Todd R Vogts, PhD
@toddvogts.bsky.social
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Master Journalism Educator. Journalism professor & news junkie. Author, blogger & tech lover. K-State, Mizzou & Wichita State alum
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brendannyhan.bsky.social
Trump's higher ed ransom note is here - everyone would have to acquiesce to their unprecedented demands or not be "given priority for grants," plus they can demand "reimbursement" for "violations" www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

A mechanism to enforce fealty. An attack on academic freedom and democracy
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theonion.com
Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away https://theonion.com/fearful-americans-stockpiling-facts-before-federal-gove-1819579589/
Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away
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Not “seems” bad. It IS bad.
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noupside.bsky.social
This is jawboning. This is what the Freedom Caucus fascists of the Weaponization Committee and their Substack lackeys pretended was happening under some “Biden regime,” but it wasn’t. It was always projection.
The ABC late-night host's remarks constituted "the sickest conduct possible,"
FCC chair Brendan Carr told right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson on Wednesday.
Carr suggested his FCC could move to revoke ABC affiliate licenses as a way to force Disney to punish Kimmel.
"We can do this the easy way or the hard way," Carr said. "These companies can find ways to change conduct and take actions on Kimmel, or there's going to be additional work for the FCC ahead."
Carr added that the broadcasters, including ABC, "have a license granted by us at the FCC, and that comes with it an obligation to operate in the public
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taralconley.com
they want an unseasoned, uneducated, and uninformed country
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socialmedialab.ca
"How to Set Up and Use a Burner Phone. Obtaining and using a true burner phone is hard—but not impossible. Here are the steps you need to take to protect your mobile communications based on the risks you face." www.wired.com/story/how-to...
How to Set Up and Use a Burner Phone
Obtaining and using a true burner phone is hard—but not impossible. Here are the steps you need to take to protect your mobile communications based on the risks you face.
www.wired.com
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Decent size hail falling in Moundridge, Kansas. #kwch #kswx
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socialmedialab.ca
"Building alternative institutions outside of gov. that reduce reliance on the authoritarian regime, lessen its power and relevance over day-to-day life, and preserve sites of independent thought can be vital both in preserving science and in defending democracy." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Scientists’ role in defending democracy
The United States’ democratic leadership, commitment to freedom of expression, and investment in the pursuit of knowledge have long enabled its preeminence in science and technology. Yet today we are ...
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Presented a poster as part of the #PolNet-PaCSS Conference at @harvard.edu. It focused on #JacobGroshek and my work developing the Misinformation Finds Them #MFT perception and @nodiux.bsky.social by @alezonin.bsky.social as a way to collect social media research data. It was a great session!
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counterhate.com
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Clawback of federal funding for public media damages communities, democracy

I grew up on the street — “Sesame Street.” I stopped by “Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood” and took a ride on the “Reading Rainbow.” I imagined selling an old lamp for millions of dollars on the “Antiques Roadshow” before catching…
Clawback of federal funding for public media damages communities, democracy
I grew up on the street — “Sesame Street.” I stopped by “Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood” and took a ride on the “Reading Rainbow.” I imagined selling an old lamp for millions of dollars on the “Antiques Roadshow” before catching the bubbles on the “Lawrence Welk Show.” I still keep my radio dial set to the local…
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The appearance of an in-group consensus is extremely powerful but also easily manipulated. From my diss:
In any in-group larger than a neighborhood, members rely on someone’s assertion about what beliefs are supported by the in-group consensus. An objectively strong in-group consensus is still the most important factor in socially constructing reality; the availability heuristic suggests that people will be most convinced by those they interact with regularly, so one cannot simply will an alternative consensus into existence.
Yet there are many ways to manipulate the in-group consensus short of magic, to create a metronomic beat of input around which real people will synchronize. Merely to depict a set of views as the in-group consensus is to sway the real consensus. Authoritarians routinely seek control of mass media for precisely this reason. Newspapers, radio and television offer an opportunity to shape what an in-group perceives as normative, a vector easily abused by those with sufficient power or money. 
And convincing people is the main thing.

Old media platforms projected information overwhelmingly in one direction, from producer to consumer, but new media platforms are built on participatory technologies—the ability to like, share, and comment, along with more complex forms of content creation, such as memes and user-generated video. These technologies serve as a virtual dashboard for measuring in-group consensus. If a group of users I know, virtually or in the real world, agree with the sentiment I posted, then it must have worth. If my online friend posts a factual claim and my other friends share it, it is likely to be true. As noted previously, even small in-group dynamics are enough to give people a feeling of in-group support. Social media metrics are as close as most people come to directly experiencing an in-group consensus. Techniques that manipulate those metrics, such as astroturfing, are therefore powerful (but not omnipotent) tools for directly shaping an in-group consensus.