Carolyn Schmitt
@carolynschmitt.bsky.social
UNC Grad Student | Knight-CITAP Fellow | Go Hoos!
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We the Consumers: The Conservative “Parallel Economy” as Reactionary Commodity Activism
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I’ll say it straight: It is unbecoming, undignified, cowardly, and shameful for a institution as revered and respected as the University of Virginia to grant an audience in 2025 to those who are committed to destroying science, free thought, human rights, and the rule of law.
October 22, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I’ll say it straight: It is unbecoming, undignified, cowardly, and shameful for a institution as revered and respected as the University of Virginia to grant an audience in 2025 to those who are committed to destroying science, free thought, human rights, and the rule of law.
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The University of Virginia said it would not sign the Trump administration’s proposed offer of priority access for federal funding, the fifth university to turn down the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.”
University of Virginia turns down Trump deal for priority federal funding
The rejection comes after a tumultuous summer at the University of Virginia during which President James E. Ryan resigned amid DOJ pressure over DEI investigations.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The University of Virginia said it would not sign the Trump administration’s proposed offer of priority access for federal funding, the fifth university to turn down the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.”
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Standing athwart history, yelling Stamp
August 9, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Standing athwart history, yelling Stamp
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hey panera can we have the lemonade that kills us again
June 22, 2025 at 12:35 AM
hey panera can we have the lemonade that kills us again
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🗣️New Communication Theory article! With @carolynschmitt.bsky.social and @shannimcg.bsky.social
Communication can benefit from clarity, but what about a tactical lack of clarity? Here, we explicate "strategic ambiguity" and argue for its importance in political communication. 1/🧵
bit.ly/StratAm
Communication can benefit from clarity, but what about a tactical lack of clarity? Here, we explicate "strategic ambiguity" and argue for its importance in political communication. 1/🧵
bit.ly/StratAm
February 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
🗣️New Communication Theory article! With @carolynschmitt.bsky.social and @shannimcg.bsky.social
Communication can benefit from clarity, but what about a tactical lack of clarity? Here, we explicate "strategic ambiguity" and argue for its importance in political communication. 1/🧵
bit.ly/StratAm
Communication can benefit from clarity, but what about a tactical lack of clarity? Here, we explicate "strategic ambiguity" and argue for its importance in political communication. 1/🧵
bit.ly/StratAm
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The “stop the hate” commercial featuring two celebrities who support the President who began his career by calling Mexicans rapists and whose biggest campaign donor recently gave a Hitler salute and rehired the “I was racist before it was cool” guy was….a choice.
February 10, 2025 at 2:16 AM
The “stop the hate” commercial featuring two celebrities who support the President who began his career by calling Mexicans rapists and whose biggest campaign donor recently gave a Hitler salute and rehired the “I was racist before it was cool” guy was….a choice.
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not sure Snoop Dogg fresh off performing at Trump’s inauguration is the best spokesperson for Stand Up To Hate tbh
February 10, 2025 at 12:27 AM
not sure Snoop Dogg fresh off performing at Trump’s inauguration is the best spokesperson for Stand Up To Hate tbh
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We studied this shift, which started during the first Trump administration. Far-right outlets became legitimized thru GOP officials granting access, as well as mainstream news coverage of these outlets. #openaccess here journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
February 1, 2025 at 2:52 PM
We studied this shift, which started during the first Trump administration. Far-right outlets became legitimized thru GOP officials granting access, as well as mainstream news coverage of these outlets. #openaccess here journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
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"Democracy Dies in Darkness" is kinda like "Don't Be Evil" as a slogan. It's a bit worrying when you choose it, but it's a lot more worrying when you take it down
January 17, 2025 at 1:01 AM
"Democracy Dies in Darkness" is kinda like "Don't Be Evil" as a slogan. It's a bit worrying when you choose it, but it's a lot more worrying when you take it down
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Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"
January 21, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"
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If you watch only one short video today, make it this one. Remarkable bravery, and the looks on the various faces could be material for a dissertation on gender, the family, and authoritarianism. youtu.be/gVInX42IQD8?...
Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde appeals to President Trump to have mercy upon immigrants and minorities
YouTube video by ONEST NETWORK
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January 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
If you watch only one short video today, make it this one. Remarkable bravery, and the looks on the various faces could be material for a dissertation on gender, the family, and authoritarianism. youtu.be/gVInX42IQD8?...
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Another world is possible!
But not without wedging the Trump coalition and articulating a clear alternative vision.
My latest, for @lpeproject.bsky.social:
lpeproject.org/blog/define-...
But not without wedging the Trump coalition and articulating a clear alternative vision.
My latest, for @lpeproject.bsky.social:
lpeproject.org/blog/define-...
Define and Divide: Toward a Strategy for Opposing Trumpism
Trumpist unity is largely a fiction conjured by the Democratic Party in a naïve attempt at “defending democracy.” A robust opposition must seek and target wedges within the Trump coalition…
lpeproject.org
January 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Another world is possible!
But not without wedging the Trump coalition and articulating a clear alternative vision.
My latest, for @lpeproject.bsky.social:
lpeproject.org/blog/define-...
But not without wedging the Trump coalition and articulating a clear alternative vision.
My latest, for @lpeproject.bsky.social:
lpeproject.org/blog/define-...
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Now that I've slept on it, let's discuss the TikTok ban.
The message popping up on everyone's app is propaganda, plain and simple. And having propaganda involved in something as precarious at the creator economy is very, very dangerous.
The message popping up on everyone's app is propaganda, plain and simple. And having propaganda involved in something as precarious at the creator economy is very, very dangerous.
January 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Now that I've slept on it, let's discuss the TikTok ban.
The message popping up on everyone's app is propaganda, plain and simple. And having propaganda involved in something as precarious at the creator economy is very, very dangerous.
The message popping up on everyone's app is propaganda, plain and simple. And having propaganda involved in something as precarious at the creator economy is very, very dangerous.
NEW PUB with Lee McGuigan! 🎉
We the Consumers: The Conservative “Parallel Economy” as Reactionary Commodity Activism ijoc.org/index.php/ij...
We the Consumers: The Conservative “Parallel Economy” as Reactionary Commodity Activism ijoc.org/index.php/ij...
We the Consumers: The Conservative “Parallel Economy” as Reactionary Commodity Activism | Schmitt | International Journal of Communication
We the Consumers: The Conservative “Parallel Economy” as Reactionary Commodity Activism
ijoc.org
January 6, 2025 at 4:52 PM
NEW PUB with Lee McGuigan! 🎉
We the Consumers: The Conservative “Parallel Economy” as Reactionary Commodity Activism ijoc.org/index.php/ij...
We the Consumers: The Conservative “Parallel Economy” as Reactionary Commodity Activism ijoc.org/index.php/ij...
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After the first election of Trump I conducted a yearlong ethnographic study of Trump supporters. I wanted to understand how they see the world and how information systems shaped their understanding of truth. I walked away with seven core findings
January 4, 2025 at 2:27 PM
After the first election of Trump I conducted a yearlong ethnographic study of Trump supporters. I wanted to understand how they see the world and how information systems shaped their understanding of truth. I walked away with seven core findings
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"Moving forward, we should not be concerned with isolated incorrect facts, but with the deeply-rooted stories that circulate at all levels of culture and shape our points of view," @alicetiara.bsky.social says.
The mainstream media will lose its last grip on relevancy
"The gap between mainstream media readers, people who get most of their news through influencers or partisan social media, and people who barely think about news at all will create a fundamental…
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December 5, 2024 at 3:08 PM
"Moving forward, we should not be concerned with isolated incorrect facts, but with the deeply-rooted stories that circulate at all levels of culture and shape our points of view," @alicetiara.bsky.social says.
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New from me: Trump's second Administration is chock full of predators. We can expect them to govern accordingly. www.altrightdelete.news/p/predators-...
Predators
What an administration filled with predators means for America
www.altrightdelete.news
November 24, 2024 at 11:07 PM
New from me: Trump's second Administration is chock full of predators. We can expect them to govern accordingly. www.altrightdelete.news/p/predators-...
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Hi everyone.
The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars.
We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website.
We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off.
I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.
The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars.
We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website.
We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off.
I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.
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.
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2024 at 2:09 PM
Hi everyone.
The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars.
We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website.
We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off.
I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.
The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars.
We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website.
We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off.
I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.
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Our grad students have started decorating their office doors. As a fan of hoopla & everything extra, I obviously love this. But I especially love @carolynschmitt.bsky.social & @lorcancneill.bsky.social door 🇺🇸 👻 🗳️
October 29, 2024 at 5:02 PM
Our grad students have started decorating their office doors. As a fan of hoopla & everything extra, I obviously love this. But I especially love @carolynschmitt.bsky.social & @lorcancneill.bsky.social door 🇺🇸 👻 🗳️
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H-🥥-🌴-🌴-🥥-G-🥥 🎶 You can meet me at the polls 🎶
July 22, 2024 at 10:43 AM
H-🥥-🌴-🌴-🥥-G-🥥 🎶 You can meet me at the polls 🎶
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So excited to see this online at IJPP! In our latest, @carolynschmitt.bsky.social, @shannimcg.bsky.social, @heesoojang.bsky.social and I study the role of political leaders in the legitimation and recent mainstreaming of far-right media. journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
March 26, 2024 at 4:06 PM
So excited to see this online at IJPP! In our latest, @carolynschmitt.bsky.social, @shannimcg.bsky.social, @heesoojang.bsky.social and I study the role of political leaders in the legitimation and recent mainstreaming of far-right media. journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
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This is the CV of the new Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Things are bleak in higher ed, friends.
www.wral.com/story/unc-na...
Things are bleak in higher ed, friends.
www.wral.com/story/unc-na...
December 15, 2023 at 4:18 PM
This is the CV of the new Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Things are bleak in higher ed, friends.
www.wral.com/story/unc-na...
Things are bleak in higher ed, friends.
www.wral.com/story/unc-na...
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My annual Nieman lab prediction for the year ahead in journalism is up, and I’m sorry to say: bleak again.
Hyperlocal information warfare rises up
"Hyperlocal and state-level right-wing digital news sites represent a new and often less visible terrain for right-wing misinformation campaigns, 'culture war' posturing, and doxxing efforts."
www.niemanlab.org
December 6, 2023 at 9:52 PM
My annual Nieman lab prediction for the year ahead in journalism is up, and I’m sorry to say: bleak again.
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CITAP's Symposium on Religion, Media, and Public Life is 3 weeks away!
We have great panels lined up:
🎙️When god goes viral
🎙️God Bless the West
🎙️Call to Action: Religion is Public
Get your free ticket here: citap.unc.edu/events/sympo...
We have great panels lined up:
🎙️When god goes viral
🎙️God Bless the West
🎙️Call to Action: Religion is Public
Get your free ticket here: citap.unc.edu/events/sympo...
October 23, 2023 at 3:22 PM
CITAP's Symposium on Religion, Media, and Public Life is 3 weeks away!
We have great panels lined up:
🎙️When god goes viral
🎙️God Bless the West
🎙️Call to Action: Religion is Public
Get your free ticket here: citap.unc.edu/events/sympo...
We have great panels lined up:
🎙️When god goes viral
🎙️God Bless the West
🎙️Call to Action: Religion is Public
Get your free ticket here: citap.unc.edu/events/sympo...