Lindsay Palmer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3741961 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lindsay Palmer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lindsay |
| FAMILY NAME | Palmer |
| SIGNATURE | PALMER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5415-9186 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 27 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Naming Benevolence, Exposing Heterosexism
We write in response to the letter to the editor, “Rethinking ‘Benevolent Heterosexism’: A Critical Look at Nuance and Omission in LGBTQ+ Prejudice Research” by Irawan et al. (2026). In their lette
Gender Norms, Dominance Theory, and the Endorsement of Aversive Training Methods With Pet Dogs
Dogs are a significant part of people's lives, serving as companions, family members, and sources of support, which makes understanding factors that influence human interaction with them important. In the current research, we bridge the psychology of gender and the science of human–animal interactions; in doing so, we offer novel conclusions about how gender norms shape our possible intentions and interactions with dogs. Across three studies (nto…
Global media ethics
Beyond child abuse
The majority of children who encounter the child protective services (CPS) system are referred for reasons other than suspected physical or sexual abuse. Yet, specific concerns or risks, typically falling under the umbrella of neglect, remain poorly documented in academic and public debate. Using population-based data for 145,745 children referred to the Pennsylvania child welfare system in 2021 for reasons other than physical or sexual abuse, th…
Illustrations of Benevolent and Hostile Heterosexism in LGBTQ+ People's Lives
In this study, we aimed to define heterosexism-a form of sexual stigma that accounts for interpersonal attitudes and institutionalized ideology-in a multi-dimensional way, centering on LGBTQ+ people's experiences. We draw from an ambivalent theory of prejudice and focus on heterosexism, or an ideology that stigmatizes nonheterosexual behaviors, identities, relationships, and communities. We aimed to learn how LGBTQ+ people would narrate their exp…
Comparing Maltreatment Experiences for Young People with Child Protection or Dual System Involvement
This study examined how single and multiple types of maltreatment allegations differed for young people with child protective services (CPS) only and dual system (i.e., CPS and juvenile delinquency court petition) involvement by gender and race and ethnicity. Allegation types were documented for young people with CPS only or dual system involvement using linked CPS and Probation records for Los Angeles County for a cohort of children born between…
State-level variation of child neglect
U.S. War Correspondents Tweeting Ukraine
This paper investigates how war correspondents working for U.S.-based news organizations Tweeted about the early stages of the 2022 war in Ukraine, focusing particularly on instances when these war reporters contributed to a distinctly transnational version of what Matt Carlson has termed “metajournalistic discourse” (2016). Defining this concept as the “public expressions evaluating news texts, the practices that produce them, or the conditions …
Chemsex and Harm Reduction Practices Among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Malaysia
Chemsex is a form of sexualized drug use commonly practiced among MSM with psychoactive substances, such as methamphetamine. While this phenomenon has gained global attention in the past two decades, there is a dearth of empirical data to inform culturally competent interventions. The current work investigates the socio-contextual factors related to chemsex and harm reduction practices among Malaysian MSM. Between February and August 2022, we con…
Emergency remote instruction in 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic forced higher education into emergency remote instruction in 2020. Impacts of this modality shift on undergraduates of different identities are important to document, for both current students who need support now and future students who may face other crises. A large survey in the United States asked students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) to report the impact of emergency remote instruction on …
Sexual orientation and gender influence perceptions of disciplinary fit
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) represent a highly valued academic discipline and career path in the 21st century; yet some individuals are excluded or discouraged from pursuing STEM because of their social group membership. Despite decades of research on social identity and fit within STEM (e.g., by gender and race), the psychological literature on issues within STEM based on sexual orientation is scant. We draw on notio…
Women’s Safety Concerns and Academia
The present work documents the safety concerns of men and women in academia and how these concerns can create opportunity gaps. Across five samples including undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty ( N = 1,812), women reported greater concerns about their safety than did men, and these concerns were associated with reduced work hours in libraries, offices, and/or labs afterhours. Additionally, although we were unabl…
Extending the social category label effect to stigmatized groups
The social category label effect describes how labels influence people’s perceptions of social groups. Though the label “homosexual” versus “lesbian/gay” decreases some heterosexual people’s support for sexual minorities, it is unknown how lesbian and gay (LG) people respond to “homosexual” as a label used to describe them. Across three experiments in a largely U.S. context (Total N = 831), we examined how use of “homosexual” influenced people’s …
News Fixers at the Digital Interface
This article conducts a discursive interface analysis of World Fixer, the most visible online platform currently connecting foreign correspondents with local news workers who can help them translate interviews, navigate unfamiliar places, and stay safe in the field. Placing Johanna Drucker’s theory of the digital interface into conversation with the critical frameworks found in global communication studies, anti-colonial theory, and anti-racist c…
Bridging Feminist Psychology and Open Science
Feminist researchers have long embraced the challenging, dismantling, and reimagining of psychology, though their contributions to transforming psychological science remain largely overlooked in the mainstream open science movement. In this article, we reconcile feminist psychology and open science. We propose that feminist theory can be leveraged to address central questions of the open science movement, and the potential for methodological syne…
Press Freedom during Covid-19
This study explores the ways in which global press freedom watchdogs have discursively constructed the issue of press freedom during the Covid-19 pandemic. Drawing on a multimodal discourse analysis, the study examines web stories and Tweets posted by the International Press Institute (IPI), the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), and Reporters sans Frontières (RSF), with the purpose of answering three primary questions: (1) Who or what do th…
Out of place
Those from low socioeconomic status (SES) often lack access to public space and, when they have access, they are often discouraged from using public space. Scholars from human geography and related fields have argued that this limits engagement in civic life and undermines sense of belonging in one's community. In the present work, we consider whether lower-SES students face this predicament in higher education, particularly at elite public insti…
“Breaking Free” from the Frame
This article conducts a qualitative textual analysis of the New York Times’ 360-degree news reports that focus on international human rights issues, posing the following research questions: (1) How do the form and content of the New York Times’ 360-degree videos potentially help to construct the vividness and interactivity that virtual reality scholars say will contribute to a greater sense of telepresence? (2) In what ways do the form and conten…
The Fixers
This book conducts a cultural analysis of the labor of the news fixer—the locally based media employee who helps international correspondents research stories, set up interviews, translate foreign languages, and navigate unfamiliar regions. Foreign reporters often say that their work would be impossible without these local news assistants. Yet, fixers are among some of the most exploited and persecuted people contributing to the production of int…
Translating” Russia
This article examines the work of news fixers based in Moscow, in hopes of better understanding the risks and challenges that they face as they “translate” Russia for foreign journalists. Drawing upon the theoretical concept of “cultural translation,” which understands interpretive work as vastly exceeding the merely linguistic register, this study will analyze the complex—and sometimes, risky—processes through which Moscow-based news fixers rend…
Lost in Translation
This study examines the war-reporting industry’s attitude toward news “fixers”—the locally based contacts who become news employees, by helping foreign reporters translate interviews, build contacts, and navigate the cultural contexts with which correspondents are increasingly unfamiliar in the era of “parachute journalism.” Conducting a critical discourse analysis of 189 articles published in English-language journalism trade publications, the s…
Shape Shifting in the Conflict Zone
The war journalist is often portrayed as a ruggedly masculine individual who survives on hard work, self-sufficiency, and heroic dedication to the truth in a stoic culture and dangerous environment. Yet, the growing number of female war journalists subtly complicates this traditional narrative. Female war reporters navigate the precariousness of the conflict zone through the strategy of shape shifting—of switching gender performances depending on…
Being the bridge
This article examines some of the cultural differences between news ‘fixers’ and foreign reporters, focusing specifically on the expectations and experiences of the fixers, rather than the correspondents whose own perspectives have already been fruitfully explored. Drawing upon qualitative, semi-structured interviews I conducted with 21 news fixers, I will answer three research questions: (1) How do fixers understand and value the work they do? (…
World news at the Newseum
This article analyzes the Newseum’s attention to questions of the international in an attempt to answer two related research questions: (1) how does the Newseum represent the ‘world news’ story, and (2) how does it represent the world’s various journalism industries? In order to answer these questions, the article first reviews the existing scholarly literature on museums and tourism with the goal of clarifying the Newseum’s positioning within a …
Ushahidi at the Google interface
The recent explosion of mobile media has coincided with a growing interest in crisis mapping, a practice that blends the technical capabilities of sites like Google Earth with politically inflected attempts at geospatial visualization. Non-profit organizations such as Kenyan-based Ushahidi have mobilized these technologies in order to visualize various natural catastrophes and political atrocities in spatial terms, drawing upon the testimonies of…
Being the bridge
This article examines some of the cultural differences between news ‘fixers’ and foreign reporters, focusing specifically on the expectations and experiences of the fixers, rather than the correspondents whose own perspectives have already been fruitfully explored. Drawing upon qualitative, semi-structured interviews I conducted with 21 news fixers, I will answer three research questions: (1) How do fixers understand and value the work they do? (…
Out of place
Those from low socioeconomic status (SES) often lack access to public space and, when they have access, they are often discouraged from using public space. Scholars from human geography and related fields have argued that this limits engagement in civic life and undermines sense of belonging in one's community. In the present work, we consider whether lower-SES students face this predicament in higher education, particularly at elite public insti…
Shape Shifting in the Conflict Zone
The war journalist is often portrayed as a ruggedly masculine individual who survives on hard work, self-sufficiency, and heroic dedication to the truth in a stoic culture and dangerous environment. Yet, the growing number of female war journalists subtly complicates this traditional narrative. Female war reporters navigate the precariousness of the conflict zone through the strategy of shape shifting—of switching gender performances depending on…
IReporting” an Uprising
This essay examines the increasing interdependence of television news organizations and citizen journalism, specifically focusing on CNN’s citizen journalist website called iReport. Using Tiziana Terranova’s notion of “network culture,” I show how CNN simultaneously denigrates and depends on the unpaid labor of its iReporters, especially when covering a political uprising. I draw on a series of interviews conducted with iReporters who covered the…
Translating” Russia
This article examines the work of news fixers based in Moscow, in hopes of better understanding the risks and challenges that they face as they “translate” Russia for foreign journalists. Drawing upon the theoretical concept of “cultural translation,” which understands interpretive work as vastly exceeding the merely linguistic register, this study will analyze the complex—and sometimes, risky—processes through which Moscow-based news fixers rend…
Bridging Feminist Psychology and Open Science
Feminist researchers have long embraced the challenging, dismantling, and reimagining of psychology, though their contributions to transforming psychological science remain largely overlooked in the mainstream open science movement. In this article, we reconcile feminist psychology and open science. We propose that feminist theory can be leveraged to address central questions of the open science movement, and the potential for methodological syne…
Press Freedom during Covid-19
This study explores the ways in which global press freedom watchdogs have discursively constructed the issue of press freedom during the Covid-19 pandemic. Drawing on a multimodal discourse analysis, the study examines web stories and Tweets posted by the International Press Institute (IPI), the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), and Reporters sans Frontières (RSF), with the purpose of answering three primary questions: (1) Who or what do th…
Illustrations of Benevolent and Hostile Heterosexism in LGBTQ+ People's Lives
In this study, we aimed to define heterosexism-a form of sexual stigma that accounts for interpersonal attitudes and institutionalized ideology-in a multi-dimensional way, centering on LGBTQ+ people's experiences. We draw from an ambivalent theory of prejudice and focus on heterosexism, or an ideology that stigmatizes nonheterosexual behaviors, identities, relationships, and communities. We aimed to learn how LGBTQ+ people would narrate their exp…
Lost in Translation
This study examines the war-reporting industry’s attitude toward news “fixers”—the locally based contacts who become news employees, by helping foreign reporters translate interviews, build contacts, and navigate the cultural contexts with which correspondents are increasingly unfamiliar in the era of “parachute journalism.” Conducting a critical discourse analysis of 189 articles published in English-language journalism trade publications, the s…
Ushahidi at the Google interface
The recent explosion of mobile media has coincided with a growing interest in crisis mapping, a practice that blends the technical capabilities of sites like Google Earth with politically inflected attempts at geospatial visualization. Non-profit organizations such as Kenyan-based Ushahidi have mobilized these technologies in order to visualize various natural catastrophes and political atrocities in spatial terms, drawing upon the testimonies of…
U.S. War Correspondents Tweeting Ukraine
This paper investigates how war correspondents working for U.S.-based news organizations Tweeted about the early stages of the 2022 war in Ukraine, focusing particularly on instances when these war reporters contributed to a distinctly transnational version of what Matt Carlson has termed “metajournalistic discourse” (2016). Defining this concept as the “public expressions evaluating news texts, the practices that produce them, or the conditions …
News Fixers at the Digital Interface
This article conducts a discursive interface analysis of World Fixer, the most visible online platform currently connecting foreign correspondents with local news workers who can help them translate interviews, navigate unfamiliar places, and stay safe in the field. Placing Johanna Drucker’s theory of the digital interface into conversation with the critical frameworks found in global communication studies, anti-colonial theory, and anti-racist c…
Neither Here Nor There
This article examines representations of motherhood in three transnational feminist films: Anayansi Prado's Maid in America (2004), Sabiha Sumar's Silent Waters (2002) and Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis (2007). While these films differ at the levels of genre and style as well as in terms of their production contexts, they each feature several scenes that engage the tension between distance and proximity, separation and unity - an always unresolved …
IReporting” an Uprising
This essay examines the increasing interdependence of television news organizations and citizen journalism, specifically focusing on CNN’s citizen journalist website called iReport. Using Tiziana Terranova’s notion of “network culture,” I show how CNN simultaneously denigrates and depends on the unpaid labor of its iReporters, especially when covering a political uprising. I draw on a series of interviews conducted with iReporters who covered the…
Ushahidi at the Google interface
The recent explosion of mobile media has coincided with a growing interest in crisis mapping, a practice that blends the technical capabilities of sites like Google Earth with politically inflected attempts at geospatial visualization. Non-profit organizations such as Kenyan-based Ushahidi have mobilized these technologies in order to visualize various natural catastrophes and political atrocities in spatial terms, drawing upon the testimonies of…
World news at the Newseum
This article analyzes the Newseum’s attention to questions of the international in an attempt to answer two related research questions: (1) how does the Newseum represent the ‘world news’ story, and (2) how does it represent the world’s various journalism industries? In order to answer these questions, the article first reviews the existing scholarly literature on museums and tourism with the goal of clarifying the Newseum’s positioning within a …
Shape Shifting in the Conflict Zone
The war journalist is often portrayed as a ruggedly masculine individual who survives on hard work, self-sufficiency, and heroic dedication to the truth in a stoic culture and dangerous environment. Yet, the growing number of female war journalists subtly complicates this traditional narrative. Female war reporters navigate the precariousness of the conflict zone through the strategy of shape shifting—of switching gender performances depending on…
Being the bridge
This article examines some of the cultural differences between news ‘fixers’ and foreign reporters, focusing specifically on the expectations and experiences of the fixers, rather than the correspondents whose own perspectives have already been fruitfully explored. Drawing upon qualitative, semi-structured interviews I conducted with 21 news fixers, I will answer three research questions: (1) How do fixers understand and value the work they do? (…
Lost in Translation
This study examines the war-reporting industry’s attitude toward news “fixers”—the locally based contacts who become news employees, by helping foreign reporters translate interviews, build contacts, and navigate the cultural contexts with which correspondents are increasingly unfamiliar in the era of “parachute journalism.” Conducting a critical discourse analysis of 189 articles published in English-language journalism trade publications, the s…
The Fixers
This book conducts a cultural analysis of the labor of the news fixer—the locally based media employee who helps international correspondents research stories, set up interviews, translate foreign languages, and navigate unfamiliar regions. Foreign reporters often say that their work would be impossible without these local news assistants. Yet, fixers are among some of the most exploited and persecuted people contributing to the production of int…
Translating” Russia
This article examines the work of news fixers based in Moscow, in hopes of better understanding the risks and challenges that they face as they “translate” Russia for foreign journalists. Drawing upon the theoretical concept of “cultural translation,” which understands interpretive work as vastly exceeding the merely linguistic register, this study will analyze the complex—and sometimes, risky—processes through which Moscow-based news fixers rend…
“Breaking Free” from the Frame
This article conducts a qualitative textual analysis of the New York Times’ 360-degree news reports that focus on international human rights issues, posing the following research questions: (1) How do the form and content of the New York Times’ 360-degree videos potentially help to construct the vividness and interactivity that virtual reality scholars say will contribute to a greater sense of telepresence? (2) In what ways do the form and conten…
News Fixers at the Digital Interface
This article conducts a discursive interface analysis of World Fixer, the most visible online platform currently connecting foreign correspondents with local news workers who can help them translate interviews, navigate unfamiliar places, and stay safe in the field. Placing Johanna Drucker’s theory of the digital interface into conversation with the critical frameworks found in global communication studies, anti-colonial theory, and anti-racist c…
Bridging Feminist Psychology and Open Science
Feminist researchers have long embraced the challenging, dismantling, and reimagining of psychology, though their contributions to transforming psychological science remain largely overlooked in the mainstream open science movement. In this article, we reconcile feminist psychology and open science. We propose that feminist theory can be leveraged to address central questions of the open science movement, and the potential for methodological syne…
Press Freedom during Covid-19
This study explores the ways in which global press freedom watchdogs have discursively constructed the issue of press freedom during the Covid-19 pandemic. Drawing on a multimodal discourse analysis, the study examines web stories and Tweets posted by the International Press Institute (IPI), the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), and Reporters sans Frontières (RSF), with the purpose of answering three primary questions: (1) Who or what do th…
Out of place
Those from low socioeconomic status (SES) often lack access to public space and, when they have access, they are often discouraged from using public space. Scholars from human geography and related fields have argued that this limits engagement in civic life and undermines sense of belonging in one's community. In the present work, we consider whether lower-SES students face this predicament in higher education, particularly at elite public insti…
Emergency remote instruction in 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic forced higher education into emergency remote instruction in 2020. Impacts of this modality shift on undergraduates of different identities are important to document, for both current students who need support now and future students who may face other crises. A large survey in the United States asked students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) to report the impact of emergency remote instruction on …
Sexual orientation and gender influence perceptions of disciplinary fit
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) represent a highly valued academic discipline and career path in the 21st century; yet some individuals are excluded or discouraged from pursuing STEM because of their social group membership. Despite decades of research on social identity and fit within STEM (e.g., by gender and race), the psychological literature on issues within STEM based on sexual orientation is scant. We draw on notio…
Women’s Safety Concerns and Academia
The present work documents the safety concerns of men and women in academia and how these concerns can create opportunity gaps. Across five samples including undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty ( N = 1,812), women reported greater concerns about their safety than did men, and these concerns were associated with reduced work hours in libraries, offices, and/or labs afterhours. Additionally, although we were unabl…
Extending the social category label effect to stigmatized groups
The social category label effect describes how labels influence people’s perceptions of social groups. Though the label “homosexual” versus “lesbian/gay” decreases some heterosexual people’s support for sexual minorities, it is unknown how lesbian and gay (LG) people respond to “homosexual” as a label used to describe them. Across three experiments in a largely U.S. context (Total N = 831), we examined how use of “homosexual” influenced people’s …
Chemsex and Harm Reduction Practices Among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Malaysia
Chemsex is a form of sexualized drug use commonly practiced among MSM with psychoactive substances, such as methamphetamine. While this phenomenon has gained global attention in the past two decades, there is a dearth of empirical data to inform culturally competent interventions. The current work investigates the socio-contextual factors related to chemsex and harm reduction practices among Malaysian MSM. Between February and August 2022, we con…
Comparing Maltreatment Experiences for Young People with Child Protection or Dual System Involvement
This study examined how single and multiple types of maltreatment allegations differed for young people with child protective services (CPS) only and dual system (i.e., CPS and juvenile delinquency court petition) involvement by gender and race and ethnicity. Allegation types were documented for young people with CPS only or dual system involvement using linked CPS and Probation records for Los Angeles County for a cohort of children born between…
State-level variation of child neglect
U.S. War Correspondents Tweeting Ukraine
This paper investigates how war correspondents working for U.S.-based news organizations Tweeted about the early stages of the 2022 war in Ukraine, focusing particularly on instances when these war reporters contributed to a distinctly transnational version of what Matt Carlson has termed “metajournalistic discourse” (2016). Defining this concept as the “public expressions evaluating news texts, the practices that produce them, or the conditions …
Illustrations of Benevolent and Hostile Heterosexism in LGBTQ+ People's Lives
In this study, we aimed to define heterosexism-a form of sexual stigma that accounts for interpersonal attitudes and institutionalized ideology-in a multi-dimensional way, centering on LGBTQ+ people's experiences. We draw from an ambivalent theory of prejudice and focus on heterosexism, or an ideology that stigmatizes nonheterosexual behaviors, identities, relationships, and communities. We aimed to learn how LGBTQ+ people would narrate their exp…
Naming Benevolence, Exposing Heterosexism
We write in response to the letter to the editor, “Rethinking ‘Benevolent Heterosexism’: A Critical Look at Nuance and Omission in LGBTQ+ Prejudice Research” by Irawan et al. (2026). In their lette
Gender Norms, Dominance Theory, and the Endorsement of Aversive Training Methods With Pet Dogs
Dogs are a significant part of people's lives, serving as companions, family members, and sources of support, which makes understanding factors that influence human interaction with them important. In the current research, we bridge the psychology of gender and the science of human–animal interactions; in doing so, we offer novel conclusions about how gender norms shape our possible intentions and interactions with dogs. Across three studies (nto…
Sociology (20 works) · Political science (15 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Law (9 works) · Media studies (8 works) · Media Studies and Communication (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Journalism (6 works)