CARP Lab's first webinar of the fall will host @alessandronai.bsky.social on attack politics. Join us!

Deirdre Prigge is closing our conference with a provocative paper called "Go Woke, Go Broke?" How do corporations operate in this context of reputational threat?

Marijana Grbeša is now teaching us about celebrity populism in politics, which features disruption, directness, authenticity, and liminality.

Emily Crosby explores Kamala Harris and the "DEI" hire as a political archetype to kick off our last panel at #CARP5 #CARPV.

Is Amy Klobuchar Minnesota nice or is she a terrible boss and what impact do those attacks have on her reputation? Tyler Johnson asks these questions now.

CARP founder Sergei Samoilenko and Gwen Bouvier now call us to consider cancel culture as character assassination.

Now, @leticiabode.bsky.social, Riley, and Kunjika study technology-facilitated gender-based violence. We're seeing this more and more in "Manosphere" communities. #CARP5 #CARPV

What does inoculation theory have to do with gender? Well, the 1961 original iteration of inoculation theory is giving grandpa according to @joshcompton.bsky.social #CARP5 #CARPV

We're moving forward to a panel that looks at character assassination in international politics. We've seen presentations about Greece, Spain, and Russia. #CARP5 #CARPV

We're kicking off day 2 of our conference. After a great panel on media, memes, journalism, and gender, we're shifting our attention to history now. First up, celebrity scandals amidst the Catholic clergy.

Last panel of the first day of our conference: media literacy in the 2024 election. @nolanhigdon.bsky.social asks us to reckon with the power of AI-generated images in the media ecosystem. #CARPV #CARP5

We're kicking off our third panel, continuing to explore the practice of opinion formation and political communication. This panel features female reporters and opinion columnists discussing their work and how they navigate gender. #CARP5 #CARPV

As a reminder, you can follow the conference livestream on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/live/TwKlBgm... #CARPV

Michael LaRosa, our keynote speaker, is kicking off his address talking about the power of information and messages in today's political climate. He was Jill Biden's press secretary, and we're lucky he's joining us today.

Panel 2 looked at theories on social and political conflict. @docfloff.bsky.social has summarized the key themes in this AI image.

Thanks, Florian! Panelists @hendrikmichael.bsky.social, Eric Shiraev, Holger Mölder, and @keohaneja.bsky.social discussed timeless tropes and new attacks on women in politics.

We're welcoming scholars to George Mason's Arlington campus this week to talk about gender, power, and character assassination. See the conference schedule here: communication.gmu.edu/research-and...