Baby names aren’t just personal choices; they reflect culture, geography, gender, identity, and as i've been investigating, politics too. I’ve been analyzing 50 years of U.S. baby naming to see how they map onto political polarization in the U.S.
Here’s what I found 🧵
The evolution and rise of the manosphere: Exploring technology-facilitated misogyny
An op-ed by Laxman Belbase, MenEngage Alliance
menengage.org/stories/the-...
NEW from me in @pnas.org on the risks of data sharing with qualitative research:
"Today, confidentiality risks are amplified by social media, surveillance, and AI tools, which make ample data about people publicly available, thus making deidentification less effective"
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
danah boyd recently argued that social media (as we knew it) is mostly dead; what we have now is parasocial media: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
I agree. Networked social media is disappearing, replaced by a new logic/structure of content creator, creator-centered community, & algorithm.
So many generations of Sociology at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social all in one place at our end of year gathering this year. Emeriti faculty, first year Assistant Profs, our grad students, and many UG honors students too. So proud to be a part of this history. @ucsbsocialsciences.bsky.social
So many generations of Sociology at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social all in one place at our end of year gathering this year. Emeriti faculty, first year Assistant Profs, our grad students, and many UG honors students too. So proud to be a part of this history. @ucsbsocialsciences.bsky.social
To improve access, IRMS will offer a limited number of partial scholarships for the summer intro to male supremacism course. Visit the course page on our website for information on applying for the scholarship: www.theirms.org/course-regis...
“The most terrifying question of Garcia’s book is a simple one: can we, how can we, live with men after the Pelicot trial?”
Los Angeles Review of Books (@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social) review Manon Garcia's Living with Men
lareviewofbooks.org/article/gise...
🚨 New in Journal of Gender Studies: We consider how the concept of “backlash” can flatten and frame masculinist responses as merely reactive; we suggest “countermovement” better captures how masculinities are strategically organised
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@drstephaniewescott.bsky.social
When practitioners used the term “social media” to describe the internet tools that emerged in the mid-aughts, they were giving a name to the kinds of platforms...
Guillaume Johnson and I wrote about apologies in racialized organizations being decoupled from actual anti-racist actions.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
