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Carolyn Schmitt

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UNC Grad Student | Knight-CITAP Fellow | Go Hoos!

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Lorcan Neill @lorcancneill.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
🚨 I'm thrilled to share a new 🔓 #OpenAccess article out now in Information, Communication & Society: Inaccuracies, omissions, and bullshit: 2024 U.S. elections through the eyes of ChatGPT A quick 🧵:
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/06/2026
NEW from me in @pnas.org on the risks of data sharing with qualitative research: "Today, confidentiality risks are amplified by social media, surveillance, and AI tools, which make ample data about people publicly available, thus making deidentification less effective" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: "With qualitative research, the risks of data sharing can outweigh the rewards." June 5, 2026.
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Parker Bach @parkerbach.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
🚨 Public scholarship alert! 🚨 Have you seen prediction markets in the news? In the 18 months since prediction markets on elections were legalized in the U.S., it seems like Polymarket and Kalshi can't stop making news and making money.
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How polling failures, gambling legalization and political gridlock paved the way for the explosive rise of prediction markets
While media outlets are signing deals with Polymarket and Kalshi for their insights into the wisdom of crowds, gamblers are pouncing on opportunities to wager on geopolitics and celebrity weddings.
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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
I’ll say it straight: It is unbecoming, undignified, cowardly, and shameful for a institution as revered and respected as the University of Virginia to grant an audience in 2025 to those who are committed to destroying science, free thought, human rights, and the rule of law.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 17/10/2025
The University of Virginia said it would not sign the Trump administration’s proposed offer of priority access for federal funding, the fifth university to turn down the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.”
washingtonpost.com
University of Virginia turns down Trump deal for priority federal funding
The rejection comes after a tumultuous summer at the University of Virginia during which President James E. Ryan resigned amid DOJ pressure over DEI investigations.
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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Standing athwart history, yelling Stamp
New William f Buckley forever stamp announced by US postal service
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sophia ♥️🎃 @sophamir.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
hey panera can we have the lemonade that kills us again
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Parker Bach @parkerbach.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
🗣️New Communication Theory article! With @carolynschmitt.bsky.social and @shannimcg.bsky.social Communication can benefit from clarity, but what about a tactical lack of clarity? Here, we explicate "strategic ambiguity" and argue for its importance in political communication. 1/🧵 bit.ly/StratAm
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
The “stop the hate” commercial featuring two celebrities who support the President who began his career by calling Mexicans rapists and whose biggest campaign donor recently gave a Hitler salute and rehired the “I was racist before it was cool” guy was….a choice.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/02/2025
not sure Snoop Dogg fresh off performing at Trump’s inauguration is the best spokesperson for Stand Up To Hate tbh
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Shannon McGregor, PhD @shannimcg.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
We studied this shift, which started during the first Trump administration. Far-right outlets became legitimized thru GOP officials granting access, as well as mainstream news coverage of these outlets. #openaccess here journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
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21st Century Schizoid Tran @grayathena.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
"Democracy Dies in Darkness" is kinda like "Don't Be Evil" as a slogan. It's a bit worrying when you choose it, but it's a lot more worrying when you take it down
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/01/2025
Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
If you watch only one short video today, make it this one. Remarkable bravery, and the looks on the various faces could be material for a dissertation on gender, the family, and authoritarianism. youtu.be/gVInX42IQD8?...
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Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde appeals to President Trump to have mercy upon immigrants and minorities
YouTube video by ONEST NETWORK
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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Another world is possible! But not without wedging the Trump coalition and articulating a clear alternative vision. My latest, for @lpeproject.bsky.social: lpeproject.org/blog/define-...
lpeproject.org
Define and Divide: Toward a Strategy for Opposing Trumpism
Trumpist unity is largely a fiction conjured by the Democratic Party in a naïve attempt at “defending democracy.” A robust opposition must seek and target wedges within the Trump coalition…
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Jess Maddox @jessmaddox.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Now that I've slept on it, let's discuss the TikTok ban. The message popping up on everyone's app is propaganda, plain and simple. And having propaganda involved in something as precarious at the creator economy is very, very dangerous.
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Carolyn Schmitt @carolynschmitt.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
NEW PUB with Lee McGuigan! 🎉 We the Consumers: The Conservative “Parallel Economy” as Reactionary Commodity Activism ijoc.org/index.php/ij...
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We the Consumers: The Conservative “Parallel Economy” as Reactionary Commodity Activism | Schmitt | International Journal of Communication
We the Consumers: The Conservative “Parallel Economy” as Reactionary Commodity Activism
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Francesca Tripodi @ftripodi.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
After the first election of Trump I conducted a yearlong ethnographic study of Trump supporters. I wanted to understand how they see the world and how information systems shaped their understanding of truth. I walked away with seven core findings
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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 05/12/2024
"Moving forward, we should not be concerned with isolated incorrect facts, but with the deeply-rooted stories that circulate at all levels of culture and shape our points of view," @alicetiara.bsky.social says.
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The mainstream media will lose its last grip on relevancy
"The gap between mainstream media readers, people who get most of their news through influencers or partisan social media, and people who barely think about news at all will create a fundamental…
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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
New from me: Trump's second Administration is chock full of predators. We can expect them to govern accordingly. www.altrightdelete.news/p/predators-...
altrightdelete.news
Predators
What an administration filled with predators means for America
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Hi everyone. The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars. We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website. We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off. I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.
nytimes.com
The Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Infowars Out of Bankruptcy
The satirical news site planned to turn Infowars into a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” who peddle conspiracy theories and health supplements.
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Shannon McGregor, PhD @shannimcg.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
Our grad students have started decorating their office doors. As a fan of hoopla & everything extra, I obviously love this. But I especially love @carolynschmitt.bsky.social & @lorcancneill.bsky.social door 🇺🇸 👻 🗳️
An office door covered in black paper with white cut outs of ghosts and bats on it. In a spooky font, it says, “don’t ghost this election”
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Shannon McGregor, PhD @shannimcg.bsky.social · 22/07/2024
H-🥥-🌴-🌴-🥥-G-🥥 🎶 You can meet me at the polls 🎶
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Allison Archer @allisonarcher.bsky.social · 26/03/2024
So excited to see this online at IJPP! In our latest, @carolynschmitt.bsky.social, @shannimcg.bsky.social, @heesoojang.bsky.social and I study the role of political leaders in the legitimation and recent mainstreaming of far-right media. journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 15/12/2023
This is the CV of the new Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Things are bleak in higher ed, friends. www.wral.com/story/unc-na...
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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
My annual Nieman lab prediction for the year ahead in journalism is up, and I’m sorry to say: bleak again.
niemanlab.org
Hyperlocal information warfare rises up
"Hyperlocal and state-level right-wing digital news sites represent a new and often less visible terrain for right-wing misinformation campaigns, 'culture war' posturing, and doxxing efforts."
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Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life @citap.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
CITAP's Symposium on Religion, Media, and Public Life is 3 weeks away! We have great panels lined up: 🎙️When god goes viral 🎙️God Bless the West 🎙️Call to Action: Religion is Public Get your free ticket here: citap.unc.edu/events/sympo...
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