Support for dismantling DEI didn’t happen overnight. It’s the outcome of narratives recoding CRT as a threat to white Americans. My article (w/ @meredithdclark.bsky.social) in @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social examines how this strategy became sentiment. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/21565503.2025.2556104

The Media & Democracy Cooperative (MDDC) is on BlueSky! The MDDC is a collaborative network of researchers advancing the use of digital data to study political communication. Follow us at @mddcoop.bsky.social, and check out this starter pack to follow MDDC researchers: go.bsky.app/MBhgRyr

Come work with us at @pennstateuniv.bsky.social! We are doing a search for an assistant professor in health or science communication. Please help me spread the word, and if you have any questions, don't hesitate to reach out. I'm excited about this hire! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

I'm excited to share my new pub: Intended & Unintended Visitors: Evidencing the Audience for Digital Black Press Outlets. I use imagined audience and white gaze frameworks and find that the digital Black press' non-Black audience is larger than the Black audience journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Saying that "autism is preventable" is essentially saying that autistic people should not be born. It's a eugenicist claim.

Bring back *everyone* who was sent from the U.S. to CECOT in El Salvador. *No one* should be sent there. ALL their rights were violated. ALL of them should come home.

Someone grab the A1! The LLM-to-malware pipeline is a perfect downward spiral: AI generates code with imaginary packages, attackers register those package names with malware, and unsuspecting developers execute the code. Another way AI errors cascade into real-world threats.

🧵1/ Once again, I am talking about identity in communication. In a new #openaccess piece, we argue that scholars cannot meaningfully understand political communication unless we center identity. Ignoring it means missing a huge piece of the puzzle. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨UPDATE: Rümeysa Öztürk has now suffered three separate asthma attacks while in DHS custody. She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care. This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.

New publication (w/ @shugars.bsky.social). journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/.... We analyze the transcripts of Black conservative YouTube influencer videos from 2013 to 2023, and its' algorithmically recommended videos.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Cory Booker breaks the record for longest Senate speech, previously held by segregationist Strom Thurmond.

Sen. Booker just quoted the Langston Hughes poem "Let America Be America Again" "America never was America to me, And yet I swear this oath— America will be!" poets.org/poem/let-ame...

The threat to deport undocumented immigrants is a threat to deport documented immigrants is a threat to deport the descendants of immigrants is a threat to deport anyone who they think looks like an immigrant is a threat to deport anyone who disagrees with them

I can't find a spot that lets me convey the size of the crowd, but bodies are packed all the way to the stone building. #FreeRumeysaOzturk

Lawyers for the Venezuelan immigrants seeking to block the Trump administration from summary deportations under the Alien Enemies Act sum up their argument this way in brief to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Penn State faculty position in computational social science/AI: psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

📝NEW PRE-PRINT PAPER📝 "The Logic of Connective Faction: How Digitally Networked Elites & Hyper-Partisan Media Radicalize Politics" @yunkangyang.bsky.social, @mikecowburn.bsky.social, & I investigate what mechanisms mainstreamed the issue of "Critical Race Theory" 🧵 🔗 mikecowburn.com/wp-content/u...

In this study, we propose that a code in a text may exist or not exist depending on one’s social space. Perhaps it’s time to rethink “intersubjectivity” in content analysis. *This will be presented at the next ICA Comps Methods div. @kthorson.bsky.social @snsoroka.bsky.social @dhrice.bsky.social

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Beyoncé Country Album of the Year #CowboyCarter #Grammys

DOECHII!!! #grammys

Recent EOs signal a lot, among them the attack on civil rights systems, and the weaponizing of DEI to reshape govt. My co-authors @meredithdclark.bsky.social & I have long contemplated this outcome in a project published today in @polcommjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

🚨New Publication in New Media & Society🚨 Co-First-Authored w/ @m-dot-brown.bsky.social @meredithpruden.bsky.social & @markriedl.bsky.social Making academia suck less: Supporting early career researchers studying harmful content online through a feminist ethics of care. jlukito.com/s/brown-et-a...

"The Eaton Fire hit near the center of this historic Black community, shattering homes and businesses that are more than financial investments but also cultural heritage." www.bet.com/article/7a2t...

Ready for another Computational Social Science Starter Pack? Here is number 2! More amazing folks to follow! Many students and the next gen represented! go.bsky.app/GoEyD7d

Ah yes all the infamously woke generals The thing about giving discursive ground to people with zero boundaries and ethics is that by the time language stops meaning anything and can be turned on anyone the damage is done. We had whole books and histories warning us about that

Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now. 1. United Dairy Farmers Cashier/Stock 2. H&R Block 3. Math Tutor 4. Victoria's Secret 5. Admissions Office 6. Department of Managed Health Care 7. Foster Care Agency 8. Supervised Visitations (see above) 9. Siemens Intern

I'm working on a project where I want to transcribe FB and IG videos for text analysis. Does anyone know of a Python or R package, or transcription service that can transcribe videos using FB/IG video links?

ICYMI: this piece by @jolukito.bsky.social on scholarly solidarity is 🔥 "political communication should be trend-setters in scholarly solidarity [...] to ensure that the job of being a political communication researcher is healthy, happy, and fruitful." commsky www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Just holding my breath for the day one of my students emails to ask why they have to do the assignment for next week when the world is on fire and there is no moral or righteous end in sight. Because the way I will have to try to rally my own spirit to respond…whew.

In academia, you have to deal with A LOT of rejection. Grant was rejected, but the reviews were positive overall. However, it's disheartening when one of the reviewer "wishes" you cited an article that was published a month after the grant deadline 🤦🏾‍♀️🙃. People need to be more aware when reviewing.