This article by Tara Heimberger delves further into the popular fan activity of creating, sharing and interacting with characters chat bots, and places this activity in a contimuum of creative and immersive fan practices.

This article examines ChatGPT's biases around queer and heteronormative representation in creative writing and fanfiction. Interesting stuff!

This article by @julianeugarten.bsky.social is a fascinating glimpse into fanfiction responding to Ancient Greek mythology as well as a meditation on the suitability of specific digital methods for analysing fanfic, emphasising the importance of close reading in computational literary studies 👀📖

I have a new essay out on the CRAIC site as part of a larger piece of work around data-led approaches in the creative industries. I hope you enjoy it! craic.lboro.ac.uk/essays/captu... @designinf.bsky.social @melissaterras.bsky.social @lborouniversity.bsky.social

My lovely friend Naomi Jacobs (@ladylark.bsky.social) and I wanted to explore the repercussions of the new-found prevalence of AI on fans, fandom and fan studies. Some excellent scholars contributed articles to a special section of @journal.transformativeworks.org, which is out now! Enjoy!

I must have some Xena fans here - help a researcher out with this survey:

Do you watch TV? Please take this survey to help me understand what audiences think of TV production techniques. app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/edinburgh/... Please share widely, and thanks in advance. #FanStudies #AudienceResearch

Let's try this again. New research from myself and my lovely colleagues about dealing with unexpected AI when collecting research data:

I absolutely loved this recent article by @alothian.bsky.social about Captain America fanfic and its relationship to utopian thinking and worldbuilding. Alexis’ work is always nuanced and insightful and this article is no exception. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/utopian...

I have just realised that Lists here don't include reposts, only original posts. (If anyone knows a way around this - other than just reading my Home feed - please do let me know.) Sorry for missing probably hundreds of great messages!

This is a great piece from Padmini about some of the specific harms that come from LLMs created by a very small number of people and using training data that represents only a fragment of the planet. It's giving me lots of thoughts about the concept of normativity.

@designinf.bsky.social I imagine this book project will be of interest to many in the department. Let's hope they are able to do a second run and distribute outside the US. @ryancordell.org - thanks for sharing this sneak peek with us!

I haven’t given much thought to using interview quotes in the titles of journal articles. Turns out there’s a whole study about the practice! Fascinating stuff. doi.org/10.1080/0898...

So proud of my wonderful colleague for managing to do good work in these trying times 😍

There doesn't seem to be much blsky-ing going on about the UK Ireland DH conference in Glasgow this week. But I still want to thank the organisers properly. This event reminded me of what's important and the importance of community - a reminder I sorely needed. Thank you all! @ukiedh.bsky.social

"when people let the bot write the fic, they’re outsourcing their own fannishness." This article is great at summing up some of the recent interactions between fanfiction and gen AI, and why we should care.

Colleagues of mine are seeking to commission a graphic novel that captures their research project's findings. Commission value £24,000, application deadline 7th May To apply: Send CV and portfolio to [email protected] Further details here: www.linkedin.com/posts/nuri-k...

Oh hello, New @costarnetwork.bsky.social Big Real Virtual Production Film Academy, in Dundee! The Academy is open to current Scotland-residing graduates, current Master students or film makers early in their career. Applications close 30th April - please share! #CoSTARNetwork

Thank you @miriamposner.com for putting together this list of resources to show how LLMs work. Really useful for students (and students-no-longer!)

I just found out that you can download your kindle books as azw3 files to your PC as a backup … and that Amazon are removing this ability on 26 Feb. www.theverge.com/news/612898/...

This was my first time participating in a Call for Evidence for a House of Lords Inquiry (on creative AI). It was an interesting process writing for such a different outlet than the usual journal articles. Nice to see the HoL has taken our points on board.

You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?

New job! Come work with me! Play with data! (RSE at Edinburgh Uni, deadline 15th Jan)

I kind of love my bluesky roast!

A really interesting peek into an aspect of live performance some people (e.g. me) don't think about very often.

Where was this during Creative Informatics? @suchprettyeyes.bsky.social

If you see this post a vampire

Responding to reader reviews of my (potential) book today. In an often fractious and competitive academic environment I’m so grateful to readers who are thoughtful, helpful and, most of all, kind. It means everything to me, as an early career researcher, and I strive to pass that on to others.

People of Bluesky! Let's get to know each other better. What is your favorite movie?Quote share your answer only in GIF form. 💖💖💖

I'll be talking about fanfiction, digital methods, book reviews, classics and literary canons on Mon 28 Oct at the ATNU Virtual Speaker Series. Do come along! #FanStudies #lit For more info and free registration see: research.ncl.ac.uk/atnu/news/at...

A link would help! Here it is: zenodo.org/records/8114...

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: how do Creative informatics and other creative industries organisations measure up? Read our new report for an overview and recommendations for your organisations. #CreativeIndustries.

The deadline is fast approaching for our (@ladylark.bsky.social and my) special issue on AI and fandom! We're looking for articles on AI/ML and fandom, media production, audience / reception studies. Please click through for full CFP.

An article I helped write! So good to see it in print. Thanks for leading the project @melissaterras.bsky.social

SPECIAL ISSUE CFP: AI and Fandom (submissions due 1/1/24) edited by @suzannerblack.bsky.social and @ladylark.bsky.social! See more at: bit.ly/41dHS8j! #FanStudies #AI #CFP #OTW #TWC #MachineLearning #AIethics #LLMs