Dr Suzanne Black @suzannerblack.bsky.social · 30/09/2026If you are in a cultural heritage institution or the creative and cultural industries in Europe and interested in participating in the creation of new tools and software ecosystems (or just find out what we're doing), join the INFINITY stakeholder network: 022
Dr Suzanne Black @suzannerblack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I'm so grateful to @fsnnorthamerica.bsky.social for inviting me to join the line-up for the conference in October! And I'm especially thrilled to be joined by @ladylark.bsky.social @deanleetal.bsky.social and @julianeugarten.bsky.social to talk about all things disciplinary! 278
Dr Suzanne Black @suzannerblack.bsky.social · 11/09/2026If you think you might be interested in a fan studies conference in the UK next year - tell us! 020
Dr Suzanne Black @suzannerblack.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I am currently involved with this really interesting project about developing software ecosystems for the heritage sector across Europe. My colleagues and I in Edinburgh will be specifically focusing on ethics. If that sounds interesting to you, please give our account a follow :) #InfinityEccch 142
Dr Suzanne Black @suzannerblack.bsky.social · 04/09/2026We're planning a fan studies conference in the UK next year! Please do follow the link and fill out the form to help us plan something that you want to attend 😊 0116
Dr Suzanne Black @suzannerblack.bsky.social · 18/08/2026New fan studies book! This time exploring the crossover between fan studies and design research. I can't wait to read it. And it's open access! 050
Dr Suzanne Black @suzannerblack.bsky.social · 31/07/2026The new issue of Scholarly Editing is out with some fantastic articles! www.scholarlyediting.org/issues/43/ It makes me think about how we could do this kind of work in #FanStudies to make scholarly editions (physical or digital) of fanfiction. Is anyone doing this already? I would love to know.scholarlyediting.orgVolume 43Volume 43 amply represents the editorial board’s interest in resuscitating, sustaining, and investigating eclectic, understudied materials. Readers will discover digital humanities innovations, critic... 033
Dr Suzanne Black @suzannerblack.bsky.social · 11/06/2026A new article! This one's about effective data capture in the creative industries 📊📈🎵🎤🎭🎬🪩 031
Dr Suzanne Black @suzannerblack.bsky.social · 01/06/2026A reminder that the online launch for my book is this Wednesday, 3 June, 7pm UTC (8pm BST; 3pm ET) - timezones are hard! I hope to see you there! 📖🥳 www.facebook.com/events/16107...facebook.com 121
Dr Suzanne Black @suzannerblack.bsky.social · 22/05/2026There are still a few tickets left for my book launch on Friday 5 June, apparently. It's taking place in Edinburgh, Scotland and also online. See you there? 📚🎉 022
Dr Suzanne Black @suzannerblack.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Request for information: I had a request from a prospective PhD student who is looking to work on fanfiction and AI writing. Do you know anyone who might be in a position to receive a proposal about this? (I cannot supervise PhD students myself.) Thanks. @fanstudies.bsky.social #FanStudies 646
Dr Suzanne Black @suzannerblack.bsky.social · 12/05/2026I have a book coming out soon! It’s fan studies / literary studies and about the complex relationships between the internet and twenty-first century fiction and fanfiction. Please join me at the online launch: Wednesday 3 June, 7pm UTC: www.facebook.com/events/16107... 14118
Dr Suzanne Black @suzannerblack.bsky.social · 14/04/2026📢 Share your perspective on cultural heritage reuse and management! Do you manage or reuse cultural heritage collections in your work? Take the INFINITY survey to share your experiences and insights, and contribute to the future of the digital creative economy in Europe! ➡️ bit.ly/4t3C2EQdataspace-culturalheritage.euShare your thoughts on cultural heritage reuse and management with the INFINITY surveysDo you manage or reuse cultural heritage collections in your work? Then take the INFINITY survey to share your perspectives and contribute to the future of the digital creative economy. 134
Dr Suzanne Black @suzannerblack.bsky.social · 13/04/2026A survey about author's notes for any 18+ readers / writers of fanfiction: 000
Dr Suzanne Black @suzannerblack.bsky.social · 04/03/2026I'm giving a talk on Wed 25th March about fanfiction as an example of digital cultural heritage. Do come along if you're in Edinburgh (booking details below). 032
Dr Suzanne Black @suzannerblack.bsky.social · 12/02/2026The Software Sustainability Institute wants to hear from you if you code for research as part of your job: 010
Dr Suzanne Black @suzannerblack.bsky.social · 02/12/2025I have an friend who is trying to research textiles/textile history in relation to libraries (e.g. the history of textile related community groups/activities in library spaces). Does anyone have any suggestions for books / journals? @quinnanya.me - I thought you might know? 153
Dr Suzanne Black @suzannerblack.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Jing Bai's exploration of Japanese fandom otaku communities treats thinking about the incursion of gen AI into fan activities as a consideration of the information seeking and organisation practices of humans. Thought-provoking stuff! 031
Dr Suzanne Black @suzannerblack.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Irissa Cisternino & Rebecca Radillo do a great job of laying out the stakes for creativity, especially fan creativity, in the wake of gen AI. They ask what it means to outsource 'labors of love' to a tool, a similar question asked by @elizabethminkel.bsky.social in ellipsus.com/blog/generat... 152
Dr Suzanne Black @suzannerblack.bsky.social · 19/11/2025My first monograph, 'Between Novel and Network: Technology and Literary Form in Fiction and Fanfiction', will be published by @lsupress.bsky.social on 16 May 2026! It connects contemporary fiction, fanfiction and literary theory. See lsupress.org/978080718642... for more details. 44115
Dr Suzanne Black @suzannerblack.bsky.social · 14/11/2025This is such a great article by Eva Cheuk-Yin Li & Ka-Wei Pang about a specific incident in fandom in which discourse around AI deepfakes was weaponised by fans. Beyond the incident itself, it offers a thoughtful example of how to engage with fandom incidents with care and respect. 055
Dr Suzanne Black @suzannerblack.bsky.social · 12/11/2025This 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. 031
Dr Suzanne Black @suzannerblack.bsky.social · 12/11/2025This article examines ChatGPT's biases around queer and heteronormative representation in creative writing and fanfiction. Interesting stuff! 063
Dr Suzanne Black @suzannerblack.bsky.social · 08/11/2025This 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 👀📖 083
Dr Suzanne Black @suzannerblack.bsky.social · 07/11/2025I 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.socialcraic.lboro.ac.ukCapturing the value of creative R&D: data-collection for the Creative Industries Clusters ProgrammeDr Suzanne R Black, CRAIC, Loughborough University London, and CoSTAR Foresight Lab Introduction This essay addresses gaps and challenges in quantifying and understanding innovation through ... 021
Dr Suzanne Black @suzannerblack.bsky.social · 15/09/2025My 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! 0268
Dr Suzanne Black @suzannerblack.bsky.social · 04/09/2025I must have some Xena fans here - help a researcher out with this survey: 120
Dr Suzanne Black @suzannerblack.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Do 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 #AudienceResearchapp.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.ukTV SurveyOnline surveys is a powerful, easy to use tool for creating online surveys. Run by Jisc, online surveys is used by over 300 different organisations in the UK... 42732
Dr Suzanne Black @suzannerblack.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Let's try this again. New research from myself and my lovely colleagues about dealing with unexpected AI when collecting research data: 012
Dr Suzanne Black @suzannerblack.bsky.social · 07/08/2025I 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...scholarlypublishingcollective.orgCaptain America, Genderqueer Socialist: The Utopian Politics of Queer Fan FictionABSTRACT. As a practice of literalizing narrative desire, fan fiction can be a rich source of utopian imagination. Participants in fandom and academic spaces alike discuss the capacity for fan fiction... 120
Dr Suzanne Black @suzannerblack.bsky.social · 17/07/2025I 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! 020
Dr Suzanne Black @suzannerblack.bsky.social · 16/07/2025This 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. 052
Dr Suzanne Black @suzannerblack.bsky.social · 11/07/2025@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! 140
Dr Suzanne Black @suzannerblack.bsky.social · 08/07/2025I 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...doi.orgA critical analysis of respondent quotes used as titles of qualitative research papers that are published in peer-reviewed journalsThe use of respondent quotes to headline qualitative research papers is a popular literary device found in many academic journals. This practice has increased over the last four decades and now app... 130
Dr Suzanne Black @suzannerblack.bsky.social · 24/06/2025So proud of my wonderful colleague for managing to do good work in these trying times 😍 010
Dr Suzanne Black @suzannerblack.bsky.social · 19/06/2025There 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 010
Dr Suzanne Black @suzannerblack.bsky.social · 02/05/2025"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. 1112
Reposted by Dr Suzanne BlackDr Naomi Jacobs @ladylark.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Colleagues 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 reimagining@lancaster.ac.uk Further details here: www.linkedin.com/posts/nuri-k... 10172150
Reposted by Dr Suzanne BlackMelissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Oh 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! #CoSTARNetworkbigreal.abertay.ac.ukAbout | The Big Real Film Academy 062
Dr Suzanne Black @suzannerblack.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Thank you @miriamposner.com for putting together this list of resources to show how LLMs work. Really useful for students (and students-no-longer!) 080
Dr Suzanne Black @suzannerblack.bsky.social · 17/02/2025I 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/...theverge.comAmazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle booksIt’s bad if you like to keep ebook backup copies. 010
Dr Suzanne Black @suzannerblack.bsky.social · 03/02/2025This 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. 160
Dr Suzanne Black @suzannerblack.bsky.social · 05/01/2025You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you? 110
Dr Suzanne Black @suzannerblack.bsky.social · 11/12/2024New job! Come work with me! Play with data! (RSE at Edinburgh Uni, deadline 15th Jan) 050
Dr Suzanne Black @suzannerblack.bsky.social · 28/11/2024A really interesting peek into an aspect of live performance some people (e.g. me) don't think about very often. 140
Dr Suzanne Black @suzannerblack.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Where was this during Creative Informatics? @suchprettyeyes.bsky.social 140
Dr Suzanne Black @suzannerblack.bsky.social · 17/11/2024If you see this post a vampiremedia.tenor.comcount von count from sesame street holds his hand to his mouthALT: count von count from sesame street holds his hand to his mouth 010
Dr Suzanne Black @suzannerblack.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Responding 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. 040
Dr Suzanne Black @suzannerblack.bsky.social · 16/11/2024People of Bluesky! Let's get to know each other better. What is your favorite movie?Quote share your answer only in GIF form. 💖💖💖media.tenor.coma man on a motorcycle is walking down a road next to another manAlt: A few frames from the film 'My Own Private Idaho'. Keanu Reeves' character tries to start a motorcycle while River Phoenix's character stands in the road, distressed 100