I love talking about my research, and have given hundreds of talks for audiences ranging from technology companies to teachers to the cultural sector – and academics too of course. I am equally comfortable speaking in English or Norwegian. My family moved from Australia to Bergen in Norway when I […]
Like the rest of the internet, I’ve been playing with ChatGPT, the new AI chatbot released by OpenAI, and I’ve been fascinated by how much it does well and how it still gets a lot wrong. ChatGPT is a foundation model, that is, a deep learning model (also called a […]
I’m co-organising a preconfernece workshop for AoIR2022 in Dublin today with Annette Markham and MaryElizabeth Luka today, and I’m going to show a few of the ways I’ve engaged with new digital platforms and genres over the years. This is a key research methodology for me. For this particular workshop […]
I’m a member of Personvernskommisjonen, a committee appointed by the Norwegian government to write a report that assesses the state of current privacy regulations and practices and gives recommendations on policies to meet current challenges to privacy (here is our mandate). I was asked to have a look at research […]
I gave a talk at the Moral Machines symposium in Helsinki last year, and just heard that a revised version of the talk will be published in an anthology tentatively titled The Ethos of Digital Environments: Technology, Literary Theory and Philosophy. The anthology is edited by Hanna-Riikka Roine and Susanna […]
I spent some of last week at a wonderful larp (live action roleplaying) camp for kids run by Tidsreiser, and had a wonderful time. I have secretly wanted to try larping since I was a teenager, but there weren’t any local ones, then I didn’t dare try, and then I […]
[English summary: info about two recent talks I gave about algorithmic bias in society] Algoritmer, stordata og maskinlæring fÃ¥r mer og mer Ã¥ si for samfunnet vÃ¥rt, og brukes snart i alle samfunnsomrÃ¥der: i skolen, rettsstaten, politiet, helsevesenet og mer. Vi trenger mer kunnskap og offentlig debatt om dette temaet, […]
I found an old notebook when I was tidying my desk today. Its from 1997 and 1998, when I was working on my MA in comparative literature and writing about creative, non-fiction hypertext. I read all the 1990s hypertext theory and took careful notes. Thinking about what David Kolb wrote […]
My paper for Chercher le texte, the Electronic Literature Organization’s 2013 conference in Paris next month, is about ready and I’ve uploaded it to the ELO conference website and to Figshare. Figshare was new to me. It’s an open access non-peer-reviewed research repository built to contain more than just papers: the […]
The second edition of my book Blogging is just about to go into production, and I’ve just finished double checking all the links for the blogs referenced in the book. I’m using a lot of the same blogs as in the first edition, but there are some new ones too, […]