they told me kix was for kids

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Senator Cory Booker has started his 18th hour of a filibuster on the Senate floor.

Thank you, Cory, for standing up for our veterans and the VA!

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Congratulations @commscholar.bsky.social, @arunimakrishna.bsky.social, @chriswells.bsky.social, Benjamin Sovacool, and Ramit Debnath on your publication! This study was jointly funded by us and @bu-igs.bsky.social. Read key points in Michelle Amazeen's thread below. tinyurl.com/2jkbhh3y

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The majority of news influencers are conservative men, study finds The latest Pew Research report on news content creators paints a damning picture of our skewed information ecosystem

One of my unpopular opinions is that creators are dramatically more exposed to ugly market forces than the imperfect mass media they’re replacing, and we’re going to miss the anticommercial tendencies inside of legacy newsrooms once they’re finally gone.

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what non-bad place platform are our European colleagues using these days?

without comment, etc. etc.
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so clearly the tech layoffs caused chatgpt

#adulthood

seems like we have the lit on pieces, but not sure they're put together enough? top factors seem like (a) p-ship; (b) weak actual commitment to democracy; (c) lack of sophistication needed to recognize threats; (d) first-order self interest; (e) media/horserace covg muddles reality; (f) others?

well put. is our research program coherent enough on the question of "why are American voters unable/unwilling to punish egregious democratic norm violations?"

In Memoriam: Jack McLeod, 1930–2024 Jack McLeod, professor emeritus at the UW–Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication and icon in the field of communication research, died on January 28, 2024.

Tough week around here as we mourn, remember, celebrate and hope to live up to the memory of Jack McLeod. journalism.wisc.edu/news/in-memo...

Hey #polisky & #commsky:
Please help get the word out about these #polcomm awards!
(Especially about the PhD and Graduate Paper awards -- to junior colleagues and their advisors!)
TY! 🙏