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CARP Research Lab @carpresearch.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

CARP Lab's first webinar of the fall will host @alessandronai.bsky.social on attack politics. Join us!

CARP Research Lab @carpresearch.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Deirdre Prigge is closing our conference with a provocative paper called "Go Woke, Go Broke?" How do corporations operate in this context of reputational threat?

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CARP Research Lab @carpresearch.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

But here's another total bop that's related to politics, fun, and fandom: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLn8...

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Hostile Government Take Over (EDM Remix) @AGiftFromTodd

YouTube video by Vinny Marchi

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CARP Research Lab @carpresearch.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

But, she also wants us to consider how this mainstreams stereotypes. Which is a bummer. Because total bop.

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CARP Research Lab @carpresearch.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Marijana Grbeša is now teaching us about celebrity populism in politics, which features disruption, directness, authenticity, and liminality.

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CARP Research Lab @carpresearch.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

DEI hire can also serve as a clapback and comic frame on social media, Crosby argues.

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CARP Research Lab @carpresearch.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Emily Crosby explores Kamala Harris and the "DEI" hire as a political archetype to kick off our last panel at #CARP5 #CARPV.

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CARP Research Lab @carpresearch.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Is Amy Klobuchar Minnesota nice or is she a terrible boss and what impact do those attacks have on her reputation? Tyler Johnson asks these questions now.

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CARP Research Lab @carpresearch.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

CARP founder Sergei Samoilenko and Gwen Bouvier now call us to consider cancel culture as character assassination.

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CARP Research Lab @carpresearch.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Race and gender of the refuter didn't have an effect on effectiveness, to the researchers' surprise.

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CARP Research Lab @carpresearch.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Refutation did lower belief in misinformation, but it did not lower misogynistic beliefs, they find.

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CARP Research Lab @carpresearch.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Using the "stitch" function on TikTok, they tested the effectiveness of refuters of misinformation and misogyny online.

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CARP Research Lab @carpresearch.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Now, @leticiabode.bsky.social, Riley, and Kunjika study technology-facilitated gender-based violence. We're seeing this more and more in "Manosphere" communities. #CARP5 #CARPV

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CARP Research Lab @carpresearch.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

@joshcompton.bsky.social and Adam Salzman say we need to do more to study how gender plays into inoculation in health, corporate communication/leadership, and sports. They lay out a 3-pronged research agenda. Let's do it, CARPers! #CARP5 #CARPV

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CARP Research Lab @carpresearch.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

What does inoculation theory have to do with gender? Well, the 1961 original iteration of inoculation theory is giving grandpa according to @joshcompton.bsky.social #CARP5 #CARPV

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CARP Research Lab @carpresearch.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

We're moving forward to a panel that looks at character assassination in international politics. We've seen presentations about Greece, Spain, and Russia. #CARP5 #CARPV

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CARP Research Lab @carpresearch.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

The sissy Caesars of Ancient Rome and emasculating discourse are our topic now, thanks to @martijnx.bsky.social #CARP5 #CARPV

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CARP Research Lab @carpresearch.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Now, Clara-Sophie Höhn tells us about character assassination against white southern women who were active for civil rights in the 1960s. Newspapers often leaked these women's addresses and phone numbers as attacks.

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CARP Research Lab @carpresearch.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

By his own admission, @docfloff.bsky.social thinks about the Roman Empire everyday.

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CARP Research Lab @carpresearch.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

@docfloff.bsky.social is up now to talk about the trope of dismissing women in political battles by calling them whores. It turns out, this trope goes back centuries. Enter Messalina.

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CARP Research Lab @carpresearch.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

We're kicking off day 2 of our conference. After a great panel on media, memes, journalism, and gender, we're shifting our attention to history now. First up, celebrity scandals amidst the Catholic clergy.

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CARP Research Lab @carpresearch.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Now, Mischa Geracoulis from @projectcensored.bsky.social is showing us how gendered attacks in the media feed a broader culture of contempt.

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CARP Research Lab @carpresearch.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Now, Robin Andersen is leading us in a media literacy analysis of the Mahmoud Khalil case.

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CARP Research Lab @carpresearch.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Last panel of the first day of our conference: media literacy in the 2024 election. @nolanhigdon.bsky.social asks us to reckon with the power of AI-generated images in the media ecosystem. #CARPV #CARP5

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CARP Research Lab @carpresearch.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

We're kicking off our third panel, continuing to explore the practice of opinion formation and political communication. This panel features female reporters and opinion columnists discussing their work and how they navigate gender. #CARP5 #CARPV

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CARP Research Lab @carpresearch.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

As a reminder, you can follow the conference livestream on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/live/TwKlBgm... #CARPV

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5th CARP Conference, 2025

YouTube video by CARP Research Lab

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CARP Research Lab @carpresearch.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Michael LaRosa, our keynote speaker, is kicking off his address talking about the power of information and messages in today's political climate. He was Jill Biden's press secretary, and we're lucky he's joining us today.

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CARP Research Lab @carpresearch.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Panel 2 looked at theories on social and political conflict. @docfloff.bsky.social has summarized the key themes in this AI image.

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CARP Research Lab @carpresearch.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Thanks, Florian! Panelists @hendrikmichael.bsky.social, Eric Shiraev, Holger Mölder, and @keohaneja.bsky.social discussed timeless tropes and new attacks on women in politics.

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CARP Research Lab @carpresearch.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Welcome, Florian! See you this evening!

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CARP Research Lab @carpresearch.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

We're welcoming scholars to George Mason's Arlington campus this week to talk about gender, power, and character assassination. See the conference schedule here: communication.gmu.edu/research-and...

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