I'm Jill Walker Rettberg, author and professor of Digital Culture at the University of Bergen in Norway. I co-direct the Center for Digital Narrative, a 10-year Norwegian Centre of Research Excellence, and I lead the ERC project Machine Vision in Everyday Life. This site started as my blog in October 2000.
I'm Jill Walker Rettberg, author and professor of Digital Culture at the University of Bergen in Norway. I co-direct the Center for Digital Narrative, a 10-year Norwegian Centre of Research Excellence, and I lead the ERC project Machine Vision in Everyday Life. This site started as my blog in October 2000.
Read Torill’s story of how her father and his brother crossed Finnmarksvidda to fight for their country in exile. It’s a well-told story with some beautiful imagery and it’s part of our history. I love this sharing of memories and stories – […]
That free trade agreement Australia just signed with the US includes Australia extending copyright from 50 to 70 years. Things that have been in the public domain will suddenly not be. See Lessig and The Age.
The library at Stockton is a good place to work. It’s quiet, there’s wireless and power, and look, windows from floor to ceiling that open out on the pine barrens that surround the college. I’m writing an essay on the peer assessment […]
Portals are totally out, social networks are in: Lycos is no longer a portal, it’s a social network. Meanwhile, in television, reality shows are out and makeovers are in, a media scholar told me the other week. D’ya think it’ll make a […]
Oh, now that’s an elegant version of a google bomb. The top hit on Google for “Bush’s foreign friends” is an art project faking Google search results. So if you do that search and click “I’m feeling lucky” you might, as I […]
Thin slices of rain cut through the air and nobody walked on the beach this afternoon.
Watchbloggers are (generally anonymous) bloggers who are each assigned one journalist covering the U.S. presidential campaign. This is an interesting answer to the question about “but are they trustworthy?” “Credibility is an interaction — not an aura,” Rosen said. “If a citizen […]
That’s me. A barcode that tells you everything you’d ever want to know about me. My body, memories and ideas compressed into impeccable machine-readable format. If you feel the urge to store yourself for posterity, generate your own barcode now. Or you […]
Howard Dean won’t become president, but that doesn’t mean that his novel networked campaign was a failure, says Joe Trappi, his ex campaign manager, to Wired: ‘”This wasn’t about one guy,” he said. “This is the beginning of the tools, and a […]