Arienne Ferchaud
aferchaud.bsky.social
Arienne Ferchaud
@aferchaud.bsky.social
Associate Professor. Craft queen. Owner of 2 felonious felines. Writer of fine fantasy works.
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New article alert! Working with dope people like @stephorme.bsky.social and our fearless leader Emory (not on Bluesky?). We interviewed streamers to talk about how THEY perceive parasocial relationships. Check it out y'all!
View of Why can’t we be friends (with streamers)
tidsskrift.dk
May 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Now the #ica25 decisions have been communicated, it is time to think about pre/post conferences. Consider submitting to our pre-conference "Media, Trust & Technology". All info: mediated-trust-arts.sydney.edu.au/event/ica-20...
ICA 2025 Preconference: Media, Trust & Technology - Mediated Trust Arts
Join us for the ICA 2025 Preconfernce on Media, Trust & Technology, June 11 2025 at The University of Colorado Boulder. Deadline for Abstracts: 31 January 2025.
mediated-trust-arts.sydney.edu.au
January 16, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Congrats to those accepted at ICA (and regrets to those who weren't...we feel you.) FYI, the 4th CreatorCon, an ICA pre-conference to be held at the University of Boulder dedicated to platform, creator, wanghong, and influencer studies is still taking submissions until 1 Feb. www.ccsn.site/ica
CCSN
The Content Creator Scholars Network
www.ccsn.site
January 15, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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This is important
FEMA has issued a guide on how to apply for federal aid if you've been impacted by the wildfires.

Aid may include money for food, water, baby formula, breastfeeding supplies, medication, or even with basic home repairs and personal property losses. www.huffpost.com/entry/southe...
Impacted By The Fires? Here’s How To Apply For FEMA Assistance
www.huffpost.com
January 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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[Paper dragon room]
I want to draw more dragons this year, so the first painting of the year has to start off strong
January 8, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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My dudes, turn this shit off. On iOS it's under Settings > Apps > Photos > scroll all the way down.
Apple has opted iOS and MacOS users into an AI photo scanning feature which tries to extract landmarks from your photos called Enhanced Visual Search by default with little notice.
www.theregister.com/2025/01/03/a...
Apple opts everyone into having their Photos analyzed by AI
Homomorphic-based Enhanced Visual Search is so privacy-preserving, iPhone giant activated it without asking
www.theregister.com
January 5, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Hey did you know ☝🏼

that leaving your favorite creator or artist a 5-star review, sharing their work, writing kind comments, and/or telling them to their face is an ✨absolutely free✨ way to help them start the New Year off right!
January 3, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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January 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Bro who wants this? Social media is for your friends, right? Wild
Meta confirms they plan to add tons of AI-generated users to Facebook and Instagram

They will have bios, profile pics and can share content

(via Financial Times)
December 31, 2024 at 11:54 PM
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If you are a scientist (including graduate students) or professional science communicator who is at least 18 years old and are using Bluesky for any kind of professional purposes, please consider taking our survey.

Link:

umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Please help share. 🧪🌎 #SciComm
December 30, 2024 at 3:04 PM
I have actually read this book. It’s called The Repossession Mambo
December 22, 2024 at 3:14 AM
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Six days until our application deadline! Post-doc position (4 years) at the University of Wuerzburg, Germany. Psychology of Communication and New Media. Starting April 1, 2025. Follow this link for the German and English language (Page 2) job announcement: go.uniwue.de/psycomedia
December 17, 2024 at 9:43 AM
The one thing I miss about Twitter is the huge variance I had in my feed. I had LSU football stuff, academic stuff, video game and tabletop stuff…it’ll take time to get back to where I was
December 17, 2024 at 3:09 PM
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ICYMI, my college (@bellisariograded.bsky.social) is hiring for two-tenure track positions!

Climate communication (associate or full, apptrkr.com/5856989)

Sports journalism (open rank, apptrkr.com/5867917)
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apptrkr.com
December 16, 2024 at 4:40 PM
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And let's not forget that Chenjerai was hired to teach *journalism* at NYU, because he is an award-winning broadcaster. For doing the thing he was hired to teach, he is now being being declared "PNG" at NYU. Wild stuff.
NYU Campus Security and Administration is totally out of control.

On Wednesday - I filmed a peaceful protest in Bobst library for two hours.

Yesterday at 2pm while at home,
I received an email explaining that I’ve been designated “persona non grata” and banned from several buildings on campus.
December 14, 2024 at 3:23 AM
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📢 We’re seeking a leader to join the Manship School as the Associate Dean for Research and Strategic Initiatives.
This position will also serve as an Associate Professor in Science Communication. Click the link below for more details!

lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/Jour...
December 11, 2024 at 7:51 PM
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i’m definitely the best shopper in this dunning-kroger
December 11, 2024 at 4:39 PM
Lmao yall EVERYBODY played Among Us. What’s his face in Glass Onion was even playing Among Us with Angela Lansbury
Videogame moral panics are back on the menu.🫠

"Luigi Mangione once belonged to a group of Ivy League gamers who played assassins... In the game, called "Among Us," some players are secretly assigned to be killers in space who perform other tasks while trying to avoid suspicion from other players."
Suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO slaying played video game killer, friend recalls
A man who attended college with Luigi Mangione and was a member of the same Discord group said he was shocked when news broke on social media that Mangione had been taken into police custody.
www.nbcnews.com
December 11, 2024 at 11:58 AM
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Last year, my health insurance company stopped paying for my Humira. Humira is a type of immunosuppressive drug called a biologic, and I take a pretty high dose of it to control my severe Crohn's Disease. Without it, I will have a bowel obstruction, and then I will die.

(Cont)
December 5, 2024 at 9:58 PM
Yoooo my story Florida Man got in the top 16 in the true crime genre of this edition of Writing Battle. I was super proud of this story and am really proud of the outcome too. Best I’ve done in Writing Battle in a while
December 2, 2024 at 4:00 AM
My goal for my next book: world building. I want that world to feel more lived in!
November 30, 2024 at 2:38 PM
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*sigh*

Anyway, just create. Write shit, draw shit, build whatever you want, that's the important part.

There's no be-all end-all formula for the Perfect Work.

Just be YOU. No one can ever create what YOU create b/c it's you making it, and you are the only you.
November 28, 2024 at 3:42 AM
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If you’ll be shopping for any furniture/decor over the holidays, check out spoken.io - a revenge project that catches brand name retailers like West Elm whitelabeling stuff you can get for much less at budget sites like Wayfair/Amazon

(I mostly use it to avoid buying Wayfair-quality junk)
Spoken
We match exact items across stores to give you the best buying options - better than outlets, promo codes, or coupon codes.
spoken.io
November 28, 2024 at 12:20 AM
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If you'd like to publish your book without enriching four entities that emerged from the bio-jelly of a thousand pulped tech-bros, you could scan this writeup I put together on self publishing Legends & Lattes, which cost less than 5k and involved human artists and editors
medium.com/@travisbaldr...
November 25, 2024 at 2:22 PM