Kate Stuart

The e-book, Shifting Sands, and its associated social media accounts and author pages, are part of an ongoing practice-based research project looking into author identity. Both the creation of this “unstable” e-book and the author identity as performed online are (1/4)

More than a year after there was a collective agreement at #Sharp2024 that BlueSky was the way forward, I have finally started setting up my profile. So, if you're looking for me, I can be found at @katestuart.bsky.social — or I'm also about on LinkedIn. Come and say hi!

Finally, I attended the Audiobooks session, receiving more methodological inspiration from Millie Weber, along with a great discussion about the influence of platforms and culture on literary content/production. A great echo back to Tuesdays discussion of platforms like Tiktok!

For me, this seemed less like something I would do myself (I'm boring) but definitely something I now want to do with students stuck on where to take their assignments. And I got more pedagogical inspiration from the Global book cultures and the student laboratory panel!

I also attended panels on Digital Platforms and Fanfiction with more valuable scholars than I can name here, but I found threads around the influence of platform on norms and user behaviour. Do I now want to learn how to make tiny books? Yes — this might be the only way I'm

also an interesting hopefulness in several of the papers, as demonstrated by the Skawennati’s Intergalactic Empowerment Wampum belt that Nyssa showed (definitely worth looking up!).

Completely influenced by my own research interests, I was very much taken by the way each of these communities used creation/publication to construct or consolidate their identity (generally in response to or because of colonisation). And, despite this colonial edge, there was

I very quickly fell behind on my tweeting about #SHARP2024. Should have seen it coming! But some key highlights for Tuesday and Wednesday include: A great panel with Gearóidin Ui Laighléis, Henning Hansen, Kirsti Salmi-Niklander, and Nyssa Komorowski on Communities of Publishing.

between disciplines and widening the conversation. On the other, it sometimes feels like you don't quite fit anywhere and must carve out a place to sit. I wish the discussion could have gone on longer! So, day one ends. Thanks, everyone, for such an invigorating and inspiring day

perspectives and methodologies) and negative (e.g. disciplinary divides). As someone whose research is also fairly interdisciplinary, I really appreciated the discussion about the isolation and uncertainty this can cause. On the one hand, it's great to be creating a connection

Conference season! Happy to be returning to my research-self as I attend #SHARP2024 at the University of Reading. I'll be presenting on how the transition to X from Twitter affects author identity performances online, so it seems appropriate to throw out some tweets as I go along