Charlotte Stevens
@charstevens.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer @ Birmingham City University (film/tv, fandom, games), she/her
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my mac doing its best to telephone a seventeenth century ecclesiastical record 🗃️
November 12, 2025 at 11:29 AM
my mac doing its best to telephone a seventeenth century ecclesiastical record 🗃️
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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A Kimono decorated with skeletons, from Japan, 1840-1860 CE,
now housed at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London
now housed at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London
October 30, 2025 at 6:56 PM
A Kimono decorated with skeletons, from Japan, 1840-1860 CE,
now housed at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London
now housed at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London
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Very excited to share that on November 10 @discoxford.bsky.social are hosting a hybrid roundtable on Videogame preservation practices with @carrythezero.bsky.social, Alex Habgood, digital archivist at Rebellion studios, and @emarlow.bsky.social:
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/video-...
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/video-...
Video Game Preservation: Practices and Approaches
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk
October 16, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Very excited to share that on November 10 @discoxford.bsky.social are hosting a hybrid roundtable on Videogame preservation practices with @carrythezero.bsky.social, Alex Habgood, digital archivist at Rebellion studios, and @emarlow.bsky.social:
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/video-...
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/video-...
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*FIFTEEN THOUSAND JOBS LOST*.
If this were in a sector in which the PM could go and do a photoshoot looking like One Of The People, we’d have had a government intervention by now.
If this were in a sector in which the PM could go and do a photoshoot looking like One Of The People, we’d have had a government intervention by now.
Cuts equivalent to 15,000 jobs planned at UK universities – UCU www.timeshighereducation.com/news/cuts-eq...
Cuts equivalent to 15,000 jobs planned at UK universities – UCU
Proposed job losses almost triple since March as unions prepare to vote on nationwide industrial action
www.timeshighereducation.com
October 11, 2025 at 8:17 AM
*FIFTEEN THOUSAND JOBS LOST*.
If this were in a sector in which the PM could go and do a photoshoot looking like One Of The People, we’d have had a government intervention by now.
If this were in a sector in which the PM could go and do a photoshoot looking like One Of The People, we’d have had a government intervention by now.
yesterday a student said something about chatgpt in my hearing, and without working out if it was a positive or dismissive comment I said "oh don't sully the air of my classroom with that name" and continued with my slide. the way the group murmured in response sounded like they were on my side 🤞
Same for academics and it's so depressing
A lot of """"creatives"""" have seemingly accepted generative AI as part of art and filmmaking and I'm hear to say you're all big stinky phonies and I hate you
October 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
yesterday a student said something about chatgpt in my hearing, and without working out if it was a positive or dismissive comment I said "oh don't sully the air of my classroom with that name" and continued with my slide. the way the group murmured in response sounded like they were on my side 🤞
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There's something very "Ford Prefect" about a process that arrives at "Harper Collins" as a sensible name for a pornbot
October 7, 2025 at 2:27 PM
There's something very "Ford Prefect" about a process that arrives at "Harper Collins" as a sensible name for a pornbot
thought i'd be kind as an editor and quickly drop the proper in-text references in place of this chapter's "ibid." and "op. cit", but halfway through it i am:
i) regretting my choices,
ii) firmly opposed to the use of "ibid." and "op. cit" by anyone ever, and
iii) stopping for lunch
i) regretting my choices,
ii) firmly opposed to the use of "ibid." and "op. cit" by anyone ever, and
iii) stopping for lunch
October 6, 2025 at 12:04 PM
thought i'd be kind as an editor and quickly drop the proper in-text references in place of this chapter's "ibid." and "op. cit", but halfway through it i am:
i) regretting my choices,
ii) firmly opposed to the use of "ibid." and "op. cit" by anyone ever, and
iii) stopping for lunch
i) regretting my choices,
ii) firmly opposed to the use of "ibid." and "op. cit" by anyone ever, and
iii) stopping for lunch
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Having studied #digitalID in depth for my PhD and written a book about this way before anyone had even flagged it as a problem - this a TERRIBLE idea. We have been warning the UK government about the dangers of digital ID for years. No one listened. #digitalidentity www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Keir Starmer to announce plans for digital ID scheme
The prime minister believes a new scheme would help crack down on illegal working in the UK.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 25, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Having studied #digitalID in depth for my PhD and written a book about this way before anyone had even flagged it as a problem - this a TERRIBLE idea. We have been warning the UK government about the dangers of digital ID for years. No one listened. #digitalidentity www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The CfP for the 1st themed issue of our journal Fandom | Cultures | Research is out & I'm especially excited for this one, since it combines two of the things I'm most interested in: #fanstudies & #memorystudies. Added bonus: a workshop in Marburg in Feb 26.
journals.uni-marburg.de/fcr/announce...
journals.uni-marburg.de/fcr/announce...
Call for Abstracts - Themed Issue 2/26 & Accompanying Workshop: “Fan Practices of Memory and Remembrance”
| Fandom | Cultures | Research
journals.uni-marburg.de
September 25, 2025 at 8:34 AM
The CfP for the 1st themed issue of our journal Fandom | Cultures | Research is out & I'm especially excited for this one, since it combines two of the things I'm most interested in: #fanstudies & #memorystudies. Added bonus: a workshop in Marburg in Feb 26.
journals.uni-marburg.de/fcr/announce...
journals.uni-marburg.de/fcr/announce...
it's the Friday before teaching starts next week, aka the perfect time for the summer's last mint Cornetto from the freezer as a pre-dinner snack
September 19, 2025 at 4:49 PM
it's the Friday before teaching starts next week, aka the perfect time for the summer's last mint Cornetto from the freezer as a pre-dinner snack
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My friend and colleague @lerelle.bsky.social needs research participants for their PhD project. The research focuses on intersectionally minoritised queer people's experiences using dating apps. So could you please take a look at this and share it if you can? (1/3)
September 18, 2025 at 11:18 AM
My friend and colleague @lerelle.bsky.social needs research participants for their PhD project. The research focuses on intersectionally minoritised queer people's experiences using dating apps. So could you please take a look at this and share it if you can? (1/3)
I did hesitate before deleting (change is scary?), but I've done it
If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
September 18, 2025 at 9:20 AM
I did hesitate before deleting (change is scary?), but I've done it
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I wish more people would call this what it is: a lie/scam to increase unpaid labour. Management know many of us won’t give crap feedback, so instead we work evenings/weekends or let other work slip. Their spreadsheet is happy, students still get decent feedback. All the burden is on the Lecturer.
Simply astonishing. Maybe Lecturer A should not have to mark over 100 essays in a two-week window in the first place? Invest in qualified staff and reduce impossible workloads FFS www.kcl.ac.uk/about/strate...
September 17, 2025 at 12:12 PM
I wish more people would call this what it is: a lie/scam to increase unpaid labour. Management know many of us won’t give crap feedback, so instead we work evenings/weekends or let other work slip. Their spreadsheet is happy, students still get decent feedback. All the burden is on the Lecturer.
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I know just the book for you
September 17, 2025 at 7:47 AM
I know just the book for you
I'm also looking forward to this, which starts tomorrow and is why I just speed-walked across FRA make my connection
Official account for the conference series "Video Game Cultures"
@videogamecultures.bsky.social
· Sep 3
Are you curious what's behind the presentation titles for VGC 2025? Here's a little sneak-peak (also known as abstracts 😉): videogamecultures.org/2025-abstrac...
#videogames #gamestudies #academia
#videogames #gamestudies #academia
2025 Abstracts & speaker bios – Video Game Cultures
videogamecultures.org
September 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I'm also looking forward to this, which starts tomorrow and is why I just speed-walked across FRA make my connection
Looking forward to this!
UK Gamescenes Symposium will take place in Tampere/Hybrid on 16th September. Program and details for joining are attached. 1/2
Features work from skypeeps @digdems.bsky.social @nitessine.bsky.social @merilainen.bsky.social @rosgakori.bsky.social @vkankainen.bsky.social
Features work from skypeeps @digdems.bsky.social @nitessine.bsky.social @merilainen.bsky.social @rosgakori.bsky.social @vkankainen.bsky.social
September 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Looking forward to this!
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Our publication for VGC 2023 is on its way! You can already check out the wonderful cover and website here: www.sidestone.com/books/explor...
Exploring New Horizons in Video Game Cultures @ Sidestone Press
This book brings together a selection of papers delivered at the Video Game Cultures 2023 conference, held from 7 to 9 September 2023 at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. An interdisciplinary col...
www.sidestone.com
August 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Our publication for VGC 2023 is on its way! You can already check out the wonderful cover and website here: www.sidestone.com/books/explor...
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Are you curious what's behind the presentation titles for VGC 2025? Here's a little sneak-peak (also known as abstracts 😉): videogamecultures.org/2025-abstrac...
#videogames #gamestudies #academia
#videogames #gamestudies #academia
2025 Abstracts & speaker bios – Video Game Cultures
videogamecultures.org
September 3, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Are you curious what's behind the presentation titles for VGC 2025? Here's a little sneak-peak (also known as abstracts 😉): videogamecultures.org/2025-abstrac...
#videogames #gamestudies #academia
#videogames #gamestudies #academia
added my ISBNs/details to the list last week 💪
August 27, 2025 at 6:24 PM
added my ISBNs/details to the list last week 💪
the to-do list is overwhelming, but hopefully knuckling down to get through some screening (11 episodes left of this current case study!) will make me feel like i'm making progress
August 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
the to-do list is overwhelming, but hopefully knuckling down to get through some screening (11 episodes left of this current case study!) will make me feel like i'm making progress
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Happy Clearing, for all who celebrate.
August 14, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Happy Clearing, for all who celebrate.
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🗓️ Abstracts for Cine-Excess 2025, REANIMATED! REVIVING CULT FILM’S DEAD OBJECTS, are due this Friday
🚨 Updated CfP for Cine-Excess 2025 is now LIVE. This year’s theme marks 40 years of Re-Animator (1985) & 50 years of Shivers (1975). We’re delighted that Brian Yuzna, producer of Re-Animator, is scheduled to join us in person. Lynn Lowry, star of Shivers, joins us online. More info from bit.ly/CECFP
August 13, 2025 at 11:44 AM
🗓️ Abstracts for Cine-Excess 2025, REANIMATED! REVIVING CULT FILM’S DEAD OBJECTS, are due this Friday