Ayse (Aisha) Lokman

🚨New in Communication Methods & Measures with @drorwalter.bsky.social !!!🚨 Our article Topic Modeling of Video and Image Data: A Visual Semantic Unsupervised Approach introduces VisTopics, a Python package for analyzing large-scale visual datasets: lnkd.in/d8BgjTJ4 and Package: lnkd.in/dvvRbRZC

Humbled and honored to be a part of this cohort!!

🚨It’s out! Our new article (co-authored with soon-to-be Dr. Christina Schmid) examines how shifts in gender relations advanced the PYD’s broader politico-military strategy during three phases of insurgent control (2011–2018). It’s open access below!👇🏼 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

As a historian of masculinities, I can confirm that life truly is mostly about Buffalo Wild Wings

Excited to share that a new book I was fortunate to edit is now online! 📚 shorturl.at/LaKw7 'The Far Right and the Media' examines cases of reporting on the FR across Spain, Portugal, the US, UK, Aotearoa NZ, Israel & Australia. A preprint of the introduction is available here: shorturl.at/Rui7S

Thanks to all contributors inc: @k8ebrown.bsky.social @aurelmondon.bsky.social Luca Manucci, João Bernardo Narciso @kurtsengul.bsky.social Jordan McSwiney, @amaramarasingam.bsky.social @aysed.bsky.social @philofwrite.bsky.social Chris Wilson, @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social & @gretajasser.bsky.social

Interested in doing a postdoc with me & @dgrand.bsky.social? Consider applying to Cornell's Klarman Fellowship: as.cornell.edu/research/kla... It involves a competitive internal application process, but it's 3 years of funding @$80k/year Please email me/Dave if you're interested! Oct 15th deadline

New article out in New Media & Society: Dror Walter @drorwalter.bsky.social, Yotam Ophir @ophiryotam.bsky.social , Edu Fabregas, and I examine how the Wayfair conspiracy theory moved across platforms. We find Twitter and Reddit played very different roles. journals.sagepub.com/eprint/KUIFU...

Our, Erik Nisbet Mowafak Allaham & Sol Hart, latest work on climate misinformation and AI in AAAI 2025 Workshop on AI Governance is featured in @science www.sciencenews.org/article/clim...

My newest paper, led by @smithmarisaa.bsky.social, is now out! In "The Black Pill," we find Black conservative YouTubers both echo traditional Black conservatism & shift to concerns about "anti-white racism." In the broader conservative network, their voices may legitimize white identity politics

🚨Thrilled to share our new research note: "In the Trenches: A Hands-on Approach to Teaching Data Collection in Terrorism Studies." Co-authored w/ Dr. Sarah Carthy & based on a course that trained 400+ grad students at Leiden in open source data collection. pt.icct.nl/article/tren...

How has the “Big Lie”, the claim that Donald Trump had the 2020 election stolen from him, impacted voter’s trust of other elections? Matthew Levendusky, Shawn Patterson, Jr., Michele Margolis, @ophiryotam.bsky.social, @drorwalter.bsky.social, and Kathleen Hall Jamieson explore this in a new article.

Our latest paper w/ James Fitzgerald, Marie Santini & Deborah Salles open access at IJPP journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded Monday to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.”

Fantastic recommendations for researchers who anticipate (or are even just mildly concerns about) backlash / harassment for their public facing work.

Truly fantastic article from Renee DiResta describing how she became a central villain in the fantasies of the "bullshit industrial complex" (they wouldn't let her use that title) and explaining the ties to Jan 6, other attacks on researchers, and more. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The Special issue: The (international) politics of content takedowns: Theory, practice, ethics is out for Early View that James Fitzgerald and I co-edited in Policy & Internet 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 Amazing articles and let us know what you think! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I wrote about the hostage crisis ongoing since Hamas kidnapped scores of Israelis and foreigners on Saturday. So much is unknown, but here’s what I’ve got for now, in @goodauth.bsky.social ⤵️ polisky conflictsky intsec goodauthority.org/news/why-the...

Researchers of online misinformation (and related topics) aren’t “buckling” to politically-motivated attacks. Our critical work to understand and address online deception and manipulation continues. But only with the support of our colleagues and institutions. www.seattletimes.com/opinion/uw-m...

Nobel Peace Prize goes to Narges Mohammadi, Iranian human rights activist incarcerated in Evin Prison.

If you are interested in the processes & pathways via which Indonesian & Filipino Muslims join Islamist extremist groups; what motivates them to join; & why some go on to participate in terrorist attacks, please check out my new book: Becoming Jihadis: Radicalization & Commitment in Southeast Asia.

So excited and grateful for our interdisciplinary team Amira J Arie P Bart K and NIJ support to us on this important subject! For my first adult-grant ever!! nij.ojp.gov/funding/awar...

🚨🗞️ Today’s Insight Intellignece is out, and it’s an update on a #TerroristFinancing case we’ve been following for a while, and includes a rare financing charge in Canada! Read on to learn more: newsletter.insightthreatintel.com/p/terrorist-...

Trying to adopt small dogs in the South is really like winning the lottery…. If anyone knows of any shelters or rescue organization please send me their details!

Figuring this place out. In case some here may not yet have tired of my spiel: I run a Zoom writing group for students and scholars from Turkey and Syria to create community, structure, and accountability. If you fit this group or know/mentor anyone who does, please email/message me. Thanks!

Very excited to join CITAP community this year! https://citap.unc.edu/news/announcing-the-2023-24-affiliate-community/

Seems like a good time to re-share this piece that I wrote with @maargentino.bsky.social, on the failure of prophecy. https://religiondispatches.org/qanons-predictions-havent-come-true-so-how-does-the-movement-survive-the-failure-of-prophecy/

TamTam: The Online Drums of Hate https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1057610X.2023.2225275

Can we not invite the conspiracy theorists and disinformation spreaders here.