. Maybe future students will have a better grasp of what journalism can be and what journalists can do.

My class seminar on political communication in the US in the summer will become a civics class. What is to be learned: The appeals court has wasted time, money, and paper deliberating on whether a stupid, self-serving argument is indeed stupid and self-serving.

Games-Tagung: Forschungsförderung stärken, Kooperation mit aber auch Verantwortung von Studios, Sensibilisierung in der Schule, Kampf gegen Dark Patterns, mehr interdisziplinärer Austausch, weniger Rechtfertigung. Ein kluger & selbstkritischer Roundtable #Games @zemki.bsky.social @akgwds.bsky.social

Another milestone for Scandalogy - international and interdisciplinary reseach of scandals, media and society: hrcak.srce.hr/ojs/index.ph...

As fears of disinformation are making their way from #davos into headlines, this new publication might be timely: In a survey-experiment @adrauc.bsky.social and I show that alarmist warnings against disinformation carry significant unintended negative effects. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

After learning how AI is trained on other people’s artwork, some users asked it to make popular images. It made a nearly identical copyrighted photo. Tests like these raise questions about the AI's data and whether companies are violating copyright laws.

After months offline, DISCMASTER rises again! The site, which is not run by the Internet Archive, offers users the ability to perform semantic search of thousands of shareware & compilation CD-ROMs preserved in our collection 👉 blog.archive.org/2024/01/21/d...

NY Times' dabbling in media linguistics, a showcase semantic prosody and deeper cultural patterns.