Sensationalized Surveillance
Campus Reform and the Targeted Harassment of Faculty
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6308694 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Samantha Mccarthy (University of Chicago), Isaac Kamola (0000-0002-2535-1822, Political Science, Trinity College, Hartford, USA) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 227-247 |
| Publication date | 2022-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0739-3148 • E-ISSN: 1469-9931 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07393148.2021.1996837 |
| OpenAlex | W3211506413 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
Campus Reform is a right-wing website that hires students to write articles accusing universities and faculty members of “liberal bias.” These pieces circulate widely within the right-wing media ecosystem, where they can inspire self-deputized online vigilantes to harass faculty members and college administrators to sanction their faculty members. We argue that Campus Reform is part of a well-funded and well-organized panoptic network that engages in the sensationalized surveillance of faculty. This paper first develops our concept of sensationalized surveillance. We then offer a comprehensive institutional history of Campus Reform – demonstrating that it originates with, and continues to operate as, a conservative political technology. We then explore the details of how this surveillance apparatus functions and conclude by examining the disciplining effects Campus Reform has on faculty
Harassment · Panopticon · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Right wing · Sociology · Academic Freedom and Politics · Law · Public Administration
| Citations per year | 1.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |