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Jennie Keohane

@keohaneja.bsky.social
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Lover of beer, dogs, crossword puzzles, and all things Minnesota. Associate Prof at UBalt via Northwestern U and UW-Madison. #TeamRhetoric

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Jennie Keohane @keohaneja.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hi all! I'm moderating a conversation with Dr. Josh Compton of Dartmouth about inoculation theory and #characterassassination to celebrate the 10th anniversary of @carpresearch.bsky.social. Join us on 10/9 at noon (NY). RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ten-years-...
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Ten Years of Studying Inoculation Theory & Character Assassination Research
Join us on Friday, October 9, at noon (eastern) for an interview-style webinar with Dr. Josh Compton from Dartmouth University
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Jennie Keohane @keohaneja.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
There is a special place in hell for academic departments who put you on their spammy marketing mailing list just because you wrote a letter of recommendation for a student for one of their programs.
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Jennie Keohane @keohaneja.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
This is a good article.
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Jennie Keohane @keohaneja.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Worth a read for my friends who are curious about the civil discourse space: www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
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Dialogue Programs Aren’t Right-Wing Conspiracy (opinion)
Political motive sometimes drives philanthropic funding. It also drives flawed research.
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Jennie Keohane @keohaneja.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
New Pub Alert! A special issue of the journal Media Studies that I co-edited is out on gendered character assassination. Many thanks to the authors for entrusting us with their work and to the journal's editorial team. Read it open access here: ojs.srce.hr/medijske-stu...
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Vol. 17 No. 33 (2026): SPECIAL ISSUE: Gendering Character Assassination | Media Studies
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Jennie Keohane @keohaneja.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
This is a great essay.
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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.
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Jennie Keohane @keohaneja.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
@carpresearch.bsky.social CFP in today's COMMNotes. Are you coming to Greece next May? 👀
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Jennie Keohane @keohaneja.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The CFP for our May 2027 conference in Greece is now officially ready. You know you want to talk about character assassination in Athens next year: communication.gmu.edu/research-and...
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CARP Conferences
CARP Conferences
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Jennie Keohane @keohaneja.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Argh, nothing like living in DC only to realize that all the records you want to look at in the National Archives are in Kansas City, actually.
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Jennie Keohane @keohaneja.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The new edition of Character Assassination Across the Ages will be out in about two weeks. It features a new chapter by me on Phyllis Schlafly's character attacks on the "women's libbers." Preorder here: www.routledge.com/Character-As...
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Character Assassination Across the Ages: Revised and Expanded Edition with New Theory, Chapters, and Cases
Character assassination—the deliberate destruction of an individual’s reputation—has been a persistent feature of public life across time and cultures. This revised and expanded edition offers a compr...
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Jennie Keohane @keohaneja.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I'm sorry; the National Archives literally has you sign up for research appointments on EventBrite??? Really?
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Jennie Keohane @keohaneja.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
You probably need @carpresearch.bsky.social to keep you company on your long weekend roadtripping, don't you? Our latest webinar is now available as a podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/7mxp...
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Behind Caesar's Back: Rumor and Gossip in Ancient Rome with Dr. Caillan Davenport
CARP Radio · Episode
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Jennie Keohane @keohaneja.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Not me, redesigning an entire course that I'm teaching for the last time in the fall before it gets deactivated, because I think I'm so close to making it amazing.
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Jennie Keohane @keohaneja.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Grades filed for Spring 2026. It was an intense one. Off to bake under the lights at commencement.
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Jennie Keohane @keohaneja.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Last call, rhetoricians! Thursday! I'm cofacilitating a virtual roundtable with the American Society for the History of Rhetoric on starting a new job after grad studies. Regardless of if you're attending the ASHR symposium, you can come to the roundtable. Register: forms.gle/KM8zw4x9iZAs...
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Jennie Keohane @keohaneja.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
😐
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paul johnson @rhetoricpj.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Don't blame me I voted for Blackboard
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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Am I wrong though?
A meme of a young Bad Bunny titled Faculty Profile Pic and an old Bad Bunny titled Faculty IRL
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Jennie Keohane @keohaneja.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Rhetoricians! I'm co-facilitating a virtual roundtable in conjunction with the ASHR symposium later this month on transitioning to a new job after grad studies. Regardless of if you're attending the ASHR symposium, you can come to the roundtable. Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Navigating Year One: ASHR Virtual Roundtable Registration
In the afternoon of May 21st, ASHR will host a series of Research Roundtables at our 2026 Symposium preceding RSA in Portland, OR. For those unable to make it to Portland for the in-person festivities...
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Jennie Keohane @keohaneja.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
The number of y'all that do your NCA reviews at the literal last minute...
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Jennie Keohane @keohaneja.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
This is a quick reminder about the CARP Webinar on Friday (10:30am Eastern) where Kevin Stein and Matt Barton will talk about memes as rhetorical attack tools. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/from-jokes...
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From Jokes to Judgments: Memes as Tools for Rhetorical Attack
Drs. Stein and Barton of Southern Utah University will explore how memes shape gender and racial dynamics in contemporary American politics.
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UAM-UMD @uam-umd.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Big news out of Maryland! Beginning July 1st, thousands of non-tenure-track faculty in Maryland will have collective bargaining rights. www.aaup.org/news/collect... Huge thanks to @aaup.org, @aft.org, & @aftmaryland.bsky.social for helping us pass this historic legislation!
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Collective Bargaining Win in Maryland Makes History
Starting July 1, 2026, thousands of non-tenure-track faculty across Maryland’s four-year public universities will have the right to bargain collectively for the first time in history.
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Jennie Keohane @keohaneja.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
This is a broad question, but rhetorical critics, help me out. Can you think of book-length works that analyze the rhetoric of one particular speaker? (Thinking of @cubsmurphy.bsky.social's book on JFK and Liberalism, for instance.) What others are out there? Edited collections need not apply (sry)
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Jennie Keohane @keohaneja.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Join us for "From Jokes to Judgments: Memes as Tools for Rhetorical Attack," an upcoming webinar hosted by @carpresearch.bsky.social April 17, 10:30am (New York) with Kevin Stein and Matt Barton. We'll talk COVID memes, the 2024 election, and more. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/from-jokes...
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From Jokes to Judgments: Memes as Tools for Rhetorical Attack
Drs. Stein and Barton of Southern Utah University will explore how memes shape gender and racial dynamics in contemporary American politics.
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Jennie Keohane @keohaneja.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Hey comm scholars! Do I know anyone going to Central States this year? I'm briefly popping in, but would love to try to check out your panels or meet up.
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Jennie Keohane @keohaneja.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
A student this week said I "had whimsy but was also professional" and honestly? Big compliment.
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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
What the average person thinks HR is supposed to do for them at a job is what unions are actually for.
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Jennie Keohane @keohaneja.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Reminder for the Comm scholars that the NCA Deadline is tonight. Consider submitting your work to ASHR! I'm the program planner!
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Jennie Keohane @keohaneja.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Tomorrow! You can attend even if you're not an ASHR member!
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Jennie Keohane @keohaneja.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Not me, having converted an entire essay to APA format, only to learn that the journal has its own, secret, citation style.
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Jennie Keohane @keohaneja.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Lovers of rhetorical history! Come on by the American Society for the History of Rhetoric first Friday forum (3/6) to hear these wonderful scholars (and me) talk about rhetoric in motion.
Flyer announcing a forum on "Rhetoric in Motion" in blue color palette
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Jennie Keohane @keohaneja.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
God bless whatever past Jennie went through and put alt text on my course images on Canvas. I do not remember doing this, but it's making course prep in advance of the DOJ digital accessibility rule so much easier.
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Jennie Keohane @keohaneja.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
This book FINALLY exists in print. It's based on papers from a 2020 (eeep) conference, the last place I traveled before everything changed. It was expertly and meticulously edited and improved, mostly by Nadja. Trust me, it's a beautiful volume. Have your libes buy it.
Cover of a book called Auto/biography and Reputation Politics. The cover has brightly colored circles.
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Jennie Keohane @keohaneja.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Really bummed to be a Northwestern alum right now.
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Jennie Keohane @keohaneja.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
New adult milestone unlocked: getting generic holiday messages from your mortgage lender in addition to your dentist.
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Jennie Keohane @keohaneja.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Amen.
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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I.G.Y. Azalea @steelydad.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
all I need in the world
a grilled cheese sandwich and bowl of tomato soup captioned “this and never opening Microsoft Outlook again”
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Jennie Keohane @keohaneja.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
I've spent the last 6 mos working with faculty on a curriculum overhaul for our comm program. Today, the documents go to our curriculum committee! This would probably feel like a bigger moment if I wasn't also the chair of our curriculum committee.
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Jennie Keohane @keohaneja.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
I'm excited to finally have this book in my hand. My chapter is about how digital maps resist a simple cancel culture narrative when statues fall, like this to Confederate soldiers. Let me know if you want to read it. It seems...prescient at a time when history is a central battle.
A book cover with an iPhone encased in chains. The book is called "Platforming Cancel Culture."
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Jennie Keohane @keohaneja.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
@carpresearch.bsky.social is hosting a webinar to help launch @alessandronai.bsky.social and colleague's new book. Join us at 9am (Eastern) to learn about attack politics and their impacts. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-psycho...
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The Psychology of Attack Politics. Perceptions, Evaluations, and Effects
Step inside the world of modern politics with Alex Nai and his co-authors in a compelling webinar based on The Psychology of Attack Politics
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Jennie Keohane @keohaneja.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
"Today's models were taught to be convincing before they were taught to be right."
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.
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Jennie Keohane @keohaneja.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
I know y'all know I hate Microsoft Teams with every fiber of my being. But, seriously. Whoever just called me and didn't tell me who you were [or what you wanted], Teams just lists "Wireless Caller" so I literally am not calling you back since I don't know who you are.
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Jennie Keohane @keohaneja.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Platforming Cancel Culture, a new edited collection with Routledge, is available to pre-order! My chapter asks whether taking down Confederate statues is cancel culture and ways activists intervene digitally to remember differently. Get the book for your libe! www.routledge.com/Platforming-...
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Platforming Cancel Culture: Digital Media, Identity and Cultural Intersections
Platforming Cancel Culture: Digital Media, Identity and Cultural Intersections delves into one of the most polarizing phenomena of the digital age. Bringing together global, intersectional, and interd...
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Jennie Keohane @keohaneja.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
This long post is worth reading as we reckon with AI generated writing in the classroom and beyond.
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Jennie Keohane @keohaneja.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
"There is 'a fundamental mismatch' between what AI can do and what citizens expect from government, she said." YES. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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The government wants AI to fight wars and review your taxes
The Trump administration is pushing the Pentagon, IRS and other federal agencies to rapidly adopt AI tools to improve efficiency, an idea championed by Elon Musk.
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Jennie Keohane @keohaneja.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
"When every learner is placed on their own “optimised” track, where is the shared experience of learning –– the chance to debate, to disagree, to collaborate, and to co-construct knowledge with peers?" www.unesco.org/en/articles/...
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Bespoke or prescribed? The myth of personalised learning
Personalised learning is AI’s promise in education—but who defines what’s personal, and does it nurture strengths or just fix what algorithms see as flaws?
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Jennie Keohane @keohaneja.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Yes. This 100%.
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