Victoria Ledford
drledford.bsky.social
Victoria Ledford
@drledford.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Communication at Auburn University. Passionate about reducing stigma in health communication. Proud Maryland Terp 🐢 and daughter of Marshall 🦬
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Which types of repression are more likely to elicit foreign sympathy and support for victims? @kgcunnin.bsky.social and I find that US respondents are more sympathetic and supportive of those facing religious and language rights violations, but that these effects are not felt uniformly by partisans.
Rights violations and international public opinion
Victims of human rights violations and their activist allies often attempt to rally external solidarity for aggrieved groups in order to end repression. We conduct a nation-wide survey experiment t...
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September 11, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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@norc.org, in collaboration with the University of Chicago, just published research in Preventive Medicine on how exposure to opioid crisis info shapes public attitudes. Read the full article here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#OpioidCrisis #PublicHealth #JCOIN #OUDPrevention
Passive exposure to opioid crisis information and public attitudes: Effects on local policy support, discrimination, and stigma in a United States national survey
To examine associations between passive exposure to opioid crisis information and public attitudes toward opioid use disorder (OUD) policies and stigm…
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January 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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As suspected it seems the Trump Administration is deprioritizing countering TNR. Horrible move against an organization that has provided so much valuable information and advocacy on the subject.
Last night State Department sent Freedom House notification of termination of a multi-year, multimillion dollar grant for work on transnational repression that I spent most of the last year developing and setting up.
March 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Hot off the presses in 𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺 & 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝘀! This piece shows how migration shapes the formation of transnational publics - taking a qualitative approach to SNA, and using ethnography, visual network mapping and interviews.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #commsky
The Mobile Social Network Ecology: Migrant Voices, Organizational Perspectives, and Unveiling Public Mobility in Qualitative Social Network Analysis - Jeannette I. Iannacone, 2025
Livelihoods are becoming increasingly defined by one’s (in)ability for and agency over movement, that is, mobility, especially on the transnational scale. Simul...
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February 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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🚨 New Research Monograph

Excited to share that my new monograph “The Mobile Social Network Ecology: Migrant Voices, Organizational Perspectives, and Unveiling Public Mobility in Qualitative Social Network Analysis” is now available 📖

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
The Mobile Social Network Ecology: Migrant Voices, Organizational Perspectives, and Unveiling Public Mobility in Qualitative Social Network Analysis - Jeannette I. Iannacone, 2025
Livelihoods are becoming increasingly defined by one’s (in)ability for and agency over movement, that is, mobility, especially on the transnational scale. Simul...
journals.sagepub.com
February 13, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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As Trump Attacks Diversity, a Racist Undercurrent Surfaces www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
As Trump Attacks Diversity, a Racist Undercurrent Surfaces
President Trump has promised a “colorblind and merit-based” society, while also equating diversity with incompetence.
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February 3, 2025 at 11:49 AM
I hope you’ll read our new research article, published today with Jungkyu Rhys Lim & Hyoyeun Jun. Our participants, 21 LGBTQ+ people living in South Korea during the COVID-19 pandemic, shed light on the importance of inclusive and effective risk communication in mitigating infectious disease spread.
Building Trust and Inclusivity: Navigating Layered Stigma and Risk Communication for LGBTQ+ Individuals During COVID‐19 Outbreaks
Stigmatised groups, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer-identifying (LGBTQ+) individuals, face increased vulnerability to infectious diseases, such as HIV/AIDS, coronavirus disease...
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February 3, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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The removal of #HIV- and #LGBTQ-related resources from the websites of CDC and other health agencies is deeply concerning.

Access to this information is crucial for ID and HIV health care professionals.

Our full statement: https://buff.ly/42AO8LI
January 31, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Where are the folks who’ve downloaded and saved now inaccessible CDC data and webpages? Has someone created a place to store these items? I’ve been downloading and storing as much as I can and would like to share with others in an efficient and easily accessible way #publichealth
February 1, 2025 at 4:04 AM
As the Trump administration tanks public health communication and funding streams, I think health communication researchers are well positioned to resist & persist. A starting point may be considering where and how we share our research to promote sharing of clear and accessible health information.
January 27, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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quick request/reminder to any communication researchers who follow me on here: please submit your work to Comm Research Reports!
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Communication Research Reports
Volume 41, Issue 5 of Communication Research Reports
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January 25, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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As of this morning, the Trump administration removed the Climate and Environmental Justice Screening Tool (CEJEST). Don't worry; we have the code and data backed up.
January 22, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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AI folks: come work with me! PRODIG+ Fellow in Critical AI: apply.interfolio.com/160274
January 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Hi folks! I’m searching for remote industry roles in UX/UI research, project management, and strategic planning.

If you or anyone you know is #hiring I would love to chat and share how I can bring my academic experiences to your organization 🤓
January 8, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Yelling the loudest War Eagle of my life!
I’m happy to announce that I’ll be staying on at Auburn University’s Department of Political Science and joining the faculty as a (Tenure Track) Assistant Professor next fall. Grateful for the opportunity and for the support of my colleagues and mentors at Auburn and UMD. #WarEagle!
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December 4, 2024 at 3:26 PM
I think I’m supposed to introduce myself since I’m new here 👋🏻

I’m an academic like everyone else and broadly study health communication, stigma, and inclusive communication pedagogy.

Don’t have high expectations for my feed — I’ll probably just repost smarter and more clever people than me.
November 27, 2024 at 5:08 PM