Jennie Keohane
@keohaneja.bsky.social
Lover of beer, dogs, crossword puzzles, and all things Minnesota. Associate Prof at UBalt via Northwestern U and UW-Madison. #TeamRhetoric
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all I need in the world
October 31, 2025 at 3:37 PM
all I need in the world
I've spent the last 6 mos working with faculty on a curriculum overhaul for our comm program. Today, the documents go to our curriculum committee! This would probably feel like a bigger moment if I wasn't also the chair of our curriculum committee.
October 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I've spent the last 6 mos working with faculty on a curriculum overhaul for our comm program. Today, the documents go to our curriculum committee! This would probably feel like a bigger moment if I wasn't also the chair of our curriculum committee.
I'm excited to finally have this book in my hand. My chapter is about how digital maps resist a simple cancel culture narrative when statues fall, like this to Confederate soldiers. Let me know if you want to read it. It seems...prescient at a time when history is a central battle.
September 16, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I'm excited to finally have this book in my hand. My chapter is about how digital maps resist a simple cancel culture narrative when statues fall, like this to Confederate soldiers. Let me know if you want to read it. It seems...prescient at a time when history is a central battle.
@carpresearch.bsky.social is hosting a webinar to help launch @alessandronai.bsky.social and colleague's new book. Join us at 9am (Eastern) to learn about attack politics and their impacts. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-psycho...
The Psychology of Attack Politics. Perceptions, Evaluations, and Effects
Step inside the world of modern politics with Alex Nai and his co-authors in a compelling webinar based on The Psychology of Attack Politics
www.eventbrite.com
September 12, 2025 at 1:12 PM
@carpresearch.bsky.social is hosting a webinar to help launch @alessandronai.bsky.social and colleague's new book. Join us at 9am (Eastern) to learn about attack politics and their impacts. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-psycho...
"Today's models were taught to be convincing before they were taught to be right."
I expect that consumer-facing AI programs will continue to improve and they may become much more useful tools for everyday life in the future.
But I think it was a disastrous mistake that today’s models were taught to be convincing before they were taught to be right.
But I think it was a disastrous mistake that today’s models were taught to be convincing before they were taught to be right.
July 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM
"Today's models were taught to be convincing before they were taught to be right."
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It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.
July 25, 2025 at 1:35 PM
It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.
I know y'all know I hate Microsoft Teams with every fiber of my being. But, seriously. Whoever just called me and didn't tell me who you were [or what you wanted], Teams just lists "Wireless Caller" so I literally am not calling you back since I don't know who you are.
July 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I know y'all know I hate Microsoft Teams with every fiber of my being. But, seriously. Whoever just called me and didn't tell me who you were [or what you wanted], Teams just lists "Wireless Caller" so I literally am not calling you back since I don't know who you are.
Platforming Cancel Culture, a new edited collection with Routledge, is available to pre-order! My chapter asks whether taking down Confederate statues is cancel culture and ways activists intervene digitally to remember differently. Get the book for your libe! www.routledge.com/Platforming-...
Platforming Cancel Culture: Digital Media, Identity and Cultural Intersections
Platforming Cancel Culture: Digital Media, Identity and Cultural Intersections delves into one of the most polarizing phenomena of the digital age. Bringing together global, intersectional, and interd...
www.routledge.com
July 21, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Platforming Cancel Culture, a new edited collection with Routledge, is available to pre-order! My chapter asks whether taking down Confederate statues is cancel culture and ways activists intervene digitally to remember differently. Get the book for your libe! www.routledge.com/Platforming-...
This long post is worth reading as we reckon with AI generated writing in the classroom and beyond.
Here is the longest blog post I've ever written (4k words).
"The Curious Question of AI-written Lists: Or, LLMs are Genre Machines"
I end with a teaching approach for writing, AI-related & non-AI related. I hope you'll read the whole thing! Thank you.
meresophistry.substack.com/p/the-curiou...
"The Curious Question of AI-written Lists: Or, LLMs are Genre Machines"
I end with a teaching approach for writing, AI-related & non-AI related. I hope you'll read the whole thing! Thank you.
meresophistry.substack.com/p/the-curiou...
The Curious Question of AI-written Lists: Or, LLMs are Genre Machines
Ending with a solution for teaching writing
meresophistry.substack.com
July 19, 2025 at 2:53 PM
This long post is worth reading as we reckon with AI generated writing in the classroom and beyond.
"There is 'a fundamental mismatch' between what AI can do and what citizens expect from government, she said."
YES.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
YES.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
The government wants AI to fight wars and review your taxes
The Trump administration is pushing the Pentagon, IRS and other federal agencies to rapidly adopt AI tools to improve efficiency, an idea championed by Elon Musk.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 16, 2025 at 12:52 PM
"There is 'a fundamental mismatch' between what AI can do and what citizens expect from government, she said."
YES.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
YES.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
"When every learner is placed on their own “optimised” track, where is the shared experience of learning –– the chance to debate, to disagree, to collaborate, and to co-construct knowledge with peers?"
www.unesco.org/en/articles/...
www.unesco.org/en/articles/...
Bespoke or prescribed? The myth of personalised learning
Personalised learning is AI’s promise in education—but who defines what’s personal, and does it nurture strengths or just fix what algorithms see as flaws?
www.unesco.org
June 25, 2025 at 1:08 PM
"When every learner is placed on their own “optimised” track, where is the shared experience of learning –– the chance to debate, to disagree, to collaborate, and to co-construct knowledge with peers?"
www.unesco.org/en/articles/...
www.unesco.org/en/articles/...
Yes. This 100%.
I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Yes. This 100%.
This. 100%.
I am baffled by some of the unevidenced leaps higher ed institutions are making toward AI. CalState and Ohio St. are acting nuts, IMO. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
Higher Ed Should Be Very Cautious About AI “Partnerships”
I don’t know what Cal State and Ohio State are thinking. Maybe that’s the problem—not enough thinking.
www.insidehighered.com
June 12, 2025 at 1:09 PM
This. 100%.
Hey #TeamRhetoric! I'm revising my syllabus for my undergrad course on digital rhetoric. Do you have any readings on circulation (broadly construed) that are accessible and informative? I want students to think about the importance and challenges of studying how rhetoric circulates.
June 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Hey #TeamRhetoric! I'm revising my syllabus for my undergrad course on digital rhetoric. Do you have any readings on circulation (broadly construed) that are accessible and informative? I want students to think about the importance and challenges of studying how rhetoric circulates.
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Judge’s order to stop the dismantling of the Department of Ed is from a lawsuit filed by @aft.org
Higher ed faculty….join your local @aaup.bsky.social who fights alongside @aft.org to protect education.
Higher ed faculty….join your local @aaup.bsky.social who fights alongside @aft.org to protect education.
May 22, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Judge’s order to stop the dismantling of the Department of Ed is from a lawsuit filed by @aft.org
Higher ed faculty….join your local @aaup.bsky.social who fights alongside @aft.org to protect education.
Higher ed faculty….join your local @aaup.bsky.social who fights alongside @aft.org to protect education.
Worth a read. Not a lot in here will be surprising to rhetorical critics and others who have studied public memory, but I do love seeing these arguments make their way to the public. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | What exactly does Trump think is in the Smithsonian?
Following his most recent executive order, I went in search of some “corrosive ideology.”
www.washingtonpost.com
April 9, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Worth a read. Not a lot in here will be surprising to rhetorical critics and others who have studied public memory, but I do love seeing these arguments make their way to the public. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Just wanted to take a second to personally thank folks who came to the #CARP5 conference. It was wonderful to be in community with you last weekend, and thanks for sharing your work! @carpresearch.bsky.social
March 25, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Just wanted to take a second to personally thank folks who came to the #CARP5 conference. It was wonderful to be in community with you last weekend, and thanks for sharing your work! @carpresearch.bsky.social
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Thanks, Florian! Panelists @hendrikmichael.bsky.social, Eric Shiraev, Holger Mölder, and @keohaneja.bsky.social discussed timeless tropes and new attacks on women in politics.
March 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Thanks, Florian! Panelists @hendrikmichael.bsky.social, Eric Shiraev, Holger Mölder, and @keohaneja.bsky.social discussed timeless tropes and new attacks on women in politics.
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As a reminder, you can follow the conference livestream on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/live/TwKlBgm...
#CARPV
#CARPV
5th CARP Conference, 2025
YouTube video by CARP Research Lab
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March 21, 2025 at 5:18 PM
As a reminder, you can follow the conference livestream on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/live/TwKlBgm...
#CARPV
#CARPV
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We're welcoming scholars to George Mason's Arlington campus this week to talk about gender, power, and character assassination. See the conference schedule here: communication.gmu.edu/research-and...
CARP Conferences
CARP Conferences
communication.gmu.edu
March 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
We're welcoming scholars to George Mason's Arlington campus this week to talk about gender, power, and character assassination. See the conference schedule here: communication.gmu.edu/research-and...
I heard Fareed Zakaria talk about how American universities were the envy of the world back in 2008 at the Chicago Council. They definitely won't be after all this.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Trump is launching America’s version of the Cultural Revolution
The way the White House has attacked research funding and free speech recalls China’s Cultural Revolution.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 15, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I heard Fareed Zakaria talk about how American universities were the envy of the world back in 2008 at the Chicago Council. They definitely won't be after all this.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
"The university will end the cafeteria’s pernicious diversity, equity, and inclusion program, otherwise known as 'Taco Tuesday.'"
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/cha...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/cha...
Changes Our University Is Making to Pre-Comply with Possible Future Regulations
“[T]he University of North Texas administration recently censored the content of more than two hundred academic courses, including by mandating the...
www.mcsweeneys.net
March 2, 2025 at 9:11 PM
"The university will end the cafeteria’s pernicious diversity, equity, and inclusion program, otherwise known as 'Taco Tuesday.'"
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/cha...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/cha...
I'm still very excited to welcome so many wonderful scholars to NoVa at the end of the month for @carpresearch.bsky.social's 5th biennial conference.
schar.gmu.edu/news/2025-02...
schar.gmu.edu/news/2025-02...
The Art of the Smear: CARP’s Global 3-Day Summit Tackles Attacks on Reputation and Gender
A major conference at Mason Square addresses a timely topic—character assassination, particularly toward those in power and especially with gender biases. Jill Biden’s former spokesman, Michael LaRosa...
schar.gmu.edu
March 2, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I'm still very excited to welcome so many wonderful scholars to NoVa at the end of the month for @carpresearch.bsky.social's 5th biennial conference.
schar.gmu.edu/news/2025-02...
schar.gmu.edu/news/2025-02...
1. I had no idea this was how the White House Press Pool worked. Fascinating.
2. This is an absolute travesty.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
2. This is an absolute travesty.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
White House will decide which journalists get access to it in an unprecedented step
Journalists and media critics warned that White House control of the press pool threatens the foundations of a free press.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
1. I had no idea this was how the White House Press Pool worked. Fascinating.
2. This is an absolute travesty.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
2. This is an absolute travesty.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Just got my first email from an adjunct asking whether they are 'allowed' to teach something related to people of color working in the design field. Sigh.
February 18, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Just got my first email from an adjunct asking whether they are 'allowed' to teach something related to people of color working in the design field. Sigh.