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beccacohen.bsky.social
IS PhD Student at UIUC studying digital humanities, language, cultural analytics and ethical AI
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Thanks Apple AI, was looking for somewhere I could get germs on sale (second image is the actual promotion notification it was summarizing)

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

I need to hear this right now, which means that others probably do too: However you're getting through this, you're doing a good job. This month's been fucked up and intense and I know I'm not the only one who's overwhelmed. It's exhausting and cruel, and the important part is getting through 🩵

submitted 21 days ago • 53 comments

10 Days to MLA! 12 Truisms About the Novel Debunked. Day 3: The author is a solitary creator. To find out what's NOT true, read @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social , @sdileonardi.bsky.social + @beccacohen.bsky.social in a special issue of Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

If Stephen King is a brand name, what’s the diff bw him and more recent authors who embrace self-branding? It was more difficult to answer this than I first thought It was a pleasure getting here with my coauthors (& the ed.s & Post45 2023 crew). Please read and let us know what you think

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

With @sdileonardi.bsky.social and @beccacohen.bsky.social, I wrote a shortish essay on The Girl on the Train and how self-branding is changing authorship. For a fascinating special issue of Studies in the Novel ed by @megaplex.bsky.social and @sarahdallison.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

Maybe one of the reasons there are so many unhinged academics is that in order to keep your job, you’re constantly required to tout yourself as a Scholar of World-Historical Significance, even as your office’s ceiling tiles slowly dislodge themselves to fall on your head.

submitted 85 days ago • 130 comments

Post the last sentence of your last article OUT THIS MONTH! w @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social @beccacohen.bsky.social The convergence of these two developments-Web 2.0 and globalized conglomerate publishing-with all their extra-literary ramifications, has transformed the author [into a brand manager].

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

There are many ways to identify texts that seem ahead of their time. Our CHR 2024 paper asks which measures of textual precocity align best with social evidence about influence and change.

submitted 94 days ago • 1 comment

Sarah Griebel, Becca Cohen, Lucian Li, Jaihyun Park, Jiayu Liu, Jana Perkins, Ted Underwood Locating the Leading Edge of Cultural Change https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.15068

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

Our proceedings are out! 🚨 They include no less than 78 papers that reflect the diverse and innovative research happening within the Computational Humanities. Take a dive here: ceur-ws.org/Vol-3834/

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

🔍 The full program for #CHR2024 is now available! Join us for cutting-edge computational humanities research and discussions. See the complete schedule at: 2024.computational-humanities-research.org/programme/

submitted 108 days ago • 2 comments

Kaige Xie, Mark Riedl Creating Suspenseful Stories: Iterative Planning with Large Language Models https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17119

submitted 367 days ago • 0 comments

The Gemini debacle showed how AI ethics *wasn't* being applied with the nuanced expertise necessary. It demonstrates the need for people who are great at creating roadmaps given foreseeable use. I wasn't there to help, nor were many of the ethics-minded ppl I know.

submitted 369 days ago • 3 comments

Being gaslight by ChatGPT again (It in fact did not even add the punctuation it claims to on Grand Central)

submitted 511 days ago • 1 comment