This week, Shannon McGregor attended the NC Elections Prep: Focus on Democracy, an event hosted by the NC Local News Workshop.
Local journalism can cover elections in a ‘democracy-worthy frame’ instead of familiar ‘game frame’ to do better reporting and service.
Shannon also shared a few tips for local journalism coverage:
Publications and appearances
“The show’s revenge is how well it exposes the material condition of elitism. Its worldview resembles fantasy but it is brutally realistic about how power operates.” Tressie McMillan Cottom reviews the show “Yellowstone” and how Americans consume cultural objects in her new piece for The New York Times.
“Disinformation that gets significant play on social media can also make its way into mainstream media coverage, particularly when prominent people with large followings who do not have histories in on-the-ground work lift up harmful narratives.” Rachel Kuo spoke to NBC News today to talk about the new Asian Americans and disinformation report.
“In the US context, Alice Marwick, Rachel Kuo, Shanice Cameron, and Moira Weigel developed a critical disinformation studies syllabus with historical case studies on subjects ranging from Japanese incarceration to AIDS/HIV, to demonstrate the long-standing prevalence of disinformation in different forms within American society.” In a piece inspired by the ICA pre-conference, Heidi Tworek cited our syllabus to discuss how history can contribute to new approaches to disinformation studies.
“In many places, police departments and government agencies may be beginning to rely more and more on algorithms and data analytics in the name of replacing subjective decision-making with seemingly objective data.” A report Nanditha Narayanamoorthy co-wrote on predictive policing in 2021 was just released online.
“I think our tool is doing what it’s intended to do, right? And Twitter actually has been saying similar things for a while, that we as outsiders could not build a tool that’s really perfect in detecting bots or other accounts, because they have some private information that we don’t have access to.” Affiliate Kaicheng Yang appeared on Yahoo Finance to discuss their tool, Botometer, and the bot dispute between Twitter and Elon Musk.
Coming soon
August 15: Starling Lab Journalism Fellowship application deadline.
August 16, 6pm ET: Francesca Tripodi presents The Propagandists’ Playbook at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill.
August 18, 10am ET: Governing Conversations: BRICS & Cybersecurity
September 13, 5:30pm ET: Can We Talk?: Student Thoughts on Free Expression at UNC
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💼 The University of Massachusetts Amherst is hiring in two exciting areas!