Reposted by Irissa🌌Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Web-trained, generative AI is: 1) Fundamentally unreliable. 2) Built on the theft of data on an enormous scale. 3) Such a commercial failure that it has never made a profit. 4) Disastrous for the environment. But sure, hand your nation’s data over to these private companies and kiss their asses. 59342
Reposted by Irissa🌌Dr Rebecca Williams @augustaquarius.bsky.social · 10/01/2025New in @popcommjournal.bsky.social Proctor, J. (2025). “This one’s for the sapphics”: Mamamoo, “girl crush,” and transcultural networks through queer fan labor. Popular Communication, 1–15. #FanStudies doi.org/10.1080/1540...doi.org“This one’s for the sapphics”: Mamamoo, “girl crush,” and transcultural networks through queer fan laborFocusing on queer female fan labor within the K-pop realm, this study explores how fans engage with female-centered media texts and the role of fan labor in shaping collective queer female identity... 075
Reposted by Irissa🌌Maggie Levenstein @maggielevenstein.bsky.social · 13/01/2025#USCensusBureau is now providing guidance on how to cite its #data #datacitation www.census.gov/newsroom/blo...census.govGuidance on How to Cite Census Bureau Products and InformationThe Census Bureau recently released new guidance on how to cite its statistical products, technical documentation and research. 1106
Irissa🌌 @nerdyphd.bsky.social · 10/12/2024now WHO was going to tell me less than jake released a new album 020
Reposted by Irissa🌌Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 04/12/2024I honestly believe all LLM results should come with a disclaimer reminding people that the thing doesn’t (and absolutely cannot) know any facts or do any reasoning; it is simply designed to *sound* like it knows facts and frequently sweeps some up accidentally in the process. 1313022647
Irissa🌌 @nerdyphd.bsky.social · 04/12/2024For once my top 5 artists actually does a perfect job of encapsulating all my different tastes, this is so cool this never happens 030
Reposted by Irissa🌌Line Nybro Petersen @linenybro.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Joining Evan in the shameless self-promotion to say that you should check out my book on Mediatized Fan Play. It includes a chapter on how the QAnon conspiracy theory grew out of playful fan/anti-fan practices on 4Chan and beyond. It’s riveting, I promise you. 133
Reposted by Irissa🌌James Rendell @jamesrendell.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Thrilled to see published the special dossier on Horror Fans and Audiences (that I co-edited with @kte75.bsky.social) as part of the New Review of Film and Television Studies' new issue on Transnational Horror Media. You can read our introduction here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comSpecial dossier introduction: horror fans and audiencesThis introduction to the New Review of Film and Television’s special dossier on horror fans and audiences discusses how the study of horror viewership has frequently been limited to certain US cult... 1256
Reposted by Irissa🌌Marco Rinaldi @marcorinaldi.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Why? Who is this meant to be good for? Nobody wants your shit AI books, never mind 8,000 in a year. Just a terrible idea and a horrible road the publishing industry is heading down. 76959041072
Irissa🌌 @nerdyphd.bsky.social · 26/11/2024well.... hey everybody i'm a sociology PhD candidate who likes art, video games, and books 060
Irissa🌌 @nerdyphd.bsky.social · 26/11/2024holy hell i haven't logged into this account in like a month, where did all of you come from 120
Irissa🌌 @nerdyphd.bsky.social · 15/05/2024closing the survey in a couple hours!!!!! get your last responses in :) 020
Reposted by Irissa🌌Irissa🌌 @nerdyphd.bsky.social · 21/03/2024Still recruiting participants for my dissertation research! if you consider yourself a fan &/or active in #fandom communities, can speak/read English & are 18+, consider participating in a study re: fandom & generative AI (& share with your friends)!! More⬇️ #fanstudies #academicresearch #ai 112
Irissa🌌 @nerdyphd.bsky.social · 27/03/2024people who routinely collect their own data i am in awe of you how do you do it i am being Continuously Perceived and my stress levels are so high lol 000
Irissa🌌 @nerdyphd.bsky.social · 21/03/2024i'm slightly late (i'm still way more active on twitter than here), but I have an article in here!!! my first peer-reviewed pub🥰 all of these articles look so great, so excited to dive in! 021
Irissa🌌 @nerdyphd.bsky.social · 21/03/2024feel free to reach out with any questions! the survey should take between 15-20 minutes and is voluntary/anonymous! feel free to share with anyone in your networks that you think will be interested :) #fandom #ai #academicresearch #researchstudy #fanstudies #sociology 000
Irissa🌌 @nerdyphd.bsky.social · 21/03/2024Still recruiting participants for my dissertation research! if you consider yourself a fan &/or active in #fandom communities, can speak/read English & are 18+, consider participating in a study re: fandom & generative AI (& share with your friends)!! More⬇️ #fanstudies #academicresearch #ai 112
Irissa🌌 @nerdyphd.bsky.social · 16/02/2024FYI: the survey isn’t active currently since I had to pause to make some adjustments. I’ll let you know once it’s open again!!! So sorry for the confusion, turns out I’ve fallen into the “only discovering problems on launch day” trap😅 011
Irissa🌌 @nerdyphd.bsky.social · 16/02/2024Just an update; the survey is paused briefly!!! Need to make a couple of tweaks. So sorry for the false start; should be back up and running sometime next week! 010
Irissa🌌 @nerdyphd.bsky.social · 13/02/2024fixed one small error; if you filled out the survey in the last hour and responded "yes" to being contacted for an interview but there was no option to put your email in, please email the research team directly if you'd like to schedule an interview! This has been corrected now. 011
Irissa🌌 @nerdyphd.bsky.social · 13/02/2024clearly I am not a graphic designer😅 feel free to reply or reach out via email with any questions! Defintiely share the flyer with anyone in your networks who might be interested #fanstudies #fandomresearch #artificialintelligence #fandom #fancultures #fanfic #fanart 100
Irissa🌌 @nerdyphd.bsky.social · 13/02/2024✨I'm starting data collection for my PhD and looking for participants!✨ if you consider yourself a fan &/or active in #fandom communities, have opinions about generative AI, can speak/read English & are 18+, consider participating (& share with your friends)!! More⬇️ 178
Reposted by Irissa🌌Dr. Jason Jeffrey Jones @jason-jones.bsky.social · 13/12/2023🚨 Preprint 🚨 with @nerdyphd.bsky.social LGBTQ Visibility Online Measured Consistently and Persistently from 2015 through 2023 osf.io/mcax8/downlo...osf.io 032
Reposted by Irissa🌌Dr Rebecca Williams @augustaquarius.bsky.social · 10/10/2023CFP Reminder Special Issue of Rock Music Studies: Courtney Love and Hole www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-j...jiscmail.ac.uk 023
Reposted by Irissa🌌John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 10/10/2023I'm no Shakespeare but there are a fair number of people who think they can write what I do, with the implication that what I do doesn't require much skill. My response is always the same: "Okay. Do it." Strangely, they rarely do. I am left to pursue my lonely occupation. 4257734
Reposted by Irissa🌌maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 10/10/2023Keep seeing posts that start if you're upset about x you should also/actually/really be upset about y and I just want them to know, do not worry! I am absolutely without question upset about everything. 16925209
Reposted by Irissa🌌N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social · 26/09/2023Are we ever going to make anything, anymore? Is this something we can recover from, or are we too hooked on the "easy money" of just strip-mining all the capital built up by our institutions and people over centuries? How does a nation grow (or survive) when it's cannibalizing itself? 35967220
Reposted by Irissa🌌J Paul @ Edmonton Expo @castcuraga.bsky.social · 24/09/2023Slave Knight Gael - Dark Souls 3 (2019) 2278
Irissa🌌 @nerdyphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2023man... i love Storygraph with all my heart, but their database is so lacking in nonfiction/academic books... every time i go to input something i have to manually input it myself, it's so annoying😭 000
Irissa🌌 @nerdyphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2023the typo here makes the brainmush pretty glaringly apparent tbh 000
Irissa🌌 @nerdyphd.bsky.social · 23/09/2023God ive been looking at this article revision for so long that the my whole brain is turning to mush 110
Irissa🌌 @nerdyphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2023How do you do, Twitter’s slightly weirder and hopefully less nazi-filled younger cousin 040