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Eunji Kim

@eunjikim.bsky.social

Media scholar | Assistant Professor of Political Science @Columbia | Author of The American Mirage (PUP 2025) | Host of Media Effects Empricial Workshop (MEEW)

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Andrew Carnegie Foundation@carnegie.org · 3mo ago

Announcing the 2026 Andrew #CarnegieFellows! Selected from a record 381 nominations, 24 fellows will each receive $200K to examine the causes of political polarization — and how to reduce it. 🔗 Read more: www.carnegie.org/news/article... #Polarization #Research

24 Scholars Awarded Research Fellowships to Understand and Reduce Political Polarization | Carnegie Corporation of New York

Carnegie Corporation of New York announces nearly $5 million in grants to the 2026 Class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows

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Bethany Albertson@albertsonb2.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Congrats to our 2026 MWCPS Award Recipients! 🌟 Professional Achievement Award: Farida Jalalzai, Virginia Tech 🌟 Early Career Award: Eunji Kim, Columbia University ✈️ Graduate Student Travel Awards: Lila Hearn, UNLV & Kimberly Renk, UCSD We celebrate these outstanding women in political science!

EPSS@epssnet.bsky.social · 12mo ago

EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026. 😵‍💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA. 👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things. A short 🧵

Princeton University Press@princetonupress.bsky.social · last yr.

Check out this episode of the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast and listen to @eunjikim.bsky.social discuss her new book The American Mirage: How Reality TV Upholds the Myth of Meritocracy: newbooksnetwork.com/the-american....

Eunji Kim, "The American Mirage: How Reality TV Upholds the Myth of Meritocracy" (Princeton UP, 2025) - New Books Network

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Princeton University Press@princetonupress.bsky.social · last yr.

Read this excerpt in @literaryhub.bsky.social of @eunjikim.bsky.social's new book The American Mirage, and learn how reality TV warps our perception of political and economic realities: lithub.com/how-reality-....

How Reality Television Warps Our Understanding of Political and Economic Realities

In the television industry, ratings are often the most valued currency. In political discourse, however, the sheer quantity of onlookers pales in significance. Instead, its composition holds sway. …

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Eunji Kim@eunjikim.bsky.social · last yr.

Getting photos like these over the past two weeks has been the most unexpectedly endearing part of publishing The American Mirage. Thank you for taking the time to snap a picture and share where the book landed in your lives. It’s heartening beyond words to feel the book out in the world 😍

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The Daily Beast@thedailybeast.bsky.social · last yr.

Kristi Noem has been working with the producer of “Duck Dynasty” to pitch a reality TV show—titled “The American”—where immigrants will compete in a string of challenges across the country “for the honor of fast-tracking their way to U.S. citizenship,” according to a new report.

Noem Plots Reality Show Where Migrants Fight for Citizenship

A Homeland Security official told the Daily Beast that the show is in the early stages of vetting, though approval has not been given—or denied.

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Joe Davis@doeyjavis.bsky.social · last yr.

But I haven’t even finished @eunjikim.bsky.social’s just released a reality tv and politics book and already we have new chapters

The Daily Beast@thedailybeast.bsky.social · last yr.

Kristi Noem has been working with the producer of “Duck Dynasty” to pitch a reality TV show—titled “The American”—where immigrants will compete in a string of challenges across the country “for the honor of fast-tracking their way to U.S. citizenship,” according to a new report.

Timothy Caulfield@caulfieldtim.bsky.social · last yr.

Fascinating. How competition shows influence US politics & shape views about economic inequality www.niemanlab.org/2025/04/the-... with @eunjikim.bsky.social Reality TV watching = > belief in (the myth of) American Dream. Yep, pop culture elevates the myths that fuel tolerance for inequality.

The unreality of reality TV: How competition shows influence U.S. politics and shape views about economic inequality

Columbia University's Eunji Kim: "The behavioral data tells us that most American life is not political — so why don't we study what people are actually consuming every day, however lowbrow it may see...

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