Happy to see this paper is now available (free, open access) online! It is part of a special issue of Political Communication on listening and politics. www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to shine the spotlight on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research.

It’s weird to think that Elon Musk will end up having paid far less for the United States Government than he did for Twitter

Social Media Algorithms Can Shape Affective Polarization via Exposure to Antidemocratic Attitudes and Partisan Animosity

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When X feeds experimentally show people fewer posts with antidemocratic attitudes, people feel more positively toward outpartisans, finds @tiziano.bsky.social
@msaveski.bsky.social @jiachenyan.bsky.social @mbernst.bsky.social et al. arxiv.org/pdf/2411.14652

Appreciate all of you who frequently engage this work.

Always happy to talk with students about this piece, too!

And let's not forget, Trump pardoned Kushner's dad, and is now making him ambassador to France. And, Trump is effectively pardonning himself too.

Billionaires are using all of their resources to turn underpaid workers against each other, so that you never focus on them, the billionaires.

So, we just wanted to take this opportunity to remind people of their rights.

MAGA Poster: Morons Are Governing America.

The next four years are gonna be bleak.

ReshaRing...

Reshaping without reading. Sounds good though. :-)

Quick plug on this new platform for some of my recent research w/ some really cool people that is completely open-access for anyone and everyone!

Persistence of toxic online messages: JoC.
academic.oup.com/joc/article/...

Online flaming and moral outrage: JCMC.
academic.oup.com/jcmc/article...

Release 4 of the 2022 GSS, along with cumulative cross-sectional files, is now available. Includes interviewer characteristics, survey paradata, new calculations of occupational prestige, & new data on HH structure & relationship information.

gss.norc.org

#sociology #sociosky #polisky #econsky 📈📉

From our new issue: "Willing but Unable: Reassessing the Relationship between Racial Group Consciousness and Black Political Participation" by Jasmine Carrera Smith, Jared Clemons, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Miguel Martinez, Leann Mclaren, and Ismail White. #ASPRNewIssue
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Yup.

The #MeToo Cabinet Trump’s choice to begin a new administration with this particular slate of picks represents a remarkable commitment to moral ugliness.

“For one Cabinet nominee to be accused of sexual impropriety may be regarded as misfortune. For two Cabinet nominees to be thus accused looks like carelessness,” Quinta Jurecic writes. “For four—well, that moves beyond carelessness into outright malice”:

Thanks!

Independent Political Networks: Comparing the Discussion Network Size and Composition of Partisans, Leaners, and Independents - Political Behavior Most prior U.S. political discussion research has failed to pay close attention to the networks of political independents, and to the differences between true partisans, leaners, and true independents...

In this just released article we pay particular attention to the nature of discussion networks of "true" independents, and also highlight differences in true partisans and leaners. In short, the three groups are distinguishable based on their network compositions. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Would like to be added, thanks for doing this.

Speaker Johnson says he’s going to request Ethics Committee not release Gaetz report | CNN Politics House Speaker Mike Johnson said on Friday that he does not think a House Ethics Committee report on allegations related to Matt Gaetz should be released and is “going to strongly request that the Ethi...

Leak it...

Speaker Johnson says he’s going to request Ethics Committee not release Gaetz report
www.cnn.com/2024/11/15/p...

We are on a dark, dark path.

Or, I fear that the parody will be lost on a meaningful segment of the audience (e.g., those who used to visit InfoWars), thus keeping the misinformation going unintentionally. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

My only fear is that InfoWars was already basically a parody (of itself). I'm not sure The Onion can make it sufficiently more outrageous to signal it's "not real" to prior readers and other nuts who might happen upon it. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Infowars Out of Bankruptcy The satirical news site planned to turn Infowars into a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” who peddle conspiracy theories and health supplements.

I'll open with what I hope is a positive note, but also worry could go sideways since some folks don't get parody and satire. The Onion Says It Has Bought Infowars, Alex Jones’s Site, Out of Bankruptcy www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/b...