Marisa Smith
@smithmarisaa.bsky.social
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Marisa Smith
@smithmarisaa.bsky.social
· Oct 12
From strategy to sentiment: examining the role of partisan news in fostering white racial consciousness and shaping attitudes toward critical race theory
Fox News has dedicated considerable attention to Critical Race Theory (CRT), recoding it as indicative of anti-white racism. This study examined whether exposure to these narratives is associated w...
doi.org
Support for dismantling DEI didn’t happen overnight. It’s the outcome of narratives recoding CRT as a threat to white Americans. My article (w/ @meredithdclark.bsky.social) in @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social examines how this strategy became sentiment.
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/21565503.2025.2556104
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/21565503.2025.2556104
Support for dismantling DEI didn’t happen overnight. It’s the outcome of narratives recoding CRT as a threat to white Americans. My article (w/ @meredithdclark.bsky.social) in @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social examines how this strategy became sentiment.
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/21565503.2025.2556104
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/21565503.2025.2556104
From strategy to sentiment: examining the role of partisan news in fostering white racial consciousness and shaping attitudes toward critical race theory
Fox News has dedicated considerable attention to Critical Race Theory (CRT), recoding it as indicative of anti-white racism. This study examined whether exposure to these narratives is associated w...
doi.org
October 12, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Support for dismantling DEI didn’t happen overnight. It’s the outcome of narratives recoding CRT as a threat to white Americans. My article (w/ @meredithdclark.bsky.social) in @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social examines how this strategy became sentiment.
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/21565503.2025.2556104
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/21565503.2025.2556104
The Media & Democracy Cooperative (MDDC) is on BlueSky! The MDDC is a collaborative network of researchers advancing the use of digital data to study political communication. Follow us at @mddcoop.bsky.social, and check out this starter pack to follow MDDC researchers: go.bsky.app/MBhgRyr
October 9, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The Media & Democracy Cooperative (MDDC) is on BlueSky! The MDDC is a collaborative network of researchers advancing the use of digital data to study political communication. Follow us at @mddcoop.bsky.social, and check out this starter pack to follow MDDC researchers: go.bsky.app/MBhgRyr
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Come work with us at @pennstateuniv.bsky.social!
We are doing a search for an assistant professor in health or science communication. Please help me spread the word, and if you have any questions, don't hesitate to reach out. I'm excited about this hire!
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We are doing a search for an assistant professor in health or science communication. Please help me spread the word, and if you have any questions, don't hesitate to reach out. I'm excited about this hire!
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Assistant Professor in Media Studies
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July 29, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Come work with us at @pennstateuniv.bsky.social!
We are doing a search for an assistant professor in health or science communication. Please help me spread the word, and if you have any questions, don't hesitate to reach out. I'm excited about this hire!
psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
We are doing a search for an assistant professor in health or science communication. Please help me spread the word, and if you have any questions, don't hesitate to reach out. I'm excited about this hire!
psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
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I'm excited to share my new pub: Intended & Unintended Visitors: Evidencing the Audience for Digital Black Press Outlets. I use imagined audience and white gaze frameworks and find that the digital Black press' non-Black audience is larger than the Black audience journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Intended and Unintended Visitors: Evidencing the Audience for Digital Black Press Outlets - Miya Williams Fayne, 2025
Historically, the Black press has primarily targeted the African American audience, yet the increased accessibility of these outlets via digital media raises th...
journals.sagepub.com
April 25, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I'm excited to share my new pub: Intended & Unintended Visitors: Evidencing the Audience for Digital Black Press Outlets. I use imagined audience and white gaze frameworks and find that the digital Black press' non-Black audience is larger than the Black audience journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Saying that "autism is preventable" is essentially saying that autistic people should not be born.
It's a eugenicist claim.
It's a eugenicist claim.
April 16, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Saying that "autism is preventable" is essentially saying that autistic people should not be born.
It's a eugenicist claim.
It's a eugenicist claim.
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Bring back *everyone* who was sent from the U.S. to CECOT in El Salvador. *No one* should be sent there. ALL their rights were violated. ALL of them should come home.
April 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Bring back *everyone* who was sent from the U.S. to CECOT in El Salvador. *No one* should be sent there. ALL their rights were violated. ALL of them should come home.
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Someone grab the A1!
The LLM-to-malware pipeline is a perfect downward spiral: AI generates code with imaginary packages, attackers register those package names with malware, and unsuspecting developers execute the code. Another way AI errors cascade into real-world threats.
The LLM-to-malware pipeline is a perfect downward spiral: AI generates code with imaginary packages, attackers register those package names with malware, and unsuspecting developers execute the code. Another way AI errors cascade into real-world threats.
LLMs hallucinating nonexistent software packages with plausible names leads to a new malware vulnerability: "slopsquatting."
LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything
: Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting'
www.theregister.com
April 13, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Someone grab the A1!
The LLM-to-malware pipeline is a perfect downward spiral: AI generates code with imaginary packages, attackers register those package names with malware, and unsuspecting developers execute the code. Another way AI errors cascade into real-world threats.
The LLM-to-malware pipeline is a perfect downward spiral: AI generates code with imaginary packages, attackers register those package names with malware, and unsuspecting developers execute the code. Another way AI errors cascade into real-world threats.
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🧵1/ Once again, I am talking about identity in communication. In a new #openaccess piece, we argue that scholars cannot meaningfully understand political communication unless we center identity. Ignoring it means missing a huge piece of the puzzle. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
April 9, 2025 at 1:13 PM
🧵1/ Once again, I am talking about identity in communication. In a new #openaccess piece, we argue that scholars cannot meaningfully understand political communication unless we center identity. Ignoring it means missing a huge piece of the puzzle. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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🚨UPDATE: Rümeysa Öztürk has now suffered three separate asthma attacks while in DHS custody.
She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care.
This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.
She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care.
This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.
April 3, 2025 at 11:34 PM
🚨UPDATE: Rümeysa Öztürk has now suffered three separate asthma attacks while in DHS custody.
She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care.
This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.
She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care.
This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.
New publication (w/ @shugars.bsky.social). journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/.... We analyze the transcripts of Black conservative YouTube influencer videos from 2013 to 2023, and its' algorithmically recommended videos.
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April 2, 2025 at 2:52 PM
New publication (w/ @shugars.bsky.social). journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/.... We analyze the transcripts of Black conservative YouTube influencer videos from 2013 to 2023, and its' algorithmically recommended videos.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Cory Booker breaks the record for longest Senate speech, previously held by segregationist Strom Thurmond.
April 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — Cory Booker breaks the record for longest Senate speech, previously held by segregationist Strom Thurmond.
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Sen. Booker just quoted the Langston Hughes poem "Let America Be America Again"
"America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath—
America will be!"
poets.org/poem/let-ame...
"America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath—
America will be!"
poets.org/poem/let-ame...
Let America Be America Again
Let America be America again.
poets.org
April 1, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Sen. Booker just quoted the Langston Hughes poem "Let America Be America Again"
"America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath—
America will be!"
poets.org/poem/let-ame...
"America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath—
America will be!"
poets.org/poem/let-ame...
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The threat to deport undocumented immigrants is a threat to deport documented immigrants is a threat to deport the descendants of immigrants is a threat to deport anyone who they think looks like an immigrant is a threat to deport anyone who disagrees with them
"I'm still gonna call them an illegal alien" -- JD Vance on Haitian migrants who are in Ohio legally
Aaron Rupar (@aaron.rupar) on Threads
"I'm still gonna call them an illegal alien" -- JD Vance on Haitian migrants who are in Ohio legally
www.threads.net
September 19, 2024 at 1:09 PM
The threat to deport undocumented immigrants is a threat to deport documented immigrants is a threat to deport the descendants of immigrants is a threat to deport anyone who they think looks like an immigrant is a threat to deport anyone who disagrees with them
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I can't find a spot that lets me convey the size of the crowd, but bodies are packed all the way to the stone building. #FreeRumeysaOzturk
March 26, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I can't find a spot that lets me convey the size of the crowd, but bodies are packed all the way to the stone building. #FreeRumeysaOzturk
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Lawyers for the Venezuelan immigrants seeking to block the Trump administration from summary deportations under the Alien Enemies Act sum up their argument this way in brief to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
March 18, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Lawyers for the Venezuelan immigrants seeking to block the Trump administration from summary deportations under the Alien Enemies Act sum up their argument this way in brief to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Penn State faculty position in computational social science/AI: psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
Computational Social Scientist for Tenure Track faculty position in AI Media
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March 9, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Penn State faculty position in computational social science/AI: psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
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📝NEW PRE-PRINT PAPER📝
"The Logic of Connective Faction:
How Digitally Networked Elites & Hyper-Partisan Media Radicalize Politics"
@yunkangyang.bsky.social, @mikecowburn.bsky.social, & I investigate what mechanisms mainstreamed the issue of "Critical Race Theory" 🧵
🔗 mikecowburn.com/wp-content/u...
"The Logic of Connective Faction:
How Digitally Networked Elites & Hyper-Partisan Media Radicalize Politics"
@yunkangyang.bsky.social, @mikecowburn.bsky.social, & I investigate what mechanisms mainstreamed the issue of "Critical Race Theory" 🧵
🔗 mikecowburn.com/wp-content/u...
February 12, 2025 at 1:59 PM
📝NEW PRE-PRINT PAPER📝
"The Logic of Connective Faction:
How Digitally Networked Elites & Hyper-Partisan Media Radicalize Politics"
@yunkangyang.bsky.social, @mikecowburn.bsky.social, & I investigate what mechanisms mainstreamed the issue of "Critical Race Theory" 🧵
🔗 mikecowburn.com/wp-content/u...
"The Logic of Connective Faction:
How Digitally Networked Elites & Hyper-Partisan Media Radicalize Politics"
@yunkangyang.bsky.social, @mikecowburn.bsky.social, & I investigate what mechanisms mainstreamed the issue of "Critical Race Theory" 🧵
🔗 mikecowburn.com/wp-content/u...
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In this study, we propose that a code in a text may exist or not exist depending on one’s social space. Perhaps it’s time to rethink “intersubjectivity” in content analysis.
*This will be presented at the next ICA Comps Methods div. @kthorson.bsky.social @snsoroka.bsky.social @dhrice.bsky.social
*This will be presented at the next ICA Comps Methods div. @kthorson.bsky.social @snsoroka.bsky.social @dhrice.bsky.social
Taewoo Kang, Kjerstin Thorson, Tai-Quan Peng, Dan Hiaeshutter-Rice, Sanguk Lee, Stuart Soroka
Embracing Dialectic Intersubjectivity: Coordination of Different Perspectives in Content Analysis with LLM Persona Simulation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.00903
Embracing Dialectic Intersubjectivity: Coordination of Different Perspectives in Content Analysis with LLM Persona Simulation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.00903
February 10, 2025 at 11:50 PM
In this study, we propose that a code in a text may exist or not exist depending on one’s social space. Perhaps it’s time to rethink “intersubjectivity” in content analysis.
*This will be presented at the next ICA Comps Methods div. @kthorson.bsky.social @snsoroka.bsky.social @dhrice.bsky.social
*This will be presented at the next ICA Comps Methods div. @kthorson.bsky.social @snsoroka.bsky.social @dhrice.bsky.social
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SUPER BOWL CHAMPIONS!
THIS ONE’S FOR YOU PHILLY!
THIS ONE’S FOR YOU PHILLY!
February 10, 2025 at 3:45 AM
SUPER BOWL CHAMPIONS!
THIS ONE’S FOR YOU PHILLY!
THIS ONE’S FOR YOU PHILLY!
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Recent EOs signal a lot, among them the attack on civil rights systems, and the weaponizing of DEI to reshape govt. My co-authors @meredithdclark.bsky.social & I have long contemplated this outcome in a project published today in
@polcommjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
@polcommjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
Rooted in White Identity Politics: Tracing the Genealogy of Critical Race Theory Discourse in Identity-Based Disinformation
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January 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Recent EOs signal a lot, among them the attack on civil rights systems, and the weaponizing of DEI to reshape govt. My co-authors @meredithdclark.bsky.social & I have long contemplated this outcome in a project published today in
@polcommjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
@polcommjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....