#media science research

[fanfic-thesis]

Quick question

I did some more academic reading about fandom and ...

Bonus points if you comment (or tag) where you heard the word "hoyay" and in which contexts you're using it.

[doomdoomofdoom]

Apparently there's currently discussion in science (humanities in particular) about whether video essays could be accepted as academic writing on par with the academic papers we currently have

I think that's awesome as fuck tbh

[waitineedaname]

the annoying thing about my thesis topic (real world dialects in fantasy settings and how that reflects linguistic bias) is that when i describe it to people, I either get people who immediately get it and are excited about the topic, or I get people staring at me blankly and just going "oh." and usually the people who are excited about it are not linguists

[disastrid]

Coffman navigates over to the Wikipedia article about one of the conspirators—Arthur Nebe, a high-ranking member of the SS. Apart from his role in the plot, Nebe’s main claim to notability is that he came up with the idea of turning vans into mobile gas chambers by piping in exhaust fumes. The article acknowledges both of these facts, along with the detail that Nebe tested his system on the mentally ill. But it also says that he worked to “reduce the atrocities committed,” going so far as to give his bloodthirsty superiors inflated death totals. Coffman will recall that she feels “totally disoriented.” She cannot believe that an innovator in mass murder would have tried to protect the Jews and other supposed subhumans his troops rounded up. She checks the footnotes. The claim is attributed to War of Extermination, a compendium of academic essays originally published in 1995. Coffman knows the book is legit, because she happens to have a copy on loan from the library. When she goes to the cited page, she finds a paragraph that appears to confirm all the Wikipedia article’s wild claims. But then she reads the first sentence of the next paragraph: “This is, of course, nonsense.” The level of bad faith is eye-opening for Coffman. She is “very appalled.” She sees that her confidence in Wikipedia was “very much misplaced.” All it takes to warp historical memory, she realizes, is something this small, achievable for almost anyone with a keyboard. “So few people can have so much impact, it’s a little scary,” she says. She begins to turn a more critical eye to what she sees on Wikipedia. Especially the footnotes.

Emphasis is my own, because it's just so important.

Exercise a healthy skepticism for everything you read.

This goes for any kind of research, not just in Wikipedia. This happens in all kinds of contexts, purposeful or not.

Look at works cited, look at the original source. Make sure you understand the context of whatever you're looking at, be it a photo, a quote, or excerpt.

It may sound laborious, but honestly like anything else, the more you practice the easier it gets. For places like wikipedia with links in citations, it's even easier to track things down.

A works cited section in a wiki article is a great place to start your research, but your research should never end there.

[crustyshrimp]

So called “researchers” when their funding is about to get cut.

[odinsblog]

[politedemon]

don't want to sound like a whiny child but it's not fair that you only get one chance at being a kid and being a teenager and that the decisions you make then affect the rest of your life and you can never change them. i want another go :(

[elektroskopik]

A plea for everyone to cite your sources.

In lieu of the role that misinformation and conspiracy-mongering have played in turning our worlds upside down, I beg anyone who gives an ounce about sharing factual information to please, please cite your sources.

[aeolianblues]

I'm not an extrovert. At all. In everyday life, I'm a yapper, sure, but I need someone to first assure me I am okay to yap, so I don't start conversations, even when I really want to join in sometimes! It's just the social anxiety acting up. God knows where from and why I lose a lot of my inhibitions when it comes to talking to people about music. I don't know where the confidence has suddenly sprung from. I've made a crazy amount of friends in musical circles, either just talking to people about common music or (since it is after all in music circles) talking to bands about their own music. I let out a sigh of relief any time an interaction goes well, because in truth it's going against my every instinct. I wish I could do that in everyday life

[violent138]

Nothing in the whole world drives me as crazy as the sight of people in movies/shows/other media fucking eating in the lab? It's even more reprehensible when it's a pathology/disease/tissue culture/bacterial lab, but for god's sake, people keep the damn sandwiches outside it's a lab coat, not an apron.

[ghostthetown]

I love that archeology has come from literal eugenic white supremacist spare time activity a century ago to now it being the hot spot for the wokest people

[fanfic-thesis]

Quick Question 3.0

I kind of like the quick question format as it is an interesting opportunity to get a live snipped of fandom(s). Anyways, another one is waiting for you:

Feel free to add more detail on why you like/despise the ending. (I know this discourse myself, but honestly, I feel like the general opinion about the ending did change quite a bit within the last few years.)

[themyscirah]

Reading shit comics kind of sucks but at least I get the satisfaction of proving my own point w this

[orgasmictomato]

2010_07_18_3556 (1)c1 (1)rsz by Jim Via Flickr: Research of Dimensional Entities in Australian Sky image captured with a Canon EOS 5D Mk II full frame sensor at 22Mp HD and cropped to image and resized as here. This is a capture of a visual sighting of a UAP ( possibly 4 units in close proximity ) as they cruise at less than 1 km altitude, "sight seeing" Earth. At times it was seen as a bright red sphere, then a disk on edge with windows around it. It came into view around 3 - 4 kilometers away, cruised slowly to the North N E until reaching the river, turned and followed the river for a half a kilometer then returned toward me ( South ) and then disappeared to the East. Interesting is that I photographed it from near to visual appearance until it was at the river (shot here on flickr) about a kilometer away, then as it was coming toward me and away to the East ( coast ) - no more shots came to be....??? I can't explain this. I have in the past had a problem with taking shots too close. To see videos of these:- www.youtube.com/user/orgasmictomato

[pandemichub]

[oliveflr]

My colleague made this to send people to the study we're conducting on whether people think the internet should be regulated. Feel free to use it and take the study! We'd love to hear your opinions :)