Kevin Coe
Professor of Communication, University of Utah | Political communication, media, identity, democracy | Book: "The Ubiquitous Presidency" | Product of public schools
- Reposted by Kevin CoeThe worst happened. We were DOGE’d. Our NSF funding is gone. So now there’s nothing stopping me from sharing Expert Voices Together, a crisis response system for US-based researchers and journalists facing harassment. It's a true passion project. 🧵 1/ expertvoicestogether.org
- I spoke with Science about scholars—myself included—self-censoring. In my case, my team and I feared losing our NSF funding for Expert Voices Together (expertvoicestogether.org), a program, ironically, built to support researchers and journalists under attack. www.science.org/content/arti...
- Reposted by Kevin CoeReminder that there are 13 more days to apply to the 2025 APSA Political Communication Preconference. Join us in Vancouver! Please share widely.
- The call for papers for the APSA Political Communication Preconference in Vancouver is now open! Together with @ashleymuddiman.bsky.social and @patyrossini.bsky.social, we're thrilled to invite your submissions. 📅: May 25th, 2025, 11.59pm PDT (GMT-7) More information: u.osu.edu/apsa2025/
- Reposted by Kevin CoeLevitsky, Way, and Ziblatt: "No One Has Ever Defeated Autocracy From the Sidelines" www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o... (gift link) Key points: 1. We are now living under competitive authoritarianism. 2. We need ALL of civil society to resist the temptation of appeasement and defend democracy.
- Reposted by Kevin CoeWe are extremely pleased to announce the preliminary release of the combined pre-election and post-election dataset for the ANES 2024 Time Series Study! The data and documentation can be downloaded from the ANES website at: electionstudies.org/data-center/... Best, The ANES Team
- Reposted by Kevin Coe💸 APSA Political Communication Section Travel Funding Planning to attend the 2025 APSA conference or Political Communication Preconference in Vancouver? We’ve got funding to help and applications are now open! 🧵👇
- One of my favorite end-of-year rituals is cleaning out old hard-copy files. I just found a review I received in 2010: "I try to be charitable in writing rejection letters... But in this instance, I can't help but state unequivocally that this paper lacks merit or prospect." Nope, not equivocal!
- Reposted by Kevin CoeUpdate, 10:15 a.m. ET on April 24: The statement has now received 400 signatures and counting. As a reminder, you can read the complete statement at aacu.org/constructive-engagement
- Reposted by Kevin CoeI think a lot abt how marginalized people are expected to be perfect just to be treated w/ basic dignity, just to access legal protection. But democracy can’t mean rights for the respectable few. It has to mean fair and just treatment even for those seen as least deserving. That’s the real test.
- Reposted by Kevin CoeThe cfp for this year's @polcomm.bsky.social preconference at APSA is now open, and we are also organizing a mentoring scheme for early career scholars not willing/able to travel to Canada this year. Information below!
- The call for papers for the APSA Political Communication Preconference in Vancouver is now open! Together with @ashleymuddiman.bsky.social and @patyrossini.bsky.social, we're thrilled to invite your submissions. 📅: May 25th, 2025, 11.59pm PDT (GMT-7) More information: u.osu.edu/apsa2025/
- Reposted by Kevin CoeNothing says teaching critical thinking like state-level bans on what topics can be taught
- Reposted by Kevin CoeNew piece in The Nation arguing that we need public media more now than ever. We must defend what we have with an eye toward expanding and restructuring public media in the future.
- Reposted by Kevin CoeThe call for papers for the APSA Political Communication Preconference in Vancouver is now open! Together with @ashleymuddiman.bsky.social and @patyrossini.bsky.social, we're thrilled to invite your submissions. 📅: May 25th, 2025, 11.59pm PDT (GMT-7) More information: u.osu.edu/apsa2025/
- Reposted by Kevin CoeHi! Political science prof here. These essays - both @willbunch.bsky.social's and the one about the illiteracy of college students-are consistent with my experience. I've been at a large R1 state university for 20 years. Earned excellence in teaching award in 2014. Love these students. And yet...
- Here's a real "national emergency": College kids won't, and often can't, read a book from cover to cover. The rise of what one prof calls "functional illiteracy" in the iPhone Age is happening right when our imploding democracy needs critical thinkers My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/stud...
- Reposted by Kevin CoeAfter years of doubt, drafts, and disbelief, my first—and likely last—book is finally out. It’s about how entertainment shapes American politics. If you preorder (a.co/d/ctGUWkZ), I’d love to send a small token of thanks: forms.gle/1YrkYX2t2nPC...
- Great thread from @shannimcg.bsky.social on our new piece arguing for the need to better engage with identity in the study of political communication. A huge team effort that we're super proud of!
- 🧵1/ Once again, I am talking about identity in communication. In a new #openaccess piece, we argue that scholars cannot meaningfully understand political communication unless we center identity. Ignoring it means missing a huge piece of the puzzle. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Kevin Coe🧵1/ Once again, I am talking about identity in communication. In a new #openaccess piece, we argue that scholars cannot meaningfully understand political communication unless we center identity. Ignoring it means missing a huge piece of the puzzle. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Kevin CoeThe rhetorical victory is this: the proposal that we can and will outlast them.
- Reposted by Kevin CoeNot sure my university is “elite” but I am sure that my university is greatly enhanced by international students.
- "Last week, Vance said foreign students at elite U.S. universities are 'not just bad for national security,' but also 'bad for the American dream, for American kids who want to go to a nice university but can’t because their spot was taken by a foreign student.'" www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
- Reposted by Kevin CoeThe American National Election Study is an NSF funded publicly available, incredibly rich dataset that tracks American public opinion, vote choice and evaluations of government that has been in the field since 1948. It is an incredible resource for teaching and research and must be protected.
- Reposted by Kevin CoeIn a functioning democracy, a president who -tries to seize Congress's constitutional spending powers -attempts to rewrite the Constitution unilaterally -pardons violent insurrectionists who attacked the government -fires the Inspectors General and DOJ prosecutors would face immediate impeachment
- Reposted by Kevin CoeThe ICA Political Communication Division travel grants are open! Take a look at the application, especially presenting graduate students and early career faculty who are from countries ICA categorizes as B/C tier. I'd love to see you in Denver!
- 🛫ICA POLCOMM TRAVEL FUND🛬 Apply to the @icahdq.bsky.social PolComm Division's Travel Fund for the upcoming #ICA25 conference in Denver, Colorado. ⛰🇺🇸 Deadline: Feb 21, 2025. More info: politicalcommunication.org/upcoming-ica... Questions? @ashleymuddiman.bsky.social
- Reposted by Kevin Coe🏆2025 APSA PolComm Section Award Calls🏆 The calls for (self-) nominations for APSA's PolComm Section are now officially out. Please send these to the respective chairs. Deadline: March 1st. For more info, see our website and/or the thread below: politicalcommunication.org/awards/ 🧵⤵️
- My department at the University of Utah is hiring a teaching position (3/3 load; no research expectations) in strategic communication. Great department and SLC is an underrated place to live. I'm on the search committee and am happy to answer questions. Info here: careers.icahdq.org/jobs/view/as...
- Political Communication Report has become some of our subfield's most essential reading, and this new issue is no exception. Many thanks to @curdknupfer.bsky.social for his work to revitalize this important forum, and to all the excellent contributors!
- ✨Out now: The Fall Issue (Nr. 30) of the Political Communication Report!✨ “What does PolComm Stand for? Normative Dimensions of Political Communication Research & Theorizing” 📖 Full issue: politicalcommunication.org/issue/fall-2... A 🧵 on the essays featured in this issue:
- Reposted by Kevin CoeHey #Polcomm #Commsky etc. My 3-year tenure as webmaster and social media officer is coming to an end. The divisions are now creating two positions for the roles. Please help us get the word out! (And feel free to reach out to me, in case you have questions about these roles. TLDR: I ❤️ this gig!)
- 📣CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: APSA & ICA's PolComm Divisions are looking for a new... (1) Webmaster 💻 & (2) Social Media Officer🤳! ⏳Deadline: Friday, 10 January 2025. Full Call here: politicalcommunication.org/wp-content/u...
- Reposted by Kevin Coe🚨 List of journalism, #polcomm and #css (computational social science/NLP) conferences in 2025 (last updated 2024-12-09). docs.google.com/spreadsheets... This is a living document, so if there are updates or if you would like to mention conferences to be added, please let me know!
- Reposted by Kevin CoeI am teaching my presidency course again - last year's syllabus is here sites.dartmouth.edu/nyhan/files/... How should I change it to reflect the current moment? I have a class session on presidential power and norms at the beginning and two at the end on democratic erosion and possible reforms.
- Reposted by Kevin CoeJoin us! SMPA's hiring an Asst. Prof of political communication, with a focus on uses and/or effects of digital media for democracy, governance, and/or civic society. This position is aligned with GW's Institute for Data, Democracy, & Politics. www.gwu.jobs/postings/116... #polcom #commsky #polisky
- Reposted by Kevin Coe#TeamRhetoric and Poli Comm friends, share your latest book, article, blog post, podcast, etc.! We want to read what you've created that helps us understand, respond to, or strategize for our current political moment.
- Excited to head to #NCA2024 to present research on the effects of Clery safety alerts on campus. Spoiler: they're largely ignored. Side note for those attending: the U of Utah party on Friday night is offsite at Hotel Monteleone, which has a bar that looks like an old-fashioned carousel. Cheers!
- Reposted by Kevin Coe✨More Good NEWS✨ Our Divisions' BlueSky🦋 Feed has now replaced the defunct Twitter timeline on our official website! Go check it out: www.politicalcommunication.org
- Reposted by Kevin Coe📣U.S. Election Analysis 2024: Media, Voters and the Campaign🗳️ Free report featuring 88 articles from leading scholars with snap analysis and research insights on the 2024 U.S. General Election. 🔗https://www.electionanalysis.ws/us/ 📄https://bit.ly/USElectionAnalysis2024_Jackson-et_al_v1-COMPRESSED
- Reposted by Kevin CoeThis Bluesky follow finder is super neat. It finds folks you don’t follow who follow folks you follow. So it helps fill in your network. It’s the type of cool stuff enabled by an open ecosystem. bsky-follow-finder.theo.io
- Reposted by Kevin CoeThis was my post-election analysis that I tried to articulate in the immediate aftermath of the debacle last week: "Under media oligarchy: Profit and power trumped democracy once again" www.electionanalysis.ws/us/president...
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- Reposted by Kevin CoeI talked to Callie about why BlueSky’s got the juice — and why people are fleeing the hellsite #giftlink www.nytimes.com/2024/11/12/s...
- Reposted by Kevin CoeWelcome to all of our new followers! We conduct research and engage on topics related to political leadership, information and content environments, and how communities connect to democracy. We are a Florida-based research center with national and international reach. Let’s build community!
- Reposted by Kevin Coe✨Introducing the POLCOMM WHO-TO-FOLLOW List✨ (Bluesky Edition) bsky.app/profile/did:... Please respond to this post, in case you would like to be added!
- Reposted by Kevin CoeSo I'm going to do a short thread about my book from a decade ago, which does a deep dive into how presidents and those around them- including news media - think and talk about elections www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801...
- Reposted by Kevin CoeProud to have organized this forum w/ friends @qrdknpfr.bsky.social and @dkreiss.bsky.social inspired by some big questions we’ve been asking about how to better define, theorize and study the far-right. We invited four incredible scholars working from different paradigms on this question to join us
- Reposted by Kevin CoeThe election was the very last straw. No more X for me! Hoping to build an academic community here at bluesky 🦋
- This excellent edited collection, Social Processes of Online Hate, now has a website that includes brief video summaries of each chapter, as well as links to every chapter (all open access). Really a great resource: cmcresearch.org/online_hate/
- Excited to have a chapter in Joe Walther and Ron Rice's new edited volume, Social Processes of Online Hate. The whole book is open access, and there's lots of excellent research in it. Check it out: doi.org/10.4324/9781...
- Reposted by Kevin CoeReupping this. I did a medium-dive into how Republican current and former officials have defected from Trump in the past 2 presidential elections and what is -and is not - different this time, and the prospects for an anti-MAGA majority coalition.
- I've got a new piece up at the LSE American politics blog about Republicans for Harris blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...
- Reposted by Kevin CoeIf you live in one of these 10 states (AZ, TX AR, MS, FL, GA, TN, KY, IN, OH), today is THE LAST DAY you can register to vote. Even if you think you're registered already, double check to see if your registration is still active. Please do this, it only takes a few minutes. Pass it on.
- The University of Utah Asia Campus in South Korea is such a wonderful place. Congratulations to everyone there as you celebrate the program's 10-year anniversary! asiacampus.utah.edu/asia-campus-...
- Reposted by Kevin CoeMy new Cambridge Element is FREE for the next few weeks. It takes on an important question: does the media's obsession with covering misinformation have the unintentional effect of eroding trust? I'll give some answers in this thread... www.cambridge.org/core/element...
- Reposted by Kevin CoeI’m excited to share that the Researcher Support Consortium (RSC) has officially launched! The RSC is a response to the growing number of academic researchers who are facing campaigns of intimidation and harassment for their important public interest work. researchersupport.org 1/
- The last time my house had a campaign yard sign was Mondale/Ferraro when I was 4 years old.
- Reposted by Kevin CoeKamala learned she was running for president 6 weeks ago. Since then she’s raised like $700 million dollars, presided over the best run convention I’ve ever seen, picked the perfect running mate, obliterated Donald Trump in a debate, and earned a full-throated, coordinated Taylor Swift endorsement
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- Reposted by Kevin CoePOLCOMM FRIDAY @ #APSA2024! 🥳 Don't forget about the #PolComm business meeting, happening today at 6:30! And our reception (together with our @apsaitp.bsky.social friends) at 7:30! Yay!🥂
- Reposted by Kevin CoeJust in time for #APSA2024, here’s Race and Ethnicity as Foundational Forces in Political Communication, co-edited by me and @danlane.bsky.social! Available now at www.routledge.com/Race-and-Eth...
- Diana Zulli and I are seeking brief chapters for an edited volume, Teaching Political Communication, forthcoming in Elgar Guides to Teaching. If you've taught pol com or a related class and have ideas about how to deal with the present challenges, please submit! drive.google.com/file/d/1QwbO...
- Reposted by Kevin CoeHeading to #APSA2024 next week? Don't forget to pack your handy 1p #PolComm Panels at a glance! 🗓️👀👍 Download the PDF Version here: politicalcommunication.org/wp-content/u...
- Great opportunities to serve, please spread the word!
- 📢 APSA POLCOMM SECTION: CALL FOR NOMINATIONS🗳️ The American Political Science Association Political Communication Section is now accepting nominations for leadership positions for the 2024-2025 term! 📅 politicalcommunication.org/wp-content/u...
- Reposted by Kevin CoeKathleen Searles and I have been researching how to better support and protect colleagues who face backlash when they share their expertise publicly. We prepared this tip sheet for academics who are likely to be doing public-facing engagement this election season. Please share widely.
- Excited to have a chapter in Joe Walther and Ron Rice's new edited volume, Social Processes of Online Hate. The whole book is open access, and there's lots of excellent research in it. Check it out: doi.org/10.4324/9781...
- Reposted by Kevin CoeComputational Political Scientists: @EthanBusby and I are organizing a CWC at @spsanews on Generative Language Models. Apply by August 16; Conference in Puerto Rico Jan 8 - 11. Please apply and circulate widely! forms.gle/vJoU2ZaMp773... polisky
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- Reposted by Kevin CoeJoin our fabulous Journalism Studies Division panels and sessions at #ica24 in Gold Coast, Australia! Below are all our sessions for Monday, June 24. You can download our handy at-a-glance-PDF guide of all our #ica sessions here: www.icahdq.org/blogpost/151...
- Excellent new issue of Political Communication Report now available. Thanks to @qrdknpfr.bsky.social and all the contributors! politicalcommunication.org/article/pcr-...
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- PolComm Student & Early Career Meetup at #ICA24! Join us on Sat., June 22, from 6-7:30 pm for an evening of networking, canapés, & drinks! We will also invite senior scholars to serve as mentors in this session. Please register using this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
