Caitlin E. Lawson, PhD

Exactly where I’d expect to find her!

Doing the Lord’s Work: Deconstructing Fundamentalist Christianity Through Cathartic Anti-Fandom on Reddit - Caitlin E. Lawson, Cecilia R. Hafferty, 2025 r/fundiesnarkuncensored is a Reddit community that monitors and critiques fundamentalist Christian, namely evangelical, content creators. Many members of the co...

Excited to share that my latest work exploring snark subreddits, evangelical content creators, and influencer anti-fandom is out now in Social Media + Society! Massive thanks to the r/FSU community for being so supportive of this project + my awesome RA & co-author, Cece.

This is true! Fantastic opportunity for a motivated junior researcher looking for a stimulating research environment in which to grow while prepping to pursue a Ph.D.

The CFA for 2025-2026 CARGC Postdoctoral Fellowship is now open: bit.ly/cargcpostdoc2025 ! Please share with your networks and send us applications by February 1, 2025.

The mainstream media will lose its last grip on relevancy "The gap between mainstream media readers, people who get most of their news through influencers or partisan social media, and people who barely think about news at all will create a fundamental schis...

Wrote a big hot take for Nieman’s 2025 predictions & managed to shoehorn in a lot of pet peeves while using “epistemic” sparingly www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/the-...

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Opinion | How Trump Tapped Into America’s Online Spaces and Took Control Trump excelled at tapping into the information ecosystems where minority and young voters express their identity.

"If you are looking to understand Donald Trump’s unusual hold on our cultural politics, look to the tradwives, podcast bros and wellness influencers." www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...

Slide reading “Relatable, Reasonable, and Righteous: How Evangelical Influencers Normalize Religious and Political Extremism through Divine Authenticity” by Caitlin Lawson and Taryn Vuk. One the left is an Instagram image of a dark-haired woman in a baseball cap praying.

Excited to share my latest work on evangelical influencers, problematic information, and extremism at #NCA2024! Come check out our panel on post-truth celebrity at 11am today!