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
Migrating over to aoir.social where i have a different profile pic but it is still me, honest.

🚨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

@Fragglemuppet Not on Mastodon but my nephew David does incredible pet portraits https://swartzbrothersart.com/
Swartz Brothers Art

Black ink Art - Swartz Brothers Art - trippy art - psychedelic paintings - colorful paintings

The Swartz Brothers
@fl0_id You are correct, this year’s search has closed.
Turns out I have gotten very good at visiting beloved dying elderly relatives but it sure hurts.

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.

@bomkatt Happily it is the outside handle so you could just do like me and not go in.
This nail salon door handle is not even a tiny bit completely creepy.
@Kasulay Slime mold is super cool!