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Nikki Usher (they/them)

1 year

Following #ica23 , I plan to delete my Twitter account. I am proud of how I grew a little following and have enjoyed meeting so many new people (and shouting into a void)… I can’t this

Analysis | Elon Musk’s right-wing media venture scores another big win

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is reportedly going to announce his presidential candidacy on Twitter this week.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

5 years

Looking back at the choices made by @guardian and @Snowden you gotta think about the cajones required ... certainly it was a consensual reveal but they guy can’t even come home

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

2 years

Big news y'all - I learned yesterday that I was promoted to full professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ( @UofIllinois )! This is huge. But the bigger news is that I'm leaving in August to head to @uofsandiego to be an associate professor in Communication Studies!

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

3 years

I am increasingly convinced that the large text and data analysis of incivility, misinfo, and partisanship online is deeply obscuring the real problems experienced on the ground by real people. There is just a massive gap that big data cannot fix.

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

5 years

Please someone take @Acosta by the hand and explain to him probabilities, confidence intervals, predictions, and maybe also a denominator?

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

6 years

Thanks to @SeanRossman for the quotes here in his super great and deservedly long profile about @RealCandaceO --> btw who says @usatoday can't do #longform anymore? !

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

2 years

What a bonkers day. I was so blessed to have my family on hand for this- My kid stood with me as I received TWO book awards, the Journalism Studies Division award and got to have a second mini-IJPP ceremony @Journalism_ICA #ica22

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

6 years

They call me Dr News I’m not a real MD, but I do study the news The actual real, not fake news They call me Dr News I like to write papers I think I’m getting better, but I can handle criticism, so let me show you what I know My new plates, #AcademicTwitter

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

4 years

The person who owns this boat is my new best friend, for a lot of reasons

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

7 years

And probably angry. Fair point here. No holds barred now

Paul Joseph Watson

@PrisonPlanet

7 years

Bannon is now back in the trenches, and liberals are celebrating? 😄 Careful what you wish for....

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

3 years

The box o books is here!!!!!! Can’t describe how happy, proud, hopeful, and scared I am.

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

5 years

Hi- anyone else a sobbing mess this morning? I lost it just now as my kid Zooms with his preschool class. It’s so fucking sad. Also, my department doesn’t have people with kids 5 and under- how to explain to them what is happening right now to my work life balance?

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

5 years

Delighted to announce I'll be an academic fellow at the Open Markets Institute @openmarkets for the following year, with much of my focus working this summer on platform politics, journalism, and anti-monopoly policy Excited to try my hand at ACTUAL media and tech policy

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

4 years

Current feeling about journalism

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

4 years

Now's probably the time where I can say, please, please read about more of this in my forthcoming (June 21) book, News for the Rich, White, and Blue: How Place and Power Distort American Journalism. We're listing at $30 because its 320 pp, but I hope to offer author discounts

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

7 years

If anyone wants to know why trust in journalism is broken, it's errors of history on repeat here 👇

Philip Rucker

@PhilipRucker

7 years

Tonight is a new President Trump: Acknowledging a flip-flop and talking about gravity of office, history & substance.

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

6 years

Our new study... in @voxdotcom ...male political reporters retweet other dudes 3 times more than their female colleagues .. written up masterfully by @lkmcgann

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

7 years

Breaking Twitter fast just once to let folks not on my Facebook know: I received tenure at #GWU #GW and am now an associate prof @SMPAGWU

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

6 years

If I had one wish right now, it would be that all the tech and the political journalists stop freaking about the fake news panic and platform-blaming and focus on avoiding spreading misinformation even further, including that which arises from their own reporting

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

4 years

Good news! Book is full through to executed contract. Editor fought for it, and I hope you're all ready to read it....

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

2 years

This is really just the coolest. So honored and so honored to have Hazel Gaudet-Erksine’s name attached to it.

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

3 years

When a news outlet drops a paywall during a crisis, it's just further confirmation that some people get better news than others because they can pay for it, even though we all know the news is really important

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

4 years

I shared this with my students from @TrevorProject - it's geared toward LGBTQIA youth, but the takeaways are important for all young people struggling right now.

Coping with Intense Emotions Around the Presidential Election

f you are experiencing complex emotions around the presidential election, you are not alone.The 2024 presidential election is approaching, and many LGBTQ+ youth are feeling the weight of it. From...

www.thetrevorproject.org

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

4 years

Book’s title is official - coming to shelves around June 2021 News for the Rich, White, and Blue: How Place and Power Distort American Journalism Thanks for all the brainstorming help!

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

4 years

Respect the sourdough pretzels

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

6 years

Spoke with a PhD student whose self-expectations for what she must publish before going on the job market reflects something akin to four-five journal articles and a book-quality dissertation - this is insane, and this will not be good for the field if this continues

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

4 years

So listen up: @risj_oxford just wrote your intro to journalism studies syllabus for you (I wish I were teaching this):

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

3 years

In case anyone wants to see my Journalism Ethics and Diversity syllabus, I'm sharing here. I'm welcome to your suggestions. Journos, if you would like to come zoom chat, we'd love to have you - working to develop compensation, but unlikely #famouslastwords

JOURNALISM ETHICS AND DIVERSITY: J250

JOURNALISM ETHICS AND DIVERSITY: J250 FALL 2021 Dr. Nikki Usher [email protected] Class Time: Tu/Th 11:00-12:20 Location: 3025 Campus Instructional Facility 1405 W Springfield Ave, Urbana [Spring...

docs.google.com

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

4 years

Learning from my students that one of the worst j-school micro-aggressions is to tell a student from a marginalized group that he/she/they cannot report on this group because of "bias" - don't do this, it changes students' very relationship with journalism's potential for change

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

6 years

Pay for a bad paper? - you’d never say pay for bad food- at the same time you’d never expect that bad restaurant to make 20 percent profit returns. News is a market failure

The Washington Post

@washingtonpost

6 years

Perspective: Journalists at shrunken newspapers are still hustling to get the job done. Please support them.

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

8 years

@Fahrenthold I'm so glad you're getting coverage for your attempts at coverage of @realDonaldTrump & changing journalism as a result

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

4 years

This Journalism, Gender, and Power collection has so many relevant texts for anyone discussing journalism and equity. I am proud to be a part of it.

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

3 years

This is legit the best picture ever taken of me. It is also one of the proudest announcements I've had in years. Please consider ordering the book for you or your library.

U of I News Bureau

@NewsAtIllinois

3 years

A new book by #ILLINOIS journalism professor @nikkiusher contends that the news media, and local newspapers in particular, are becoming increasingly focused on serving wealthy, white and politically liberal news consumers. ➡️

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

7 years

Shops at my local whole foods. Have seen buying tortilla chips. Discuss.

Ashley Parker

@AshleyRParker

7 years

About Stephen Miller... The immigration agitator and White House survivor at the center of the shutdown fight. My latest w @jdawsey1 .

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

4 years

Honored to have gotten the honorable mention for Journalism Studies #ica_jsd Wolfgang Donsbach Article of the Year (there was a first place and me!) and, ok losing to @meljbunce @newsprof1 and @martinscott2010 - a wonderful team #ICA20 #ica2020

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

5 years

This is the reason I will always love @Slate ...The proposal to include the beaver emoji comes thanks to a cadre of Canadians, lesbians, semi-aquatic mammal enthusiasts, and emoji specialists who wrote an extremely convincing and rather hilarious...

Why’d It Take So Dam Long to Get a Beaver Emoji?

Some eager beavers are finally making it happen.

slate.com

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

4 years

🧨🔔📢I have two new publications out, perfectly cycnical enough for the 4th. #1 , with @ng007007 , confirms what we already know in more detail: DC political journalism is a big bubble, but adds more detail - it’s potentially more concerning microbubbles

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

4 years

The proofs are here for News for the Rich, White, and Blue. It’s getting real

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

4 years

My one request as we go into fall- can Apple’s autocorrect for “fuck” not be “duck” - just presume that we are all saying fuck multiple times in text, throughout the day... I don’t have much interest in ducks.

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

3 years

I make this argument hard in my book. With lots of data. Who gets left out are those already left out but worse. What’s even worse is that this is being done consciously by high quality newsrooms (see book, News for the Rich, White, and Blue)

Sarah Kendzior

@sarahkendzior

3 years

"There has been a massive change in how we access information that has taken place over the last few months. Our ability to find out what's happening, much less analyze it, has been greatly marred by changes in media and technology." -- @gaslitnation

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

6 years

HEY! Check out my op-ed in @washingtonpost on "playing the ref" from the right - and how the GOP will get platforms to bend over backwards to make concessions to their views, just as with mainstream media

Perspective | How Republicans trick Facebook and Twitter with claims of bias

As a political strategy, it dates back decades, but it's found new purchase online.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

6 years

The cutest kid living on campus @GWtweets (IMHO) is signing off today and headed to @Illinois_Alma to continue his path as sweetest academic brat ever ... see you on the flip side, DC (and #ALLCAPS thanks for the championship to see us out!)

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

6 years

Worked very hard on this important study w/ @JesseHolcomb and @justin_littman to make sure people know, as @lkmcgann puts in her write up “anyone who follows beltway Twitter knows it’s a deeply insular and self-involved world dominated by men”

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

6 years

Hi folks: I've prepared a post to highlight the OPEN ACCESS articles featured at present by female solo or female lead authors in journalism studies and communication, with more coming cc: @journoscholar @shannimcg @LouisaHaJMCQ @jbenton @rasmus_kleis

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

2 years

So excited! @StephEdgerly has been promoted to full professor at @NorthwesternU !! Send congrats her way!! I feel so lucky to be in Steph’s orbit- she’s brilliant, kind, and has been beyond encouraging as I mess around with new methods, even if it means she has to explain them…

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

5 years

I have to keep showing my journalism students this stuff because they still believe that pols and the press operate in separate orbits, the news media incorruptible -- and I don't know where they get it from. Spotlight? The Post? All the Presidents Men?

The Intercept

@theintercept

5 years

The Bloomberg campaign has already spent over $360 million on ads — and broadcasting corporations “are jazzed.”

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

4 years

Glad to see @brianstelter using @cnn for good - he tackles the problems with the police beat w/ some stuff from me:

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

2 years

I’m not crying I swear- at an empty movie theater with three small boys watching light year… and my son just says “oh two moms, nice” and … representation. First time he has ever seen his family on Disney ever. Maybe in cartoon ever …

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

4 years

I just turned my revised book manuscript into @ColumbiaUP for @PhilipLeventhal , editor par excellence - here's to moving toward production. Also, I'm exhausted!!!

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

5 years

It is telling that @nybooks really hasn't changed much, and that the former dean of @columbiajour @nicholaslehmann put together a list of 15 books about saving journalism that features 1 woman -- @JillAbramson

Can Journalism Be Saved? | Nicholas Lemann

Both of journalists’ prevailing fantasies about the history of our work—that we have always operated in a libertarian environment, and that original independent reporting on public affairs is an...

www.nybooks.com

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

6 years

My masterpiece polemic: Should We Still Cite the Scholarship of Serial Harassers and Sexists? via @chronicle

Should We Still Cite the Scholarship of Serial Harassers and Sexists?

The process of building on academic work burnishes the reputations of people whose scholarship may be good but whose characters are awful.

www.chronicle.com

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

6 years

Why do we need bylines to be clear? Because it helps us know who has skin in the game and who is responsible for the reporting. The idea that the NYT speaks as one single voice will ultimately be its downfall, calling it now.

Eric Lipton

@EricLiptonNYT

6 years

Among the many changes with the new NYT homepage: Reporter bylines are gone. But names of OP-ED writers still there.

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

3 years

Hi, today is the actual, real launch/pub date of News for the Rich, White, and Blue: How Place and Power Distort American Journalism. I'm happy to chat with you about what the book argues and more.

News for the Rich, White, and Blue | Columbia University Press

As cash-strapped metropolitan newspapers struggle to maintain their traditional influence and quality reporting, large national and international outlets hav... | CUP

cup.columbia.edu

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

6 years

Best thing I've read in weeks is the @ggreenwald profile in @NewYorker -> the most dangerous critique right now is a liberal who challenges orthodoxies of power, for ex, @ggreenwald 's critique is establishment hates Trump because he breaks rules of who wins in elite America

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

4 years

It is critical that we understand that GOP deep partisans are not coming back to MSM, and that for much of highly-involved partisans, GOP media is a better accounting of reality. Please share, if I'm going to write for free, would rather be read :

The reasonability of misinformation

Republican media is peddling lies with reason and professionalism — and GOP partisans are never coming back to mainstream news

nikkiusher.medium.com

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

4 years

Let the world be introduced to the newly minted @illinoiscomm PhD, DR. MARISA A. SMITH @smithmarisaa --> we are so proud of you and can't wait to see you continue crushing it as a professor at @michiganstateu

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

6 years

Waiting for the massive coverage of this non-preprint non-Stanford/NYU/Harvard/monkeycage affiliate peer-reviewed specialty journal article with massive implications. Please email or DM for a PDF if needed.

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

2 years

For those headed it #ica22 , some advice from the pandemic conference experiences I have had this far: 1) don’t presume just because someone is attending they have your COVID risk tolerance 2) some people have had massive life shake-ups & have come to escape them

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

5 years

Hey world, @journoscholar and I will be contracting our edited volume "Journalism Research that Matters" with @oupacademic feat: @drmattcarlson @docmattweber @JesseHolcomb @markpoepsel @danikathleen @rachelmourao @pyo_jane @derekwillis @jem2998 @tullyme @StephEdgerly

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

4 years

As an aspirational adult age-group athlete and as an American who believes in open markets, I'm disappointed to see Google's monopoly power grow as it takes over Fitbit

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

5 years

Did a dinosaur deliver YOUR beer from your local microbrewery? And I live in a small town

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

3 years

Sometimes (often, always?) the best resources on the student experience in journalism are other students. I had @omarsrashad zoom in today to share his tips and frustrations about elitism in internships and newsroom hiring and what to do

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

2 years

Loooook! Office!!! Wooo!! Pic credit @bradleyjbond Totally unprofessional clothing and bad hair @nikkiusher @Padres hat: leftover energy and good vibes from @JuanSoto25_ @JBell_19

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

4 years

So @LayserTax out did herself! To a better ‘21 and to celebrating the turn of the year with all of you on my birthday!

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

5 years

"The Washington Post, which has 25 correspondents in 18 bureaus around the world, has no bureau in the Midwest."

How Not to Cover America

As local newspapers shrink and many of the national media close local bureaus, we depend increasingly on coverage by reporters who parachute into communities. But even the best are likely to be a...

prospect.org

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

4 years

18 hours into 2nd Moderna. Waves of nausea and my skin feels like it’s achy/super sensitive- eg it hurts to lie down. Chills, slight nausea. Beyond thankful to @illinois_alma for the worst night of sleep in a while & for this shot-I teach in person and can do so without fear.

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

4 years

Would you still refer to the US president as the most powerful man in the world? Or would you put Bezos (or another business leader) up there? Or a different world leader? (first lecture sentence, doing well tonight)

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

5 years

Just taught my last class as a full-time tenured professor at @gwtweets . The seminar read a book chapter draft of the new book. Got great feedback from great students. But it’s over 🎙 drop -30-

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

5 years

Ok folks, some tips for those of you using very small n samples for qualitative work 1) find a way to make sure that the people you interviewed have some internal consistency that allows for meaningful comparison. Being a journalist is not that. 2) please date your interviews

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

4 years

Tomorrow is the first time I'll be lecturing on the white supremacy inherent in American mainstream news media. I'll let you know how it goes. It's to the point of how journalism serves democracy, and whose democracy. And yes, @themaxburns we're talking about hegemony

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

2 years

Ok, I've never done this before, but here we go. I'm sharing a preprints like all the big kids super confident in their findings and convinced that there is something actually immediately useful for the world (w/ @SKimLeffingwell )

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

5 years

Going to bed a bit terrified but super super excited and well-fed @BoqueriaTapas for tomorrow’s Badass Ladies of CommunicAtion #commladiesknowstuff #ica19 missing 2/8. Most seated didn’t know each other and hadn’t met in any real way until tonight. Just you wait til tomorrow

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

4 years

Today was the first of two life-changing days. I feel so blessed to be in a rural college town to ride out a pandemic @illinois_alma has had its ups and downs like all state schools, but it is being run efficiently as is our county. #getvaccinated #provax

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

8 years

When journalism works. A la Nelly Bly. If you think penetrating the government is hard, businesses are way harder @RosalindZAdams

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@nikkiusher

4 years

Woooo! Can’t get fired on the basis of who I love and who I am anymore

In landmark case, Supreme Court rules LGBTQ workers are protected from job discrimination

The decision said Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which makes it illegal for employers to discriminate because of a person's sex, also covers sexual orientation and transgender status.

www.nbcnews.com

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

6 years

Did it! @IRONMANtri 70.3 Eagleman is in the books. Felt strong and feel so damn proud.

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

6 years

Actually minus the last phrase many liberal policy wonks would agree platforms should be treated as utilities. We could stand to be a little less reactionary. Also, the playing the ref op-ed I wrote seems prescient and I only wrote it a month ago. Internet time.

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@joshtpm

6 years

Today in conservatism Laura Ingraham suggests it may be time for the government to take over Facebook and Twitter and run them as public utilities to eliminate bias against conservatives.

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

5 years

Really smart study about “gaming the system” - I teach a social media class and there is a fine line between trying to promote and trying to divine algorithms that just change anyway vi @brookeerinduffy @cbpetre et al

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

4 years

I'm teaching a really cool class next semester, but it's under-enrolled. I was told to make a poster, and I'm please for the 10 minutes I had to do it.

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

4 years

I've been thinking a lot about hostile media bias (ok, as I course prep)-but, there's a good point: distrust the media long enough, leads to distrust of the democratic process - in other words, we should not be surprise that GOP partisans have moved to distrust democracy

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

4 years

Welcome to the world (and our hearts) new pup (Aussie Doodle)!

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

4 years

60+ journalism/polcomm scholars have put forward a policy briefing for journalists about how to cover elections responsibly- for an election unlike any other - how to prevent confusion and mitigate distrust #media4democracy @ecademocracy cc @brianstelter

Recommendations to Journalists Covering the Pre- and Post-inauguration Period - Election Coverage...

In the wake of the violent political attack on the U.S. Capitol, there is a new urgency in calling out the anti-democratic words and actions of the president and many members of his party. We have...

mediafordemocracy.org

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

5 years

Hey, look who got a courtesy appointment in political science @IllinoisPolSci ? Me. That's fun.

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

2 years

@equalityAlec Hey I literally wrote the book on this, twice. Happy to chat.

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

6 years

Massively super cool. In the new Data Journalism Handbook, the editors have done an experiment in open-access publishing. I'd love to share my critique of data journalism with you - it's below

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

6 years

Just going to say that for the quants who malign ethnographic work as "descriptive," all your "how do people share on Twitter/FB" projects are also fundamentally descriptive (and, ultimately, in a hybrid media system & w/ a blackbox algorithm) have limited explanatory value

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

3 years

So @emilybell said it so well "Salaries and healthcare is innovation in local media" - maybe philanthropy can start with helping people in journalism earn a living wage that can keep them in an under-resourced community. Great @TowCenter panel with @VWPickard @damianradcliffe

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

3 years

"as a young, nonwhite doctor in a society predicated on racial prejudice, I received a salary that was 50%..my peers...where my first white patient refused to let me touch him." - diversity in media ownership matters via @latimes

The Times' reckoning on race and our commitment to meaningful change

Los Angeles Times owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, in a letter to readers, says this news organization can succeed only to the degree it engages, examines and accurately reflects the city and the...

www.latimes.com

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

3 years

Delighted to be joining @unc_citap as a faculty affiliate, formalizing many wonderful informal conversations with folks like @shannimcg @dfreelon @kreissdaniel @alicetiara @ftripodi and others! Also joining from @illinois_alma is @emilyvanduyn

Announcing the 2021-22 CITAP affiliate community - The Center for Information, Technology, and...

The Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP) is pleased to welcome its 2021-2022 cohort of faculty, postdoctoral, and graduate student affiliates. This year’s affiliates represent...

citap.unc.edu

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

6 years

So profoundly upset to read the findings from this study by fellow @USCAnnenbergPhD grad @cuihua . Screenshot of the simple language version below. Media reporters, feel free to ping me if you'd like a copy and can't access.

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

7 years

This is a problem and concerning, but note that "news organizations" is a good other-ing issue w/surveys - surely @FoxNews isn't, or is it?

Catherine Rampell

@crampell

7 years

New poll: 6 in 10 Republicans believe news organizations prevent political leaders from doing their job.

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

6 years

You know what would really help journalism? Just have the links I click on while on social media platforms autoload my already paid-for subscriptions - this is something Twitter and Facebook should easily be able to do given how everything else is tracked #illinisocialJ

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

5 years

Feat @wphillips49 @alicetiara and @beccalew with the awful costs of researching online extremism- this is one case where I wish gendered effects had been directly tackled- but this shit is real and thanks @wired

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

5 years

A few small hoots of joy: 1) I technically got my first bit of NSF funding--as an advisor for a math literacy project with @pbsnewshour @NewKnowOrg (that assess ADULTS) 2) Along with @justin_littman @JesseHolcomb , got a 2nd place "best paper" award for 2019 @AEJMC @AEJMC_PCIG

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

7 years

It's here: my 2018 updated syllabus for the future of journalism class. Not enough time to discuss everything I'd like, but pleased as punch - cc: @genevaoh @jayrosen_nyu @jcstearns @jbenton @markcoddington @SethCLewis

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

4 years

Someone was asking ( @rasmus_kleis ?) about the most important texts to share with journalists. I am late to the @roudakova fan club - but I can’t think of a more important book to read in populist, authoritarian-crescendo, “fake news” times

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

5 years

I'm reading James Carey, who argues journalism research missed the chance to be a "science of the complex relations among humans struggling to create a common life within conflict and division, a science deeply democratic, pluralistic, humanistic, and imaginative in its impulses"

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

6 years

Hey all, I'm here and queer. Not a radical nor revolutionary, but living my life openly, lucky enough to have a beautiful, loving family of my own and great friends. I promise, #itgetsbetter , and we *have* all been there, but take pride! Happy #NationalComingOutDay #LGBT

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

5 years

I think today’s big media news was totally missed: the NYT is scoring articles by emotional valence and then using for retargeting - it’s called a “feels score”

Publishers Daily: 'New York Times' Newfront Touts New Ad Targets, Food Festival

Times executives revealed novel ad targeting and an emphasis on its TV-film commitment.

www.mediapost.com

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

4 years

I've outdone myself with my new course poster. The times kept shifting along with the enrollment, but I hope we can all settle on Ron Burgundy's role in journalism history. (In DC we went to the Newseum (RIP) exhibit!)

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Nikki Usher (they/them)

@nikkiusher

5 years

Just finished @LewisPants book “View from Somewhere” - I was planning to put it on the syllabus next sem but obviously had to read it 1st! It is a responsible, academically-rigorous approach to the dramatic rethinking around neutrality, objectivity, and power. Consider assigning

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