April 1 is also the day I miss being exhausted with my buddies Magdalena Saldaña Shannon McGregor, PhD #aejmc24 day - 'start over...we don't have time!'

The misinformation syllabus from Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️) is, along with the Critical Disinformation Studies one by alice e. marwick Rachel Kuo Shanice Jones Cameron and Moira Weigel from CITAP (@citap.bsky.social), my favorites and routinely recommended. (If you have others you like/recommend, please share!)

oh my god, 5 women pulled a straight up john Tucker Must Die on him nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Could not be more excited for the brilliant Heesoo Jang — my first advisee ☺️

Best way to start a Monday, with a new article out in the wild!
*(Re)sharing feminisms: Re-sharing Instagram Stories as everyday feminist practices* is now available (open access!) in New Media & Society

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🚨Data Access Thread🚨

First: Coalition for Independent Technology Research and Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics are organizing an important DSA data access project (w/ Megan A. Brown, Kevin Yang, and me) and we need your help compiling information about researcher data access. See our site for the survey. 1/n

independenttechresearch.org/introducing-th…

How should journalists cover election denialism? And, how do they? In a new article in IJPP, Heesoo Jang and I CITAP (@citap.bsky.social) UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media propose a new standard of “democracy-framed electoral coverage” and evaluate press coverage of the 2022 US midterms.
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📢 Some personal news to ring in the new year: I’m so thrilled to have joined Pew Research Center Pew Research Journalism as a senior researcher on their news and information research team.

What was the best article in political communication last year? We are looking forward to your (self)nominations until March 1st. The jury with Stuart Soroka, Christian Baden, @prof_dimitrova and Sílvia Majó-Vázquez is waiting! Hello APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions and International Communication Association, details here:
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On Due South, UNC researchers Scott Babwah Brennen Shannon McGregor, PhD discuss with Jeff Tiberii some of the ways artificial intelligence has been used so far in this election cycle – from efforts aimed at derailing democratic participation to new ways to connect with voters.

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🚨NEW PUB! In this ✨first-authored✨ piece in the International Journal of Communication, my co-authors Myiah Hutchens and Eliana DuBosar and I take a repertoire approach to examine media use and belief in political misperceptions with 94 media measures! ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc…

CENTENNIAL #JMCQReview 🚨 In this review, Shannon McGregor, PhD of UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media reevaluates the legacy of 'Governing with the news,' a key text in political communication, for #JMCQ_100 reviews.
The JMCQ review: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
AEJMC Political Communication Division @AEJMC APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions

LIVE 11:20 ET: POLARIZATION, FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION & DISSENT

Featuring Dame Louise Richardson Carnegie Corporation of New York, Thomas Chatterton Williams The Atlantic, and moderated by Vivian Schiller The Aspen Institute Aspen Digital, with contributions from Shannon McGregor, PhD UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media and Yphtach Lelkes Penn

#informed24

3 yrs ago the insurrectionists sought to violently halt a procedure enshrined in the US Constitution & to overturn a freely and fairly-run election. W/ Khadijah Costley White Daniel Kreiss & Rebekah Tromble we’ve edited a forthcoming volume - Media & January 6th

🧵Christian nationalism was at the heart of January 6. The signs, sounds, and symbols were everywhere. Small groups gathered, holding hands to pray often transitioning into worship songs. They carried flags and statues. Someone even brought a giant portrait of white Jesus.

A must read for sure. I'm buying it!

Thrilled to see this book coming out. In Chapter 18, I argued that we should stop treating right-wing media that fueled the insurrection as merely news organizations -- the fourth estate of democracy. If they are not just news org., what are they? Order a copy of the book now!

This is what the media needs to do, and it needs to relentlessly point out when Republicans lie about it & call them liars.

My expert statement to the #Jan6th House Select Committee, 'Social Media and the Weaponization of Free Speech” is included in this collection out today by Just Security GW Law

It's been six years since Steve Bannon's advisory on how to neutralize journalists: 'Flood the zone with shit.' Learning what that means, how it works, is now basic to newsroom competence.

Six years! Which is to say, this should not be happening.