Media and January 6th
The only book-length examination of the January 6th insurrection through the lens of media.
Coming Soon: Media and January 6th
Edited by Kadijah Costley White, Daniel Kreiss, Shannon McGregor, and Rebekah Tromble, “Media and January 6th” is a volume that brings together a “diverse group of leading scholars to help us more clearly understand the relationship between media and the attempted coup.”
The volume is organized around three key questions:
How should we understand January 6, 2021?
What should research look like after January 6, 2021?, and
How can we prevent another event like this?
Featuring 23 chapters and 33 authors— including CITAP’ers Alice Marwick, Francesca Tripodi, Becca Lewis and Paul Elliot Johnson— this volume is “the only book-length examination of the January 6th insurrection through the lens of media, which includes media history, and mass and social media structures and dynamics.”
*It is available for pre-order now, and will begin shipping on February 16th, 2024.*
Publications and appearances
CITAP Graduate Research Assistant, LaRisa Anderson, published her first solo-author paper, “You Can’t Fight What’s Already Happening, Right?”: A Case Study of Christian Live-Streaming,” in November of 2023. Live-streaming was found to be unilaterally deployed to:
Meet people where they are
Promote healthy discourse
Expand the church.
*If this topic interests you, check out the panel recordings from the Religion, Media, and Public Life Symposium; LaRisa was instrumental in organizing and planning the symposium!*
Alice Marwick spoke with Rolling Stone about Trump’s claim he will act as a dictator (and his later claim that the original comment was in jest) saying, “Irony has a strategic function. It allows people to disclaim a real commitment to far-right ideas while still espousing them.”
Tressie McMillan Cottom’s NYT piece “This Economy Has Bigger Problems Than ‘Bad Vibes’” was featured in a Forbes article on a good economy feeling bad: “As the sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom recently wrote in the New York Times, the services people buy to make their lives work, particularly childcare, are both full of frictions that make it hard to access and marked by underpaid workers, or entirely unpaid when done within families.”
Coming soon
February
February 8th @ 3:30pm in the Freedom Forum Conference Center: CITAP is hosting TJ Billard for a book talk on their “Voices for Transgender Equality”.
Register to join online or join in-person. UNC Students are eligible for CLE credit.
March
(Save the Date) March 20th: UNC Sociology and CITAP are co-hosting speaker, Forrest Stuart. More details to come soon!