It was an honor to organize this panel on Managing Threats to Researchers, for the recent Cambridge #Disinformation Summit. Thanks to my esteemed colleagues @alicetiara @mutalenkonde & @juliaebner for contributing to this insightful dialogue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M9lhTm-7f0 #propaganda #commodon #polcomm

I can't stop reading about it, lol. These people might have barely left the planet's surface for 5 minutes, but they sure do live in a parallel universe ideal for brand deals and pageview$. The #commodon article I won't write but would 1000% read:

"'GRWM to fly to the stars!': A comparative televisual study of Apollo 11 and Blue Origin aesthetics"

#Press and #balance

"There are several overlapping groups of people who, probably for different reasons, are more likely to prefer news that shares their point of view:
(a) the ideological and politically engaged;
(b) young people, especially those who rely mainly on social media for news;
(c) women; and
(d) less socioeconomically advantaged groups."

"In markets dominated by fewer brands — often publicly funded ones such as the BBC — respondents in that market also tend to express higher levels of preference for impartiality." In Britain, where respondents use an average of four news brands, the lowest number across the 40 countries studied, 62% of respondents say they prefer news displaying no point of view.

Camila Mont'Alverne et al, 2025: https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/23816

#news #media #study #research #impartiality #objectivity #neutrality #journalism #journalists #reporting #communication #commOdon

⏰ Less than 2 days left! ⏰
Registration for #COMPTEXT2025 closes April 10 at 23:59 CEST!
Join us in Vienna (April 24–26) for cutting-edge research on text-, image-, and video-as-data, hands-on workshops, and a brilliant community.
Don't miss your chance! 🚂🧳
👉 https://www.comptextconference.org/7th-annual-comptext-conference-2025/
#commodon #computationalsocialscience

U.S. media history is pretty straightforward, honestly.

#mediaStudies #commodon @communicationscholars

Posting for no particular reason.

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/capturing-news-capturing-democracy-9780197768488?lang=en&cc=us

#commodon @communicationscholars

"The chapters, constructed as 'multispecies stories,' ... consider ecologies & infrastructure together in novel ways that challenge our conceptual separations between the two. Readers will find a theoretically exciting & vibrantly composed read with OIL BEACH" 🛢️🏖️📙

https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/24661

Thank you for this lovely review, Shelley Tuazon Guyton & IJOC!

Here's the book:
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/O/bo185167017.html

#Commodon #STS #EnvHist @ecologies @sts #OilBeach #multispecies #CriticalLogistics

Yesterday, the NEH posted new FAQs about how compliance with executive orders may impact funding for research and teaching. See diff by clicking "Text Changes" at the top of the page: https://visualping.io/diff/764625674?disableId=zy1p7IiHb0Ofklp

#academia #research #dh #commodon

❗️⏰ Today is the deadline for submitting chapter abstracts for the book proposal "Victimhood Identities in Mediatised Politics and Culture".

Follow the link for more information and submit a short 200 word abstract. 👏 👏 👏
https://affectemotionandmedia.wordpress.com/publications/
#Commodon #mediastudies

Come to Lisbon and let's talk about affect, emotion and media 🤗 Submit your abstract until 28. February to contribute with your research! https://www.icnova.fcsh.unl.pt/call-for-abstracts-2025-ecrea-workshop-of-the-temporary-working-group-affect-emotion-media/

#Commodon #mediastudies

Of the many directions one's thoughts could take in listening to this, I'm thinking most of Andrew McStay's book, "Emotional AI." Quick thread… 1/8

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/podcasts/the-daily/ai-chatgpt-boyfriend-relationship.html

cc @communicationscholars #genAI #commodon #mediaStudies

📢 New publication!

Information, Communication & Society just published our study “Mainstreaming and transnationalization of anti-gender ideas through social media: the case of CitizenGO” w/ @nicolarighetti, @Bruna, Zsófia Cseri, Sofia Iriarte, & Kateryna Maikovska ✨

50 open-access copies are available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/V9SRJQFI5SV5ZNVKZJHZ/full?target=10.1080/1369118X.2025.2470229

This study is particularly relevant in light of the current wave of traditionalist radicalism.
#commodon #computationalsocialscience

'I don’t think an opinion adhering to institutional conventions can be considered an “unpopular take.” Positioning it as unpopular masks a common opinion as marginalised. This type of perception skewing is reminiscent of Christian conservatives claiming God-fearing values are under attack despite Christianity dominating every echelon of American society.'

Inigo Laguda on language and grammar: https://www.yoursinigo.com/p/better-than-you-know-yourselves?open=false#%C2%A7grammar-the-conservative-undercurrent

@writing @sociology

#language #writing #normality #patriarchy #woke #antiWoke #feminism #values #commOdon #lowercase #institutional #capitalLetters #camelCase #supremacy #domination #MAGA #culturalDiversity #boomers

Link to book, Trans Technologies, by Oliver L. Haimson:
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262551861/trans-technologies/

#OpenAccess as soon as it's officially released! (Feb 25)

@commodon @sts #STS #Commodon #Bookstodon @bookstodon #TransTechnologies #MITPress

Here is the book, Bootlegging the Airwaves: Alternative Histories of Radio and Television Distribution

https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p087691

#Bookstodon #Commodon

Publication alert! Actually it's a review, of Bootlegging the Airwaves: Alternative Histories of Radio and Television Distribution by Eleanor Patterson, in Technology and Culture

Good book for folks in media studies, fan studies, distribution studies, also Star Trek & wrestling fans?

@commodon

https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/951070

#Commodon

I'm (hopefully) finishing my book manuscript this semester and have started a blog where I'll informally post ideas I'm working through. If you're having a particularly boring Saturday night, here's the first post (which gives a big nod to @ftripodi ).

https://unevenly-distributed.ghost.io/distribution-and-procedural-rhetoric/

@academicchatter @communicationscholars

#academicchatter #mediaStudies #commodon

🚨Call for Chapter Abstracts for the book proposal "Victimhood Identities in Mediatised Politics and Culture" in the ECREA Open Access Book Series. Send us your 200-word abstract by 03 March. More about theme and formalities here: https://affectemotionandmedia.wordpress.com/publications/

#Commodon #mediastudies

🚀 The deadline for #COMPTEXT2025 is approaching! Submit your abstracts (250 words) by January 15, 2025, 11:59:59 PM CET ⏳ Don’t miss out!
#commodon #computationalsocialscience
Details: https://www.comptextconference.org/7th-annual-comptext-conference-2025/