{"id":7820,"date":"2025-01-27T12:47:22","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T17:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/?p=7820"},"modified":"2025-01-27T12:47:23","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T17:47:23","slug":"clippings-january-27th-2025-tsp-media-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2025\/01\/27\/clippings-january-27th-2025-tsp-media-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Clippings &#8211; January 27th, 2025 TSP Media Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium is-style-rounded\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2025\/01\/pexels-inga-sv-3371398-scaled.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2025\/01\/pexels-inga-sv-3371398-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7821\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2025\/01\/pexels-inga-sv-3371398-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2025\/01\/pexels-inga-sv-3371398-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2025\/01\/pexels-inga-sv-3371398-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2025\/01\/pexels-inga-sv-3371398-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2025\/01\/pexels-inga-sv-3371398-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In an opinion piece for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/14\/opinion\/dry-january-social-media-sober.html\"><em>The New York Times<\/em>,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/tressiemc.com\/\">Tressie McMillan Cottom<\/a> (Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina\u2019s School of Information and Library Science) discussed the phenomenon of \u201cDry January,\u201d reminding us that \u201canything that becomes popular has politics.\u201d McMillan Cottom explains the language we use to talk about \u201cclean living\u201d is binary (if you aren\u2019t clean, you\u2019re dirty) and morally loaded. Dry January \u201ctakes a choice and compels people to talk about it, to proselytize it, and ultimately to perform it.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium is-style-rounded\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2025\/01\/pexels-davidmcbee-730564-scaled.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2025\/01\/pexels-davidmcbee-730564-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7822\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2025\/01\/pexels-davidmcbee-730564-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2025\/01\/pexels-davidmcbee-730564-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2025\/01\/pexels-davidmcbee-730564-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2025\/01\/pexels-davidmcbee-730564-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2025\/01\/pexels-davidmcbee-730564-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sociology.dartmouth.edu\/people\/brooke-harrington\">Brooke Harrington<\/a> (Professor of Sociology at Dartmouth College) appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DvCmBOenfsQ\" data-rel=\"lightbox-video-0\"><em>The Daily Show<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em>to discuss the \u201cBroligarchy\u201d of tech billionaires present at Trump\u2019s inauguration. \u201cWe\u2019ve had oligarchs in the past in America. We\u2019ve had Carnegies, and we\u2019ve had Rockefellers. But aside from making sure they didn\u2019t get regulated or taxed too much, they kind of stuck to their own business. They just wanted to get rich,\u201d Harrington commented. \u201cBut the broligarchs really have an explicit political agenda. And it is essentially antidemocratic and almost monarchical.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium is-style-rounded\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2025\/01\/pexels-cottonbro-7596913-scaled.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2025\/01\/pexels-cottonbro-7596913-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7823\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2025\/01\/pexels-cottonbro-7596913-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2025\/01\/pexels-cottonbro-7596913-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2025\/01\/pexels-cottonbro-7596913-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2025\/01\/pexels-cottonbro-7596913-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2025\/01\/pexels-cottonbro-7596913-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2025\/01\/pexels-cottonbro-7596913-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pen.org\/a-sociologists-thoughts-on-how-disinformation-has-emerged-from-the-shadows\/\"><em>Pen America<\/em><\/a> interviewed <a href=\"https:\/\/joandonovan.org\/\">Joan Donovan<\/a> (Assistant Professor of Journalism and Emerging Media Studies in the College of Communications at Boston University and founder of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicinterestinter.net\/\">Critical Internet Studies Institute<\/a>) about how the proliferation of political disinformation online has shifted in the past decade and the role of disinformation in Trump\u2019s 2024 presidential campaign. \u201c[In] 2016, people are very focused on this notion of fake news. They realize that the internet is essentially full of spam, and there are different ways in which stories that are novel and outrageous are combined to create attention. \u2026 By 2020 though, things had really shifted. The tech companies are clamping down on anonymous accounts,\u201d Donovan explained. \u201cBetween November 2020 to January 6, 2021, we get a glimpse into the future of what social media offers as a tool for organizing society, and no longer are they relying on anonymous accounts to push this content.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium is-style-rounded\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2025\/01\/pexels-pixabay-73869.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-3\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2025\/01\/pexels-pixabay-73869-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7824\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2025\/01\/pexels-pixabay-73869-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2025\/01\/pexels-pixabay-73869-1024x738.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2025\/01\/pexels-pixabay-73869-768x553.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2025\/01\/pexels-pixabay-73869-1536x1106.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2025\/01\/pexels-pixabay-73869-2048x1475.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/meduza.io\/en\/feature\/2025\/01\/02\/the-most-difficult-year\"><em>Meduza<\/em><\/a> ran an article on how Ukraine has changed due to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine War. Volodymyr Paniotto (Ukrainian sociologist and Director of the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology) discussed shifting attitudes towards ending the war, trust in political figures, attitudes toward the Russian language, and how migration out of Ukraine has contributed to a demographic crisis. Paniotto also describes how \u201cnew grounds for social stratification have emerged over these few years. Now, what a person did and where they were during the war has become a dividing factor.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium is-style-rounded\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2025\/01\/pexels-alteredsnaps-15240770-scaled.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-4\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2025\/01\/pexels-alteredsnaps-15240770-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7825\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2025\/01\/pexels-alteredsnaps-15240770-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2025\/01\/pexels-alteredsnaps-15240770-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2025\/01\/pexels-alteredsnaps-15240770-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2025\/01\/pexels-alteredsnaps-15240770-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2025\/01\/pexels-alteredsnaps-15240770-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2025\/01\/pexels-alteredsnaps-15240770-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.soc.ucsb.edu\/people\/hannah-wohl\">Hannah Wohl <\/a>(Associate Professor of Sociology at UC-Santa Barbara) and <a href=\"https:\/\/mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu\/profile\/ldcamer\/\">Lindsey Cameron<\/a> (Assistant Professor of Management at the University of Pennsylvania) wrote an article for <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/unlikely-bedfellows-how-platform-companies-shortchange-porn-performers-and-ride-hailing-drivers-alike-246120\"><em>The Conversation<\/em><\/a> on the illusions of flexibility and autonomy for workers in the platformed gig economy. The authors compared experiences between ride-share drivers (Uber, Lyft) and porn performers (OnlyFans), finding that companies often promise flexible scheduling and the ability to turn down bad work offers. However, in practice, this autonomy is illusory; workers tend to accept whatever work they are offered, as companies are gatekeepers for work and workers don\u2019t have any guarantee of future gigs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium is-style-rounded\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2025\/01\/pexels-sora-shimazaki-5935755-scaled.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-5\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2025\/01\/pexels-sora-shimazaki-5935755-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7826\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2025\/01\/pexels-sora-shimazaki-5935755-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2025\/01\/pexels-sora-shimazaki-5935755-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2025\/01\/pexels-sora-shimazaki-5935755-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2025\/01\/pexels-sora-shimazaki-5935755-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2025\/01\/pexels-sora-shimazaki-5935755-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Mark Zuckerberg recently appeared on the Joe Rogan podcast, talking about how Meta will no longer moderate hate speech and misinformation. <a href=\"https:\/\/sociology.princeton.edu\/people\/zeynep-tufekci\">Zeynep Tufekci <\/a>(Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton) wrote an opinion piece for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/15\/opinion\/mark-zuckerberg-donald-trump.html?searchResultPosition=1\"><em>New York Times<\/em><\/a> in response, critiquing Zuckerberg&#8217;s \u201cposturing\u201d and discussing difficulties in moderating content and managing the relationship between private companies and government. \u201cHate speech in the 21st century is a complicated issue. We can\u2019t just moderate our way out of our very real conflicts over immigration, transgender rights, pandemic response and other issues,\u201d Tufekci explains, \u201cZuckerberg conveniently neglected to mention that Facebook profits off tribalizing, inflammatory, conspiratorial content, which has been shown to keep people scrolling. He is right, however, that \u2026 fact-checkers lost a good deal of public trust by overstepping their boundaries.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2217,"featured_media":7825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,13,85],"tags":[117369,117364,117362,116993,117356,117398,117394,117374,117377,117357,117393,95756,117384,43090,117387,117392,117385,117397,117366,117390,117380,117388,117389,117379,117391,116657,117358,117363,117383,117372,117386,117365,117367,117359,117396,117399,117382,117373,117370,117378,117368,117360,116469,116930,117395,117371,117361,117376,117375,117381,116665],"class_list":["post-7820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-inequality","category-politics","tag-anonymous-accounts","tag-antidemocratic-systems","tag-broligarchy","tag-brooke-harrington","tag-clean-living","tag-conspiratorial-content","tag-content-moderation-challenges","tag-critical-internet-studies","tag-demographic-crisis","tag-dry-january","tag-facebook-profits","tag-fake-news","tag-flexible-scheduling","tag-gig-economy","tag-hannah-wohl","tag-hate-speech","tag-illusions-of-autonomy","tag-inflammatory-content","tag-joan-donovan","tag-joe-rogan-podcast","tag-kyiv-international-institute-of-sociology","tag-lindsey-cameron","tag-mark-zuckerberg","tag-meduza","tag-meta-moderation","tag-misinformation","tag-moral-language","tag-oligarchs-in-america","tag-onlyfans-performers","tag-pen-america","tag-platform-gatekeeping","tag-political-agendas","tag-political-disinformation","tag-politics-of-health","tag-private-companies-and-government","tag-public-trust-in-fact-checking","tag-ride-share-drivers","tag-russia-ukraine-war","tag-social-media-organizing","tag-social-stratification","tag-spam-content","tag-tech-billionaires","tag-the-conversation","tag-tressie-mcmillan-cottom","tag-tribalizing-content","tag-trump-2024","tag-trump-inauguration","tag-ukrainian-migration","tag-volodymyr-paniotto","tag-worker-autonomy","tag-zeynep-tufekci"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2025\/01\/pexels-alteredsnaps-15240770-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7827,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7820\/revisions\/7827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}