Affiliates on the job market; politics on social media
A few weeks ago, our student affiliate Bridget Barrett asked if CITAP was tracking which of our affiliates were on the job market this season. At her excellent recommendation, we’ve built a centralized page to showcase the range of talent in our community. Anyone would be lucky to recruit one of these scholars. If you’re searching for new colleagues, we hope you might find this listing helpful.
Politics on social media
Shannon McGregor presented this week at NYU’s Center for Social Media and Politics’ 2022 midterms seminar series on Using Social Media to Drive the Political Conversation. The panel discusses how candidates and officeholders utilize social media to get attention, raise money, handle crises, and influence political discourse.
These once fringe outlets which were conferred for this newfound authority and legitimized in the political sphere contribute to the mainstreaming of extremist viewpoints and of dangerous and anti-democratic notions like white supremacy.
Watch the presentations here:
Publications and appearances
“Nostalgia operates differently for us, and because of that we tend to be more future thinking.” Tressie McMillan Cottom appeared on the podcast Twitterverse to discuss race and why Black people are the most future people she knows.
“Disinformation is, more than anything, a political strategy deployed by domestic elites. Looking at participants in the January 6 insurrections asks, do we see people who were ‘epistemologically confused’ or mobilized around politically weaponized identity?” Daniel Kreiss attended Columbia Journalism’s conference on Walter Lippmann’s Public Opinion.
“Are people interested in this because they identify as a hot, anxious girl, or are they interested in inhabiting the persona of a hot, anxious girl?” Alice Marwick spoke to The Atlantic about Twitter’s anxious girl content.
“Obtaining access to my own [photos] was harder than I had imagined though — so hard that a virtual move to the Mojave — so I could claim residency in California and obtain my information via the state’s digital rights laws — seemed to be the only option left.” Affiliate Daniel Johnson’s new piece discusses Instagram deleting his account and digital rights laws.
Danielle Lee Tomson considers whether Semafor considers stylistic polarization and epistemic differences and cites Daniel Kreiss and Shannon McGregor’s work on polarization. Tomson and McGregor both critiqued a Semafor promotional video on overcoming polarization.
Coming soon
October 25, 2pm ET: The Center on Technology Policy’s webinar on Programmed Political Speech: How Programmatic Political Advertising Policies Shape Online Speech. Affiliate Bridget Barrett is one of the panelists! Link to join the Zoom.
October 27: Francesca Tripodi will join the Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics for a conversation about The Propagandists’ Playbook. Register to attend.
November 9: The Center for the Study of the American South hosts a conversation with Psyche Williams-Forson and Tressie McMillan Cottom who will discuss Williams-Forson’s Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America.
November 10: The CITAP fall speaker series continues with Tamara K. Nopper delivering on Crime Data and Policing Data as Open Data: Considering Research Ethics, Transparency, and Privacy. Event information and registration. RSVP is required for livestream access.
Rest of Web
💼 Our friend Jonathan Ong shared he’s looking for a postdoctoral fellow to join his team!
🗳️ If you’re in North Carolina and have questions about this election, our executive director Kathryn Peters created a Twitter thread for you (early voting began yesterday!)
📰 We’re reading this piece on how internet service providers overcharged low-income communities for poor internet connections.