Dr. Fanny Ramirez

SUMMER RECAP 3: Sunday @aejmc.bsky.social 2025
Closing out the conference and our summer recap, @manshipschool.bsky.social Morgan Badurak and @ramirez-fa.bsky.social were co-authors on “Beyond Censorship: Understanding the Complexities of Social Media Bans and the Rejection of Regulation” (10/10)

SUMMER RECAP 3: Friday @aejmc.bsky.social 2025 pt.1/2
Caley Hewitt and Hayley Booth presented the extended abstract for their paper “From Airwaves to Ballots: Presidential Candidates’ Podcast Appearances And Their Impact on Their Credibility” (4/10)

SUMMER RECAP 3: Friday @aejmc.bsky.social 2025 pt.2/2
The paper “Understanding the Role of Political Affiliation in Childhood Vaccination Intention in Louisiana” was presented, which SMAC’s Dr. Jeonghyun (Janice) Lee is a co-author of (5/10)

SUMMER RECAP 3: Saturday@aejmc.bsky.social 2025pt1/4
@manshipschool.bsky.social @masscommgrad.bsky.social SMAC’s Hayley Booth co-authored “National Security vs. Freedom of Speech: How Media Exposure, Personal Values, and Media Framing Influence Non-Users’ Support for A National Ban on TikTok”(6/10)

Morgan in front of the poster for the paper “From Red Scare to RedNote: TikTok Refugees and the Rejection of U.S. Digital Hegemony” written by her and Dr. Ramirez

SUMMER RECAP 3: Saturday @aejmc.bsky.social 2025 pt.3/4
The extended abstract for “From Red Scare to RedNote: TikTok Refugees and the Rejection of U.S. Digital Hegemony” was a paper written and presented by Morgan Badurak and Dr. @ramirez-fa.bsky.social (8/10)

Excited to see this article published! A wonderful collaboration with two Manship grads @masscommgrad.bsky.social @manshipschool.bsky.social
Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Caley and Morgan in front of their poster for their paper “Should Influencers Speak Up? Political Expectancy Violations Among Gen Z”

SUMMER RECAP 3: Thurs @aejmc.bsky.social 2025 pt.2/2
Morgan Badurak & @caleyrose1998.bsky.social presented their paper “Should Influencers Speak Up? Political Expectancy Violations Among Gen Z” & Dr. Jeonghyun (Janice) Lee moderated “Issue Management and Social Advocacy for Various Contexts” (3/10)

Dr. Chen, Morgan, Nabila, and Caley in front of the SMAC Lab poster for the paper “From Headlines to Hashtags: Comparing U.S. News and User Discourses on China’s DeepSeek AI”

SUMMER RECAP 3: Thursday @aejmc.bsky.social 2025 pt.1/2
SMAC’s @manshipschool.bsky.social @masscommgrad.bsky.social @lsu.bsky.social first presentation was an extended abstract for the paper “From Headlines to Hashtags: Comparing U.S. News and User Discourses on China’s DeepSeek AI” (2/10)

SUMMER RECAP 3: Finally, @aejmc.bsky.social 2025 in San Fran, CA this August, SMAC members had 9 presentations, 2 of which came directly from SMAC Lab @lsu.bsky.social @manshipschool.bsky.social @masscommgrad.bsky.social: "From Headlines to Hashtags" & "The Digital Archive Collective Memory" (1/10)

Nabila (right of front in a green-ish shirt) and her program cohort members in front of the Haas Center for Public Service on the Stanford campus.

Nabila in front of the title slide to her research group's powerpoint presentation, "From Aprons to Almond Milk: Femininity in Online Womens' Subcultures"

Nabila in front of the Cecil H. Green Library on the Stanford campus

SUMMER RECAP 2:
In August, @nabilamushtarin.bsky.social did her two weeks in the SICSS program at @stanforduniversity.bsky.social working with others in the program to present a research project titled "From Aprons to Almond Milk: Femininity in Online Womens' Subcultures"
(3/3)

SUMMER RECAP 1: Drs. @ramirez-fa.bsky.social and Jeonghyun (Janice) Lee also participated in @icahdq.bsky.social panels during the conference with discussions around digital affordances and agency in gendered contexts, community engaged health research, and media coverage of health topics (3/3)

While school was out @lsu.bsky.social the @manshipschool.bsky.social @masscommgrad.bsky.social SMAC Lab stayed BUSY! After conferences, summer programs, publications and awards, we're gearing up for more research, new and old. In the mean time, watch for a #recap of everything we got up to!

SUMMER RECAP 1: ICA 2025
Members in the SMAC Lab
@lsu.bsky.social @manshipschool.bsky.social @masscommgrad.bsky.social had 4 papers at the annual
@icahdq.bsky.social conference in June this year with papers in Political Communication, Health Communication, and Feminist Scholarship (1/3)

Adwoa B at the entrance to the 75th Annual ICA Conference in Denver, CO.

Adwoa B posed with the travel grant awarded to her at the 75th Annual ICA Conference

SUMMER RECAP 1:
This was SMAC Lab's Adwoa B's first @icahdq.bsky.social where she presented her paper "Scroll, Share, Vote: The Influence of Social Media and Peer Influence on the Voting Intention and Political Engagement of Teen First-Time Voters" for which she received a travel grant (2/3)

A banner on the University of Pennsylvania campus with the university's crest and the text "Penn Engineering; University of Pennsylvania"

Morgan (far right) and her research group members in front of the title slide to their research presentation, "Progressive Insurgencies and Intersectional Backlash"

Morgan posed in front of The Liberty Bell.

SUMMER RECAP 2:
Morgan Badurak spent her two weeks of June/July in the SICSS program at the University of Pennsylvania, working with other members to create and present a research project titled "Progressive Insurgencies and Intersectional Backlash"
(2/3)

SUMMER RECAP 2: SICSS
More in our #recap, Morgan Badurak and @nabilamushtarin.bsky.social were at U of Penn and @stanforduniversity.bsky.social through the SICSS sicss.io, a program designed to educate and train researchers in new social science and media research methods (1/3)

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Unveiling the Nexus Between Digital Monitoring and Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence in Romantic Relationships - Caley Hewitt, Fanny A. Ramirez, Anna Gjika, 2025 Using survey data from a sample of 378 women who live in the United States and self-identify as either Black or Latinx, this study explores predictors of women’...

🚨🚨 New article out in SM+S with the awesome @ramirez-fa.bsky.social & Calyee Hewitt! We explore predictors of digital monitoring practices in romantic relationships among WOC in the context of IPV. #AcademicSky #Surveillance #Gender

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The Year’s Most Urgent Best Picture Contender Is the One Almost No One Has Seen I’m Still Here has a warning—and a reason for hope.

Life under authoritarianism can feel normal—until dissent is silenced and fear takes hold. Routines continue, but freedoms erode. Only when people start disappearing—arrested without cause, taken in the night, or never heard from again—does the illusion of normalcy shatter.
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Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying Rayhunter is a new open source tool we’ve created that runs off an affordable mobile hotspot that we hope empowers everyone, regardless of technical skill, to help search out cell-site simulators (CSS...

Cell-site simulators (CSS, also known as Stingrays or IMSI catchers) are devices that masquerade as legitimate cell-phone towers, tricking phones within a certain radius into connecting to the device rather than a tower. Our new tool, Rayhunter, can help you find them.

EFF Sues DOGE and the Office of Personnel Management to Halt Ransacking of Federal Data EFF and a coalition of privacy defenders have filed a lawsuit today asking a federal court to block Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing the private information of mil...

The Department of Government Efficiency is ransacking multiple federal agencies, without oversight or safeguards, and EFF is glad to join the brigade of lawsuits to protect this critical information.

It's Copyright Week 2025: Join Us in the Fight for Better Copyright Law and Policy We're taking part in Copyright Week, a series of actions and discussions supporting key principles that should guide copyright policy. Every day this week, various groups are taking on different eleme...

Every year, EFF and a number of diverse organizations participate in Copyright Week. We pick five copyright issues to highlight and advocate a set of principles of copyright law. Join us for Copyright Week 2025. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

From scrolling through TikTok to asking Google for homework help, #algorithms are shaping young people’s everyday lives in powerful and often invisible ways.

#LizzyWinstone highlights the importance of #AlgorithmicLiteracy. blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4di...

VICTORY! Federal Court (Finally) Rules Backdoor Searches of 702 Data Unconstitutional In a landmark ruling, a federal district court held that backdoor searches of databases full of Americans’ private communications collected under Section 702 ordinarily require a warrant. Congress sho...

A federal court has declared that warrantless searches of US person’s communications collected for national security purposes is unconstitutional. Now it’s our job to make sure Congress knows that when they renew this law in a little over a year.

YouTube video by Screen Themes Moon (2009) - 'Welcome to Lunar Industries' / Opening scene [1080p]

Moon premiered 16 years ago at Sundance.

And I'd like to take this opportunity to thank @manmademoon.bsky.social once again for what I consider to be one of the best sci-fi films of the turn of the century. 🫡

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