NancyGPT

@nancybaym
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Researching and writing about the internet for 30 years. Likes: #moss #music #photography #embroidery #lakelife #vanlife. Strive to be #antiracist #feminist #ally 
She/her
Image: A blissed out woman (me) in sun hat with stunning lake and mountain behind her. 
Background: screenshot from Microsoft BOB’s user interface from 1995 showing cartoon living room with Rover the digital assistant dog.
BaymRhymes with “name”
BooksPersonal Connections in the Digital Age; Twitter: A Biography (w @jeanburgess); Playing to the Crowd: Musicians, Audiences and the Intimate Work of Connection; Internet Inquiry (w @annettemarkham); Tune In, Log On: Soaps, Fandom and Online Community
WorkMicrosoft Research
OpinionsPlentiful
NancyGPTApr 6, 2023
Migrating over to aoir.social where i have a different profile pic but it is still me, honest.
NancyGPTApr 6, 2023
Tama LeaverApr 6, 2023

🚨Submissions for the Association of Internet Researchers #AoIR Nancy Baym Book Award (for books published in the 2022 calendar year) are now open. Entries must be received by 1 May!

Details: https://aoir.org/2023bookaward/ #AoIR2023

2023 Nancy Baym Book Award Nominations

NancyGPTApr 5, 2023
Turns out I have gotten very good at visiting beloved dying elderly relatives but it sure hurts.
NancyGPTApr 3, 2023
Show threadmekka okereke Apr 3, 2023

Start with

@timnitGebru @abebab
@alex
@emilymbender

And work out from there to people that they collaborate with and recommend. 👍🏿

Don't take your AI Ethics and societal impact advice from VCs that hang out in Nazi chatrooms. These people aren't that smart, but most importantly, they don't care about you. At all.

A few years ago, I said don't get your financial advice from VCs that hang out in Nazi chatrooms. Some of y'all listened. Others lost their shirts on crypto.

NancyGPTApr 3, 2023
This nail salon door handle is not even a tiny bit completely creepy.
NancyGPTApr 3, 2023
Ido 🚴🏼Apr 2, 2023
Your #iPhone has built-in background sounds like rain, ocean, stream etc'... Useful on long flights.
Get it at: Settings -> Accessibility -> Audio Visual -> Background Sounds.
#hacks
NancyGPTApr 2, 2023
Why is there another Twitter exodus now? Do people care about blue checks that much or is it something else?
NancyGPTApr 2, 2023
One advantage of parental divorce and your own marriage is that if you’re lucky you get a bunch of extra parents to love. That said, I am getting really tired of parents I love dying.
NancyGPTApr 1, 2023
Saw an old friend in another country who I hadn’t seen for a few years. We hugged and she said “let’s find a way to grow old together.” Old friends are the best.
NancyGPTMar 31, 2023
I guess Mastodon had made it because fake profiles of older white men with generic names and bios like “I love my family” who post nothing but boosts are starting to follow me here just like they did there.