The 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.

Volume 43

Volume 43 amply represents the editorial board’s interest in resuscitating, sustaining, and investigating eclectic, understudied materials. Readers will discover digital humanities innovations, critic...

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A new article! This one's about effective data capture in the creative industries 📊📈🎵🎤🎭🎬🪩

Melissa Terras@melissaterras.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New paper with @suzannerblack.bsky.social and @grahamhitchen.bsky.social looking at how you capture data about innovation in the creative industries. We analyse reporting practices from the UK's £56m Creative Industries Clusters Programme (2018–2023) www.frontiersin.org/journals/com...

A 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...

There 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? 📚🎉

The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities@iashedinburgh.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Upcoming book launches at IASH: A few tickets are left for the launch of "Between Novel and Network: Technology and Literary Form in Fiction and Fanfiction" (@lsupress.bsky.social) by Suzanne R. Black (@suzannerblack.bsky.social) on Fri 5 June at 5pm. 📖⌨️ betweennovelandnetwork.eventbrite.co.uk

Request 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

I 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...

📢 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/4t3C2EQ

Share your thoughts on cultural heritage reuse and management with the INFINITY surveys

Do 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.

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A survey about author's notes for any 18+ readers / writers of fanfiction:

Mel Stanfill@melstanfill.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Survey Participants Needed! Fanfiction Writers, Fanfiction Readers, Fans, Fandom enthusiasts ucf.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... (@fanstudies.bsky.social @scmsfaas.bsky.social can i get a boost for this student's research solicitation?)

I'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).

Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society@edcdcs.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Looking forward to hearing Dr Suzanne Black speak on the structural issues of preserving digital cultural heritage and platforms like AO3 in March! Join us! https://edin.ac/3MgQsSA #EdCDCS

The Software Sustainability Institute wants to hear from you if you code for research as part of your job:

Michael Donnay@mjdonnay.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Your formal job title does not matter - if you write code for research as part of your work, we want to hear from you. @uob-bear.bsky.social @dataculture.bsky.social @researchsoftware.bsky.social @code4thought.bsky.social @arc-durhamuni.bsky.social @theturing.bsky.social

I 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?

Jing 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!

Transformative Works and Cultures@journal.transformativeworks.org · 9mo ago

Closing out our Fans & AI section, Jing Bai asks us to reconsider the relationships between humans and AI in "Otaku and AI: Reconsidering human, machine, and animal"! Read their Symposium piece in #TWC46 today!

Irissa 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...

Transformative Works and Cultures@journal.transformativeworks.org · 9mo ago

In a New Currents symposium, Irissa Cisternino & Rebecca Radillo ask us to consider major questions about how generative AI problematizes existing power structures in and around fandom in #TWC46! Read their piece here:

My 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.

This 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.

Transformative Works and Cultures@journal.transformativeworks.org · 9mo ago

Eva Cheuk-Yin Li & Ka-Wei Pang close out the New Currents Articles with ""This is a deepfake!": Celebrity scandals, parodic deepfakes, and a critically speculative ethics of care for fandom research in the age of artificial intelligence"! Read it in #TWC46:

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.

Transformative Works and Cultures@journal.transformativeworks.org · 9mo ago

Tara Heimberger moves beyond static fan fiction to examine immersive character chatbots that allow fans to carry out a conversation with fan objects in "Character.AI and the quest for immersion in fan fiction practices" for #TWC46! Read it now:

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

Transformative Works and Cultures@journal.transformativeworks.org · 9mo ago

Next in New Currents, @drtlwagner.bsky.social & Alison Harding use traditional analyses to examine work created using generative AI in ""Remember, love knows no boundaries and comes in many forms": The conceptualization of queerness within AI-generated fan works"! Read it in #TWC46:

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 👀📖

Transformative Works and Cultures@journal.transformativeworks.org · 9mo ago

In #TWC46's first New Currents article, @julianeugarten.bsky.social explores the potential of a suite of natural language processing and machine learning tools to examine power and gender dynamics in fan fiction featuring characters from Greek mythology! Read it here:

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

Capturing the value of creative R&D: data-collection for the Creative Industries Clusters Programme

Dr Suzanne R Black, CRAIC, Loughborough University London, and CoSTAR Foresight Lab Introduction This essay addresses gaps and challenges in quantifying and understanding innovation through ...

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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!

Dr Naomi Jacobs@ladylark.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I'm really excited that a collection of fascinating work on fandom, fans and AI that @suzannerblack.bsky.social and I co-edited is out today in the new volume of @journal.transformativeworks.org - and as the journal's first 'New Currents' section! Read our editorial here doi.org/10.3983/twc....

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

Mel Stanfill@melstanfill.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Please take this online survey to help me understand Xena fans and the relationship of the fandom to the makers of the show. #xena, #xenawarriorprincess, #xwp Share with anyone who might be interested! ucf.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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

TV Survey

Online 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...

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

Nicola Osborne (they/she)@suchprettyeyes.bsky.social · 12mo ago

I'm pleased to share that Louise Connelly, @suzannerblack.bsky.social, @melissaterras.bsky.social & my 'Guidance for Research Ethics Committees and Researchers on Designing Research in the Age of AI' is out now under CC license: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Read, share onwards and give us your feedback!

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...

Captain America, Genderqueer Socialist: The Utopian Politics of Queer Fan Fiction

ABSTRACT. 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...

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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.

Padmini RM@padmini.bsky.social · last yr.

Very glad to share this piece where I explain why LLMs & AI in their current formations are unlikely to be fair & ethical in their representations of the Majority World. I make recommendations on how we might shift these imbalances, and what needs to be done in order to do so. bit.ly/3IMlgbr

@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!

Ryan Cordell@ryancordell.org · last yr.

Friends, please share! Proofs are ready for @skeuomorphpress.org's edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s "A Rant About Technology." I am so pleased with this book—in many ways our 1st real book project Details about how to get one through our fundraiser at skeuomorph.ischool.illinois.edu/le-guin-book...

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...

A critical analysis of respondent quotes used as titles of qualitative research papers that are published in peer-reviewed journals

The 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...

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

Design Informatics@designinf.bsky.social · last yr.

@suchprettyeyes.bsky.social received the Impact Festival 2025 Research Impact Prize. She has demonstrated exceptional leadership in managing Creative Informatics. Their expertise has been central to the transformative impact of this initiative on Scotland’s creative industries. edin.ac/4ncIszD

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