Naomi Jacobs
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3919491 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Naomi Jacobs |
| PRENOMES | Naomi |
| SOBRENOME | Jacobs |
| ASSINATURA | JACOBS N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1058-3022 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1987 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Fans and AI
AI, and especially generative AI, has intersected with fandom in specific ways as fans adopt new practices, scholars have access to additional research methods, and AI tech companies challenge existing concepts of open data, privacy, ownership, fairness, and exploitation. We identify potential areas of disruption to contemporary fandom and fan studies arising from the various uses of AI and suggest what the consequences might be for our understan…
The design of printed fan fiction
Fan binding is a design process through which physical, printed copies of fan fiction works are created. These include both unique hand-bound objects for the designer's own affective, aesthetic pleasure and copyedit and design work mimicking traditional publishing norms but for underground distribution. Fan binding suggests durability and preservation, and printed objects can be transformative works in themselves: designed, typeset, and perhaps f…
Building the spear
An exploration of the use of emotional responses and creative resonances in communal multimedia storytelling, using Twine to create an interactive text-based adventure game
Creative Design Methods for Iot Data Ethics in Hybrid Spaces
This paper presents the use of creative methods including walking workshops, design fiction and policy prototyping to investigate questions of trust, security and ethics in public space Internet of Things (IoT) deployments. We describe how the walking workshops, or 'walkshops', were developed to incorporate both real IoT deployments, and design fictions representing mundane speculations, in the context of a city in the North-West of England. The …
Hack Your Age
This research explores whether the co-design of provocative prototypes with older adults can scaffold critical thought concerning ethics, trustworthiness, security and privacy of age-oriented Internet of Things (IoT) products and services, and associated data-driven technologies (DDT). By inviting 15 adults defining themselves as ‘experiencing or anticipating old age’ to co-design IoT and DDT which addressed their hopes and fears for the future, …
Ethical perspectives on femtech
Femtech is the collective name for technologies that address female health needs. Femtech applications can help women digitally track their period, manage their fertility, and support their pregnancy. Although femtech has beneficial potential, there are various ethical concerns to be raised with current femtech apps. In this article, we discuss three of the main ethical concerns with femtech apps regarding (1) medical reliability, (2) privacy, an…
AI and Fandom
What if academic publishing worked like fan publishing? Imagining the Fantasy Research Archive of Our Own
Researchers, universities, and academic libraries develop a range of tools and platforms to make scholarship more accessible. What could these scholarly communications and open access projects learn from examples set by fandom and fan activists, for example, the fan works platform Archive of Our Own (AO3)? This conceptual paper, the result of a brainstorming session by scholars and librarians, proposes that a Fantasy Research Archive of Our Own s…
Room for Improvement in the Video Conferencing ‘Space
The Covid-19 pandemic led to a dramatic shift in the nature of work and collaboration for our design-led research group. In this paper, we describe the experimental use of the Gather Town platform for a variety of communication and collaboration activities. This alternative to standard video conferencing software uses spatial metaphors and attempts to regain some of the affordances of physical co-location such as serendipity and a sense of presen…
Converging experiences, converging audiences
While primarily considered to be a platform for live streaming of video games, Twitch has recently diversified into streaming archival television content. In 2018 and 2019, episodes of the television show Doctor Who, originally aired between 1963 and 1989, were shown on the service, which also provides a synchronous chat function for viewers to communicate with each other as they watch. This article examines this phenomenon through conducting qua…
A reply to ‘Touring the carbon ruins
Life as a Networked Fan
In studying how fans live their lives online, a common lens has been to consider fandom as fan community (e.g. Sullivan, 2019). Modern digital social networks appear to be complicating this picture, with some scholars suggesting that online fandoms are fragmenting (e.g. Coppa, 2014). In this work, we report on a variety of case studies carried out using ethnographic and survey methods. These examine examples of fans whose networks span both onlin…
Interdisciplinary methodologies for the fan studies bricoleur
As a relatively young field, which brings together scholars from a wide variety of different home disciplines, fan studies faces questions of disciplinary cohesion and methodological practice. Moving from a multidisciplinary space to an interdisciplinary field that creates new synergistic knowledge is facilitated by cross-discipline communication and collaboration. However, this is impeded by many barriers. Examining the history of design researc…
Capability Sensitive Design for Health and Wellbeing Technologies
This article presents the framework Capability Sensitive Design (CSD), which consists of merging the design methodology Value Sensitive Design (VSD) with Martha Nussbaum's capability theory. CSD aims to normatively assess technology design in general, and technology design for health and wellbeing in particular. Unique to CSD is its ability to account for human diversity and to counter (structural) injustices that manifest in technology design. T…
Sensing the City
Utopian Home Spaces in Shelter Media
Text und Überlieferung des Buches Tobit
Dissent, Assent, and the Body in Nineteen Eighty-Four
Research Article| January 01 2007 Dissent, Assent, and the Body in Nineteen Eighty-Four Naomi Jacobs Naomi Jacobs Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2007) 18 (1): 3–20. https://doi.org/10.2307/20719844 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Naomi Jacobs; Dissent, Assent, and the Body in Nineteen Eighty-Four. Utopian Studies 1 January 2007; 18 (1): 3–20. doi: https://doi.or…
The New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed
Book Review| January 01 2006 The New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed The New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. Le Guin's The DispossessedDavis, Laurence; Stillman, Peter; Le Guin, Ursula K. Naomi Jacobs Naomi Jacobs Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2006) 17 (2): 375–379. https://doi.org/10.2307/20718832 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Naomi Ja…
HIV and Aids Risk Behaviors Among Female Jail Detainees
Objectives. We examined the sexual and injection drug use HIV and AIDS risk behaviors of female jail detainees. Methods. The sample (n = 948) was stratified by charge type (felony vs misdemeanor) and race/ethnicity (African American, non-Hispanic White, Hispanic, other). Results. Non-Hispanic White women, women arrested for less serious charges, women who had prior arrests, women arrested on drug charges, and women with severe mental disorders we…
The seduction of Aphra Behn
In praise of the talking woman
(1990). In praise of the talking woman: Gender and conversation in the nineteenth century. Nineteenth-Century Contexts: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 55-70
Person and Persona
Perhaps the most audacious of the many contemporary novelists using historical figures are the practitioners of “recombinant” fiction, who combine figures from all time periods and levels of reality within new fictional contexts. The technique dates back at least to the Greek satirist Lucian. Such cultural icons, whether historical or mythical, are powerful fantasy figures as well as ready-made type characters, and their anachronistic conjunction…
Posthuman Bodies and Agency in Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis
Although science-fiction novelist Octavia Butler claims to avoid “all critical theory” (Potts 331), the issues at play in her Xenogenesis trilogy are essentially those of the postmodern critique of the humanist subject: the critique of the individual as a rationally self-determining, self-defining being, and of individual identity as the source of agency.1 In these novels, Butler confronts humanity with an impossible choice: either extinction, or…
HIV and Aids Risk Behaviors Among Female Jail Detainees
Objectives. We examined the sexual and injection drug use HIV and AIDS risk behaviors of female jail detainees. Methods. The sample (n = 948) was stratified by charge type (felony vs misdemeanor) and race/ethnicity (African American, non-Hispanic White, Hispanic, other). Results. Non-Hispanic White women, women arrested for less serious charges, women who had prior arrests, women arrested on drug charges, and women with severe mental disorders we…
A reply to ‘Touring the carbon ruins
Utopian Home Spaces in Shelter Media
Person and Persona
Perhaps the most audacious of the many contemporary novelists using historical figures are the practitioners of “recombinant” fiction, who combine figures from all time periods and levels of reality within new fictional contexts. The technique dates back at least to the Greek satirist Lucian. Such cultural icons, whether historical or mythical, are powerful fantasy figures as well as ready-made type characters, and their anachronistic conjunction…
In praise of the talking woman
(1990). In praise of the talking woman: Gender and conversation in the nineteenth century. Nineteenth-Century Contexts: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 55-70
The seduction of Aphra Behn
HIV and Aids Risk Behaviors Among Female Jail Detainees
Objectives. We examined the sexual and injection drug use HIV and AIDS risk behaviors of female jail detainees. Methods. The sample (n = 948) was stratified by charge type (felony vs misdemeanor) and race/ethnicity (African American, non-Hispanic White, Hispanic, other). Results. Non-Hispanic White women, women arrested for less serious charges, women who had prior arrests, women arrested on drug charges, and women with severe mental disorders we…
The New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed
Book Review| January 01 2006 The New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed The New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. Le Guin's The DispossessedDavis, Laurence; Stillman, Peter; Le Guin, Ursula K. Naomi Jacobs Naomi Jacobs Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2006) 17 (2): 375–379. https://doi.org/10.2307/20718832 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Naomi Ja…
Dissent, Assent, and the Body in Nineteen Eighty-Four
Research Article| January 01 2007 Dissent, Assent, and the Body in Nineteen Eighty-Four Naomi Jacobs Naomi Jacobs Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2007) 18 (1): 3–20. https://doi.org/10.2307/20719844 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Naomi Jacobs; Dissent, Assent, and the Body in Nineteen Eighty-Four. Utopian Studies 1 January 2007; 18 (1): 3–20. doi: https://doi.or…
Text und Überlieferung des Buches Tobit
Utopian Home Spaces in Shelter Media
Life as a Networked Fan
In studying how fans live their lives online, a common lens has been to consider fandom as fan community (e.g. Sullivan, 2019). Modern digital social networks appear to be complicating this picture, with some scholars suggesting that online fandoms are fragmenting (e.g. Coppa, 2014). In this work, we report on a variety of case studies carried out using ethnographic and survey methods. These examine examples of fans whose networks span both onlin…
Interdisciplinary methodologies for the fan studies bricoleur
As a relatively young field, which brings together scholars from a wide variety of different home disciplines, fan studies faces questions of disciplinary cohesion and methodological practice. Moving from a multidisciplinary space to an interdisciplinary field that creates new synergistic knowledge is facilitated by cross-discipline communication and collaboration. However, this is impeded by many barriers. Examining the history of design researc…
Capability Sensitive Design for Health and Wellbeing Technologies
This article presents the framework Capability Sensitive Design (CSD), which consists of merging the design methodology Value Sensitive Design (VSD) with Martha Nussbaum's capability theory. CSD aims to normatively assess technology design in general, and technology design for health and wellbeing in particular. Unique to CSD is its ability to account for human diversity and to counter (structural) injustices that manifest in technology design. T…
Sensing the City
Room for Improvement in the Video Conferencing ‘Space
The Covid-19 pandemic led to a dramatic shift in the nature of work and collaboration for our design-led research group. In this paper, we describe the experimental use of the Gather Town platform for a variety of communication and collaboration activities. This alternative to standard video conferencing software uses spatial metaphors and attempts to regain some of the affordances of physical co-location such as serendipity and a sense of presen…
Converging experiences, converging audiences
While primarily considered to be a platform for live streaming of video games, Twitch has recently diversified into streaming archival television content. In 2018 and 2019, episodes of the television show Doctor Who, originally aired between 1963 and 1989, were shown on the service, which also provides a synchronous chat function for viewers to communicate with each other as they watch. This article examines this phenomenon through conducting qua…
A reply to ‘Touring the carbon ruins
What if academic publishing worked like fan publishing? Imagining the Fantasy Research Archive of Our Own
Researchers, universities, and academic libraries develop a range of tools and platforms to make scholarship more accessible. What could these scholarly communications and open access projects learn from examples set by fandom and fan activists, for example, the fan works platform Archive of Our Own (AO3)? This conceptual paper, the result of a brainstorming session by scholars and librarians, proposes that a Fantasy Research Archive of Our Own s…
Creative Design Methods for Iot Data Ethics in Hybrid Spaces
This paper presents the use of creative methods including walking workshops, design fiction and policy prototyping to investigate questions of trust, security and ethics in public space Internet of Things (IoT) deployments. We describe how the walking workshops, or 'walkshops', were developed to incorporate both real IoT deployments, and design fictions representing mundane speculations, in the context of a city in the North-West of England. The …
Hack Your Age
This research explores whether the co-design of provocative prototypes with older adults can scaffold critical thought concerning ethics, trustworthiness, security and privacy of age-oriented Internet of Things (IoT) products and services, and associated data-driven technologies (DDT). By inviting 15 adults defining themselves as ‘experiencing or anticipating old age’ to co-design IoT and DDT which addressed their hopes and fears for the future, …
Ethical perspectives on femtech
Femtech is the collective name for technologies that address female health needs. Femtech applications can help women digitally track their period, manage their fertility, and support their pregnancy. Although femtech has beneficial potential, there are various ethical concerns to be raised with current femtech apps. In this article, we discuss three of the main ethical concerns with femtech apps regarding (1) medical reliability, (2) privacy, an…
AI and Fandom
Posthuman Bodies and Agency in Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis
Although science-fiction novelist Octavia Butler claims to avoid “all critical theory” (Potts 331), the issues at play in her Xenogenesis trilogy are essentially those of the postmodern critique of the humanist subject: the critique of the individual as a rationally self-determining, self-defining being, and of individual identity as the source of agency.1 In these novels, Butler confronts humanity with an impossible choice: either extinction, or…
The design of printed fan fiction
Fan binding is a design process through which physical, printed copies of fan fiction works are created. These include both unique hand-bound objects for the designer's own affective, aesthetic pleasure and copyedit and design work mimicking traditional publishing norms but for underground distribution. Fan binding suggests durability and preservation, and printed objects can be transformative works in themselves: designed, typeset, and perhaps f…
Building the spear
An exploration of the use of emotional responses and creative resonances in communal multimedia storytelling, using Twine to create an interactive text-based adventure game
Fans and AI
AI, and especially generative AI, has intersected with fandom in specific ways as fans adopt new practices, scholars have access to additional research methods, and AI tech companies challenge existing concepts of open data, privacy, ownership, fairness, and exploitation. We identify potential areas of disruption to contemporary fandom and fan studies arising from the various uses of AI and suggest what the consequences might be for our understan…
Computer Science (13 obras) · Sociology (12 obras) · Art (11 obras) · Digital Games and Media (8 obras) · Literature (7 obras) · Political science (6 obras) · World Wide Web (6 obras) · Fandom (5 obras) · Psychology (5 obras) · Engineering (4 obras)