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Kelly Kean Sharp: Chicana?
I have watched the unmasking of CV Vitolo and Jessica Krug from afar. But when an old friend pointed me to the twitter bio of Dr. Kelly…
Counting Clicks: Quantification and Variation in Web Journalism in the United States and France | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 123, No 5
Musa al-Gharbi
Interesting article by @AngeleChristin in the American Journal of Sociology highlighting variation between editors and journalists, and across cultural contexts, with respect to how metrics shape news coverage: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.10… pic.twitter.com/u4rbfa8Moh
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Interfaith America | IFYC
Learning resources, community connection & interfaith inspiration.
Panel: Experts, Publics and Trust During the Pandemic -- Sociological Perspectives — Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Trust and Mistrust of Experts
On October 29, 2020 the Mellon-Sawyer Seminar on Trust and Mistrust of Experts will convene an esteemed panel of sociologists specializing in science, knowledge, medicine, public health and expertise -- including Rogers Brubaker, Stephen...
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Musa al-Gharbi
More info on our panelists, @zeynep, @SteveHilgartner, @wrbucla, Andrew Lakoff and moderator Gil Eyal available here
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Harvard Inequality in America Initiative Postdoctoral Fellowship in , MA for Harvard University
Exciting opportunity in , MA for Harvard University as a Harvard Inequality in America Initiative...
Reopen the American Mind
In the midst of an existential crisis for higher education, is it even reasonable to expect the humanities to survive?
Musa al-Gharbi
"What did professors expect to happen when they informed those students that the texts humanists had pored over for millenniums were nothing more than vectors of ideology and oppression?" nytimes.com/2020/10/22/opi… @a_n_a_berg @BaskinJon @nytimes pic.twitter.com/64O9GQSrA0
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Two women stabbed under Eiffel Tower - prosecutors launch attempted murder probe
French police have announced two female suspects have been arrested as part of an attempted murder enquiry after a suspected racist attack under the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Sunday night
Musa al-Gharbi
"An attempted murder enquiry has been opened after two Muslim women were 'stabbed repeatedly' underneath the Eiffel Tower, prosecutors have confirmed. The suspected racist attacks were allegedly accompanied by the words 'Dirty Arabs!'" mirror.co.uk/news/world-new… @DailyMirror
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119 | Musa al-Gharbi on the Value of Intellectual Diversity
In the service of seeking truth, there would seem to be value in intellectual diversity, both in keeping ourselves honest and in the possibility of new ideas coming from unexpected quarters. That’s true in the natural sciences, but even more so in...
119 | Musa al-Gharbi on the Value of Intellectual Diversity – Sean Carroll
Musa al-Gharbi
@jessesingal Definitely the latest episode of Mindscape w/
@seanmcarroll. Guess why
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Trump Is Losing Ground With White Voters But Gaining Among Black And Hispanic Americans
There’s a well-known truth in politics: No one group swings an election. But that doesn’t mean that the demographic trends bubbling beneath the surface can’t ha…
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Musa al-Gharbi
Good report by @wiederkehra @geoffreyvs @FiveThirtyEight on a trend I've been hammering at for a few years now: Trump has been seeing consistent attrition with *white* voters and gains with voters of color (particularly blacks and Hispanics)
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‘White Supremacy’ Once Meant David Duke and the Klan. Now It Refers to Much More.
The phrase has poured into the nation’s rhetorical bloodstream. Organizations from the N.F.L. to art museums to colleges requiring the SAT are accused of perpetuating it.
I called everyone in Jeffrey Epstein's little black book.
What I learned about rich people, conspiracy, Ghislaine, stand-up comedy, and evil from 2,000 phone calls.
Experts, Publics and Trust During the Pandemic: Sociological Perspectives
Join the Mellon-Sawyer Seminar on Trust and Mistrust of Science and Experts at Columbia for a discussion on trust, expertise and COVID-19.
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Musa al-Gharbi
It should be a great event. It features some scholars whose work I really, really enjoy, including @zeynep, @SteveHilgartner & @wrbucla!
You can sign up to attend below! eventbrite.com/e/experts-publ…
cc: @nescioquid @MattGrossmann @bathr0bespierre @LeeTomson
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Experts, Publics and Trust During the Pandemic: Sociological Perspectives — Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Trust and Mistrust of Experts
The pandemic has brought into focus the fraying of relations between experts, policy-makers and relevant publics in liberal democracies. How should social researchers analyze this fraying? What can we learn by comparing across cases? On October 29,...
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Musa al-Gharbi
The Mellon-Sawyer Seminar on Trust and Mistrust of Experts will be holding an event on October 29th, “Experts, Publics and Trust During the Pandemic: Sociological Perspectives." sawyerseminar.americanassembly.org/events/sociolo… @INCITE_Columbia @AmAssembly
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Background: Sociological Factors Related to Public (Mis)Trust of Experts During COVID-19 — Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Trust and Mistrust of Experts
The Mellon-Sawyer Seminar on Trust and Mistrust of Experts will be holding an October 29th event, “Experts, Publics and Trust During the Pandemic: Sociological Perspectives.” To help orient people with respect to some of the issues at stake, we’ve...
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Musa al-Gharbi
To help orient people with respect to some of the core issues at stake, we’ve compiled a set of accessible, concise, and compelling essays from mainstream media outlets illustrating some of the core tensions, and introducing key ideas and concepts
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How Democrats and Republicans Use Twitter
Entering the peak of the the 2020 election season, social media platforms are firmly entrenched as a venue for Americans to process campaign news and engage in various types of social activism. But not all Americans use these platforms in similar...
2020 Presidential Election Forecasting symposium
2020 Presidential Election Forecasting
Everything I Know About Elite America I Learned From ‘Fresh Prince’ and ‘West Wing’
Television taught me how to move between social classes — but at what cost?
Judgments of Economic Fairness Are Based More on Perceived Economic Mobility Than Perceived Inequality - Nicholas Heiserman, Brent Simpson, Robb Willer, 2020
Are judgments of the fairness of the American economy based on perceptions of economic inequality, mobility, or both? In two experiments, the authors varied inf...