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Anthony Nadler @amnadler.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

A new theory essay from Doron Taussig and me. We argue right-wing media’s influence on how different communities’ make sense of politics is complex and important. RW media aren’t simply vectors of disinformation and amplifiers of their audiences’ pre-existing views. ijoc.org/index.php/ij...

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The Social Construction of Right-Wing Reality | Nadler | International Journal of Communication

The Social Construction of Right-Wing Reality

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Whitney Phillips @whitneyphillips.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Today my new @mitpress.bsky.social book with Mark Brockway publishes! It explores the historical forces that gave rise to a shapeshifting, amalgamated figure of the liberal devil mapped onto a very broad conceptualization of “the left” and the Democratic Party mitpress.mit.edu/978026255227...

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The Shadow Gospel

When people talk about the chaotic, increasingly precarious political landscape in the United States, they often blame polarization and the culture wars. In ...

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Anthony Nadler @amnadler.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Reece Peck and I call for left-leaning media that speaks to working class communities. We make a detailed case that right-wing media has won over working class audiences by speaking to neglected tastes and experiences - and the left can and should compete! jacobin.com/2025/03/left...

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The Left Needs Media That Competes — and Wins

The Right’s growing success with working-class voters wasn’t won with policy papers or think tanks; it was built through media that speaks their language. If the Left wants to compete, it needs to bui...

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Anthony Nadler @amnadler.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

A lot of discussion on progressive "groups" and what they advocate for. Here I argue that what is most important for a left politics is developing meaningful social ties among working class communities and progressive organizations and networks: jacobin.com/2024/12/civi...

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How Progressive Civil Society Became Professional NGO Culture

The disintegration of working-class institutions and the rise of professionalized advocacy have severed the connections between progressive civil society and working-class communities.

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Victor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

We need a long-term vision for transforming the current media landscape, which is clearly failing us in so many ways.

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Victor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Gut wrenching and infuriating.

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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 09/12/2024

"Media ventures that depend on money from subscribers — or those that need to please donors by showing quick results in attracting engagement — will be pulled toward catering to the niche already cultivated by progressives...they’ll find themselves preaching to the choir."

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Progressive media at a crossroads

"This coming year will see major growth in online progressive media. What's harder to predict is which communities will see themselves represented in this media. Which communities will hear this…

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