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.
I enjoy seminars. I like being able to talk with the students rather than to them, I like learning to know them as individuals and I like seeing them hunkering down together and getting stuff done. I really enjoy the discussions we […]
Lisbeth Klastrup‘s tracking the use of blogs in the upcoming Danish elections. Her first post on the topic lists blogs that are tracking the media, blogs by groups of politicians and by individual politicians.
I’m registering my publications and talks and everything in FRIDA, the just-become national Norwegian research database which will not only serve as a bibliography of Norwegian research, it’s also going to be where the powers that be figure out how much money […]
First lecture this semester, and I had it all worked out. I started taking notes for the lecture a week and a half ago; the blog post with the links I’d need was drafted on Friday, ready for a quick click of […]
Did you look at Justin Hall’s blog lately? Justin’s been publishing his life online for eleven years, with an honesty (well, an apparent honesty, I don’t know him apart from his website so can’t verify anything, but it’s certainly truthful in the […]
Margot Wallstr??m, the EU’s Commissioner for Institutional Relations and Communication, has started blogging. I read her most recent post, which moves from personal notes about the tsunami through a description of the prime-minister of Luxembourg ending with concerns about having put on […]
Every time I get one of those emails with a photo of a child who can remember nothing in a hospital in Thailand I hope, wildly, that when I scroll down the photo will be of Shyrin. It never is. It’s the […]
I fixed the PDF of my PhD thesis and put it online! Jill Walker. Fiction and Interaction: How Clicking a Mouse Can Make You Part of a Fictional World. Dr. art. thesis, Dept of Humanistics, University of Bergen, 2003. To try to […]
Christy Dena has a wonderfully useful post on the differences between her approach to crossmedia or polymorphic narrative, and my approach to what I’ve called distributed narrative. Isn’t the web awesome, letting us find each other like this, now, as we’re figuring […]
Anjo Anjewierden ran a script identifying words used uniquely (kind of, read the post to see what that means) in particular blogs. Which would you rather read: Jill Walker: electronic literature, grant, hypertext, new media, wireless. Danah Boyd: abuse, adult, battle, blog […]