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Deen Freelon @dfreelon.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

My lab @ UPenn is hiring a postdoc to start in early 2027. I'm looking for someone with expertise in social identities, computational methods, and political communication: www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...

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Call for applications: Postdoctoral researcher in social identity, politics, and computational methods

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Shannon McGregor, PhD @shannimcg.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I wrote my dissertation on all the ways in which news media used social media to represent public opinion in elections -- and all the democratic problems with it. But prediction markets are a whole 'nother level of wildness. The good news? @parkerbach.bsky.social & I are already planning our study.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 24/01/2026

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

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Parker Bach @parkerbach.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Every day @theonion.com gets closer to discovering STS

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

🚨New pub alert!🚨 Now available open-access in @journal-of-comm.bsky.social, we (w/ @dkreiss.bsky.social, @danlane.bsky.social, & @shannimcg.bsky.social) critique political communication's "Identity Turn" and offer instead a foundation for studying #polcomm from a *group* perspective. 🧵

Abstract: Recent political communication scholarship finds that groups and identities play a central role in the crises faced by political and media systems globally, particularly in democracies. Yet an individualist orientation in the literature has resulted in key theoretical and conceptual limitations, preventing a broader group-centric theoretical framework from emerging. We synthesize disparate bodies of theory on groups, politics, and communication to offer three basic propositions underlying a group theory of political communication. First, it is the group—not the individual—that is the fundamental organizing unit of social and political life. Second, groups are constituted through communication, which is central to how they define their politics. Third, groups and politics are reciprocally influencing forces through political communication, oriented around power. We offer a framework for studying the role of groups in political communication at the micro, meso, and macro levels, providing a concrete agenda for the study of groups in political communication.

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 26/02/2025

Secretary of Defense Hegseth says he doesn’t know if Russia invaded Ukraine. This you?

Pete Hegseth on FOX NEWS with headline chyron that reads: Tracking Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine.

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Parker Bach @parkerbach.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Do you know an MA student or undergrad with a bright future working at the intersections of technology, society, and communication? Encourage them to apply to Predoc position with Microsoft Research's Social Media Collective! I can't recommend enough! socialmediacollective.org/2025/01/22/s...

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Seeking a Sociotechnical Systems Research Assistant (aka “Pre-Doc”)

Apply here: (NOTE: Application Portal opens February 3, 2025) Deadline: March 3, 2025. (Late or incomplete applications will not be considered.) NOTE: Unfortunately, applicants must be eligib…

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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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Parker Bach @parkerbach.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

If SNL doesn’t bring in Tim Robinson to play NYC mayoral candidate Brad Lander I will riot

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Parker Bach @parkerbach.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Help my friend and cohort-mate do important dissertation research!

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Parker Bach @parkerbach.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Did we need experts to “question” this for us??? Why can’t we just say it??? Shout out to all my fellow “experts” being asked to confirm that bad things are indeed bad to preserve a misguided sense of journalistic neutrality in outlets that the Right doesn’t read.

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Parker Bach @parkerbach.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

It’s not just sports. Prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket are now operating legally in the US and were able to ride the wave of sports gambling app popularity and the US presidential election to some pretty major numbers.

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Parker Bach @parkerbach.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I just hate how dumb the fascist shift in the US has been. There was no Machiavellian plot. No critically overlooked flaw in the system. They just said they were gonna do dumb, evil things. And we didn’t stop them. So they did.

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 07/01/2025

I would love for someone to ask Zuck/Meta what “once again prioritizing speech” means in this context. I mean, minoritized subjects understand that he’s removing the flimsy guardrails meant to protect us, but I’m curious what they THINK they are communicating here.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

well that turned out to be a bit of an understatement

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