Jacob Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3652665 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jacob Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jacob |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Surrey |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2719-029X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Minding the Standing Gap
Disability and candidate recruitment in congressional elections
The Albatross
Student debt heavily shapes the life decisions and outlook of those living with it. This article examines the relationship between undergraduates’ views of President Joe Biden’s actions on student debt and their support for him in the 2024 election prior to his dropping out of the race. Using a representative survey from a large private university in the Northeast, we assess how student views of Biden’s handling of student loan relief correlated …
The Strange Case of Topless Radio
Topless radio was the name given to a talk radio format of the early 1970s that focused exclusively on the topic of sex and featured only female callers. The topless format briefly became a national sensation before being driven from the airwaves by the Federal Communications Commission. The sex talk craze helps to understand industrial and aesthetic changes in US broadcasting during the postnetwork era, the role of radio in the history of the se…
Child-Sacrificing Drag Queens
Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety and Subsequent Use of Nicotine and THC in Electronic Cigarettes
BACKGROUND: This study examines whether symptoms of depression, anxiety, or comorbid depression and anxiety are associated with future use of nicotine or THC in e-cigarettes. METHODS: Data were from an online survey of youth and young adults in urban areas of Texas with complete data (n = 2,307) in spring 2019 (baseline) and spring 2020 (12-month follow-up). Multivariable logistic regression models examined associations between self-reported symp…
Race, electoral pressure, expected judicial ideology, and the vote to confirm Justice Clarence Thomas
The paper "Courting Constituents? An Analysis of the Senate Confirmation Vote on Justice Clarence Thomas" tests the theory that electoral pressure from Black constituents played a role in the confirmation of Justice Clarence Thomas to the United States Supreme Court (Overby, L. Marvin, Beth M. Henschen, Michael H. Walsh, and Julie Strauss. 1992. "Courting Constituents? An Analysis of the Senate Confirmation Vote on Justice Clarence Thomas." Ameri…
Hurdles, Hurdles, and More Hurdles
Civil society organizations are adept and reactive advocates, using a range of strategies to promote their messages and respond to negative outcomes. For instance, even when unsuccessful in bringing legal arguments before the courts, such organizations can still use litigation as a platform for positive legal outcomes. In the national security context, however, things are not as straightforward. This piece analyses three unique ‘hurdles’ civil so…
Clearing the Bench
This article provides an analysis of the potential danger to a president’s policy agenda that comes from appointing a sitting elected official to the cabinet. We present historical data on cabinet secretaries since the founding and demonstrate that concerns about seats falling to the other party following the appointment of an elected official to the cabinet date back at least to Martin Van Buren’s establishment of the first American mass politic…
Demands of justice
Journal Article Demands of justice: the creation of a global human rights practice Get access Demands of justice: the creation of a global human rights practice. By Ann Marie Clark. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2022. 220pp. £64.99. Isbn978 1 00909 827 4. Available as e-book. Jacob Smith Jacob Smith University of Surrey, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 99, Issue 1,…
Hypocrisy and human rights
Journal Article Hypocrisy and human rights: resisting accountability for mass atrocities Get access Hypocrisy and human rights: resisting accountability for mass atrocities. By Kate Cronin-Furman. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 2022. 180pp. £112.00. Isbn978 1 50176 357 1. Available as e-book. Jacob Smith Jacob Smith University of Surrey, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volu…
Mackenzie Crook’s biosemiotic television
Semiotics – or, more specifically, Saussurean ‘semiology’ – was the ‘dominant theoretical model’ of film studies in the 1960s and 1970s.1 The Saussurean tradition opened up new paths of research by levelling the cultural playing field. ‘Since the object of semiotic research could be anything that could be construed as a system of signs organized according to cultural codes or signifying processes’, according to Robert Stam, semiotic analysis coul…
Travels with Jack
Nonprofit arts organization the ZBS Foundation began as a “media commune” in the early 1970s and continues to the present day: a period that spans dramatic changes in American radio culture and audio technology. The key creative figure at ZBS is the writer and producer Thomas Lopez, whose work serves as a case study in a “post-network” style of radio drama, one shaped by multitrack editing, field recording, and the ethos of the 1960s countercultu…
The ecopoetic potential of a citizen science audio database
This article explores the potential for an online database to facilitate modes of environmental communication above and beyond the collection and display of scientific data. That database is Xeno-canto ( https://www.xeno-canto.org ), a website where users upload and share recordings of wild birds. I consider Xeno-canto as a platform for what Jonathan Bate calls ‘ecopoetry’, through a focus on one of Bate’s key examples: the poet John Clare, a wri…
Just as electable
Considerable debate exists in the literature about whether white voters are willing to support Black candidates for office, particularly in electorally competitive, non-majority minority districts. This paper leverages the 2018 congressional election – which saw six Black Democratic candidates win electorally competitive, majority white congressional districts – to contribute to this debate. Controlling for an array of congressional district-spec…
Explaining Gun Deaths
Seeking to test two commonly proposed solutions to gun deaths in the United States, we examine the extent to which (1) tougher gun control laws, (2) greater access to mental health services, and (3) a combination of both approaches affect the rate of gun deaths in American states. We find that tougher gun control laws, as well as a combination of both approaches, are associated with a lower overall rate of gun deaths, and with a lower rate of non…
Saving New Sounds
Is this thing on?Part microphone check, part technical support query; the question seems a fitting way to start this collection, which is not just the book you hold in your hands (or the PDF you see on your screen) but also a vibrant, growing, and slightly temperamental database that indexes millions of podcasts
‘A Most Inconvenient Warfare’
The influence of visual and vestibular orientation cues in a clock reading task
The Trump Effect
In this paper, we examine whether the nomination of Donald Trump for president affected decisions to run for Congress in 2016 in states with later filing deadlines. We theorize that the perception among potential candidates that Donald Trump would be a weak nominee had the potential to entice high-quality Democratic candidates (defined as those who have previously held an elective office) to run for Congress as it became increasingly clear that D…
I Can See Tomorrow in Your Ludomusicology
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The chance meeting of a goose and a plover on a turntable
Wildlife recordings have an uncertain position within media industries and genres because they can circulate as documentary soundtracks, sound art, or music. In this paper, I explore the cultural life of such recordings through an examination of the work of wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson. After a sketch of his professional career and discussion of the relation between his career trajectory and formal solutions to the spatial and temporal p…
Jim Copp's playhouse
Jim Copp wrote, performed, and produced a series of children's phonograph records during the 1950s and 1960s. These records are stunning achievements in magnetic tape-era sound art, and were released and distributed by Playhouse Records, an independent record label operated by Copp and his business partner Ed Brown. The history of Playhouse Records adds to our knowledge of postwar sound art and independent media production, and reveals the potent…
The Elevator Effect
This article examines the extent to which advertising outside of an explicit campaign environment has the potential to benefit the electoral fortunes of incumbent politicians. We make use of a novel case of non-campaign advertising, that of North Carolina Secretary of Labor Cherie Berry (R-NC), who has initiated the practice of having her picture and name displayed prominently on official inspection placards inside all North Carolina elevators. W…
Eco-Sonic Media
The negative environmental effects of media culture are not often acknowledged: the fuel required to keep huge server farms in operation, landfills full of high tech junk, and the extraction of rare minerals for devices reliant on them are just some of the hidden costs of the contemporary mediascape. Eco-Sonic Media brings an ecological critique to the history of sound media technologies in order to amplify the environmental undertones in sound s…
Vocal Tracks
Eco-Sonic Media
The negative environmental effects of media culture are not often acknowledged: the fuel required to keep huge server farms in operation, landfills full of high tech junk, and the extraction of rare minerals for devices reliant on them are just some of the hidden costs of the contemporary mediascape. Eco-Sonic Media brings an ecological critique to the history of sound media technologies in order to amplify the environmental undertones in sound s…
Explaining Gun Deaths
Seeking to test two commonly proposed solutions to gun deaths in the United States, we examine the extent to which (1) tougher gun control laws, (2) greater access to mental health services, and (3) a combination of both approaches affect the rate of gun deaths in American states. We find that tougher gun control laws, as well as a combination of both approaches, are associated with a lower overall rate of gun deaths, and with a lower rate of non…
Just as electable
Considerable debate exists in the literature about whether white voters are willing to support Black candidates for office, particularly in electorally competitive, non-majority minority districts. This paper leverages the 2018 congressional election – which saw six Black Democratic candidates win electorally competitive, majority white congressional districts – to contribute to this debate. Controlling for an array of congressional district-spec…
The Frenzy of the Audible
The recorded laugh has been a potent index of authentic presence used to bridge the gap between recorded sound and listener. An analysis of the recorded genres of laughing songs and laughing stories shows that the phonographic laugh played an important role as a precursor to broadcast laugh track. Moving from these early phonographic examples, the pre-recorded laugh track is placed in the historical and discursive contexts of radio and television…
Child-Sacrificing Drag Queens
Disability and candidate recruitment in congressional elections
Saving New Sounds
Is this thing on?Part microphone check, part technical support query; the question seems a fitting way to start this collection, which is not just the book you hold in your hands (or the PDF you see on your screen) but also a vibrant, growing, and slightly temperamental database that indexes millions of podcasts
The Trump Effect
In this paper, we examine whether the nomination of Donald Trump for president affected decisions to run for Congress in 2016 in states with later filing deadlines. We theorize that the perception among potential candidates that Donald Trump would be a weak nominee had the potential to entice high-quality Democratic candidates (defined as those who have previously held an elective office) to run for Congress as it became increasingly clear that D…
I Can See Tomorrow In Your Dance
The Frenzy of the Audible
The recorded laugh has been a potent index of authentic presence used to bridge the gap between recorded sound and listener. An analysis of the recorded genres of laughing songs and laughing stories shows that the phonographic laugh played an important role as a precursor to broadcast laugh track. Moving from these early phonographic examples, the pre-recorded laugh track is placed in the historical and discursive contexts of radio and television…
Vocal Tracks
The Books That Sing
This paper is an examination of phonograph records marketed to children in the first decades of the phonograph industry and the cultural discourses that surrounded them. I focus on the first book and record hybrid marketed to children: a pioneering instance of cross-media synergy between the book publishing and record industries. The first edition of the “Bubble Books” was released in 1917, and indicates the design of home media texts that were c…
The adventures of the bridge jumper
Steve Brodie's 1886 jump from the Brooklyn Bridge created a particularly modern fame that has much to tell us about the emergence of modern media celebrity and the kinds of spectacular stunt performances that could be mobilised to create it in the years just before the cinema. Bridge jumpers such as Brodie took the modern urban landscape as their backdrop, but also found a place on the melodramatic stage, collapsing distinctions between indoor an…
Turn Me On, Dead Media
In an era of CD-Rs and MP3 sound files, the vinyl phonograph record has attained iconic status as the quintessential old analog media form. An analysis of the theory and practice of “backmasking” reveals how a discourse of the occult “re-newed” the old medium of recorded sound one hundred years after its invention. Little scholarly attention has been paid to debates in the 1980s about the alleged presence of backmasking: the term given to the pro…
Jim Copp's playhouse
Jim Copp wrote, performed, and produced a series of children's phonograph records during the 1950s and 1960s. These records are stunning achievements in magnetic tape-era sound art, and were released and distributed by Playhouse Records, an independent record label operated by Copp and his business partner Ed Brown. The history of Playhouse Records adds to our knowledge of postwar sound art and independent media production, and reveals the potent…
The Elevator Effect
This article examines the extent to which advertising outside of an explicit campaign environment has the potential to benefit the electoral fortunes of incumbent politicians. We make use of a novel case of non-campaign advertising, that of North Carolina Secretary of Labor Cherie Berry (R-NC), who has initiated the practice of having her picture and name displayed prominently on official inspection placards inside all North Carolina elevators. W…
Eco-Sonic Media
The negative environmental effects of media culture are not often acknowledged: the fuel required to keep huge server farms in operation, landfills full of high tech junk, and the extraction of rare minerals for devices reliant on them are just some of the hidden costs of the contemporary mediascape. Eco-Sonic Media brings an ecological critique to the history of sound media technologies in order to amplify the environmental undertones in sound s…
The chance meeting of a goose and a plover on a turntable
Wildlife recordings have an uncertain position within media industries and genres because they can circulate as documentary soundtracks, sound art, or music. In this paper, I explore the cultural life of such recordings through an examination of the work of wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson. After a sketch of his professional career and discussion of the relation between his career trajectory and formal solutions to the spatial and temporal p…
The influence of visual and vestibular orientation cues in a clock reading task
The Trump Effect
In this paper, we examine whether the nomination of Donald Trump for president affected decisions to run for Congress in 2016 in states with later filing deadlines. We theorize that the perception among potential candidates that Donald Trump would be a weak nominee had the potential to entice high-quality Democratic candidates (defined as those who have previously held an elective office) to run for Congress as it became increasingly clear that D…
I Can See Tomorrow in Your Ludomusicology
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
‘A Most Inconvenient Warfare’
Travels with Jack
Nonprofit arts organization the ZBS Foundation began as a “media commune” in the early 1970s and continues to the present day: a period that spans dramatic changes in American radio culture and audio technology. The key creative figure at ZBS is the writer and producer Thomas Lopez, whose work serves as a case study in a “post-network” style of radio drama, one shaped by multitrack editing, field recording, and the ethos of the 1960s countercultu…
The ecopoetic potential of a citizen science audio database
This article explores the potential for an online database to facilitate modes of environmental communication above and beyond the collection and display of scientific data. That database is Xeno-canto ( https://www.xeno-canto.org ), a website where users upload and share recordings of wild birds. I consider Xeno-canto as a platform for what Jonathan Bate calls ‘ecopoetry’, through a focus on one of Bate’s key examples: the poet John Clare, a wri…
Just as electable
Considerable debate exists in the literature about whether white voters are willing to support Black candidates for office, particularly in electorally competitive, non-majority minority districts. This paper leverages the 2018 congressional election – which saw six Black Democratic candidates win electorally competitive, majority white congressional districts – to contribute to this debate. Controlling for an array of congressional district-spec…
Explaining Gun Deaths
Seeking to test two commonly proposed solutions to gun deaths in the United States, we examine the extent to which (1) tougher gun control laws, (2) greater access to mental health services, and (3) a combination of both approaches affect the rate of gun deaths in American states. We find that tougher gun control laws, as well as a combination of both approaches, are associated with a lower overall rate of gun deaths, and with a lower rate of non…
Saving New Sounds
Is this thing on?Part microphone check, part technical support query; the question seems a fitting way to start this collection, which is not just the book you hold in your hands (or the PDF you see on your screen) but also a vibrant, growing, and slightly temperamental database that indexes millions of podcasts
Mackenzie Crook’s biosemiotic television
Semiotics – or, more specifically, Saussurean ‘semiology’ – was the ‘dominant theoretical model’ of film studies in the 1960s and 1970s.1 The Saussurean tradition opened up new paths of research by levelling the cultural playing field. ‘Since the object of semiotic research could be anything that could be construed as a system of signs organized according to cultural codes or signifying processes’, according to Robert Stam, semiotic analysis coul…
Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety and Subsequent Use of Nicotine and THC in Electronic Cigarettes
BACKGROUND: This study examines whether symptoms of depression, anxiety, or comorbid depression and anxiety are associated with future use of nicotine or THC in e-cigarettes. METHODS: Data were from an online survey of youth and young adults in urban areas of Texas with complete data (n = 2,307) in spring 2019 (baseline) and spring 2020 (12-month follow-up). Multivariable logistic regression models examined associations between self-reported symp…
Race, electoral pressure, expected judicial ideology, and the vote to confirm Justice Clarence Thomas
The paper "Courting Constituents? An Analysis of the Senate Confirmation Vote on Justice Clarence Thomas" tests the theory that electoral pressure from Black constituents played a role in the confirmation of Justice Clarence Thomas to the United States Supreme Court (Overby, L. Marvin, Beth M. Henschen, Michael H. Walsh, and Julie Strauss. 1992. "Courting Constituents? An Analysis of the Senate Confirmation Vote on Justice Clarence Thomas." Ameri…
Hurdles, Hurdles, and More Hurdles
Civil society organizations are adept and reactive advocates, using a range of strategies to promote their messages and respond to negative outcomes. For instance, even when unsuccessful in bringing legal arguments before the courts, such organizations can still use litigation as a platform for positive legal outcomes. In the national security context, however, things are not as straightforward. This piece analyses three unique ‘hurdles’ civil so…
Clearing the Bench
This article provides an analysis of the potential danger to a president’s policy agenda that comes from appointing a sitting elected official to the cabinet. We present historical data on cabinet secretaries since the founding and demonstrate that concerns about seats falling to the other party following the appointment of an elected official to the cabinet date back at least to Martin Van Buren’s establishment of the first American mass politic…
Demands of justice
Journal Article Demands of justice: the creation of a global human rights practice Get access Demands of justice: the creation of a global human rights practice. By Ann Marie Clark. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2022. 220pp. £64.99. Isbn978 1 00909 827 4. Available as e-book. Jacob Smith Jacob Smith University of Surrey, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 99, Issue 1,…
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