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News framing contests are a central feature of Twitter, which is unsurprising given the unique ways that Twitter users engage with news. Twitter users are far more likely to use the platform to follow breaking news stories, directly follow reporters, and to engage with political news than Facebook users. At the same time, news personnel use Twitter as a source of news stories and to connect with interlocutors. Previous research has attempted to…

"Twitter Discourse and the New Digital Newsroom"
Megan Steele is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Georgia. Her primary research interests include the Family, Life Course, and Aging; Crime, Law, and Deviance; and Advanced Quantitative Methods. Her dissertation is tentatively titled, “A Test of Competing Pathways to Young Adulthood Violence.” In this work, she examines how factors associated with six theories of criminal behavior relate to intimate partner…

"A Test of Competing Pathways to Young Adulthood Violence"
Sociology is at the top of the list of academic underappreciated academic disciplines. As a consequence, sociologists, and their expertise, are overlooked in the development of strategic plans and crises mitigation doomed to fail if the people part of the model is not properly scoped or specified. Examples are many as human behavior, especially contingent, interactive, and aggregate human behavior, the focus of sociology, over and over again,…

"Presentation of Soc in the Wider World"
This project examines the methods used to test status characteristics and expectation states theory (SC-EST). Specifically, this project examines two things: (1) if the classic SC-EST laboratory experiment can be moved online; (2) if the tasks used in SC-EST experiments are equivalent at measuring gender-based discrimination. We find that the SC-EST education manipulation produces equivalent results in the online and laboratory environment,…

"Behavioral Experiments in the Online Setting and Studying Gender as a Status Characteristic"

“The End of College Football: On Harm and Exploitation in Big-Time College Sports.”

“The Encrypted State: Delusion and Displacement in the Peruvian Andes.”
*Sponsored by the Georgia Workshop on Culture, Power and History and the Willson Center for Humanities & Arts

“Drug War Capitalism, Disappearance & Community Resistance to Violence in Mexico.”

“Celebrity Culture During COVID-19: A Sociological Framework for Pandemic Times..”
*Sponsored by the Georgia Workshop on Culture, Power and History and the Willson Center for Humanities & Arts

“Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing.”
*Sponsored by the Georgia Workshop on Culture, Power and History and the Willson Center for Humanities & Arts

“Marijuana Boom, The Rise and Fall of Colombia's First Drug Paradise.”
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