Chokely Carmichael🥋
@stewartcoles.bsky.social
Asst Prof @ Illinois Dept of Communication studying media, politics, & identity, not necessarily in that order. UMich Comm & Media / SDSU Journalism & Media Studies / Drexel Digital Media alumnus / USMC veteran. Views = my own. http://www.stewartcoles.com
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🚨New pub alert!🚨 Now available open-access in @hcr-journal.bsky.social, I show how endorsements of entertainment media from ingroup members, particularly inpartisans, affect exposure intentions, with differential effects across racial lines. #PolComm #PoliSci #Politics #MediaStudies 🧵
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Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
February 10, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
And as with most things concerning ✌🏽polarization✌🏽, much of this is asymmetrical, not as simple as both sides just liking different stuff but for the same reasons and resulting in the same effects.
February 10, 2026 at 9:04 PM
And as with most things concerning ✌🏽polarization✌🏽, much of this is asymmetrical, not as simple as both sides just liking different stuff but for the same reasons and resulting in the same effects.
Not only that, but social cues about entertainment audiences provide indicators both of the demographic make-up of the audience as well as whether watching certain content is normative of one's partisan (and racial) ingroup—all of which predicts exposure intentions.
🚨New pub alert!🚨 Now available open-access in @hcr-journal.bsky.social, I show how endorsements of entertainment media from ingroup members, particularly inpartisans, affect exposure intentions, with differential effects across racial lines. #PolComm #PoliSci #Politics #MediaStudies 🧵
February 10, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Not only that, but social cues about entertainment audiences provide indicators both of the demographic make-up of the audience as well as whether watching certain content is normative of one's partisan (and racial) ingroup—all of which predicts exposure intentions.
Stronger partisans and ideologues are likely to see entertainment as politically relevant, which leads to politically motivated selective exposure. That's what I found in my diss, which was the basis for my Comm Theory article introducing the politically relevant media model.
🚨New pub alert! 🚨 Out now in Communication Theory, I introduce a model for how media users evaluate media texts as politically relevant, leading to cognitive, affective, and behavioral outcomes bearing a variety of consequences. A 🧵... (1/10)
February 10, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Stronger partisans and ideologues are likely to see entertainment as politically relevant, which leads to politically motivated selective exposure. That's what I found in my diss, which was the basis for my Comm Theory article introducing the politically relevant media model.
It's why I have increasingly used the term "entertainment echo chambers" (or "filter bubbles"), given mounting evidence of political entertainment divides—with conservative/Republican media diets being more restrictive than others.
I was saying this the other day, but for all the thinkpieces about liberal echo chambers, no one discusses the right-wing echo chamber that enables people to think one of the most popular musicians in the world is some niche and offensive selection for the Super Bowl halftime show
Leaving the obvious racism aside for a second -- Bad Bunny has sold over 100 million albums and just won the Grammy for Best Album of the Year and these chuds are acting like he's an obscure Tuvan throat-singing act or something.
By any objective measure, he is wildly wildly popular.
By any objective measure, he is wildly wildly popular.
February 10, 2026 at 9:04 PM
It's why I have increasingly used the term "entertainment echo chambers" (or "filter bubbles"), given mounting evidence of political entertainment divides—with conservative/Republican media diets being more restrictive than others.
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The current administration wants to do away with 8(a) contracts, which prioritizes minority owned businesses. I have a lot of mixed feelings abt that as an Alaska Native who has shares in an Alaska Native company. However, this kind of bias in contracts is exactly why they exist.
"Black- and Brown-owned businesses win significantly less contract value compared to certified vendors owned by white women and Asian-American men. In addition, there is a gender disparity and Native American-owned firms received close to no contracts."
February 10, 2026 at 2:25 PM
The current administration wants to do away with 8(a) contracts, which prioritizes minority owned businesses. I have a lot of mixed feelings abt that as an Alaska Native who has shares in an Alaska Native company. However, this kind of bias in contracts is exactly why they exist.
This is literally an episode of South Park. Dude pulled a Butters 😭
a cartoon character says do you know what i am saying in front of a playground
Alt: Butters from South Park saying “Do you know what I am saying” in front of a playground
media.tenor.com
February 9, 2026 at 3:30 PM
This is literally an episode of South Park. Dude pulled a Butters 😭
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This, from @jamellebouie.net is exactly right. And I think so many folks have refused to see or admit what Trump is because admitting implicates them, or their families, so denial is easier.
February 8, 2026 at 5:33 PM
This, from @jamellebouie.net is exactly right. And I think so many folks have refused to see or admit what Trump is because admitting implicates them, or their families, so denial is easier.
This is a banger of a thread of the many things going on in the Bad Bunny halftime show. Definitely going to have to revisit the next time I run #CMN425 Entertainment and Politics, and also future work on [rap] music, the PRMM, cognitive elaboration, and political knowledge.
Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming
February 9, 2026 at 4:27 AM
This is a banger of a thread of the many things going on in the Bad Bunny halftime show. Definitely going to have to revisit the next time I run #CMN425 Entertainment and Politics, and also future work on [rap] music, the PRMM, cognitive elaboration, and political knowledge.
I’d say 99% of my Nextdoor use is monitoring racism in my neighborhood/area and 1% is actually buying or getting rid of stuff—which it actually has been useful for on several occasions.
February 8, 2026 at 4:46 PM
I’d say 99% of my Nextdoor use is monitoring racism in my neighborhood/area and 1% is actually buying or getting rid of stuff—which it actually has been useful for on several occasions.
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So excited to have launched my latest research on Latino representation alongside this exclusive from @thewrap.com. Interested in reading but don’t have access? DM me!
www.thewrap.com/media-platfo...
www.thewrap.com/media-platfo...
Latino Characters Make Up Only 6% of Broadcast TV Roles, USC Study Finds: ‘It’s Symbolic Annihilation’ | Exclusive
Among all 69 Latino characters in the sample, more than 25% were portrayed as criminals on screen, according to the USC Norman Lear Center
www.thewrap.com
February 7, 2026 at 4:47 AM
So excited to have launched my latest research on Latino representation alongside this exclusive from @thewrap.com. Interested in reading but don’t have access? DM me!
www.thewrap.com/media-platfo...
www.thewrap.com/media-platfo...
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The Washington Post just laid off its entire award-winning photo team. They were our eyes in places we'll never see. It's a horrifying loss at a time when lying governments, propaganda and AI slop are on the rise.
February 6, 2026 at 6:59 PM
The Washington Post just laid off its entire award-winning photo team. They were our eyes in places we'll never see. It's a horrifying loss at a time when lying governments, propaganda and AI slop are on the rise.
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No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
www.nature.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:09 AM
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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they deserve to be exponentially more widely hated than they are, and I believe we can make this happen together
All these men driving women out of their fields with giggly idiot grabassery and then bloviating to the public about how the lack of women is proof of male intellectual superiority... I hate them all. I hate them so much.
February 6, 2026 at 1:08 AM
they deserve to be exponentially more widely hated than they are, and I believe we can make this happen together
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When "the potential boss's habits" are sexual abuse, your job is to tell students to stay the hell away from them (& call the police).
And, short of that, if you're sure he will ask about her looks if you don't describe them from the start...you tell the student to stay the hell away from them.
And, short of that, if you're sure he will ask about her looks if you don't describe them from the start...you tell the student to stay the hell away from them.
I have been writing letters of recommendation for just shy of thirty years— 17 students this year alone— in ratios that more or less track the majority-women population of liberal arts students.
Obviously I have never commented on a student's looks... and no recipient has ever called me to ask.
Obviously I have never commented on a student's looks... and no recipient has ever called me to ask.
February 5, 2026 at 7:33 PM
When "the potential boss's habits" are sexual abuse, your job is to tell students to stay the hell away from them (& call the police).
And, short of that, if you're sure he will ask about her looks if you don't describe them from the start...you tell the student to stay the hell away from them.
And, short of that, if you're sure he will ask about her looks if you don't describe them from the start...you tell the student to stay the hell away from them.
Like how news orgs breathlessly repeating the lies of “regular” law enforcement who murder Black people left those orgs unprepared to deal with a federal govt doing the same thing.
Except now the victims are white so journalists are starting to ask questions and not believe everything they’re told.
Except now the victims are white so journalists are starting to ask questions and not believe everything they’re told.
I’ve been meaning to write/skeet about the current admin’s comms practices, how they differ so drastically from what I was taught and did as a PAO, how they mirror existing law enforcement comms practices, and why all that (and a whole lot of racism) matters for how we got here in the first place.
February 5, 2026 at 7:49 PM
Like how news orgs breathlessly repeating the lies of “regular” law enforcement who murder Black people left those orgs unprepared to deal with a federal govt doing the same thing.
Except now the victims are white so journalists are starting to ask questions and not believe everything they’re told.
Except now the victims are white so journalists are starting to ask questions and not believe everything they’re told.
To a racist, the worst thing you could possibly call someone is a racist.
Civil rights activist Medgar Evers was shot in the back by a Klansman in 1963.
The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from Evers' museum and reportedly plans to remove references that call his murderer a “racist"
The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from Evers' museum and reportedly plans to remove references that call his murderer a “racist"
Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist - Mississippi Today
Among anticipated changes to a new visitor brochure for the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument is no longer using "racist" to describe the killer of the civil rights leader.
mississippitoday.org
February 5, 2026 at 6:28 PM
To a racist, the worst thing you could possibly call someone is a racist.
I have a solution to this:
a person is holding a pair of plastic forks in a blue box
Alt: A toy skeleton being fed into a large shredder
media.tenor.com
February 5, 2026 at 4:24 PM
I have a solution to this:
Umm do lawyers normally object to things *their own client* said?
February 5, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Umm do lawyers normally object to things *their own client* said?
1) Why even take that sort of course if you’re just going to use AI?
2) This is why I don’t think oral presentations or in-class writing is always the best answer. There’s something to be said about deeper, longer-form writing than can be done in 90 minutes.
2) This is why I don’t think oral presentations or in-class writing is always the best answer. There’s something to be said about deeper, longer-form writing than can be done in 90 minutes.
February 4, 2026 at 2:14 PM
1) Why even take that sort of course if you’re just going to use AI?
2) This is why I don’t think oral presentations or in-class writing is always the best answer. There’s something to be said about deeper, longer-form writing than can be done in 90 minutes.
2) This is why I don’t think oral presentations or in-class writing is always the best answer. There’s something to be said about deeper, longer-form writing than can be done in 90 minutes.
This is why we need to do more than ”go back to pre-9/11.” The problem is not just the current iteration of ICE, BP, CBP, or anything of the sort. We need to fundamentally address all of policing, law enforcement, the military, etc.
When you hear politicians use the word “reform”…
La Migra has *always* been like this, & they’ve been ordered to “reform” before.
In 1992 students & teachers from Bowie High in El Paso (TX) were tired of harassment & profiling so they sued the Border Patrol…
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www.tpr.org/news/2025-12...
La Migra has *always* been like this, & they’ve been ordered to “reform” before.
In 1992 students & teachers from Bowie High in El Paso (TX) were tired of harassment & profiling so they sued the Border Patrol…
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www.tpr.org/news/2025-12...
Bowie High's Landmark Border Patrol Case offers lessons amid Trump administration crackdown
The Trump administration's push for mass deportations and removing protections for "sensitive locations" resonates decades after Bowie High School students sued the Border Patrol over racial profiling...
www.tpr.org
February 4, 2026 at 2:11 PM
This is why we need to do more than ”go back to pre-9/11.” The problem is not just the current iteration of ICE, BP, CBP, or anything of the sort. We need to fundamentally address all of policing, law enforcement, the military, etc.
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They just blindly shot through the fucking door.
"Additional photographs show damage consistent with a bullet fragment lodged in a bedroom wall down the hallway — suggesting it traveled between a mattress and a portable crib in a room where several small children sleep."
"Additional photographs show damage consistent with a bullet fragment lodged in a bedroom wall down the hallway — suggesting it traveled between a mattress and a portable crib in a room where several small children sleep."
"Photographic evidence from the shooting scene of a Venezuelan man by federal agents last month in Minneapolis supports the account of witnesses there – and appears to undercut the narrative provided by federal officials." www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
Live: Judge orders release of suspects in alleged shovel attack on agent
Department of Homeland Security says agent fired in self-defense after being attacked with a snow shovel and broom.
www.startribune.com
February 3, 2026 at 10:25 PM
They just blindly shot through the fucking door.
"Additional photographs show damage consistent with a bullet fragment lodged in a bedroom wall down the hallway — suggesting it traveled between a mattress and a portable crib in a room where several small children sleep."
"Additional photographs show damage consistent with a bullet fragment lodged in a bedroom wall down the hallway — suggesting it traveled between a mattress and a portable crib in a room where several small children sleep."
Yes, water is wet. But the value of the research is sometimes determining to what degree that is the case. Are women interrupted 10% more, or 80% more? Are there (or are there not) mitigating factors?
Also, every once in a while, something that seems intuitive is not actually supported by the data.
Also, every once in a while, something that seems intuitive is not actually supported by the data.
February 3, 2026 at 11:35 PM
Yes, water is wet. But the value of the research is sometimes determining to what degree that is the case. Are women interrupted 10% more, or 80% more? Are there (or are there not) mitigating factors?
Also, every once in a while, something that seems intuitive is not actually supported by the data.
Also, every once in a while, something that seems intuitive is not actually supported by the data.
Nothing this administration says about its armed agents' encounters with the public should be taken at face value. This is also and always has been true of "regular" law enforcement, but news orgs refuse to acknowledge that cops lie and PDs put out unverifiable information all the time.
"Photographic evidence from the shooting scene of a Venezuelan man by federal agents last month in Minneapolis supports the account of witnesses there – and appears to undercut the narrative provided by federal officials." www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
Live: Judge orders release of suspects in alleged shovel attack on agent
Department of Homeland Security says agent fired in self-defense after being attacked with a snow shovel and broom.
www.startribune.com
February 3, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Nothing this administration says about its armed agents' encounters with the public should be taken at face value. This is also and always has been true of "regular" law enforcement, but news orgs refuse to acknowledge that cops lie and PDs put out unverifiable information all the time.