Brian Ekdale
@bekdale.bsky.social
global digital cultures | personalization & society | knowledge production disparities
Assoc. Prof. University of Iowa School of Journalism & Mass Communication
Assoc. Prof. University of Iowa School of Journalism & Mass Communication
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Brian Ekdale
@bekdale.bsky.social
· May 23
New pub in New Media & Society led by the amazing Dr. Raven Maragh-Lloyd: “They’re trying to influence me to gain the more acceptable viewpoint”: The algorithmic imaginaries of politically activated social media users.
Abstract below:
Abstract below:
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PSA: deadline for @icahdq.bsky.social #ica26 less than 24 hrs away ⏰
Deadline is 1200 (noon) ICA Hdq time (eastern standard 🇺🇸)
Good luck out there 🍀
Deadline is 1200 (noon) ICA Hdq time (eastern standard 🇺🇸)
Good luck out there 🍀
November 2, 2025 at 6:11 PM
PSA: deadline for @icahdq.bsky.social #ica26 less than 24 hrs away ⏰
Deadline is 1200 (noon) ICA Hdq time (eastern standard 🇺🇸)
Good luck out there 🍀
Deadline is 1200 (noon) ICA Hdq time (eastern standard 🇺🇸)
Good luck out there 🍀
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October 22, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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hey okay so the thing is THIS IS BATSHIT
October 1, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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What are we doing here, Apple News?
October 1, 2025 at 3:02 AM
What are we doing here, Apple News?
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Introducing the editorial for the Special Issue: “A special issue on qualitative theorizing and methodological advancements”, by Kristina M. Scharp, Elizabeth A. Hintz @elizabethahintz.bsky.social and Sandra Vera Zambrano
Read here: doi.org/10.1093/joc/...
Read here: doi.org/10.1093/joc/...
September 3, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Introducing the editorial for the Special Issue: “A special issue on qualitative theorizing and methodological advancements”, by Kristina M. Scharp, Elizabeth A. Hintz @elizabethahintz.bsky.social and Sandra Vera Zambrano
Read here: doi.org/10.1093/joc/...
Read here: doi.org/10.1093/joc/...
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For folks not in higher ed, PhD programs are designed to be finished in five years minimum.
I know there's a lot happening today, but this is sneaking in under the radar. This proposed new rule would absolutely crush foreign PhD students, potentially making it impossible for them to enroll with any certainty of their ability to finish www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
August 28, 2025 at 12:04 PM
For folks not in higher ed, PhD programs are designed to be finished in five years minimum.
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Happening today! #AEJMC25
Don’t miss the 𝗘𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗩𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 panel at #AEJMC2025
🕰 Sat, Aug 9 | 1:15–2:30 PM
📍 Salon 12
Featuring JMCQ’s 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵 𝗠𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 program, moderated by AE Celeste González de Bustamante. @profdimitrova.bsky.social #commsky
🕰 Sat, Aug 9 | 1:15–2:30 PM
📍 Salon 12
Featuring JMCQ’s 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵 𝗠𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 program, moderated by AE Celeste González de Bustamante. @profdimitrova.bsky.social #commsky
August 9, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Happening today! #AEJMC25
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Congrats to @stephedgerly.bsky.social for being awarded a Ver Steeg Fellowship. This fellowship supports the research of a tenured faculty member whose work enhances the reputation of Northwestern and comes with a research grant of $45,000: spr.ly/63326fYwpn
August 8, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Congrats to @stephedgerly.bsky.social for being awarded a Ver Steeg Fellowship. This fellowship supports the research of a tenured faculty member whose work enhances the reputation of Northwestern and comes with a research grant of $45,000: spr.ly/63326fYwpn
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Fifty free copies of my TPV article "Using Deep Learning Neural Networks to Predict Violent Versus Nonviolent Extremist Behaviors." In it, my deep-learning model correctly predicted violent vs. non-violent offending among extremists in 94 percent of cases.
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/8966I...
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/8966I...
Using Deep Learning Neural Networks to Predict Violent vs. Nonviolent Extremist Behaviors
Recent analyses of radicalization processes have shown that extremist attitudes and violent behavior may be related in some cases, but are rarely collinear. It therefore benefits analysts of politi...
www.tandfonline.com
August 5, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Fifty free copies of my TPV article "Using Deep Learning Neural Networks to Predict Violent Versus Nonviolent Extremist Behaviors." In it, my deep-learning model correctly predicted violent vs. non-violent offending among extremists in 94 percent of cases.
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/8966I...
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/8966I...
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SPECIAL ISSUE CfP! Submit abstracts to DJ’s latest Special Issue on "Digital Journalism in the Age of Technogarchy", edited by @curdknupfer.bsky.social, @lenafrescamente.bsky.social, @claesdevreese.bsky.social, & @gehrke.bsky.social.
🗓️Deadline: Sep 15, 2025
📷Info: drive.google.com/file/d/182p3...
🗓️Deadline: Sep 15, 2025
📷Info: drive.google.com/file/d/182p3...
July 4, 2025 at 1:42 PM
SPECIAL ISSUE CfP! Submit abstracts to DJ’s latest Special Issue on "Digital Journalism in the Age of Technogarchy", edited by @curdknupfer.bsky.social, @lenafrescamente.bsky.social, @claesdevreese.bsky.social, & @gehrke.bsky.social.
🗓️Deadline: Sep 15, 2025
📷Info: drive.google.com/file/d/182p3...
🗓️Deadline: Sep 15, 2025
📷Info: drive.google.com/file/d/182p3...
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Academic freedom is under threat. Senior scholars from 11 countries examine the impact of political interference, censorship, and self-censorship in journalism studies.
➡️Read the commentary: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🌍We invite you to SIGN this article here: bit.ly/afsignatory
➡️Read the commentary: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🌍We invite you to SIGN this article here: bit.ly/afsignatory
July 11, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Academic freedom is under threat. Senior scholars from 11 countries examine the impact of political interference, censorship, and self-censorship in journalism studies.
➡️Read the commentary: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🌍We invite you to SIGN this article here: bit.ly/afsignatory
➡️Read the commentary: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🌍We invite you to SIGN this article here: bit.ly/afsignatory
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This is such a great new piece of research by @curdknupfer.bsky.social et al. It should be mandatory reading for journalists. academic.oup.com/joc/advance-...
Far-right challenges to liberal democratic press norms: “indexing by proxy” in a German immigration debate
Abstract. This study examines the mechanisms by which illiberal politics make the news by disrupting democratic systems. During the late 20th century, a li
academic.oup.com
July 13, 2025 at 10:11 AM
This is such a great new piece of research by @curdknupfer.bsky.social et al. It should be mandatory reading for journalists. academic.oup.com/joc/advance-...
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#OutNow in #iCS
What counts as algorithmic discrimination? This piece develops a grounded concept rooted in empirical cases, revealing how unequal outcomes emerge from routine design and classification practices.
doi.org/10.1080/1369...
What counts as algorithmic discrimination? This piece develops a grounded concept rooted in empirical cases, revealing how unequal outcomes emerge from routine design and classification practices.
doi.org/10.1080/1369...
Algorithmic discrimination: a grounded conceptualization
This paper extends the literature on algorithmic discrimination to analyze the racialized harms and outcomes of online targeting. In addition to providing a genealogy, we argue that targeted ads ar...
doi.org
July 10, 2025 at 10:58 AM
#OutNow in #iCS
What counts as algorithmic discrimination? This piece develops a grounded concept rooted in empirical cases, revealing how unequal outcomes emerge from routine design and classification practices.
doi.org/10.1080/1369...
What counts as algorithmic discrimination? This piece develops a grounded concept rooted in empirical cases, revealing how unequal outcomes emerge from routine design and classification practices.
doi.org/10.1080/1369...
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✨NEW OA CHAPTER ALERT✨
“In-Groups and Outrage: How Narratives and Affect Shape Digital Surrogate
Networks and Radicalize Right-Wing Parties”
@ulrikeklinger.bsky.social and I explore the case of the German party “Alternative für Deutschland” (#AfD), which has moved increasingly to the far right.
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“In-Groups and Outrage: How Narratives and Affect Shape Digital Surrogate
Networks and Radicalize Right-Wing Parties”
@ulrikeklinger.bsky.social and I explore the case of the German party “Alternative für Deutschland” (#AfD), which has moved increasingly to the far right.
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July 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM
✨NEW OA CHAPTER ALERT✨
“In-Groups and Outrage: How Narratives and Affect Shape Digital Surrogate
Networks and Radicalize Right-Wing Parties”
@ulrikeklinger.bsky.social and I explore the case of the German party “Alternative für Deutschland” (#AfD), which has moved increasingly to the far right.
🧵⤵
“In-Groups and Outrage: How Narratives and Affect Shape Digital Surrogate
Networks and Radicalize Right-Wing Parties”
@ulrikeklinger.bsky.social and I explore the case of the German party “Alternative für Deutschland” (#AfD), which has moved increasingly to the far right.
🧵⤵
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Congrats to the AEJMC Tankard Book Award Winner:
Racializing Objectivity: How the White Southern Press Used Journalism Standards to Defend Jim Crow, Gwyneth Mellinger, University of Massachusetts Press, 2024. Also congrats to the two finalists! #AEJMC25 #AejmcAwards
Racializing Objectivity: How the White Southern Press Used Journalism Standards to Defend Jim Crow, Gwyneth Mellinger, University of Massachusetts Press, 2024. Also congrats to the two finalists! #AEJMC25 #AejmcAwards
June 17, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Congrats to the AEJMC Tankard Book Award Winner:
Racializing Objectivity: How the White Southern Press Used Journalism Standards to Defend Jim Crow, Gwyneth Mellinger, University of Massachusetts Press, 2024. Also congrats to the two finalists! #AEJMC25 #AejmcAwards
Racializing Objectivity: How the White Southern Press Used Journalism Standards to Defend Jim Crow, Gwyneth Mellinger, University of Massachusetts Press, 2024. Also congrats to the two finalists! #AEJMC25 #AejmcAwards
Way to go @bingbingzhang.bsky.social 🎉🎉
🧠Big shoutout to Homero Gil de Zúñiga, Rebecca Scheffauer, and @bingbingzhang.bsky.social for winning the 2024 JMCQ Outstanding Article Award! 👏 Their study on how cable news relates to conspiracy mentality is a must-read. 📺https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/10776990231171929 #commsky
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June 25, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Way to go @bingbingzhang.bsky.social 🎉🎉
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Here's the quick overview of the issue from Georgina Born and my introduction.
In this introduction we also offer methodological reflections for the study of music and law, which I hope folks will find valuable.
doi.org/10.1525/jpms...
In this introduction we also offer methodological reflections for the study of music and law, which I hope folks will find valuable.
doi.org/10.1525/jpms...
June 23, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Here's the quick overview of the issue from Georgina Born and my introduction.
In this introduction we also offer methodological reflections for the study of music and law, which I hope folks will find valuable.
doi.org/10.1525/jpms...
In this introduction we also offer methodological reflections for the study of music and law, which I hope folks will find valuable.
doi.org/10.1525/jpms...
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June 14, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Apparently there are no more 'starter packs' on BlueSky, but I did make a #ica25 ICA Divisions and Interest Groups list: bsky.app/profile/did:...
June 12, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Apparently there are no more 'starter packs' on BlueSky, but I did make a #ica25 ICA Divisions and Interest Groups list: bsky.app/profile/did:...
Had a wonderful time and many great conversations at our Social Media Radicalization #ica25 preconference yesterday. Thanks to all who attended!
June 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Had a wonderful time and many great conversations at our Social Media Radicalization #ica25 preconference yesterday. Thanks to all who attended!
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📣 Deadline extended to August 22nd! To submit an abstract or the full CfP, check our website: edu.nl/nfd7h
June 5, 2025 at 10:53 AM
📣 Deadline extended to August 22nd! To submit an abstract or the full CfP, check our website: edu.nl/nfd7h
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Upcoming event: #Feminism #antifeminism & affective economies of rage
📌 Thurs 5 June 6.30-8pm
Sarah Banet-Weiser will theorize “mirror worlds” as an apt metaphor for the contemporary political and cultural feminist landscape.
🎫 Join us in-person or online: www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/...
📌 Thurs 5 June 6.30-8pm
Sarah Banet-Weiser will theorize “mirror worlds” as an apt metaphor for the contemporary political and cultural feminist landscape.
🎫 Join us in-person or online: www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/...
Feminism, anti-feminism and affective economies of rage
6.30pm Thurs 5 June | Sarah Banet-Weiser, Angela McRobbie | Free public event at LSE
www.lse.ac.uk
May 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Upcoming event: #Feminism #antifeminism & affective economies of rage
📌 Thurs 5 June 6.30-8pm
Sarah Banet-Weiser will theorize “mirror worlds” as an apt metaphor for the contemporary political and cultural feminist landscape.
🎫 Join us in-person or online: www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/...
📌 Thurs 5 June 6.30-8pm
Sarah Banet-Weiser will theorize “mirror worlds” as an apt metaphor for the contemporary political and cultural feminist landscape.
🎫 Join us in-person or online: www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/...
Give @rishabn.bsky.social all the awards!!
🎉 Huge congratulations to Rishab Nithyanand [@rishabn.bsky.social] for his promotion to Associate Professor [with tenure] and for being named a UIowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean’s Scholar Awardee 👏!
Full CLAS piece (and a bit of background) at bit.ly/RN_Tenure
#AcademicSky #Promotion
Full CLAS piece (and a bit of background) at bit.ly/RN_Tenure
#AcademicSky #Promotion
May 29, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Give @rishabn.bsky.social all the awards!!