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Brad Limov (PhD, UT-Austin) is a postdoc in media, tech, and ethics at the University of Texas at Austin. His research examines how social movements and emerging tech influence media practices and industry norms. He has a particular interest in communities of practice and how they interact within online spaces and offline events.
For more: https://brad-limov.com/
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August 2019 - August 2024
October 2016 - September 2018
August 2008 - May 2012
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This study contributes the first experiment (n = 1,342) comparing audience reception of solidarity reporting to monitorial reporting. Solidarity reporting prioritizes insights of people impacted, while monitorial reporting focuses on officials. We find that covering abortion access protests using a solidarity approach improved news story credibilit...
This study positions social justice activists’ objections to dominant reporting norms as a catalyst for critically reassessing these norms and their connection to diminishing trust in US journalism. Based on a conceptual application of discourse ethics to journalism and qualitative analysis of 28 in-depth interviews with social justice activists, w...
In the aftermath of the 2016 US presidential election, the public slowly began to grapple with the extent of Russian disinformation campaigns by the Internet Research Agency (IRA), elements of which were carried out on Facebook. Campaigns targeted people in the United States in many ways, including by publishing event pages on Facebook that were at...
Analysis of survey results from U.S. residents (N = 288) watching foreign content on Netflix found that respondents watch foreign content more than they did before starting to access it through the platform and hold favorable attitudes toward foreign countries and subtitles. The data also support a theorized synergistic relationship between viewing...
When a major festival such as South by Southwest (SXSW) is postponed, cancelled, or otherwise altered, the effects are widespread and impact upon those connected with the event in various ways. Given the speed at which the COVID-19 pandemic spread in early March 2020, and how close that was to the planned dates for SXSW, the festival’s organisers n...
