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Jeremy Littau

A n00b’s guide to Mastodon

With Twitter flailing, I spent a week trying to level up my experience on the major social network people are fleeing to. It has a learning…

20 min readNov 7, 2022

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On Ukraine: Words shape facts, shape understanding

I had a Twitter thread go viral and turned it into the longform post below. This is an edited, cleaned-up and expanded version.

6 min readFeb 26, 2022

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Elegy to a lost (and found) year

Now you’re at the other end of the telescope Seven billion stars in her eyes So many stars So many ways of seeing Hey this is no time not…

5 min readMay 26, 2021

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Elegy to a lost (and found) year

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Opening remarks for Media And Society

Classes started this week at Lehigh. Every year I teach at least one section of our introductory course, COMM 001 Media And Society. I…

6 min readFeb 4, 2021

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My Statement on Teaching

As a tenured professor, I submit a triennial portfolio to monitor my progress. These are usually fairly antiseptic pieces, which cite…

11 min readNov 21, 2020

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News narratives are artificial; consume with that in mind

I wanted to expand on this point from Dave Wasserman:

4 min readNov 7, 2020

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How conservative media helped the President promote dangerous use of hydroxychloroquine is a media…

The Washington Post published a story this morning about a preliminary study of 96,000 patients that showed that using hydroxychloroquine…

9 min readMay 22, 2020

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The models are all wrong!

“The models were all wrong and can’t be trusted!”

5 min readMay 19, 2020

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Framing the Open America protests accurately means changing news routines

The people protesting closures are hacking the journalistic news value of covering what is novel or contrary over what is…

5 min readMay 13, 2020

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Framing the Open America protests accurately means changing news routines

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A hole in the ecosystem

Since we’ve started sheltering in place, I’ve been spending time thinking about a two-tiered problem we are facing right now with…

6 min readMar 26, 2020

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Jeremy Littau

Jeremy Littau

Journalism prof • Multimedia • Sociology • Dad • Generation Catalano • #Mizzou • Sabermetrics Justice Warrior • I read retweets for the endorsements

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