General Summary: Dr. Caddie Alford talks about her and co-author John Carter’s paper “Adoxastic Public,” which defines adoxastic publics and explores their direction toward more violent ends. Their paper also examines the ways in which social media platforms, primarily Facebook, enable and encourage the engagement of these radical private groups.Detailed Summary: Exposition and context of Dr. Alford and Jonathan Carter’s paper “Adoxastic Public” (00.00-Scholarly Article Informing this Production: Carter, Jonathan S., and Caddie Alford. "Adoxastic publics: Facebook and the Loss of Civic Strangeness." _Quarterly Journal of Speech_ 109.2 (2023): 176-198.Credits: This podcast was produced by Briana Gonzalez, Duaa Zulfiqar, Sydney Young, Anna Allen, and Lily Gold., with resources and assistance provided by the Digital Writing and Research Lab at the University of Texas at Austin. It features the voices of Briana Gonzalez, Duaa Zulfiqar and Lily Gold. Music featured in this podcast, titled “commonGround,” was created by airtone and has been repurposed here under Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial license 3.0. Additionally, conversation.wav was adopted and incorporated under the Creative Commons 1.0 license.