Kyle Lorenzano
@lorenzano.bsky.social
professor interested in studying media and politics
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Kyle Lorenzano
@lorenzano.bsky.social
· Sep 26
Beyond the post: The impact of politized anti-vaccine misinformation comments and challenges of correction on social media
Despite the proven effectiveness of HPV vaccines in preventing cervical cancer, vaccination rates in the United States remain low, in part because par…
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New pub in Vaccine, with free access for the new 50 days via this link. So grateful to my co-authors for inviting me to contribute to this project.
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
New pub in Vaccine, with free access for the new 50 days via this link. So grateful to my co-authors for inviting me to contribute to this project.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Beyond the post: The impact of politized anti-vaccine misinformation comments and challenges of correction on social media
Despite the proven effectiveness of HPV vaccines in preventing cervical cancer, vaccination rates in the United States remain low, in part because par…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 26, 2025 at 4:37 PM
New pub in Vaccine, with free access for the new 50 days via this link. So grateful to my co-authors for inviting me to contribute to this project.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Dear OpenAI: Please stop trying to gaslight the world into believing that whatever GPT 5 does is “thinking” in any meaningful sense.
August 8, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Dear OpenAI: Please stop trying to gaslight the world into believing that whatever GPT 5 does is “thinking” in any meaningful sense.
Current mood after reading about ChatGPT agent as someone who cares about education, reading, and thinking
July 20, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Current mood after reading about ChatGPT agent as someone who cares about education, reading, and thinking
Via La Bam foreign policy
This little @brianstelter.bsky.social item bears on a pattern I see in my everyday reading
Trump's doubters criticize the way The Media collaborates with him, even at this late date. What journalists hear is: "Wait, you want even more negative coverage?"
Try: Not more negative. Less predictable.
Trump's doubters criticize the way The Media collaborates with him, even at this late date. What journalists hear is: "Wait, you want even more negative coverage?"
Try: Not more negative. Less predictable.
June 19, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Via La Bam foreign policy
New pub, "Predictors of credibility perceptions: The moderating role of political ideology," out now in the Atlantic Journal of Communication
doi.org/10.1080/1545...
doi.org/10.1080/1545...
Predictors of credibility perceptions: The moderating role of political ideology
At a time when historically low trust in the credibility of news and information has profound implications for citizens and the state of democracy, it is perhaps more imperative than ever for resea...
doi.org
May 29, 2025 at 5:55 PM
New pub, "Predictors of credibility perceptions: The moderating role of political ideology," out now in the Atlantic Journal of Communication
doi.org/10.1080/1545...
doi.org/10.1080/1545...
Turning the dead internet theory into practice
The newest and most powerful A.I. technologies — so-called reasoning systems from companies like OpenAI, Google and the Chinese start-up DeepSeek — are generating more errors, not fewer. As their math skills have notably improved, their handle on facts has gotten shakier.
A.I. Hallucinations Are Getting Worse, Even as New Systems Become More Powerful
A new wave of “reasoning” systems from companies like OpenAI is producing incorrect information more often. Even the companies don’t know why.
www.nytimes.com
May 5, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Turning the dead internet theory into practice
Reposted by Kyle Lorenzano
Admin and EdTech folks:
Stop suggesting that teachers use AI for teaching and grading and start giving teachers space and tools to actually help do our jobs.
Stop suggesting that teachers use AI for teaching and grading and start giving teachers space and tools to actually help do our jobs.
April 30, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Admin and EdTech folks:
Stop suggesting that teachers use AI for teaching and grading and start giving teachers space and tools to actually help do our jobs.
Stop suggesting that teachers use AI for teaching and grading and start giving teachers space and tools to actually help do our jobs.
“This is not just something that impacts people in the ivory tower. This is not just something that impacts people who are physicians, or scientists, or academics…This is coming for you.”
NEW: Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.
The CDC Has Been Gutted
Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.
www.wired.com
April 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
“This is not just something that impacts people in the ivory tower. This is not just something that impacts people who are physicians, or scientists, or academics…This is coming for you.”
Reposted by Kyle Lorenzano
Columbia University has failed to defend academic freedom & freedom of speech & allowed a great institution to be bullied & extorted into submission by an administration hellbent on contorting higher education to their will.
The AAUP condemns this capitulation. We can & must fight back.
The AAUP condemns this capitulation. We can & must fight back.
Columbia Concedes to Trump’s Demands After Federal Funds Are Stripped
The administration has moved to cut $400 million in federal funding to the university without changes to its policies and rules.
www.nytimes.com
March 22, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Columbia University has failed to defend academic freedom & freedom of speech & allowed a great institution to be bullied & extorted into submission by an administration hellbent on contorting higher education to their will.
The AAUP condemns this capitulation. We can & must fight back.
The AAUP condemns this capitulation. We can & must fight back.
The White Stripes - S/T
Fiery Furnaces - Bitter Tea
Deerhoof - Runners Four
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
Wilco - A Ghost Is Born
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
The Beatles- White Album
Pavement - Crooked Rain
Subtle - A New White
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
Fiery Furnaces - Bitter Tea
Deerhoof - Runners Four
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
Wilco - A Ghost Is Born
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
The Beatles- White Album
Pavement - Crooked Rain
Subtle - A New White
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
10 albums from my teens that are still in regular rotation:
The Roots - Things Fall Apart
Erykah Badu - Baduizm
Bowie - Earthling
Cibo Mato - Viva la woman
Tricky - Premillenial tension
Elastica - s/t
Hole - Live Through This
Petty - Wildflowers
Portishead - Dummy
Beastie Boys- Ill Communication
The Roots - Things Fall Apart
Erykah Badu - Baduizm
Bowie - Earthling
Cibo Mato - Viva la woman
Tricky - Premillenial tension
Elastica - s/t
Hole - Live Through This
Petty - Wildflowers
Portishead - Dummy
Beastie Boys- Ill Communication
10 albums from my teen years that I still listen to
March 14, 2025 at 3:37 AM
The White Stripes - S/T
Fiery Furnaces - Bitter Tea
Deerhoof - Runners Four
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
Wilco - A Ghost Is Born
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
The Beatles- White Album
Pavement - Crooked Rain
Subtle - A New White
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
Fiery Furnaces - Bitter Tea
Deerhoof - Runners Four
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
Wilco - A Ghost Is Born
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
The Beatles- White Album
Pavement - Crooked Rain
Subtle - A New White
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
New paper in JoBEM with @pborah.bsky.social and others re: immigration discourse on Twitter in the lead-up to the 2022 U.S. midterm elections and how sentiment, emotion, and appraisal of content predicted retweets
doi.org/10.1080/0883...
doi.org/10.1080/0883...
If it Bleeds, it Doesn’t Lead: Emotional Appeals and Engagement in Immigration and Election Conversations on Twitter
The use of emotional appeals in political conversations can be an effective strategy to trigger short-term engagement but also result in detrimental societal outcomes as alienation, polarization, a...
doi.org
February 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
New paper in JoBEM with @pborah.bsky.social and others re: immigration discourse on Twitter in the lead-up to the 2022 U.S. midterm elections and how sentiment, emotion, and appraisal of content predicted retweets
doi.org/10.1080/0883...
doi.org/10.1080/0883...
Reposted by Kyle Lorenzano
Pavement is a Thanksgiving band
November 30, 2024 at 12:28 AM
Pavement is a Thanksgiving band
Reposted by Kyle Lorenzano
wow the parade this year was crazy
November 28, 2024 at 2:01 PM
wow the parade this year was crazy
Reposted by Kyle Lorenzano
I literally sent this to someone on Friday. Never have I related to Hank Hill more
November 24, 2024 at 6:16 PM
I literally sent this to someone on Friday. Never have I related to Hank Hill more
lo-fi loops to be stuck in the depths of grading hell to
dlp 1.1
open.spotify.com
November 22, 2024 at 11:25 PM
lo-fi loops to be stuck in the depths of grading hell to
PolComm folks - we don't talk enough about the fact that Philip Converse's sister, Elizabeth 'Connie' Converse, is maybe one of the most talented songwriters of her generation.
youtu.be/f3f4h1Bd9eU?...
youtu.be/f3f4h1Bd9eU?...
Talkin' Like You (Two Tall Mountains)
YouTube video by Connie Converse - Topic
youtu.be
November 22, 2024 at 6:30 PM
PolComm folks - we don't talk enough about the fact that Philip Converse's sister, Elizabeth 'Connie' Converse, is maybe one of the most talented songwriters of her generation.
youtu.be/f3f4h1Bd9eU?...
youtu.be/f3f4h1Bd9eU?...
Show us the last four albums you listened to. #last4albums
November 21, 2024 at 2:20 AM
Show us the last four albums you listened to. #last4albums
As my inaugural post here, I figured I’d share this paper from last year on partisan asymmetries in tolerance for moral disengagement over seeing protestors “roughed up” and how consumption of partisan media mirrors those same asymmetries.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Partisan selective exposure and politically polarized attitudes toward disruptive protest - Kyle John Lorenzano, Soo Jung Moon, Porismita Borah, 2023
While many Americans support the right to protest, increased animus has recently been directed at protesters themselves, often along partisan ideological lines ...
journals.sagepub.com
November 18, 2024 at 7:09 PM
As my inaugural post here, I figured I’d share this paper from last year on partisan asymmetries in tolerance for moral disengagement over seeing protestors “roughed up” and how consumption of partisan media mirrors those same asymmetries.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....