🔔 Publication Alert 🔔 Our article with Marcel van den Haak was published in Political Psychology. We set a qualitative cross-case research agenda for studying adult belief change in adulthood across cases 🎬 👾 . You can read it open access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

“I had to open my eyes”—A narrative approach to studying the process of adult belief change

Why do people, socialized and sedimented in their political beliefs, change their convictions in adulthood? Belief change has a long history of research in the social sciences. Yet, in quantitative r....

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Looking forward to sharing my work and experiences with digital ethnography this Friday at Rutgers Digital Ethnography Working Group (DEWG) along with Carolina Parreiras and moderated by @aronczyk.bsky.social. See you friday! Friday 1PM EST. registration ✍️ www.eventbrite.com/e/doing-risk...

You know things are rough when the AAUP's advice on how to use social media is just "set all your accounts to private."

Kevin Reuning@reuning.bsky.social · 11mo ago

The @aaup.org just shared guidance for academic workers on how to protect themselves online www.aaup.org/news/advisor...

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In my latest Substack, I unpack fatigue—not just as personal state of tiredness but as a political-structural condition. I wonder what if rest was collective? Read more on my Substack: substack.com/home/post/p-...

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When Stanford IT staff and a pro-diversity group shared a list of words they encouraged others not to use, it was national news, despite the fact it never represented campus policy. When the government erases any mention, data or research related to words, will it be treated as a free speech issue?

Judd Legum@juddlegum.bsky.social · last yr.

2. A memo distributed by NSA leadership to its staff says that on February 10, all NSA websites and internal network pages that contain banned words will be deleted. This is the list of 27 banned words distributed to NSA staff:

Publication Alert 🔔 My article ‘Broadcasting together’, that answers the question why and how people become *conspiracy theory micro-celebrities, and why do they sustain their practices * is out now. I hope it’s useful to any of you ✨ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Broadcasting together. The biographical trajectories of YouTube conspiracy theory micro-celebrities

Social media platforms like YouTube are often seen as gateways for the spread of conspiracy theories. While much of the research has focused on why people consume conspiracy theory content, little ...

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This week's substack is out, and it's about doing ethnography and positionality in alt-right conspiracy spaces. I hope it's helpful to anybody. Get in touch if you, too, are thinking about this. substack.com/home/post/p-...

The ‘prioritization of speech’ over the protection of the most vulnerable users is reflective of the widespread, cross-national right-wing turn in politics (sigh…). substack.com/@kamilegrusa...

Fragile values

In October, I started working on a new research project delving into the muddy waters of content moderation on tech platforms.

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