Every βnewβ media scholar becomes a media historian (yesterday I found out my students were all born between 2005-2007β¦).
14.11.2025 12:52 β π 11 π 0 π¬ 3 π 0@robyncaplan.bsky.social
Assistant professor at Duke University. Tech policy, platform governance, mom. I make bad jokes sometimes.
Every βnewβ media scholar becomes a media historian (yesterday I found out my students were all born between 2005-2007β¦).
14.11.2025 12:52 β π 11 π 0 π¬ 3 π 0Damn. Does putting together your third-year review bring up academic/professional trauma for everyone, or do I need to go back to therapy...?
11.11.2025 19:05 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0ποΈFrom deepfakes to the growing importance of social media verification, @robyncaplan.bsky.social talks to @agpines.bsky.social about the role of #AI today.
This episode of Duke Sanford's Policy 360 podcast can be found on Apple, Spotify & Amazon.
Glad that this says this is an official website of the United States government because it would be very hard to tell otherwise.
01.10.2025 22:23 β π 16 π 5 π¬ 4 π 0Ooooooh thatβs awesome
01.10.2025 11:15 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Podcast idea: a podcast where the hosts interview other podcast hosts about their podcasts.
30.09.2025 21:24 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Am I depressed or is it just raining
29.09.2025 16:41 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Featuring D&S research affiliate @robyncaplan.bsky.social! bsky.app/profile/duke...
29.09.2025 14:12 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Anna Gassman-Pines and Robyn Caplan. Logo for Duke Sanford Policy 360 Podcast. Text in blue box: Will AI prompt a new golden era?
Will AI prompt a new golden era? On Policy 360 Podcast, @robyncaplan.bsky.social explores deepfakes to the growing importance of social media verification w/ @agpines.bsky.social.
@duke-dewitt.bsky.social @datasociety.bsky.social @dukescisoc.bsky.social #EduSkyAI
sanford.duke.edu/story/will-a...
With TikTokβs potential sale to a group of Donald Trump allies, βwe should be far less worried about what foreign governments could do with our social-media information than about how our own government might abuse it,β David Karpf argues.
26.09.2025 11:15 β π 201 π 69 π¬ 7 π 5My favorite new tiktok trend is the "alt-left pipeline" where swoll white dudes talk about how abortion is healthcare, backing black liberation, and translating anti-imperialism into gym-bro speak.
23.09.2025 16:52 β π 8 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Will Duffield seems to be staying somewhat ideologically consistent (just went to check his twitter/x).
18.09.2025 16:51 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Surely all of those people crying about "jawboning" in the Biden administration will be up in arms now...
18.09.2025 16:43 β π 7 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0So committed to giving my students fun facts to use at parties that I am creating a Trivia Night exercise on 18th-century journalism history (and earlier print culture) in class tomorrow.
17.09.2025 16:51 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0New Tyler Robinson posts leaked to me tell a very different story than you've heard before:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...
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16.09.2025 22:45 β π 402 π 115 π¬ 7 π 3One of the reasons that IRBs are so frustrating is that invent their own terminology for forms etc (ones that feel so counter-intuitive that it's mindboggling) and then treat it as if it is universally understood.
16.09.2025 19:22 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I'm so grateful for Governor Hochul's support in unifying our party, her resolve in standing up to Trump, and her focus on making New York affordable. I look forward to the great work we will accomplish together.
Our movement is only growing stronger. Onward to November.
It is truly astounding that the moderate from Buffalo can make this endorsement but the self-identified progressive from Brooklyn seems unwilling or unable to do so.
14.09.2025 23:39 β π 881 π 104 π¬ 35 π 10Did the Governor of Utah just say that he prayed the last few days the killer would be "from another country or from another state because that would make it easier?" Uh...easier to do what.
12.09.2025 14:29 β π 10 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Also, in personal news: This morning, my kid asked me why I say βehβ so much.
11.09.2025 16:27 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Thank you!!
11.09.2025 16:27 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I love my job so much but I absolutely hate how much of my life is spent making PowerPoint presentations.
11.09.2025 15:36 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Thank you Christopher!!
11.09.2025 13:25 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Any time!
11.09.2025 12:40 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thank you Julian!
11.09.2025 12:40 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0aw thank you Rebecca! It's tentative...but hopefully it sticks.
11.09.2025 12:19 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thank you!!
11.09.2025 12:18 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thanks Aram!!
11.09.2025 12:00 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thank you!!
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