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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 13h

New discussion content for the video games day of #CMN425 Entertainment and Politics just dropped

Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Here’s the university PR write-up. “The analysis left no doubt that the darker it got, the less likely it became that a [B]lack driver would be stopped. The reverse was true when the sky was lighter.” news.stanford.edu/stories/2020...

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A ‘veil of darkness’ reduces racial bias in traffic stops

After analyzing 95 million traffic stop records, filed by officers with 21 state patrol agencies and 35 municipal police forces from 2011 to 2018, researchers concluded that “police stops and search d...

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I don't want to use it at all 🤷🏽‍♂️

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is one reason why you shouldn’t upload work into LLMs during the peer review and grading processes. That work is confidential, and you have no right to share it without permission. You are taking someone’s intellectual property and giving it to the entire world without their consent.

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I'd even say there's no such thing as the "non-political," but yes. Also this part: "Second, the critical tradition and the associated contextual approaches to the nonpolitical offer important inspiration for improving operationalization in empirically oriented political communication research."

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"Scholars should carefully assess the research context and use those suggestive labels such as 'non-political' in a more thoughtful way ... The nonpolitical...is often theoretically rich and frequently intertwined with the political." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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The Politics of the “Non-Political”: A Conceptual Review

Recent literature has documented a growing entanglement between political processes and many nonpolitical entities. This calls into question the traditional presupposition of politics as a self-con...

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Same thing with “the ways in which” -> “how”

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Also, there’s value in people being able to write. And not just in 80-minute blocks in a blue book, but being able to communicate in written form some information that they have to think about and pore over and convey in longer form. Seems we’re giving up on that with in-person oral/written exams.

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The combat correspondents and combat camera Marines who worked for me would have plenty of candid pics of Marines and sailors, too. We just usually wouldn’t publish them. Again, no way to know either way, and frankly this is a silly thing to go back and forth about.

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Combat correspondents/photographers/videographers document training exercises as well. The location of the photos has nothing to do with who took them.

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

For sure, we don’t know. But not at all unreasonable that he was a military-trained photographer rather than just some guy with a camera screwing around.

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“The U.S. Department of Defense funded the production and distribution of a strategy video game during its occupation of Iraq...There was never any attribution of the real video game maker, allegedly to enhance its credibility among its Iraqi users.” journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If he was a combat correspondent or photographer, he would have received training as such. Today, Defense Information School provides extensive training, plus you’re always perfecting on the job. I worked with some incredibly talented photographers when I was in.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

All of this. I also want to add that, in my research, I found that a lot of “inconsistencies” in a victim’s story actually came from gender bias affecting investigators’ record keeping and interview methods.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

@lilymasonphd.bsky.social spitting truth:

From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The problem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

One of the foremost scholars of polarization in the world is telling us that polarization is the wrong concept to apply to the contemporary United States...so maybe don't do that

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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens… and its pathology is not anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.”

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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My new JOD piece arguing against the “cure polarization” approach to saving democracy.

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Muniba Saleem @nibasaleem.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So grateful that the incredible amount of work (5+ years) behind this article was recognized! Shout out to my amazing co-authors: Ian Hawkins, Steve Rains, Dana Mastro, & @stewartcoles.bsky.social @ncacsc.bsky.social #NCA2026 #commsky

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Media MOSAIC Lab @mediamosaiclab.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🎉 Congrats to @nibasaleem.bsky.social on receiving NCA’s Communication & Social Cognition Division Distinguished Article Award! Their meta-analysis examines 5+ decades of research on how media portrayals of minority groups shape intergroup attitudes. #NCA2026 #commsky

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Alessandro Nai @alessandronai.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You know those (rare) papers that really make you proud? In new piece out at APR, we show that #AffectivePolarization likely spills onto other types of non-political polarization - notably, PREFERENCES FOR CATS VS. DOGS (aka “affective PAWlarization”) paper: tinyurl.com/jn48bypp data: osf.io/4p2zu

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"For many Black scholars, academia is a burning house. If we cannot extinguish that fire, Black scholars will always bear a greater risk of being burned–& therefore have to insulate themselves against the risk more than others." @cydneydupree.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/blac...

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Black academics face extra scrutiny. Our research shows its consequences

Scholars of colour told us they engage in strategies to make it harder for them to be dismissed as biased or lacking rigour, says Cydney Hurston Dupree

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is a perfect example of what I call the weaponization of political ontology. Having a policy of avoiding political speech seems reasonable on its surface in certain situations, but it can be easily used to shut down disfavored speech. Manuscript in progress. bsky.app/profile/stew...

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 26/09/2026

I worked with Jake on this story for months, and it’s truly one of the best deep dives into how online sports gambling works that I’ve ever seen

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Jen Hoewe @jenniferhoewe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My book, Enjoyment Is Breaking News, will be released in one week! I’m very grateful for the positive reviews it’s received so far. Pre-order options from @mitpress.bsky.social are available here: lnkd.in/gXFi4H4s

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yeah, someone else brought up CAR too. 45º is one thing, but there are vanishingly few scenarios in which shooting like this would be optimal. Also, CAR is mostly used for handguns. This bozo is holding an M4 fully sideways, his left hand awkwardly reaching under and around to hold a forward grip 🤡

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Quite possible—the IRA members go to Libya to train for more attacks.

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’m honestly curious about what you’d have veterans who are now critical of the U.S. military/govt do. The past can’t be changed. So going forward, would you rather they speak out against the military, or not? Seriously, what’s your end game here? Or is this just your whole personality?

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Believe it or not, my military experience and critique of the U.S. military factors a lot into my teaching. I'm also not going to hide my service and pretend I didn't do what I did. Which, again, is why you are better off engaging with strangers in good faith instead of being...whatever this is.

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I put that there so people know where I'm coming from. They're more apt to listen when I say something critical of the military/govt when they know that I've actually served and know what I'm talking about from that perspective. It's actually a persuasion technique I teach about in my courses.

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Growing up in the 80s, when someone said "terrorist," I immediately thought of some Irish guy and The Troubles. It was less 24 and more Patriot Games...but even that movie had the Irish terrorists training with nondescript Arab baddies.

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I don't cover that BoB fact. I mean, "brown people bad/stupid/savage" definitely predates 9/11 by far. Think True Lies, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Back to the Future, even older movies. Our study just looked at broadcast TV, and we found this stark change pre- vs. post-9/11. I do mention, tho, that...

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I don't disagree with you on that—believe it or not, people's politics change, and I do not look kindly on my service, to put it mildly. Which is also why maybe you shouldn't be condescending as fuck to a total stranger whom you know nothing about.

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yeah 45º would make sense if he were peeking, but this is fucking stupid. And better to peek the other way, since he's a righty. I guess they thought that wouldn't look cool enough. Fucking dorks.

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I thought about that, and even still, since he's clearly a righty, it would make more sense to peek the other way rather than contort his body like that. I refuse to watch the movie just to find out whether this was the best way to engage the target, when it all boils down to wanting to look cool.

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yes I know that, I did 10 years in the Marines. We (and the screenwriters) can invent some scenario in which this was the optimal way to fire the weapon, but it really boils down "Looks cool."

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Whenever I teach #CMN425 Entertainment and Politics, I bring up how BHD was made pre-9/11, not afterward to drum up the war effort. The impulse was already there. That said, my own research shows that for TV, Middle Easterners were almost invisible pre-9/11, then terrorists 1/2 the time afterwards.

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How Reel Middle Easterners’ Portrayals Cultivate Stereotypical Beliefs and Policy Support

There is limited empirical research examining cultivation theory’s proposition that first-order estimates influence second-order attitudes. In two studies, we examine how Middle Easterners are port...

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Absolutely not the point, but why the hell is he firing that M4 sideways? That’s fucking stupid, looks stupid, and isn’t how you’d hold it.

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Thomas Talhelm @thomastalhelm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🚨 It's published! 🚨 This is the big one. 100 cultures, 12,000 people, 108 researchers. Why people (and our most-used surveys) get collectivism wrong and how to fix it. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.nature.com

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If you saw this system anywhere else, you’d rightly call it apartheid.

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

More empathy than our own kids could muster. They must’ve seen their father do worse.

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Today I’m getting utterly smashed from top pressure and I’m looking over at my kids (because my partner’s Shoulder of Doom was forcing my head that way) and they’re smiling and waving at me like I’m not getting squeezed like a tube of toothpaste.

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Right. Comm journals are also increasingly encouraging sharing, but I’m not sure how it compares to psych (or political science) in practice.

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

From 9% to 82% seems promising—good news here! I wonder what these numbers look like for the top communication journals.

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The easiest way to find errors in your writing is a few years after it’s in print. Then they’ll jump right out at you.

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