Bethany Berard

PhD from @comscarleton, photography, media theory, visual culture, & ideas about information | Assistant Editor @canjcomm | Program & Policy Analyst @cuovpavpa

[Ava @noampomsky]

as a rule the psychologically healthier someone is, the less time it takes them to do something they were eventually going to do anyway. Anything from sending a text to quitting a job. I’m not sure what to call it—processing time? lack of blocks? low avoidance?

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@nicole_s_cohen So exciting to see this finally in print!

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@WellsLucasSanto @oliviastowell This is wild!

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@mel_hogan I believe this is 💯 possible. Visual culture is for everyone. Something something infrastructures of trust…truth and the role technology plays.

[Kate Crawford @katecrawford]

👉Today we're launching this investigation into LAION-5B, the blockbuster dataset behind Midjourney and Stable Diffusion. It's a deep dive into how the dataset was made, and where the images come from. The brilliant @christo_buschek & @blprnt follow the models all the way down.

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Since it’s all I’ve been able to talk about this week… for @ConversationCA I situate the current discussion of #KateGate and the now infamous photo in the uneasy history of photography, evidence, truth, and trust.

[The Conversation Canada @ConversationCA]

The Kate Middleton photo scandal: When does editing become manipulation? https://t.co/4QpuXXgjZn

[Zito @_Zeets]

So what’s the plan here? No news, journalism, criticism, or human-made art? That’s the utopia?

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@oliviastowell see also: the strong Mormon ties to the Bachelor franchise…

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@tamigraph @seeveeargh is doing this exact thing in her dissertation!

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@tamigraph @wjscheirer @jeffreymoro It is really interesting how the history of photography is told in a particular way that often leaves out the fact that the ‘veracity’ of photos was almost immediately co-opted to produce intentionally misleading images. This photo is one year after the invention is made public!

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@arne__ness working on these kinds of question through cameras and photography currently!

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@h_gerba @WTTDOTM So good. So good.

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@oliviastowell @WellsLucasSanto Okay yes to organizing your own PDFs buuuut using zotero as an organized list (one folder per chapter) and having the chrome plug in (click and it stores the citation of any thing) has saved my sanity while finishing the diss. It makes formatting a massive bibliography not death

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@h_gerba been sayin it. truly the only useful “second language” for some projects tbh.

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proud of my hometown tonight. Thanks for showing up Winnipeg. #mbelxn2023

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@AnneFMacLennan @aslicaglarart @MickyCobra @IAMCRtweets @WesternU Thanks so much for coming to the panel @AnneFMacLennan! @sarah_ek_smith

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A reminder that the deadline is tomorrow!

[UAAC/AAUC @AaucUaac]

The Call for Papers for the 2023 UAAC Conference – Oct 19–21 in Banff, AB – is live until May 31. 
See: https://t.co/BqSUjYOwGB for info on sessions, as well as the application form and contact details for session chairs. : https://t.co/AtapuRd6Ux. Kindly RT!