Bridget Kies

Britain's former Prince Andrew arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew, has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office.

When you’re right in the middle of writing a book about the royals….
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Everyone needs to watch this hero of our time.

As Assistant Director of a WGS program, I am delighted to hear this news. But so many people have already been fired, centers closed or renamed, programs and courses cancelled, and funding reallocated. Higher ed isn't able to just resume things as they were before January 2025.

Last week I mentioned at a talk my concerns about faculty AI illiteracy. How can faculty teach literacy skills to students when they don't have those skills themselves? An easy example: Folks, please do NOT generate a book proposal and ask your colleagues to waste their time peer reviewing it.

Please settle this important debate: What is the plural of "syllabus": syllabi or syllabuses?

My catty comment of the day is that the exact same word should not appear in both a title and subtitle.

Still time to sign up! THIS FRIDAY.

As I'm sifting through more than 5k text responses to a survey, I find this from one participant: "Thank you to whoever will be sorting the open ended responses into categories, from a data wrangler by day." 😝 Yup.

Yes, please feel free to email me.

@scmsvideogames.bsky.social

The survey will take approximately 10 minutes of your time. Adults aged 18 and over are eligible to participate. Participation in this study is voluntary. If you have any questions concerning the research study, please contact me at bkies [at] oakland [dot] edu.

Pale blue flyer in the style of retro video game that reads "Calling all gamers! Do you have big feelings, positive or negative, about generative AI? Now is your chance to participate in a research study to share your thoughts." The link to the survey is tinyurl.com/videogameAIsurvey. The image has two trees on the bottom in each corner.

I'm conducting a research study to learn more about video game players' attitudes toward generative AI. The survey will take approximately 10 minutes of your time. tinyurl.com/videogameAIs...
#gaming #videogames #videogame

Delighted to talk about what the arts and humanities bring to the AI moment at UCF's Center for Humanities and Digital Research today, with @melstanfill.bsky.social. Our roadshow continues next week for @scmspedagogy.bsky.social, when we'll highlight AI's intersections with media industries.

a brown wire-haired pup stands on a wooden deck in a grassy yard. he looks at us with golden eyes and his right ear flipped inside out. he has a pipe-shaped stick in his mouth, giving him the appearance of a sophisticated and dapper gentleman. just give him a deerstalker cap and a cloak, and he'd give Sherlock Holmes a run for his money.

This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. African Politics
2. Russian History
3. France and the Francophone World
4. Philosophy of Ancient Greece
5. Italian I and II
(I'm amused that I now specialize in American media.)

In other words, all that time spent watching the Women's World Cup finally paid off.... ;)

Heated Rivalry owes its success to unexpected allies Ning Chang explores how Heated Rivalry owes its success to unexpected allies and years of challenging heteronormative standards on TV

Every piece about Heated Rivalry asks the same question -- Why do women like m/m romance? -- which has been researched for 30 years. I was delighted to Shado magazine, which took a different approach, thinking about the parallel rise of women's professional sports. shado-mag.com/articles/see...

Still time left to register for this! And if you HATE AI and don't want to talk about it, you'll be surprised how you'll enjoy and get out of this ;)

@fanstudies.bsky.social @scmsfaas.bsky.social Rec me your favorite articles on RPF!

Flyer with image of new book "Teaching AI in Film and Media Studies: Lights, Camera, Algorithms." Event is on Friday, Feb. 13 at 1pm Eastern time. Authors Bridgeet Kies and Mel Stanfill.

Please join us on Friday, Feb. 13 @ 1pm Eastern for a book talk with @bridgetkies.bsky.social and @melstanfill.bsky.social on their new book "Teaching AI in Film and Media Studies." Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Meanwhile, some industries, like higher ed, who are slower to adapt, will learn nothing from this and charge full-speed ahead at MORE AI despite earlier research.

AI Completely Failing to Boost Productivity, Says Top Analyst AI may or may not excel at a lot of things, but from an economic standpoint, it's definitely not making us more productive.

Yeah, we told you this was going to be the case, but you didn't listen. Instead, you spent millions on new technologies and demanded workers figure out how to adopt them.
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Netflix’s Seven Dials is really bad, but I expected that. Every Agatha Christie adaption in the 2020s feels like someone drained their batteries.

Minor thing in the scope of the world right now, but is anyone else bothered by the fact that Vulcan salute on the cover of the Journal of Fandom Studies isn't being done correctly?

"In 2028, AI will be able to generate video!" - Another prediction beaten years early.

Reading an article on AI from 2018, which predicts that in 2026 AI will be able to write a high school essay for good grades. Whelp, the developers beat that goal by four years....

After a long foray into AI’s impacts on higher ed and media industries, I’m getting back to my roots in fan studies.

My author copies of Teaching AI in Film and Media Studies, with @bridgetkies.bsky.social, have arrived at last! It’s nice to have it in hand. And it’s still 20% off! www.routledge.com/Teaching-AI-...

Masculinities in Contemporary Science-Fiction Television Through a comprehensive analysis of popular contemporary science fiction television series, this book underscores the genre's unique potential to both reflect a…

Out now: Masculinities in Contemporary Science Fiction Television, for which I wrote about PICARD without somehow ever mentioning Raffi and Seven.... www.bloomsbury.com/us/masculini...

I have cried my way through the final 12 minutes of White Christmas. Guess it‘s officially the holiday season now.