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Dr. Danna Young🇺🇸✌🏻

@dannagal

3 years

I've received several DMs from friends asking what do to about parents/family members who believe misinformation regarding the election, vaccines and COVID. Here's a research-based thread to help explain the roots of these beliefs and how to (and how *not* to) address them. 1/

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@dannagal

4 years

If you are interested in moving lecture courses online for the next few weeks and are able to use Zoom... here is a cheat sheet:

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Dr. Danna Young🇺🇸✌🏻

@dannagal

2 years

*sigh* …He is so close… The NYT series about TC’s racism and authoritarianism IS an analysis of why he is popular.

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@dannagal

4 years

I've been thinking about why many of us are so passionate and vocal about the #FlattenTheCurve concept with regards to slowing the #coronavirus spread. I think for many of us with experience with the deaths of loved ones from cancer or heart disease, there is something...1/

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Dr. Danna Young🇺🇸✌🏻

@dannagal

4 years

@jonmladd Melania will be fine. She is always >6 rooms away from Donald.

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Dr. Danna Young🇺🇸✌🏻

@dannagal

2 years

Hi. I think this fact bears repeating in light of reporting on Uvalde: The media's bias in favor of specific events/stories about individual people contributes to a way of thinking about the world that emphasizes the role of the individual over systemic solutions... 🧵

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Dr. Danna Young🇺🇸✌🏻

@dannagal

3 years

Hi. I have a Ph.D. and I just had to Google: "What is the plural of 'bus'?"

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Dr. Danna Young🇺🇸✌🏻

@dannagal

4 years

"If, after having concentrated all the powers of government, [Americans] should vest them in the hands of an irresponsible person or body of persons. Of all the forms that democratic despotism could assume, [this] would assuredly be the worst." Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835

Ivanka Trump

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“A decline of public morals in the United States will probably be marked by the abuse of the power of impeachment as a means of crushing political adversaries or ejecting them from office.” Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835

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Dr. Danna Young🇺🇸✌🏻

@dannagal

4 years

Been thinking on #mayorpete ’s super powers as a Fox News disruptor. I think he recognizes that Fox News traffics in emotions & peripheral cues, not logical argumentation. This means that HOW you say what you say can open up the possibility of introducing belief-discordant info

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4 years

@mkguliford What is amazing is how calm and pleasant he looks while he’s being so savage.

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Dr. Danna Young🇺🇸✌🏻

@dannagal

2 years

Today is going to be maddening. Journalists will be tempted to cover the Jan 6 hearings like they cover everything else: as a strategic game between two political sides, downplaying anything “we already knew” and framing it in terms of “how it will play for Dems in the midterms”

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Dr. Danna Young🇺🇸✌🏻

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2 years

@jrosen476 YES: the "common sense" argument is powerful when you haven't yet developed the tools to think systemically or critically about complex problems. Note that "common sense" is the epistemology of authoritarian populists, too.

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Dr. Danna Young🇺🇸✌🏻

@dannagal

3 years

Therefore, the only *real* inroads that can be made are through emotional connections with loving, trusted contacts rooted NOT in information but in emotional connection and inquiry. I know. People rolls their eyes when I say this. Yes. It's fucking hard.

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Dr. Danna Young🇺🇸✌🏻

@dannagal

4 years

Because, coronavirus is lethal for many, but it is not a mystery lurking within us. Unlike cancer or a brain tumor, it is something over which we actually DO have *some* agency. We know how to slow its devastating effects. We know how to #FlattenTheCurve

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@dannagal

3 years

And before you yell at me that we shouldn't have to do this - Yeah. no shit. but apparently we do if we want relationships with these folks and we want to keep our loved ones to exist in the reality-based community.

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Dr. Danna Young🇺🇸✌🏻

@dannagal

3 years

@brianstelter @eramshaw @JamieStelter Same. I think realizing that we were living far beyond our natural capacity for... everything... is a good thing. And we can choose to do things differently. I imagine many employers will need to contend with these evolving needs of their work force.

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@dannagal

2 years

At some point I hope Americans recognize that public service in a democracy requires a humanitarian philosophy and selfless orientation to the world that is antithetical to the ethos of today’s fame-hungry capitalist “success stories”

Patrick Chovanec

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Musk appears to confirm he is cutting off Starlink service to Ukraine over a Twitter tiff.

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@dannagal

3 years

One of the things we are wrestling with in the misinformation/conspiracy theory research is that counter-information ("corrective info," EMPIRICALLY TRUE FACTUAL EVIDENCE) has VERY LITTLE effect on people's beliefs when those beliefs are rooted in political/social identity. 2/

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@dannagal

3 years

My dad told me this insane story tonight. When he was managing a small US fish hatchery, the State Department requested that he ship 1000 pounds of rainbow trout (LIVE TROUT) to the Azores. Which is far away...

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Dr. Danna Young🇺🇸✌🏻

@dannagal

2 years

@LivFaustDieJung I’m sorry you don’t think 17 year olds are capable of introspection.

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Dr. Danna Young🇺🇸✌🏻

@dannagal

3 years

Suggestion: when dealing with social/cultural conservative folks, don't say "I read that ...Tucker Carlson makes $6 million a year." or "I saw an article that say that..." Because then the response is "you probably read it in the fake news." Present it as TRUTH, not as evidence.

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@dannagal

3 years

With interpersonal relationships, the key is to capitalize on the love and trust that exists between individual people. In my experience, playing dumb and neutral and open-hearted goes a long way here.

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@dannagal

3 years

FAUCI ON FIRE: "One of the new things in this administration: If you don't know the answer... don't guess."

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@dannagal

3 years

"I totally understand your concerns. The world is upside down and it's hard to know what info to trust. Ultimately, it's your decision. I would just hate to see you unable to participate in your old favorite activities or unable to see friends because you don't get vaccinated."

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Dr. Danna Young🇺🇸✌🏻

@dannagal

3 years

Got my letter from the @UDelaware college of arts and sciences promotion and tenure committee recommending me for promotion to full professor. Unanimous upvote and I’m on my way. I didn’t realize how good it would feel to get through this step. ❤️

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@dannagal

3 years

NEW TITLE WHO DIS?🎇🎆🎇🎆 Signed, FULL PROFESSOR DANNA YOUNG

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Dr. Danna Young🇺🇸✌🏻

@dannagal

4 years

Acknowledging that the cluster of (very preventable) COVID cases in the WH is the direct result of this admin’s disregard for science & flippant messaging is not “politicizing” these events. It is placing them in the appropriate context. They did not get stuck by lightning.

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@dannagal

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I would be lying if I said that this is not stupidly meaningful to me right now. Lots of things are shit. But the fact that I can talk to the public about the nature of this mediated political moment WHILE getting praise for my room's aesthetics from @ratemyskyperoom ? PINCH ME

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3 years

This is 3rd or 4th room we’ve seen from @dannagal who now has the best cumulative score among political science profs. 10/10

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@dannagal

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For example, if your parents trust Trump and they distrust science/media/courts as institutions, and they identify w people/groups who think of themselves as "in the know" and "have the real truth," then using information and argumentation and evidence is unlikely to move them.

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This is so so frustrating. It's crazy-making. It's worse than banging your head against the wall. HOWEVER, it's not a lost cause.

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@dannagal

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In other words, for many of these folks, the evidence, the science, the facts... really don't matter.

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Dr. Danna Young🇺🇸✌🏻

@dannagal

3 years

Asking broader questions can help, too, always prefaced with a line that serves as an emotional "welcome mat:" "I understand you're angry. If I were in your shoes I would be mad, too. But what if the people working to make you angry have something to gain from your anger?"

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@dannagal

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I'm not talking about engaging lovingly with the crazy dude at the gas station who's telling you to take off your mask cause COVID is a hoax. I'm talking about your friends and family who have been lost to this elite-driven (read: Trump) conpiratopia.

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@dannagal

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Maybe tapping into NOT empirical scientific evidence, but powerful emotional and visual cues: "I have friends who are nurses & doctors who were so overwhelmed with gratitude when getting the vaccine that they wept. They see it as something that will really save lives."

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@dannagal

3 years

I'm now realizing that this thread is just another version of the TED Talk I gave this fall. Just with more swears.

The psychological traits that shape your political beliefs

Social psychologist Dannagal G. Young breaks down the link between our psychology and politics, showing how personality types largely fall into people who prioritize openness and flexibility (liber...

www.ted.com

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@dannagal

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Any other academics out there vacillate between “I can do anything including write a book in 6 months” to “everything thing is too hard, including showering.” ...in a predictable pattern that ebbs and flows in a several-months long cycle?

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@dannagal

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... could stop that diagnosis from coming at all. I would hope that you'd do that for my loved ones. And I will do that for yours.

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We have agency in this equation. Each of us has the ability to stop behaviors (travel, interactions in groups) and start behaviors (rigorous hand-washing, etc) to slow its spread.

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@dannagal

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❤️To my beloved grad students in Communication… *this* (gestures widely) is why we don’t study specific platforms, but rather the underlying processes and affordances that shape how platforms engage with, attract, connect, and affect users.

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Since psychological reactance is HUGE with folks who feel disrespected and maligned, the key is to establish the conditions to allow them to let guards down.

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I beg of my friends in journalism: Please do not do this. Instead, think in the terms that @BrendanNyhan always reminds us of: “What would you say if you saw this in another country?” How would you cover this story, it’s HISTORY & POLITICAL CONTEXT to *explain* it to people.

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@dannagal

3 years

Ok apparently y'all don't know either! It's "buses" but my favorite response is this one:

Mike H

@shadows_light1

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@dannagal Beese

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@dannagal

3 years

Lots of these folks are deeply distrusting of institutions and elites (except Trump cause he plays into ALLLL of this and pretends he's ONE of them. typical populist demagogue shit... Follow and read @jenmercieca for how he does this).

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@dannagal

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Slowing its spread will help to keep the number of sick people at any one time within the constraints of our hospital infrastructure. This means people who get sick will have access to ventilators etc and it will increase their chances of survival.

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@dannagal

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"There is truth and there are lies. Lies told for power and for profit." INJECT THIS IN MY VEINS (along with my COVID vaccine)

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@dannagal

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I went to bed at 9 pm. I slept until 11 am. I am pretty down the last few days, friends. Putting it out here cause I’m sure I am not alone.

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@dannagal

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So the key is to diffuse that process before it starts. In health communication, campaign developers often do this by embedding information in stories and soap operas...

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@dannagal

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ps: If you read this and think I'm saying you have to invest in your relationship with your hateful, racist, homophobic uncle... uh no. This is for those folks who are struggling to connect with beloved family members who have fallen down a RW rabbit hole in last few years.

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@dannagal

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Rainbow Trout Fishing is very popular in the Azores. THANKS DAD!!!

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It also might help to tap into possible other trusted elite sources. Do they trust their general practitioners? Often times even conspiracy theorists trust THEIR OWN doctors.

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Psychological reactance is a combination of anger and active counter-argumentation to incoming information. It's a nightmare for persuasion campaigns.

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@dannagal

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Maybe something like, "I hear you. These are scary times. Have you asked Doctor XX what he/she thinks you should do? Maybe ask the doctor if they themselves got vaccinated..."

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"Mom, did you know Tucker Carlson makes $6 million a year?" (again. Wide-eyed. No judgment.)

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@PhillyJoeD I hear this... note my son didn't say people were involved in alt right... but rather they find themselves in the pipeline... where, absent disruptive forces, they could easily get swept up.

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@dannagal

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Let me introduce you to a novel concept: It’s called a denominator.

Charlie Kirk

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The highest homeless population in the United States New York City 76,501 Los Angeles 55,188 Seattle 11,643 Washington D.C. 7,473 San Jose 7,394 San Francisco 6,858 Philadelphia 5,693 What do they all have in common? All have Democrat mayors All voted for Hillary by 80%

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Weird to watch these people who drape themselves in the flag (often literally) and yet actively seek to destroy American democracy.

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Scientists: Here’s what the universe looks like. Everybody: Amazing! You brilliant! Social scientists: Here’s why humans think/act the way they do. Everybody: No.

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@dannagal

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Here is my piece in @voxdotcom . I hope you and the people you love find it helpful.❤️ “I was a conspiracy theorist, too” via @voxdotcom

"I was a conspiracy theorist, too"

I know why people turn to conspiracy theories in uncertain times. I did the same when my husband had a brain tumor.

www.vox.com

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@dannagal

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... fascinating about the notion of slowing or preventing the spread of something that might result in death of other people. Coronavirus comes from other people. It comes from the outside. But it's not inevitable that it will come.

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Again: wide-eyed, curious, playing dumb. "Why does Tucker Carlson say immigrants make America "dirtier," mom?"

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Slowing its spread also means that some people who *otherwise would get exposed to and get sick from* the virus WILL NOT.

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The racial component to all of this is the hardest part. I don't claim to know the answers here. My only suggestion is that proud people do not want to be someone else's pawn. And exploiting white Americans' fear of black and brown bodies is the oldest play in the book...

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@dannagal

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Cheers from Cape May, America! 🇺🇸 ❤️ 🥂

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@dannagal

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This all feeds into their need to believe in alternative narratives and conspiracy theories because the mainstream press, and mainstream institutions are out to get them (or keep them down). So, any information or evidence that comes from or through these institutions is suspect.

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And ps for those making assumptions…I grew up in hunting family and I am a 2nd amendment supporter…With background checks, waiting periods, red flag laws, licenses, and a ban on assault style weapons cause no one can eat a deer that’s been torn up by a 9 mm

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@dannagal

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Imagine that. So here, as CRAZY as it sounds, we have an equation that is similar to that... except the people who would be saved are probably older or sicker than Mike was. But does that matter? It doesn't matter. We, by suspending our conveniences, our travel, our work...

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@dannagal

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This is context within which social media operate in the US. When FB says “there’s high vaccination rates in Canada and UK, so FB isn’t responsible for the US situation” it willfully ignores this hyper-social, political, cultural context that INTERACTS w FB logics to amplify lies

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Vaccination rate correlates with POTUS vote down to the county level. Hard to see this and assume politics and media diets have nothing to do with vaccine decisions. Turning Fauci into a caricatured villain, wanting Biden to fail, Fox blaring conspiracy theories: all factors. 6/x

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And in the end, it turned out that social science was the hardest science of all.

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What if someone said, hey danna: If you and Mike stop going to work, stop taking trips and just snuggle at home with your baby for the next 20 days THEN... instead of getting diagnosed with a brain tumor that will steal his major functions and kill him... he WON'T get it at all.

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These stories also require journalists to ditch the "both sides" bullshit if they have any hope of explaining what is actually going on - at both the state and federal levels.

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A bit fat thank you to this guy who drove in front of us on the highway so I now have a royalty free picture I can include in my book. Photo credit: my ten year old daughter

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@dannagal

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After my CNN appearance today I got this... so I must be doing something right. I wrote back and said “Thank you so much for taking the time to reach out!!!” It takes a certain kind of profound sadness and anger to send this to a stranger. What a pity.

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Because I met my husband after I had a TT job, I get to live very close to his (now my) giant family. Most academics in TT jobs will not know the joy of casually running into your sister-in-law & two little nieces & hearing “Hi Aunt Danna! I luff you!” across the aisles of Target

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This entire speech is designed to reinforce resentment, distrust, fear, anger, and deep feelings of social and cultural animus.

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@dannagal

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And while it is likely true that individual level failures worsened this attack and that changes will need to be made for future shootings, focusing on police failures on the day of the shooting will not put a dent in what is our cultural crisis of gun violence.

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@dannagal

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Teen son keeps calling me “boomer.” Me: “Do you even know what a boomer is? It’s people born right after WWII. I was born in 76. I’m not a boomer. I’m Gen X”. Him: “...Which is exactly something a boomer would say.”

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Thematically framed stories would cover the history of guns in the US. The drop in mass shootings after the assault weapons ban in 1994, the data illustrating the clear link between gun prevalence to gun deaths, and the negative link between gun restrictions and gun deaths.

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Example. Imagine a parent who doesn't want to get vaccinated because they believe all sorts of crazy stuff about the vaccine:

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@dannagal

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So, of COURSE data and facts and empirical evidence is going to be ineffectual. It's about what "FEELS RIGHT." and what "FEELS WRONG." Which means these beliefs are guided by values, social identity, and cues in their environment that SIGNAL to them what is true.

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So I think to myself, What if someone had said to me on October 1, 2005 that by altering my life in small ways, Mike would NOT get a brain tumor. or if other people altered their lives in small ways, Mike would NOT get a brain tumor.

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So to reclaim these beloved friends and family, it's about diluting these forces with new ones (or old ones): Values: family & friendship Social identity: mother, sister, father, friend Signals: from loving non-judging loved ones Emotions: love, caring, respect

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Thematically framed stories would also discuss how the GOP has embedded gun ownership into their Republican IDENTITY which makes evidenced-based arguments challenging.

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Tonight my 84 yr old mom said : “that’s when the rabbit died…” in reference to learning she was pregnant with me. Am I the only one unaware that until the 70s a “pregnancy test” meant doctors injecting women’s’ urine into rabbits then checking the size of their ovaries? WTAF?

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Because of the world they are in right now the most salient constructs within each of these categories is likely: Values: traditionalism & nationalism Social identity: MAGA conservative Republican Real American Signals: from Trump, OANN, FOX, Newsmax Emotions: Anger, resentment

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Another piece of this puzzle that I find helpful comes from some wonderful work by @RKellyGarrett and Brian Weeks. Some folks are more likely to draw conclusions about the world best on their GUT. What FEELS right. Not on empirical evidence, but on intuition...

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@dannagal

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Just threw this slide together with recent headlines that took me 5 minutes to find. American democracy is f*cked until journalists decide to center democracy - not party warfare - in their political coverage.

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@dannagal

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🚨Something I’d love for us to think and talk about as we enter 2024 is how democracy isn’t a “thing,” but a *practice*. America isn’t a democracy because we say it is. It is a democracy because we do the work to make it one… 🧵

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@dannagal

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...into a broader framework. Thematically framed stories on the other hand, might start out with the details of an event, but connect that event to history, politics, economics, & culture in ways that allow us to think more broadly about ways to solve whatever crisis is at hand.

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@dannagal

2 years

These episodic stories take us further away from a needed discussion of the systemic factors that are responsible for the complex phenomenon of gun violence in the US. Thematically framed stories are a SLOG. But they are how societies address societal problems.

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@dannagal

3 years

Values. Social identity. Signals. Emotions.

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@dannagal

2 years

V sort of lip syncing along to these Lizzo lyrics is what the world needs today❤️

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@daydrmgrande

2 years

@lizzo YES

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@dannagal

4 years

Until we’re 14-28 days past: -That airport clusterf*ck -Spring break debauchery -Everyone finally deciding To STAY THE FUCK INSIDE... ...we have no idea the havoc this will wreak. Except for necessary groceries and to walk alone outside, I am STAYING INSIDE. Who is with me?

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@dannagal

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And if the "individual level" solution to gun violence that Americans land on is "more guns in the hands of Americans to protect themselves from all this gun violence" then.. we're super f*cked. And THAT is my expert opinion.

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@dannagal

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For years communication scholars have researched differences in public opinion that result from what are called episodically and thematically framed news stories... Episodically framed stories are about discrete events, individual people, and do not contextualize the story...

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@dannagal

2 years

This is how to visualize data.

Carl Nasman

@CarlNasman

2 years

“It’s just summer.” 🙄

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@dannagal

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Overwhelmed. Holding my new book in my hands for the first time. I wanted to help people understand how the dynamics all around us (including journalism, partisan media, politicians, social media) are working together to drive us apart, and that we hold the key to fix it.

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@dannagal

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Based research on the psychology of social/cultural conservatism, it would seem that these gut-driven processors are also more likely to be high in need for closure and prone to heuristic decision-making... which clusters on the side of social/cultural conservatives.

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@dannagal

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For the audience, the "bad cops" story is also comforting because it tells us that if we just “have better cops” it won’t be repeated. Which, given the timeline of the shootings last week, seems to be a false claim anyhow.

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@dannagal

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Discussing the Uvalde story episodically - exclusively as the result of individual failures of individual people - is journalistically easy. It also has compelling visuals to accompany the story, and satisfies the need for "characters" and interpersonal conflict.

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Dr. Danna Young🇺🇸✌🏻

@dannagal

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The death of local newspapers is a democratic crisis.

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@dannagal

2 years

But focusing on these episodic elements to the exclusion of systemic factors will contribute to Americans thinking about school shootings more in terms of "police response," "security in schools," and the need to "arm teachers."

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