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Bespoke

By: Jillian Caldwell-Clark
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A personal and political exploration of today's American media landscape and how it works. Yikes!

**All opinions are my own!

Jillian Clark 2025
Political Science Politics & Government
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  • Part Four (Rhetoric and Solutions...maybe)
    Aug 17 2025

    Final episode!

    Resources:

    • NAMLE - National Association for Media Literacy
    • Bipartisan Policy Center - Countering Online Radicalization in America
    • hhttps://perilresearch.com/who-we-are/
    • https://www.un.org/en/countering-disinformation
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    18 mins
  • Part Three (History Matters)
    Aug 16 2025

    Even MORE sources:

    • Sykes, Charles. “We’re Living in the World Rush Limbaugh Created.” The Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2021, www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/were-living-in-the-world-rush-limbaugh-created/2021/02/17/99e48410-7170-11eb-85fa-e0ccb3660358_story.html. Accessed 9 May 2025.
    • Tenore, Haley. “Teens Spend Nearly 2 Hours a Day on TikTok — and Barely Look at Facebook, a New Study Says. See How Other Apps Stack Up.” Business Insider, 28 Sept. 2023, www.businessinsider.com/tiktok-youtube-most-popular-screen-time-teens-facebook-instagram-study-2023-9.
    • Toobin, Jeffrey. Homegrown. Simon and Schuster, 9 Apr. 2024.
    • UNHCR. Factsheet 4: Types of Misinformation and Disinformation. 2022.
    • Waldman, Steven. “An Overlooked — and Increasingly Important — Clue to How People Vote - POLITICO.” POLITICO, Politico, Nov. 2024, www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/11/09/social-media-traditional-news-elections-00188548.
    • Wofford, Benjamin. “Meet the Lobbyist next Door.” Wired, 14 July 2022, www.wired.com/story/meet-the-lobbyist-next-door/.
    • Wolfson, Sam. “Don’t Underestimate the Rogansphere. His Mammoth Ecosystem Is Fox News for Young People.” The Guardian, The Guardian, 20 Nov. 2024, www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/20/joe-rogan-theo-von-podcasts-donald-trump.
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    32 mins
  • Part Two (Media Effects and other stuff)
    Aug 14 2025

    More Sources:

    • Grossmann, Matt, and David A. Hopkins. “From Fox News to Viral Views: The Influence of Ideological Media in the 2018 Elections.” The Forum, vol. 16, no. 4, 19 Dec. 2018, pp. 547–567, www.degruyter.com/view/journals/for/16/4/article-p551.xml, https://doi.org/10.1515/for-2018-0037. Accessed 24 Nov. 2020.
    • Gunderman, Richard. “The Manipulation of the American Mind: Edward Bernays and the Birth of Public Relations.” The Conversation, 9 July 2015, theconversation.com/the-manipulation-of-the-american-mind-edward-bernays-and-the-birth-of-public-relations-44393.
    • Hatfield, Jenn. “More than 80% of Americans Believe Elected Officials Don’t Care What People like Them Think.” Pew Research Center, 30 Apr. 2024, www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/04/30/more-than-80-of-americans-believe-elected-officials-dont-care-what-people-like-them-think/.
    • Hemmer, Nicole. Messengers of the Right : Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics. Philadelphia, University Of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
    • Hoare, Annabel. “What Parents Need to Know to Talk to Their Children about the Manosphere.” The Conversation, 2 Apr. 2025, theconversation.com/what-parents-need-to-know-to-talk-to-their-children-about-the-manosphere-252984.
    • Horowitz, Justin. “TikTok’s Manosphere Problem: Violent Misogyny Keeps Going Viral.” Media Matters for America, 10 Jan. 2024, www.mediamatters.org/tiktok/tiktoks-manosphere-problem-violent-misogyny-keeps-going-viral.
    • Leidy, Levi. “It Pays to Talk! Joe Rogan’s Net Worth from Podcasting and More.” Parade, 7 Mar. 2024, parade.com/celebrities/joe-rogan-net-worth.
    • Lewis Raven Wallace. The View from Somewhere : Undoing the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity. Chicago, The University Of Chicago Press, 2019.
    • Lippmann, Walter. Public Opinion. New York, Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1922.
    • Little, Olivia. “STUDY: Tradwife Influencers Are Quietly Spreading Far-Right Conspiracy Theories.” Media Matters for America, 1 May 2024, www.mediamatters.org/tiktok/study-tradwife-influencers-are-quietly-spreading-far-right-conspiracy-theories.
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    27 mins
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