Dr. Eric Forcier

Researcher studying everyday onlife practice and media fan cultures in #yeg. Other interests: transmedia, info behavior, beer, garden gnomes.

[Dr. Eric Forcier @eforcier]

It's finally complete! "Everyday Onlife Practice and Information Behaviour: A Study of Media Fans in a Postdigital Age" https://t.co/H9aJK3N4GX

...Now what do I do? #postphd

[Dr. Eric Forcier @eforcier]

Teachers & support: GSAs and individuals offering support are fantastic… but institutional support is lacking. Not every teacher knows HOW to support trans students #MTHF23

[Dr. Eric Forcier @eforcier]

What do you do to just be a kid? R: Being a kid is not part of my gender identity, it’s another part of my identity #youthpanel #MTHF23

[Dr. Eric Forcier @eforcier]

Role of tech— finding representation online when you can’t find it elsewhere. Online can be a safe space to first come out #MTHF23

[Dr. Eric Forcier @eforcier]

NEED for change - panelists can’t recall a single example of trans history in school (a sad reflection of the state of curriculum in general, and Alberta specifically) #MTHF23

[Dr. Eric Forcier @eforcier]

Standing O for the trans #youthpanel - we are cheering at home too! #MTHF23

[Dr. Eric Forcier @eforcier]

Watching virtually - thanks so much to the youth panelists for sharing their stories! So proud of you Devon! #MTHF23

[Dr. Eric Forcier @eforcier]

An ideal world - Being trans should be accepted the same way we accept being left-handed ♥️ #youthpanel #MTHF23

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

Two tools to detect if a text has been generated by ChatGPT (and why you should use them *very* cautiously):

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

ChatGPT is everywhere and everyone is using it.

But most academics don't know how to use it *smartly.*

Here's how to use ChatGPT intelligently (and ethically) for academic purposes:

[Ethics in Bricks @EthicsInBricks]

🧵THREAD:

I have a joke about Sisyphus.

[Dr. Eric Forcier @eforcier]

@lisagiven Creepy and fascinating! The risk of “reality collapse” (inability to distinguish real vs not real) is an unavoidable part of an onlife existence

[Dr. Eric Forcier @eforcier]

🥹🥳🤓…😰🫣🫠

[PhD Voice - Independently Run @PhDVoice]

Using only emojis, describe how you feel about your PhD right now. 😁

#PhDVoice @PostdocVoice

[Dr. Eric Forcier @eforcier]

2/2 …I worry that the last three are heavily influenced by his environment at home. #toomanybooks #gardengnomes #yogabbagabba

[Dr. Eric Forcier @eforcier]

1/2 Rémy, now 14 mos, has a total of 6 words in his vocabulary: mama, papa, more, book, gnome, and “todap” (his term for “robot”).

[Dr. Eric Forcier @eforcier]

@broomgrass They could try Fall by Neil Stephenson. It’s not Stephenson’s best, but coming off Frankenstein and Paradise Lost it ties themes from both neatly in a contemporary context. https://t.co/pI9B5lIxOT

[Dr. Eric Forcier @eforcier]

@wadekelly Work switched to Teams (from WebEx) after I went on leave. Not looking forward to going back to that (not that WebEx was much better)

[Mark Reed @profmarkreed]

Today I am coming out of hiding and sharing my experience as a senior academic living with anxiety. People assume confident or supposedly "successful" people can't suffer from anxiety, but this is an invisible curse...

[Dr. Eric Forcier @eforcier]

Awesome!

[FanLIS @TheRealFanLIS]

In anticipation of our 2023 symposium, #FanLIS is now finally on Twitter! Follow us at
@TheRealFanLIS for events, CFP's and news on all things fandom, fan studies, and library and information science!

[Dr. Eric Forcier @eforcier]

Fun fan work - “A lot of leisure hours spent, but I love doing it." https://t.co/v3e2yzQPqW

[Dr. Eric Forcier @eforcier]

@mstephens7 Thanks!