Awesome! Our new paper in #DHQ has been published!

It discusses three measures of #keyness (or #distinctiveness) when applied to #subgenres of the #French #novel.

The twist is that we perform a #qualitative #evaluation of the measures by relating each list of keywords to a set of characteristics of each subgenre built from reading scholarly publications on the subgenres.

Bottom line: choosing a measure makes a huge difference!

Read the paper here: https://dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/19/3/000816/000816.html

@cnDuKeli

Meinungs-Blabla: Strategisches Joghurt [ein Vorschlag]

https://auntieterrorsreading.wordpress.com/2025/09/25/meinungs-blabla-strategisches-joghurt-ein-vorschlag/

I've finished: Scythe by Neal Shusterman

It was recommended as part of a Story Graph reading challenge under the prompt:

" 20. Dystopian Deconstruction (1 added)

Critiques the overused conventions of YA dystopias".

I found it to be a very conventional YA dystopia novel.

I see these prompts a a learning opportunity. If you've read Scythe and can enlighten me as to why it would be considered a diconstruction of YA dystopian conventions, I'd love to hear it. If you agree that it is not a diconstructi9on, can you recommend another novel for this prompt?

Mind you, in this reading challenge Anti YA is an adjacent prompt.

" 19. Anti-YA (2 added)

Challenges traditional YA tropes like the chosen one or insta-love."

I think this discussion will contain spoilers. So it will be continued in the next message with a content warning.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/53eeb598-9e44-4392-bcbf-d693e8e3e2b5

@bookstodon #subgenres #ScienceFiciton #dystopia #YA #StoryGraph #bookstodon

From the British Fantasy Society: In this latest edition of her regular column, Tiffani Angus—co-author of Spec Fic for Newbies volumes 1 & 2—plays with our minds for Valentine’s.

https://britishfantasysociety.org/subgenre-deep-dive-psychological-horror/

#writersofmastodon #horror #psychologicalhorror #subgenres #speculativefiction

It has been great to be attending the #workshop on "digital genre hermeneutics" organized by @julianschroeter (Munich) and @u_henny (Rostock) at #LMU Munich over the last two days!

I was too busy to post anything, but it was a blast! Thanks to all presenters.Such a focus on one topic is just great. And Julia and me had fun presenting our work on #keyness and #subgenres.

To find out what we talked a bout, just have a look at the programme here (in German): https://www.germanistik.uni-muenchen.de/personal/ndl/professoren/schroeter/workshop_gattungsherm/index.html

#cls #dh

In this latest edition of her regular column, Tiffani Angus—co-author of Spec Fic for Newbies (including the just-released Volume 2!)—brings forth the creepy kids.

https://britishfantasysociety.org/subgenre-deep-dive-evil-children/

#writersofmastodon #subgenres #fantasy #horror #creepykids #evilchildren #writingcommunity #writingtips

In this latest edition of her regular column for the British Fantasy Society, Tiffani Angus—co-author of Spec Fic for Newbies (including the soon-to-be-released Volume 2!)—looks at that most summer blockbustery of tropes: the creature that turns on humanity.

https://britishfantasysociety.org/subgenre-deep-dive-animals-that-attack/

#writersofmastodon #horrorwriters #horror #animalattacks #subgenres #specfic #speculativefiction