Chokely Carmichael🥋
@stewartcoles.bsky.social
Asst Prof @ Illinois Dept of Communication studying media, politics, & identity, not necessarily in that order. UMich Comm & Media / SDSU Journalism & Media Studies / Drexel Digital Media alumnus / USMC veteran. Views = my own. http://www.stewartcoles.com
We offer a more concrete framework for studying political communication from a group perspective at the micro, meso, and macro levels. We apply the framework to the case of public opinion, then conclude with a reflection on what our approach means for group-centric #polcomm research moving forward.
December 3, 2025 at 6:04 PM
We offer a more concrete framework for studying political communication from a group perspective at the micro, meso, and macro levels. We apply the framework to the case of public opinion, then conclude with a reflection on what our approach means for group-centric #polcomm research moving forward.
We synthesize disparate bodies of theory on groups, politics, and communication to offer a foundation for a group theory of #polcomm that is underpinned by three basic propositions:
Prop #1: The group—not the individual—is the fundamental organizing unit of human social and political life.
Prop #1: The group—not the individual—is the fundamental organizing unit of human social and political life.
December 3, 2025 at 6:04 PM
We synthesize disparate bodies of theory on groups, politics, and communication to offer a foundation for a group theory of #polcomm that is underpinned by three basic propositions:
Prop #1: The group—not the individual—is the fundamental organizing unit of human social and political life.
Prop #1: The group—not the individual—is the fundamental organizing unit of human social and political life.
🚨New pub alert!🚨 Now available open-access in @journal-of-comm.bsky.social, we (w/ @dkreiss.bsky.social, @danlane.bsky.social, & @shannimcg.bsky.social) critique political communication's "Identity Turn" and offer instead a foundation for studying #polcomm from a *group* perspective. 🧵
December 3, 2025 at 6:04 PM
🚨New pub alert!🚨 Now available open-access in @journal-of-comm.bsky.social, we (w/ @dkreiss.bsky.social, @danlane.bsky.social, & @shannimcg.bsky.social) critique political communication's "Identity Turn" and offer instead a foundation for studying #polcomm from a *group* perspective. 🧵
This machine kills fascists
November 6, 2025 at 9:36 PM
This machine kills fascists
From Coles (2024). People's ideas of "politics"/"political" are all over the place and amount to practically nothing. Thread below.
October 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
From Coles (2024). People's ideas of "politics"/"political" are all over the place and amount to practically nothing. Thread below.
I can't speak to what order things happened in before, so I will take your word for it. But just looking at some of your posts from *this morning*, they count as spam. Here are three more near-identical posts about the NYT. My guess is any spam label is retroactive and applies to all your posts.
October 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I can't speak to what order things happened in before, so I will take your word for it. But just looking at some of your posts from *this morning*, they count as spam. Here are three more near-identical posts about the NYT. My guess is any spam label is retroactive and applies to all your posts.
There are six of these just within the past hour, not even counting those from the previous days/weeks. That’s why they marked you as spam.
October 29, 2025 at 2:21 PM
There are six of these just within the past hour, not even counting those from the previous days/weeks. That’s why they marked you as spam.
Daily m̶e̶m̶e̶i̶n̶g̶ writing goal met!
October 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Daily m̶e̶m̶e̶i̶n̶g̶ writing goal met!
This is one of my favorite articles, by @dkreiss.bsky.social & @shannimcg.bsky.social, on why “polarization” is the wrong framing of the problem to begin with.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
September 30, 2025 at 7:52 PM
This is one of my favorite articles, by @dkreiss.bsky.social & @shannimcg.bsky.social, on why “polarization” is the wrong framing of the problem to begin with.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
I finally get to use the meme
September 16, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I finally get to use the meme
This is America.
May 7, 2025 at 11:03 PM
This is America.
It’s amazing how quickly mass media move to provide smiling photos and potential mitigating evidence of white people who commit heinous crimes.
April 18, 2025 at 7:25 PM
It’s amazing how quickly mass media move to provide smiling photos and potential mitigating evidence of white people who commit heinous crimes.
I’m sorry @cbsnews.com but this lower third is garbage. He’s “transforming” the government the way a raging fire transforms a building into ash. Downplaying the illegality and consequences of what’s going on here is actively deceiving the American people.
February 8, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I’m sorry @cbsnews.com but this lower third is garbage. He’s “transforming” the government the way a raging fire transforms a building into ash. Downplaying the illegality and consequences of what’s going on here is actively deceiving the American people.
All I can think about is this.
January 15, 2025 at 1:27 PM
All I can think about is this.
Meteorologists are just trolling at this point.
January 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Meteorologists are just trolling at this point.
This is one of the things I cover in my Media and Crime course. For example, I show people this pic of Connor Sturgeon, who was a whole mass shooter, that got ran in several media outlets. Sure they didn’t have a mugshot, but I’m sure they could have gotten a drivers license photo, which is similar.
December 10, 2024 at 1:54 AM
This is one of the things I cover in my Media and Crime course. For example, I show people this pic of Connor Sturgeon, who was a whole mass shooter, that got ran in several media outlets. Sure they didn’t have a mugshot, but I’m sure they could have gotten a drivers license photo, which is similar.
Yup totally normal stuff.
December 8, 2024 at 1:30 PM
Yup totally normal stuff.
This is the kind of totally normal push notification that Xitter is randomly sending out to users who don’t even follow this account.
December 8, 2024 at 1:30 PM
This is the kind of totally normal push notification that Xitter is randomly sending out to users who don’t even follow this account.
Please do not send any important and/or witty skeets containing phrases such as "I beg your pardon" or "pardon my French but @$%&!" for the next seven days.
December 2, 2024 at 4:20 PM
Please do not send any important and/or witty skeets containing phrases such as "I beg your pardon" or "pardon my French but @$%&!" for the next seven days.
Protect your peace. We do not need to hate-share every steaming pile of uninformed opinions that gets on the bottom of our shoes.
December 2, 2024 at 3:31 PM
Protect your peace. We do not need to hate-share every steaming pile of uninformed opinions that gets on the bottom of our shoes.
This is why we have a corgi and just let physics do the work of keeping certain areas off limits to him.
November 10, 2024 at 7:44 PM
This is why we have a corgi and just let physics do the work of keeping certain areas off limits to him.
See? Because I used 📌 in reply to your post, it now shows up in my 📌 feed.
November 9, 2024 at 9:35 PM
See? Because I used 📌 in reply to your post, it now shows up in my 📌 feed.
@qrdknpfr.bsky.social et al.: "[The far right] creates narratives of threat via various forms of constructed, malicious 'others' – forming a shared imaginary of a leftist hegemony, especially along the lines of racial, ethnic, and religious out-groups."
NYT: "Are others doing better than you?"
NYT: "Are others doing better than you?"
October 27, 2024 at 12:08 PM
@qrdknpfr.bsky.social et al.: "[The far right] creates narratives of threat via various forms of constructed, malicious 'others' – forming a shared imaginary of a leftist hegemony, especially along the lines of racial, ethnic, and religious out-groups."
NYT: "Are others doing better than you?"
NYT: "Are others doing better than you?"