Trying to balance writing fantasy with researching authorship and book culture, but mostly I procrastinate and rant about cute animals. She/Her. Opinions my own
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The e-book, Shifting Sands, and its associated social media accounts and author pages, are part of an ongoing practice-based research project looking into author identity. Both the creation of this “unstable” e-book and the author identity as performed online are (1/4)
More than a year after there was a collective agreement at #Sharp2024 that BlueSky was the way forward, I have finally started setting up my profile. So, if you're looking for me, I can be found at @katestuart.bsky.social — or I'm also about on LinkedIn. Come and say hi!
I also attended panels on Digital Platforms and Fanfiction with more valuable scholars than I can name here, but I found threads around the influence of platform on norms and user behaviour. Do I now want to learn how to make tiny books? Yes — this might be the only way I'm
For me, this seemed less like something I would do myself (I'm boring) but definitely something I now want to do with students stuck on where to take their assignments. And I got more pedagogical inspiration from the Global book cultures and the student laboratory panel!
Completely influenced by my own research interests, I was very much taken by the way each of these communities used creation/publication to construct or consolidate their identity (generally in response to or because of colonisation). And, despite this colonial edge, there was
I very quickly fell behind on my tweeting about #SHARP2024. Should have seen it coming! But some key highlights for Tuesday and Wednesday include:
A great panel with Gearóidin Ui Laighléis, Henning Hansen, Kirsti Salmi-Niklander, and Nyssa Komorowski on Communities of Publishing.
Conference season! Happy to be returning to my research-self as I attend #SHARP2024 at the University of Reading. I'll be presenting on how the transition to X from Twitter affects author identity performances online, so it seems appropriate to throw out some tweets as I go along
perspectives and methodologies) and negative (e.g. disciplinary divides). As someone whose research is also fairly interdisciplinary, I really appreciated the discussion about the isolation and uncertainty this can cause. On the one hand, it's great to be creating a connection