Lindsey Meeks

Happy to announce that TCU's Schieffer College of Communication is launching a Ph.D. in Communication and Media, with our inaugural cohort starting Fall 2027. Read more about the program here: schieffercollege.tcu.edu/news/regions...

We used to have early voting at TCU and Southwest Regional Library plus sometimes some other schools and churches. GOP county commission cut early voting locations in half earlier this year. fortworthreport.org/2026/10/13/f...

Early voting has started in Texas. And they make it so hard. There’s not a single polling station in the Fort Worth area bordered by I-30, I-35, I-20 and Chisholm Trail Parkway. That’s the TCU, Colonial, Zoo, Clearfork area, major residential with biggest high schools in town.

I’m sorry to have to be the bad guy here but we need to recognize that we live in a compressed air thrusters world now. If you’re not finding ways to teach the critical use of compressed air thrusters in your classroom, you’re setting your students up to fail when you could be setting them up to fly

It's Banned Books Week & our report is out! They say everything is bigger in Texas & that includes book bans. TX leads the country in removing & restricting books in libraries. Read more about our report, how we gathered the data, & the full report on our website. www.txftrp.org/one_year_of_...

It's the end of an era. The Social Media Collective is shutting down. Thanks to everyone who was a part of this crazy endeavor, but especially @nancybaym.bsky.social, Tarleton Gillespie, and @marylgray.bsky.social. I adore you all! socialmediacollective.org/2026/09/23/s...

Apply for @snfagora.bsky.social 's Postdoctoral Fellowship by November 5. See details here! snfagora.jhu.edu/fellowships-...

AOC "knows broaching the roles of race and gender in politics can be unpopular...'If you’re asking me about the things that I weigh, of course, that’s part of what I weigh...It’s funny because it’s kind of like, everyone else is allowed to talk about it, but I’m not?' www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/u...

When I first wrote about the First Amendment and the White House press pool for the textbook about a decade ago, it was only a few grafs. Now it's a much longer passage. Here's an excerpt with my comments about the CNN/Politico/MS Now ban and lawsuit. medialawprof.medium.com/press-pools-...

If you graduated between Dec. 2022 and May 2026 in journalism or a related field and currently work or have previously worked full time for a news organization in Oklahoma for at least six months, please consider taking part in this study and passing it on to folks who may qualify!

The first Latina elected to U.S. Senate was just 10 years ago.

PhD students (& new PhDs): I'm hiring a postdoc at Cornell (Ithaca) to conduct a novel study at the intersection of political economy and tech. Applications are due Oct 16. There are a LOT more details in the job ad so make sure to read it thoroughly: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32502

Every time I teach Media Literacy, I ask students what they think are the top 3-5 news stories since 2000. I usually have the top 10 but this year it is only 9 because of so little consensus. And yes, for 9, they wrote "prez elections," not any in particular, so I wasn't forcing it to be a catchall.

“Research participants reported experiencing sexism from their colleagues and sources that manifested in condescending attitudes, pseudo-protectionism and hostile sexism hindering women journalists’ ability to participate in the public debate and perform professional practices.”

"Naval aviators are repeatedly exposed to body-crushing forces as they catapult off aircraft carriers and pull high G-force turns in training. The Navy has never studied how those forces over time affect the human brain..." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u...

UW-Madison professor engages in multiple sexual relationships with students, disparages another over their sexual orientation and appearance, creates hostile environment, and department leadership covers it all up. And in true “pass the trash” fashion, moves on to ASU once forced to resign.

PhD candidates/new grads: Postdoc opportunity with me focused on political economy and tech. See details here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32502

Asked my undergraduate Media Literacy class if they had heard of the Meta settlement. Nope. They were pretty cynical about it resulting in much.

When political parties use AI images they need to label them, according to the EU AI Act. More fundamentally they should ask themselves if they really want to contribute to the authenticity blur. I comment on a recent case in Danish politics here @ddc-sdu.bsky.social www.dr.dk/nyheder/poli...

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

When I was a kid visiting my dad's family in Mississippi, they asked who was favorite singer was. I said, "Polly Darton," and they all laughed while I had no clue of my little slip up. Rest in power and all the good you did for this world, Dolly.

We've been getting a lot of questions about how the Internet Archive digitizes books. The short answer: page by page, by hand. You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it. Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books: blog.archive.org/2021/02/09/m...

"Patients should never feel they need to hide their emotions in order to appear agreeable, minimize their symptoms in order to be taken seriously or apologize for their pain." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/o...

NYT lede: "Giorgia Meloni, daughter of the extreme right..." There's a lot in this article but I am just pausing hard on the "daughter" part. She's not the mother of it, as in wasn't the architect, but what does it mean to be the daughter of it? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/w...

"...colleges should redouble their efforts to reach young people, educate them and assist them as they navigate the registration and voting process. They should not just teach students about their democratic rights; they should help students realize them." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/19/o...

The aircraft carrier has been deployed for nearly nine months.

We have an AI news site in Austin and you might have one too … thanks to Maggie Quinlan with @austinchronicle.bsky.social for covering this and for going “down the rabbit hole” with me … www.austinchronicle.com/news/ai-news...

Given everything going on in Texas around education, glad to hear @kera.org brought on an early education reporter in July. www.keranews.org/sujata-dand-3

@kera.org loss $2.8M in fed funding, had a huge surge in public donations after fed cuts and ended the 25-26FY with operating budget surplus. They are operating as though fed funding will not come back and are using the surplus to ride out potential ebbs in public donations in years 2/3 post cuts.

I wanna make sure everyone understands what this means: when you pull TikTok data for the same hashtag at the same time using the official API and a scraping tool, you'll get two completely different datasets.

We got new research out today y'all--if you study TikTok, buckle up because we found something wilddddd... arxiv.org/abs/2608.09917 (accepted @ ICWSM 2027)

Looking forward to joining the @kera.org State of the Station virtual conversion today. It will cover where KERA stands one year after losing federal funding and what lies ahead. #SupportPublicMedia #SupportLocalMedia

What swag do you actually like and/use?

People think "Hollywood" is rich and famous. The reality? Film and TV is a national industry. It's a blue collar industry. And it is an industry free fall. My latest for @newrepublic.com on how the Paramount merger would crush blue collar workers who can not afford it newrepublic.com/article/2136...

🚨Job Alert!🚨 Assistant/Associate Professor of Human Communication and Technology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Come join us here in Silicorn Valley! Deadline Sept. 15. #AcademicSky #AcademicJobs illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Someone posted this in slack and I actually thought it was The Onion. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Among other documented gender-based biases and issues, AI is also intensifying violence against women and girls in digital spaces. www.unwomen.org/en/news-stor...

Really enjoyed this @99pi.org episode on CanCon and the MAPL test. Dear future Media Literacy students, be ready for this to be on your playlist...I mean reading list. The briefest of mentions of MuchMusic at the end sent me into full-blown nostalgia. 99percentinvisible.org/article/mapl...

I would like to amend the quote about war being how Americans learn geography. Sub "World Cup" in for "war." We have pulled the globe out at the dining table multiple times already for the kiddos (and ourselves).

Really interesting. Liable for content! The court treated the AI overviews as Google's own content and rejected Google's argument that users were responsible for fact-checking the results themselves the-decoder.com/landmark-ger...

I remember this as one of the first times my fanship became very political.

In the end we were just his latest casino and whatnot.

“Beyond the first few weeks after delivery, no single clinician owns accountability for the mother’s recovery…Her baby will see a pediatrician 7+ times in the first year of life. Whether the mother sees a doctor will depend largely on whether something goes wrong” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/o...