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Ordered the Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication through my library when it came out, and picked it up today. (I still love a hard copy.) What a tremendous resource! Huge thanks to @alessandronai.bsky.social, @maxgroemping.bsky.social, @dominiquewirz.bsky.social and all the contributors!

What “distressing” ideas? How are they “cocooned”? It’s amazing how much publicity one can get by reinforcing cliches that accord so little with the experiences of so many of us who actually teach college students.

This Court, and the right more generally, is not merely undermining democracy. They are targeting multiracial democracy. That has always been the dividing line. And as Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt argue, it is multiracial democracy or no democracy at all.

I love how we’re all trying to just live our lives normally as our gov’t charges the key organization that investigates & dismantles white supremacist groups w fraud and a Texas R1 university just banned all mention/study/and teaching of anything related to sexual orientation and gender identity.

The Public Scholar publishes one week from today. Please consider pre-ordering and/or asking your library to order. Authors really need your pre-orders to make a book go. I think it's a useful book! More importantly, so do real scholars and writers! www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

The Public Scholar

A Practical Handbook

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David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · 4mo ago

My next book, a practical guide for how to write for mass media, publishes four weeks from today. I hope you'll consider ordering it now, inviting me to speak, and to tell others. Here's what @tressiemcphd.bsky.social said about my work. Pre-order here: www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

So grateful for the invigorating experience the past few days at University of Utah Comm Media, Protest, and Resistance symposium. Shared a space with brilliant scholars at all stages, reconnected with old friends, and made new ones.

Teaching Political Communication Edited by Kevin Coe and Diana Zulli Essential resource for those teaching higher education courses in political communication, and politics and public policy more broadly. ℹ️ www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/tea... 📖 Free Chapter: www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/b...

'Teaching Political Communication' is now available! More than 40 contributors offer crucial pedagogical reflections, practical insights, and a host of creative activities and approaches to try out. Details here: www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/tea...

🌳New book chapter: "Into the Woods: Using Digital Platforms to Learn about Political Communication"🌳 In the wonderful new edited volume "Teaching Political Communication", by @kcoe.bsky.social and Diana Zulli.

If only we had a mechanism for removing government officials who defy the US Constitution.

Really glad to have a piece with @shannimcg.bsky.social in the most recent issue of Political Communication Report. We argue that centering identity in political communication research can produce scholarship better equipped to deal with ongoing attacks on democratic values and social justice.

APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions@polcomm.bsky.social · 8mo ago

We’re excited to share Issue 32 of the Political Communication Report! This issue explores the emerging role of identity in Political Communication and features 6 contributions! You can also read interviews with award winners! politicalcommunication.org/issue/winter...

I really don’t think we can overstate the harm that the tech ethos of move fast and break things (followed by the unsaid “and then just move on”) has done beyond tech. Government, ngos, universities, public schools that have invited the folks who think like this in keep ending up gutted

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · 8mo ago

All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID. I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail

No one should feel scared to speak out against the government in a democracy.

Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray”@ryanjreilly.com · 9mo ago

Great kicker on this @ashleyrparker.bsky.social story: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Appreciate that Jill Lepore used "The Ubiquitous Presidency" to help make sense of why the president communicates the way he does for her @newyorker.com article. @kcoe.bsky.social and I wrote our book to help people make sense of contemporary political leadership and messaging.

The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 9mo ago

On social media, Donald Trump riffs, cusses, dodges, weaves, raises money, and spreads lies. “He is the world’s most outspoken troll, and its most dangerous,” Jill Lepore writes.

My new op-ed with @lkfazio.bsky.social: Trump sent a 'compact' to our universities. They should reject this devil's bargain. Any institution that yields to these broad and intrusive demands would forever be subservient to the whims of the government. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

I think a lot about how narratives of patriotism in U.S. politics depend on an ahistoricity that suggests harsh critiques of the nations leaders, its values, and policies, and relentless loud demands from advocates and activists for change, are some newfangled product of a contemporary era.

My quote to the AP: "What we’re seeing is an unprecedented attempt to silence disfavored speech by the government... Donald Trump is trying to dictate what Americans can say." www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Last night's APSA @polcomm.bsky.social business meeting concluded my 3-year stint in the section leadership. I enjoyed the work (mostly!) and getting to know a lot of talented scholars. And, like many others, I've come to believe that the annual preconference is the best day on the Pol Com calendar.

📅 Only one week to go until APSA 2025! We’ve prepared a clear and concise visual program for the #PolComm division. 👉 Download the PDF and highlight the sessions you don’t want to miss: shorturl.at/LVuuw

Deeply grateful for this piece. Dave perfectly summed up everything I've been feeling.

Dave Karpf@davekarpf.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Next week I'll begin my fifteenth year as a political communication professor. I wrote up some thoughts on what it's like trying to teach this subject while everything falls apart. open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

📢 Publication Friday! This week, we highlight “Teaching Political Communication: Five Lessons From the Field and Beyond” by @kcoe.bsky.social & Diana Zulli politicalcommunication.org/article/coe-...

Hooray! The 31st Issue of the #PolComm Report is out! What a fantastic lineup @igoncalves.com was able to assemble for the topic of "Teaching PolComm" 🤩 Khadijah Costley White, @kcoe.bsky.social & Diana Zulli, Regina Cazzamatta, Matthew Powers, & @sangjung-kim.bsky.social (& her students).

APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions@polcomm.bsky.social · last yr.

We are happy to share the newest issue of the Political Communication Report! 🎉 This issue brings together six contributions on teaching political communication and also features interviews with recent award winners. 🧵 Read the full issue here: politicalcommunication.org/issue/summer...

In a new open-access article, we use dynamic systems theory to better understand incivility as a form of collective behavior in online communities. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I write in @thenation.com that Paramount’s recent settlement with Trump is a symptom of deep structural rot in our hyper-capitalistic media system. I argue that we should be thinking now about the structural media reforms we need for the post-Trump era as we rebuild journalism from the ground up.

The Media’s Profits Trump Democracy, Once Again

Paramount’s settlement with Trump is a symptom of deep structural rot in our corporate media system.

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Building the #ica25 🦋 buzz 1️⃣ follow the #ica25 feed ⬇️ 2️⃣ boost stuff! With no algorithmic amplification, you need to do it yourself. If you see something interesting, share it so others get to see it 3️⃣ be kind. We all need it these days #ICAcommunity @icahdq.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/did:...

Hey #PolComm folks going to #ICA25 next week: Give a huge round of applause to @igoncalves.com for all the fantastic work she's been doing for us! 👏🤩⤵️

APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions@polcomm.bsky.social · last yr.

Only one week left until the ICA! 🤩 We are pleased to present an overview of the Polcomm programme. Make a note of the sessions you cannot miss!

The worst happened. We were DOGE’d. Our NSF funding is gone. So now there’s nothing stopping me from sharing Expert Voices Together, a crisis response system for US-based researchers and journalists facing harassment. It's a true passion project. 🧵 1/ expertvoicestogether.org

Rebekah Tromble@rebekahtromble.bsky.social · last yr.

I spoke with Science about scholars—myself included—self-censoring. In my case, my team and I feared losing our NSF funding for Expert Voices Together (expertvoicestogether.org), a program, ironically, built to support researchers and journalists under attack. www.science.org/content/arti...