Marcus Mann

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Back in my day, you got your black coffee right at the register.

Is Joe Rogan really just a voice of the right? Our new @csmapnyu.org piece for @goodauth.bsky.social shows he’s just as much a space for the left and the center, too. A look inside today’s surprisingly complicated podcast information ecosystem. 🎙️

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Study finds potential link between high-fat cheese and lower risk of dementia A study out of Sweden has looked at the possible link between eating more high-fat cheese, like cheddar, gouda and brie, and a lower risk of developing dementia.

me: Nutrition research is often quite lacking in its methods but at the same time the world leader in meme virality, by regularly uncovering things we want to be true to feel better about the food identity we have developed.

also me: this study must be true.

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20/20. I’m 41. Typewriter is the one that just nicked me.

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These Indiana Republicans are civic heroes. Shocking and inspiring to see after the collapse of resistance to illiberalism among so many of their counterparts over the last decade.

Proud of my Republican state lawmakers tonight

Abstract: Recent political communication scholarship finds that groups and identities play a central role in the crises faced by political and media systems globally, particularly in democracies. Yet an individualist orientation in the literature has resulted in key theoretical and conceptual limitations, preventing a broader group-centric theoretical framework from emerging. We synthesize disparate bodies of theory on groups, politics, and communication to offer three basic propositions underlying a group theory of political communication. First, it is the group—not the individual—that is the fundamental organizing unit of social and political life. Second, groups are constituted through communication, which is central to how they define their politics. Third, groups and politics are reciprocally influencing forces through political communication, oriented around power. We offer a framework for studying the role of groups in political communication at the micro, meso, and macro levels, providing a concrete agenda for the study of groups in political communication.

🚨New pub alert!🚨 Now available open-access in @journal-of-comm.bsky.social, we (w/ @dkreiss.bsky.social, @danlane.bsky.social, & @shannimcg.bsky.social) critique political communication's "Identity Turn" and offer instead a foundation for studying #polcomm from a *group* perspective. 🧵

Sufjan Stevens: “Should Have Known Better” Read Jeremy Gordon’s review of the track.

pitchfork.com/reviews/trac... "halfway through, an uplifting electric keyboard line kicks in; ... his voice shakes off the ice and forms a chorus with itself ... It’s the dawn at the end of a long night, a prayer that past traumas might be healed by a beautiful present."

This pattern is stark enough, and so confined to political views (same by political party ID), and the pandemic hitting so hard, that it makes me think people might be defining their political views based on their attitude toward science, rather than the reverse.

Anyways, this is really bad.
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Glad to see others taking on the issues with “polarization” as a dominant yet over-simplistic lens through which to see politics. Will be essential reading alongside @dkreiss.bsky.social & @shannimcg.bsky.social (2023): journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Abstract for the article: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41296-025-00779-4

🚨new article🚨

"Polarisation" has become one of those terms commonly used to discuss the dire state of politics and democracy today

Here @juanroch.bsky.social, @daniel-balinhas.bsky.social and I argue that this simplistic framing is counterproductive

🧵Thread🧵

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Beyond Polarization: Right-Wing News as a Quasi-religious Phenomenon - Marcus Mann, Daniel Winchester, 2025 Research on U.S. political media has demonstrated that mainstream and right-wing news are qualitatively distinct in a variety of ways. However, the dominant par...

Fantastic! Love that many of us are pushing back. Latest from myself and @bishopofwestsaxons.bsky.social if you’re interested. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

On pie. Yes please.

new paper by Sean Westwood:

With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research

Racial Resentment Among White Americans by Birth Year and Demographics This figure presents the same four-panel layout (education, gender, geography, religion) but for White Americans from birth years 1940 to 2000. Education panel: A pronounced divide shows non-college Whites with substantially higher resentment across all cohorts, increasing sharply for older birth years. College-educated Whites rise more modestly but remain distinctly lower, especially among younger cohorts. Gender panel: Male and female trendlines rise together, with women slightly higher in mid-century cohorts. Younger cohorts of both genders start lower and climb with age. Geography panel: Regional lines separate clearly: the South is highest in resentment, followed by the Midwest. The West and Northeast show lower levels, with the Northeast consistently at the bottom. All regions slope upward toward older cohorts. Religion panel: Protestants show the highest resentment, peaking among mid-century cohorts. Catholics sit in the middle. Non-affiliated Whites show the lowest resentment, especially among younger respondents, with a small rise among mid-century generations. The figure notes CES 2024 data with GAM-smoothed trendlines.

Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice aren't hard-headed realists, they're pushing against the electoral tide rather than leaning into it. The story of Gen Z isn't about racist backlash or red-pilled young men. It's the most racially progressive generation in American history. 🧵

Advances in Group Processes Advances in Group Processes publishes theoretical analyses, reviews, and theory based empirical chapters on group phenomena. The series adopts a broad conception of “group processes.” This includes wo...

Just out! Josh Doyle and I use novel data collection to find Dems trust knowledge institutions while Reps trust traditional institutions. Both perceive public to have lower trust than they do in their trusted institutions and lower trust in general than shown in GSS. books.google.com/books?hl=en&...

The wellness pipeline: Tracing far-right health narratives on X - Piotr Marczyński, Catherine Tebaldi, 2025 This article examines how far-right groups advance political agendas through digital platforms, specifically by embedding reactionary ideology within health and...

Marczyński, P., & Tebaldi, C. (2025). The wellness pipeline: Tracing far-right health narratives on X. New Media & Society, 0(0). #CommSky

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
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The wellness pipeline: Tracing far-right health narratives on X - Piotr Marczyński, Catherine Tebaldi, 2025 This article examines how far-right groups advance political agendas through digital platforms, specifically by embedding reactionary ideology within health and...

Excited to share that, with @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social , we’ve published a new article in New Media & Society!
We examine how far-right actors on X (formerly Twitter) instrumentalize wellness culture to spread reactionary ideology.
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New Clippings: Political violence on the rise, the decline of Jewish humor, threats to census expertise, and outrage-based media fueling polarization.
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Trust in elections rises after ‘inoculations’ meant to preempt false fraud claims New U.S.-Brazil study points to ways of countering election misinformation, political scientists say

New study by @brendannyhan.bsky.social, @jasonreifler.bsky.social & colleagues demonstrates that prebunking election fraud rumors — by warning about anticipated false claims & filling conceptual gaps that those claims exploit — helps to reduce belief in falsehoods: www.science.org/content/arti...

Finally being called up to the big leagues.

New job ad: Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Science, Dartmouth College apply.interfolio.com/172357

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