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Anastasia Salter
@anasalter.bsky.social
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Professor of English and Director of Texts & Technology at UCF. Author most recently of Playful Pedagogy in the Pandemic & Twining. More at: https://anastasiasalter.net/
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Anastasia Salter @anasalter.bsky.social · Oct 9
My new book Undertale: Can a Game Give Hope? is out today from the @uchicagopress.bsky.social Replay series, which is dedicated to short, personal takes on games. I hope it invites readers to visit (or revisit) the Underground and befriend some fabulous monsters. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Replay book: Undertale - Can a Game Give Hope? with some absolutely fantastic University of Chicago Press wrapping paper.
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suzannerblack.bsky.social
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.
Cover of book 'Between Novel and Network: Technology and Literary Form in Fiction and Fanfiction.
November 19, 2025 at 5:34 PM
anasalter.bsky.social
Hey folks in the MLA, please consider voting for me in the Executive Council election. apps.mla.org/ballot_main My statement is on the site: I particularly bring experience navigating ideological pressures on institutions as a Florida professor and a critical lens to AI, edtech & surveillance #MLA26
November 18, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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melstanfill.bsky.social
my book with @anasalter.bsky.social, A Portrait of the Auteur as Fanboy, is ON SALE through November 19. if you have been waiting to get your hands on it, now's the time! www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/A/A-Po...
A Portrait of the Auteur as Fanboy
Increasingly over the past decade, fan credentials on the part of writers, directors, and producers have come to be seen as a guarantee of quality media making—the “fanboy auteur. ” Figures like Joss ...
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November 15, 2025 at 2:26 PM
anasalter.bsky.social
One of the lovely things about Florida.
Morning view of palms and sand in Hollywood Beach
November 15, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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copperkeerthi.bsky.social
switcheroo alert‼️question and reading* are staying the same this afternoon, but we're playing Tavern Keeper by @greenheartgames.bsky.social 💚

*Crafting is So Hardcore: Masculinized Making in Gaming Representations of Labor, c/o @annetropy.bsky.social @anasalter.bsky.social @melstanfill.bsky.social
playfultimemach.bsky.social playfultimemach.bsky.social @playfultimemach.bsky.social · 11d
Tune in this Thursday as we ask: what's your favorite crafting mechanic in a game? We'll discuss gendered labor, optimizing creations and, of course, running our own small business. At 15:00, as always on www.twitch.tv/streamingthe...
November 13, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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literaturegeek.bsky.social
At Jess Walter's @uvalibrary.bsky.social Zines Now! workshop in @scholarslab.bsky.social. Jess is starting us off w/reading zines they shared on our tables so we can share the different approaches to advocacy-via-zine we observe (& folks new to zines can get up to speed too).
scholarslab.bsky.social Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 15d
"Can expressing and exchanging our experiences through zines provoke changes in perception, convention, or policy?" Tuesday 11/11 Jess Walters helps us explore—and then learn to make!—zines as tools for advocacy. (You may remember their past excellent SLab event on zines for disability justice!)
Zines Now! Workshop: Zines for Change
Join us for an interactive workshop for Zines Now!, a year-long initiative showcasing the history of zines as an art form, highlighting future possibilities for the making and...
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November 11, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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mkirschenbaum.bsky.social
We Haven't Been Here Before BY MATTHEW KIRSCHENBAUM $ 2025 draws to a close, we know that generative artificial-intelligence models can furnish good-enough which is expected or compelled of us either by way of a salary or a grade. To acknowledge this is not boosterism or credulous absorption of industry "hype": It is the baseline for how much the conditions of writing have changed in the three years since the public launch of ChatGPT. For higher education this means that, where the classroom deliverable is a piece of student prose, the expectation has to be that Al is adequate to the task of creating a passable imitation; and that it can do so in ways that are all but impossible to prove to the standards of an academic-integrity violation. Now, with the emergence of so-called agentic-Al browsers, capable of autonomously fulfilling tasks on the user's behalf, we are on the verge of a fully automated loop in which assignments are Al-generated with the help of a learning-management system; Al-generated content is submitted by an agentic browser on behalf of the student; and Al-driven metrics then evaluate the work on behalf of the instructor. Moments of real rupture can be hard to reckon with, especially for those of us in the humanities where our training is more given to prodiemanzine, contextualzne, and historicing, all utmately demadonary — and in that sense conservative — critical postures. We have been here before, we like to say, nodding knowingly all the while. Similarly, there is much hope in some circles that Al will prove a mere "bubble," destined to burst like other ed-tech fads. At the very least | this betrays a curiously robust faith in markets to self-correct in the interest of collective salvation. It is also, I would venture, a dangerous misreading of the current political landscape, where the very corporations at the forefront of Al have aligned themselves with the present administration's authoritarian excesses, including a fistful of executive orde…
November 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
anasalter.bsky.social
I'm co-teaching a DHSI workshop next summer with @lucidbard.bsky.social on programming for the digital humanities in the context of agentic AI and rapidly changing interfaces for computational work. Watch our awkward promo video + consider joining us: dhsi.org/2025/09/30/d... #dhmakes
DH Programming Pedagogy in the Age of AI (DHSI 2026)
Allow functionality cookies for video to play Description In this team-taught workshop, we invite scholars to join us in exploring the relationship between generative AI and the future of programming pedagogy in the digital humanities and a frontline of what the MLA-CCCC Joint Task Force on Writing and AI called “critical AI literacy.” Generative AI […]
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November 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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tessahill.bsky.social
A devastating set of decisions on the part of UC leadership to withdraw support from our nationally recognized postdoc program that prioritizes research excellence combined with addressing our university public service mission. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
UC to Stop Funding Systemwide Postdoc Program
Established in 1984 to encourage women and minority Ph.D.s to pursue academia, the program has attracted right-wing criticism for prioritizing diverse candidates.
www.insidehighered.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:53 PM
anasalter.bsky.social
Just added this excellent MLA statement to the workshop I'm running contextualizing agentic AI for faculty and graduate students tomorrow - we need conversations around this new iteration of the tech urgently. Here's my materials if anyone is interested: anastasiasalter.net/AgentWorkshop/
November 5, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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n-w-f.bsky.social
ICYMI, my new book on Animal Crossing: New Horizons is 30% off (w/ free shipping)

It's a scholarly book, looking at ACNH through lenses like craft, compulsion, and community. It's also a personal book, about playing with my kids during the pandemic

More details: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/vi...
October 26, 2025 at 7:15 PM
anasalter.bsky.social
This is just taunting those among us still grading...🤣
melstanfill.bsky.social Mel Stanfill @melstanfill.bsky.social · Oct 22
I have finished
the grading
that was planned
for Monday

and which
the AWS outage
thwarted
so thoroughly

Forgive me
I am drowning
so late
and so behind
October 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
anasalter.bsky.social
Getting really tired of this robots in space maintenance screen today. Maybe concentrating our infrastructure to rely heavily on a single cloud computing provider was not a great plan...
Two robots repairing a space ship would like us to know that there will be no grading today, as "Canvas is experiencing issues due to an ongoing AWS incident."
October 20, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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thevideogamelibrary.org The Video Game Library 📚 @thevideogamelibrary.org · Oct 17
THANK YOU @uchicagopress.bsky.social and @anasalter.bsky.social for this morning’s coffee shop reading 💙 ☕️ 📕

Absolutely loving this REPLAY series!

#Undertale
The book cover for Undertale: Can A Game Give Us Hope?
October 18, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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chronotope.aramzs.xyz
The end of a held ethical code among all technologists, as light weight and infrequently applied as it was, marks the end of a web where sites can trust in a basic ground level of cooperation. The result is a web increasingly militarized against itself. Everyone must now close up and arm up.
eve.gd Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · Oct 16
"The protocol taught us that technology can be based on human values like ethics and morality. It showed that voluntary compliance works when all parties benefit."

On robots.txt.

www.heise.de/en/backgroun...
Obituary: Farewell to robots.txt (1994-2025)
The voluntary compliance protocol that civilized the internet has departed, bids Henning Fries farewell.
www.heise.de
October 17, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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videlais.bsky.social
I am thrilled to announce the opening of the Call for Submissions for Electronic Literature Volume 5.

eliterature.github.io/elc5-info/

I am serving along with @zachwhalen.bsky.social, @elikaortega.bsky.social, and Dani Spinosa.

This call launches with translations in 12+ languages!
Call for Submissions
The Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) seeks submissions for Volume 5 of the Electronic Literature Collection.
eliterature.github.io
October 14, 2025 at 10:22 PM
anasalter.bsky.social
My new book Undertale: Can a Game Give Hope? is out today from the @uchicagopress.bsky.social Replay series, which is dedicated to short, personal takes on games. I hope it invites readers to visit (or revisit) the Underground and befriend some fabulous monsters. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Replay book: Undertale - Can a Game Give Hope? with some absolutely fantastic University of Chicago Press wrapping paper.
October 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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mariaa.bsky.social
Keynote at #COLM2025: Nicholas Carlini from Anthropic

"Are language models worth it?"

Explains that the prior decade of his work on adversarial images, while it taught us a lot, isn't very applied; it's unlikely anyone is actually altering images of cats in scary ways.
October 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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erinbartram.bsky.social
If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.
CFP: A Time of Monsters
The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...
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October 5, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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thevideogamelibrary.org The Video Game Library 📚 @thevideogamelibrary.org · Oct 5
Kicking things off with this exciting new REPLAY series

Thank you so much to @uchicagopress.bsky.social for this one 🙏

“ANIMAL CROSSING: NEW HORIZONS - CAN A GAME TAKE CARE OF US?”

Excited to see @n-w-f.bsky.social and @anasalter.bsky.social headline this launch!
The book cover for animal Crossing New Horizon‘s can a game take care of us. It is sitting on a wooden table with a blurred background. The cover is a series of 4 o’clock’s with one of the hands being a heart shape.
October 5, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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scholarslab.bsky.social
Anouk Lang's talk on literary+critical making scholarship will also explore how making-as-research opens questions about bodies, labor, & accessibility; intellectual process vs product. Virtual event, open to all! cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/15242444
Tuesday Forum: Anouk Lang on Poetry in the Makerspace
Please join us for the next in our digital humanities series, the Tuesday Forums, brought to you by the Scholars' Lab, of the Library's DH Center. These presentations invite...
cal.lib.virginia.edu
October 3, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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edmondchang.bsky.social
Roll with Advantage: Creative, Collaborative, and Critical Responses to Dungeons & Dragons (Play Story Press 2025) edited by Suzanne Richardson & Edmond Y. Chang: playstorypress.org/books/roll-w... - in print or open access PDF! #analoggamestudies #creativewriting #dungeonsanddragons #dnd
October 1, 2025 at 9:51 PM
anasalter.bsky.social
I just saw One Battle After Another, and wow. If you are on the fence, see it, this is Anderson at his best and most relevant. Also, my fellow geriatric millennials will enjoy DiCaprio at his most Oscar worthy.
September 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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ditzkoff.bsky.social
Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today
September 16, 2025 at 1:28 PM