CITAP at APSA
At the American Political Science Association (APSA) annual meeting, Shannon McGregor and Daniel Kreiss presented “A Review and a Provocation: on Polarization.” They challenged researchers to account for inequality and center democratic power in their work rather than prioritizing social cohesion or civility as core values.
Also at APSA, Bridget Barrett explored “When is political ad targeting acceptable? Testing three theories of privacy.”
Other recent appearances
“People with this amount of following shouldn’t be treated the same as other users. They shouldn’t be exempted from fact-checks—in fact, they should be held to a higher standard.” Shannon McGregor spoke to Quartz about revelations that Facebook limits enforcement of its policies against celebrity and political accounts.
"The momentum of organizing and demanding these spaces, to know how pressing the intellectual and political questions emerge from a field of study, that is not neutral and is politically committed to liberation is so important." Rachel Kuo speaks to the student newspaper at Duke about a recent teach-in to support marginalized students, ethnic studies, and cultural centers on Duke’s campus.
"You can be a health care worker with anything from a six-month training certificate to a doctoral research degree in nursing or medicine... Given that knowledge, it made sense that we would see the same kinds of manic denialism that I wrote about a couple of weeks ago even among health care workers. But the truth is that this is a problem that education alone cannot fix." Tressie McMillan Cottom writes on vaccine hesitancy and the ways that education does (and doesn’t) protect us.
CITAP Affiliate Emily van Duyn has a new book out that you don’t want to miss—Democracy Lives in Darkness: how and why people keep their politics a secret.
Coming soon
October 6: Barb Lee will discuss documentary filmmaking and representation behind the camera in conversation with CITAP affiliates Madhavi Reddi and Michele Meyer
October 8: Alice Marwick and Will Partin will present work on the Q Clock and and knowledge production within the QAnon conspiracy at the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) annual conference.
October 12: Tressie McMillan Cottom will appear live for readings and conversation with Kate Bowler and Kelly Corrigan at Durham’s Carolina Theatre.
October 13: CITAP affiliate Matt Perault will participate in “Lies and Elections,” a panel hosted by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University.
October 19: Student affiliate Daniel Johnson will be moderating a virtual conversation with Howard Nathaniel Lee, U.S. Army veteran, social worker, and first African-American mayor of Chapel Hill. Email stonecenter@unc.edu to register.
October 22 & 27: Rachel Kuo will give a two-part series of virtual talks at Duke University. October 22 she will be discussing misinformation in Asian diasporic communities, and October 27 will be a research workshop on transnational and intergenerational histories of information.
October 27: Faculty affiliate Caitlin Petre will give a research seminar at the University of Leeds on how metrics are transforming the work of journalists.
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🎉🥂 CONGRATULATIONS to Safiya Noble being named a 2021 MacArthur Fellow!
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