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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · 6d

shout out to "All in all," gotta be one of my absolute least favorite transition phrases

dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · 9d

my co-author and i going back and forth trying desperately to meet “gender balance” for our panel proposal that is almost entirely made of women

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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · 9d

(Gerbner & Gross, 1976)

dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · 27d

why is my code taking 1000 years to run smh

dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · Sep 2

This paper was a long effort informed by so many kind and wonderful scholars, especially those affiliated with the Local News Impact Consortium and the Local Journalism Researchers' Workshop (@duke-dwc.bsky.social & UNC Hussman School) so thank you all so much :')

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Local News Impact Consortium | Researching information and news by for and about local communities

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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · Sep 2

We also analyzed the three primary metaphors researchers use to describe their own studies: Ecologies, infrastructures, and ecosystems. These are evocative but often used interchangeably and imprecisely. The lack of clarity and conceptual slippage of these terms should be addressed by the subfield.

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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · Sep 2

Through a content analysis of local news census research, we find that most studies stick to a single context (usually state), traditional media, and limited documenting. We also present this map that shows where studies have (and have not) been conducted. Most of the US lacks an ecosystem analysis.

Heat map of the United States using different colors to show where local news census research projects have been conducted.

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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · Sep 2

In this study, we look at what we call "local news census" research, which attempts to map, measure, and assess the health of a geographically-bound local news system. Primarily produced through white papers and research reports, these studies give a snapshot of a locale's current news offerings.

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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · Sep 2

Out now in Journalism Studies!

As the crisis of local news supply has deepened in the US, local news ecosystem research has attempted to address this. In this paper, @reginalawrence.bsky.social and I conducted meta-analytical work looking at this research subfield. 🧵

doi.org/10.1080/1461...

Conceptualizing Local News “Ecosystems” in the United States: An Assessment of Local News Census Research

Research on the state of local news has grown as the crisis in local news has deepened across the United States. This paper reports an analysis of 40 studies published between 2010 and early 2025 t...

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · Aug 26

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · Aug 26

National Guard is now tasked with picking up garbage in DC

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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · Aug 26

stopped me in my tracks seeing a linkedin bio that read “Aspiring Grad Student” 🫩

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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · Aug 25

thank you curd! :)

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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · Aug 25

This work is part of the INEQNEWS project at @imec-smit.bsky.social and funded by an ERC-grant. 🇪🇺

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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · Aug 25

Wrapped up from our Discussion: Scholars should consider implementing this scale when analyzing news audiences, given its demonstrated functionality at identifying a previously invisible group: those who are alienated by the provision of news as they understand and experience it.

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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · Aug 25

We also find that greater feelings of alienation are associated with negative outcomes. Despite consuming more news than their counterparts, people who believe news is not made for them also selectively avoid more news, get more knowledge questions incorrect, and believe more misinformation.

Coefficient plot from the manuscript titled "Regression Coefficients where News is Not Made for Me is an Independent Variable" with 5 plot boxes with the following titles: "(i) Total News Consumption," "(ii) News Avoidance," "(iii) Overall Current Affairs Knowledge," "(iv) Autoregressive Knowledge," and "(v) Misinformation Beliefs." There are pink lines for UK results and teal lines for Brazil results. There is a research note at the bottom of the figure.

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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · Aug 25

Using a panel survey in Brazil & UK, we see that people who feel the most alienated from news tend to be younger, lower SES, have lower news self-efficacy, greater interest in soft news, and have more attention problems. These findings highlight the overwhelming relentlessness of news cycles.

Coefficient plot from the manuscript titled "Linear Regression Results with News is Not Made for Me as DV" with variables on the y-axis and coefficient estimates on the x-axis. There are pink lines for UK results and teal lines for Brazil results.

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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · Aug 25

The News is Not Made for Me scale is an 8-item scale that investigates the growing gap between news providers and audiences as well as audience inequality gaps related to news use and benefits. It gets at what we call "agnostic" features of news - such as pace, language, and access.

A screenshot of a table from the manuscript. A purple header is labeled "Item" followed by the 8-items of the scale and a research note on alternating gray and white rows.

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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · Aug 25

New week, new school year, new publication!

In this paper, @antoniskalog.bsky.social, @patyrossini.bsky.social, & I develop a scale to measure how audiences feel alienated by the provision of news and what implications this has for inequalities. 🧵

Open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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scary tall bart @tallbart.com · Aug 19

Sam Altman: I see humans achieving omnipotence using dark matter by… 2030 maybe? That’s if OpenAI is given a quadrillion dollars

Theo Von: Yeah

Altman: Or, we may become a race of slaves, genetically modified to be harvested by robot spiders. That’s if OpenAI doesn’t get the money

Von: Right

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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · Aug 19

LET'S GO!!!!! she deserves it!!!!!!! 🎉

APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions @polcomm.bsky.social · Aug 18

Murray Edelman Lifetime Distinguished Career Award

🌟 Regina Lawrence, University of Oregon

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · Aug 14

This is a canary in the coal mine. Humanities programs are highly endangered, even the departments with reputations for discipline-defining job placement are treading water. What’s tragic about the University of Chicago case is that cuts are almost certainly elective and ideological.

Theo Nash @theonash.bsky.social · Aug 13

This isn’t an impoverished regional school – this is the University of Chicago. Devastating.

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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · Aug 13

another season of job applications, another stack of them due on yom kippur

dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · Aug 8

googled the name of one of my articles and the AI result made up a fake study that it could "likely" be about. super cool!

dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · Aug 4

new publication out today!

this paper came from a chapter of my dissertation on restoring voting rights to incarcerated people in the US. in it, i examine the success of DC’s Restore the Vote through the mechanism of public commenting.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“Restoration of a right that should be guaranteed”: public comments on Washington D.C.’s Restore the Vote Amendment Act

In 2021, Washington D.C.’s Restore the Vote Amendment Act went into effect, lifting restrictions on voting rights such that felony convictions would no longer impact a district resident’s ability t...

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Gerard Beirne @gerardbeirne.bsky.social · Jul 23

"The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer." —Zadie Smith

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