Marisa Smith

Assistant Professor in Media Studies APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

Come work with us at @pennstateuniv.bsky.social!

We are doing a search for an assistant professor in health or science communication. Please help me spread the word, and if you have any questions, don't hesitate to reach out. I'm excited about this hire!

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Intended and Unintended Visitors: Evidencing the Audience for Digital Black Press Outlets - Miya Williams Fayne, 2025 Historically, the Black press has primarily targeted the African American audience, yet the increased accessibility of these outlets via digital media raises th...

I'm excited to share my new pub: Intended & Unintended Visitors: Evidencing the Audience for Digital Black Press Outlets. I use imagined audience and white gaze frameworks and find that the digital Black press' non-Black audience is larger than the Black audience journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Saying that "autism is preventable" is essentially saying that autistic people should not be born.

It's a eugenicist claim.

Bring back *everyone* who was sent from the U.S. to CECOT in El Salvador. *No one* should be sent there. ALL their rights were violated. ALL of them should come home.

Someone grab the A1!

The LLM-to-malware pipeline is a perfect downward spiral: AI generates code with imaginary packages, attackers register those package names with malware, and unsuspecting developers execute the code. Another way AI errors cascade into real-world threats.

🧵1/ Once again, I am talking about identity in communication. In a new #openaccess piece, we argue that scholars cannot meaningfully understand political communication unless we center identity. Ignoring it means missing a huge piece of the puzzle. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨UPDATE: Rümeysa Öztürk has now suffered three separate asthma attacks while in DHS custody.

She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care.

This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.

Instead, its representation—particularly within robust conservative influencer networks—has implications for legitimizing racial animus and White identity politics, especially since these narratives originate from "authentic" voices on race.

Black influencers' narratives echo that of traditional black conservative thought, but also adopt culturally conservative perspectives, such as discussing the existence of anti-white racism. We do not argue that black conservative thought has wholly changed.

We find that Black influencers present a statistically uniform narrative when discussing race and discrimination. Their discussion of race (as opposed to abortion) and engagement with videos on this topic increased post-2016 election.

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New publication (w/ @shugars.bsky.social). journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/.... We analyze the transcripts of Black conservative YouTube influencer videos from 2013 to 2023, and its' algorithmically recommended videos.

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Photo of Cory Booker in a black suit and tie

WASHINGTON (AP) — Cory Booker breaks the record for longest Senate speech, previously held by segregationist Strom Thurmond.

Let America Be America Again Let America be America again.

Sen. Booker just quoted the Langston Hughes poem "Let America Be America Again"

"America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath—
America will be!"

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The threat to deport undocumented immigrants is a threat to deport documented immigrants is a threat to deport the descendants of immigrants is a threat to deport anyone who they think looks like an immigrant is a threat to deport anyone who disagrees with them

I can't find a spot that lets me convey the size of the crowd, but bodies are packed all the way to the stone building. #FreeRumeysaOzturk

Lawyers for the Venezuelan immigrants seeking to block the Trump administration from summary deportations under the Alien Enemies Act sum up their argument this way in brief to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Computational Social Scientist for Tenure Track faculty position in AI Media APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

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📝NEW PRE-PRINT PAPER📝
"The Logic of Connective Faction:
How Digitally Networked Elites & Hyper-Partisan Media Radicalize Politics"
@yunkangyang.bsky.social, @mikecowburn.bsky.social, & I investigate what mechanisms mainstreamed the issue of "Critical Race Theory" 🧵
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In this study, we propose that a code in a text may exist or not exist depending on one’s social space. Perhaps it’s time to rethink “intersubjectivity” in content analysis.

*This will be presented at the next ICA Comps Methods div. @kthorson.bsky.social @snsoroka.bsky.social @dhrice.bsky.social

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Rooted in White Identity Politics: Tracing the Genealogy of Critical Race Theory Discourse in Identity-Based Disinformation Critical Race Theory (CRT) has recently garnered considerable political attention. This study examines how partisan news headlines discussed CRT, specifically analyzing how the incorporated languag...

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...disinformation that weaponizes shared imaginaries, “deep stories” about a group’s relative position in society to deceptively frame policies, entities, concepts, or organizations associated with equity or progress as inherently threatening to the dominant group’s prerogatives.

When researchers center the historical and sociopolitical contexts in which disinformation exists, we can better identify and understand its effects, particularly the impact of identity-based disinformation, which we define as...

This paper provides insight into the role conservative media played in shaping existing attitudes of CRT and, by extension, our current attacks on DEI. Also, although focused on CRT, this paper reflects the larger phenomenon of identity weaponization & dismantling of programs and institutions.