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Marisa Smith

@smithmarisaa.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor @MSUAdPR @MSUjschool | news, race and identity, politics, disinformation | ΔΣΘ

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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
“I am somebody!” I grew up obsessed with the sound of Black orators whose voices alone felt like they could open heaven, even as they fought to help Black folks find peace here on earth. Knowing how much Jesse Jackson loved our people taught me to love and struggle for us too. A true legend.
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APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions @polcomm.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
The APSA Political Communication section is accepting nominations for its annual awards. Please send nominations directly to the chair of each committee. 🔎 More details on awards, committee, and eligibility criteria: politicalcommunication.org/awards/
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Curd Knüpfer @curdknupfer.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
🚨NEW PAPER The Logic of Connective Faction: How Digitally Networked Elites and Hyper-Partisan Media Radicalize Politics w/ @yunkangyang.bsky.social & @mikecowburn.bsky.social Online radicalization doesn't just affect the public. It also reshapes how elites & parties behave. doi.org/10.1080/1058...
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The Logic of Connective Faction: How Digitally Networked Elites and Hyper-Partisan Media Radicalize Politics
Across democratic systems, ideological cleavages increasingly emerge not only between but also within political parties. At the same time, hyperpartisan and digitally networked media ecosystems amp...
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Marisa Smith @smithmarisaa.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Support for dismantling DEI didn’t happen overnight. It’s the outcome of narratives recoding CRT as a threat to white Americans. My article (w/ @meredithdclark.bsky.social) in @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social examines how this strategy became sentiment. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/21565503.2025.2556104
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From strategy to sentiment: examining the role of partisan news in fostering white racial consciousness and shaping attitudes toward critical race theory
Fox News has dedicated considerable attention to Critical Race Theory (CRT), recoding it as indicative of anti-white racism. This study examined whether exposure to these narratives is associated w...
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Marisa Smith @smithmarisaa.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
The Media & Democracy Cooperative (MDDC) is on BlueSky! The MDDC is a collaborative network of researchers advancing the use of digital data to study political communication. Follow us at @mddcoop.bsky.social, and check out this starter pack to follow MDDC researchers: go.bsky.app/MBhgRyr
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Mary Beth Oliver @olivermb.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Come work with us at @pennstateuniv.bsky.social! We are doing a search for an assistant professor in health or science communication. Please help me spread the word, and if you have any questions, don't hesitate to reach out. I'm excited about this hire! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
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Assistant Professor in Media Studies
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
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Miya Williams Fayne, Ph.D. @williamsfayne.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
I'm excited to share my new pub: Intended & Unintended Visitors: Evidencing the Audience for Digital Black Press Outlets. I use imagined audience and white gaze frameworks and find that the digital Black press' non-Black audience is larger than the Black audience journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Intended and Unintended Visitors: Evidencing the Audience for Digital Black Press Outlets - Miya Williams Fayne, 2025
Historically, the Black press has primarily targeted the African American audience, yet the increased accessibility of these outlets via digital media raises th...
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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Saying that "autism is preventable" is essentially saying that autistic people should not be born. It's a eugenicist claim.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Bring back *everyone* who was sent from the U.S. to CECOT in El Salvador. *No one* should be sent there. ALL their rights were violated. ALL of them should come home.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Someone grab the A1! The LLM-to-malware pipeline is a perfect downward spiral: AI generates code with imaginary packages, attackers register those package names with malware, and unsuspecting developers execute the code. Another way AI errors cascade into real-world threats.
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Shannon McGregor, PhD @shannimcg.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
🧵1/ Once again, I am talking about identity in communication. In a new #openaccess piece, we argue that scholars cannot meaningfully understand political communication unless we center identity. Ignoring it means missing a huge piece of the puzzle. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 04/04/2025
🚨UPDATE: Rümeysa Öztürk has now suffered three separate asthma attacks while in DHS custody. She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care. This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.
Pressley, Warren, Markey Sound Alarm on Rümeysa Öztürk’s Medical Neglect, Renew Urgent Calls for Her Release (1/2):

“It is unconscionable that Rümeysa Öztürk—a young woman pursuing her education, exercising her First Amendment rights, and contributing to her community—remains detained by DHS. Her ongoing incarceration is not only a blatant violation of her constitutional rights to due process and free speech, but it is now an egregious denial of her fundamental right to medical care. Pressley, Warren, Markey Sound Alarm on Rümeysa Öztürk’s Medical Neglect, Renew Urgent Calls for Her Release (2/2):

“According to her lawyer, Rümeysa has not received her required asthma medications and has now suffered three separate asthma attacks while in custody. This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.

“As her representatives in Congress, we demand DHS immediately provide Rümeysa with access to the health care she needs, and absent compelling evidence justifying her detention and the revocation of her status, we call for Ozturk’s release and the restoration of her visa. Every minute she remains in custody is another minute her health and rights are at risk, and DHS must move with urgency.”
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Marisa Smith @smithmarisaa.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
New publication (w/ @shugars.bsky.social). journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/.... We analyze the transcripts of Black conservative YouTube influencer videos from 2013 to 2023, and its' algorithmically recommended videos.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — Cory Booker breaks the record for longest Senate speech, previously held by segregationist Strom Thurmond.
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Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Sen. Booker just quoted the Langston Hughes poem "Let America Be America Again" "America never was America to me, And yet I swear this oath— America will be!" poets.org/poem/let-ame...
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Let America Be America Again
Let America be America again.
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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
The threat to deport undocumented immigrants is a threat to deport documented immigrants is a threat to deport the descendants of immigrants is a threat to deport anyone who they think looks like an immigrant is a threat to deport anyone who disagrees with them
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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I can't find a spot that lets me convey the size of the crowd, but bodies are packed all the way to the stone building. #FreeRumeysaOzturk
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Lawyers for the Venezuelan immigrants seeking to block the Trump administration from summary deportations under the Alien Enemies Act sum up their argument this way in brief to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Penn State faculty position in computational social science/AI: psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
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Computational Social Scientist for Tenure Track faculty position in AI Media
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Curd Knüpfer @curdknupfer.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
📝NEW PRE-PRINT PAPER📝 "The Logic of Connective Faction: How Digitally Networked Elites & Hyper-Partisan Media Radicalize Politics" @yunkangyang.bsky.social, @mikecowburn.bsky.social, & I investigate what mechanisms mainstreamed the issue of "Critical Race Theory" 🧵 🔗 mikecowburn.com/wp-content/u...
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Taewoo Kang 강태우 康兌宇 @greennail.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
In this study, we propose that a code in a text may exist or not exist depending on one’s social space. Perhaps it’s time to rethink “intersubjectivity” in content analysis. *This will be presented at the next ICA Comps Methods div. @kthorson.bsky.social @snsoroka.bsky.social @dhrice.bsky.social
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Philadelphia Eagles @philadelphiaeagles.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
SUPER BOWL CHAMPIONS! THIS ONE’S FOR YOU PHILLY!
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Aaliyah🦋 @liyahmwemezi.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
QUEENNNN 👸🏾 #GRAMMYS
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Go Birds!💚🦅 @okoyessmile.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Beyoncé Country Album of the Year #CowboyCarter #Grammys
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Marisa Smith @smithmarisaa.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
DOECHII!!! #grammys
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Marisa Smith @smithmarisaa.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Recent EOs signal a lot, among them the attack on civil rights systems, and the weaponizing of DEI to reshape govt. My co-authors @meredithdclark.bsky.social & I have long contemplated this outcome in a project published today in @polcommjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Rooted in White Identity Politics: Tracing the Genealogy of Critical Race Theory Discourse in Identity-Based Disinformation
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Marisa Smith @smithmarisaa.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
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Jo(sephine) Lukito @jolukito.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
🚨New Publication in New Media & Society🚨 Co-First-Authored w/ @m-dot-brown.bsky.social @meredithpruden.bsky.social & @markriedl.bsky.social Making academia suck less: Supporting early career researchers studying harmful content online through a feminist ethics of care. jlukito.com/s/brown-et-a...
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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
"The Eaton Fire hit near the center of this historic Black community, shattering homes and businesses that are more than financial investments but also cultural heritage." www.bet.com/article/7a2t...
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Eaton Fire Devastates Historic Altadena, Displacing Black Families and Destroying Legacies
While celebrity losses grab headlines, the Eaton Fire has destroyed nearly 1,000 structures in Altadena, displacing Black families who’ve shaped the community for generations. Here's a brief history o...
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Emilio Ferrara @emilioferrara.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Ready for another Computational Social Science Starter Pack? Here is number 2! More amazing folks to follow! Many students and the next gen represented! go.bsky.app/GoEyD7d
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Ah yes all the infamously woke generals The thing about giving discursive ground to people with zero boundaries and ethics is that by the time language stops meaning anything and can be turned on anyone the damage is done. We had whole books and histories warning us about that
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Marisa Smith @smithmarisaa.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now. 1. United Dairy Farmers Cashier/Stock 2. H&R Block 3. Math Tutor 4. Victoria's Secret 5. Admissions Office 6. Department of Managed Health Care 7. Foster Care Agency 8. Supervised Visitations (see above) 9. Siemens Intern
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Marisa Smith @smithmarisaa.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
I'm working on a project where I want to transcribe FB and IG videos for text analysis. Does anyone know of a Python or R package, or transcription service that can transcribe videos using FB/IG video links?
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
ICYMI: this piece by @jolukito.bsky.social on scholarly solidarity is 🔥 "political communication should be trend-setters in scholarly solidarity [...] to ensure that the job of being a political communication researcher is healthy, happy, and fruitful." commsky www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 13/10/2023
Just holding my breath for the day one of my students emails to ask why they have to do the assignment for next week when the world is on fire and there is no moral or righteous end in sight. Because the way I will have to try to rally my own spirit to respond…whew.
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Marisa Smith @smithmarisaa.bsky.social · 11/10/2023
In academia, you have to deal with A LOT of rejection. Grant was rejected, but the reviews were positive overall. However, it's disheartening when one of the reviewer "wishes" you cited an article that was published a month after the grant deadline 🤦🏾‍♀️🙃. People need to be more aware when reviewing.
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