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.
In a brief article in Interactions, Brenda Laurel writes that in her study of 1000 children, she found that “narrative construction was the largest category of play for girls ages eight to 12.” That certainly seems to fit what I see in […]
Brevity wrote a program that produces an “average” of 50 photos tagged the same. This image is what happens if you combine 50 photos tagged with “shadow” and “self” from 50 different Flickr users.
I’m speaking at a seminar in Oslo on the 18th. It’s about digital and social networks, with speakers on Linux gift culture, about network economy, strong and weak ties, actors and actants in networks and about consumer networks. And me on networked […]
Ooh, I’d have loved to go to this summer school for grad students when I was a grad student. It’s a collaboration between Georgia Tech and Sˆdertˆrns Hˆgskole just outside of Stockholm. I must keep better track of these events, I would […]
The submissions deadline for the Aesthetics of Play conference here in Bergen this autumn is April 18. You just need a 300 word abstract. I really want to submit something but have to think up something games related yet relevant to other […]
Did you know that British kids’ TV, if broadcast in the US, is generally dubbed with American accents? Or that British sitcoms tend to be remade for the US market rather than broadcast? Oh, cable for the elite might pick them up, […]
TV2 wants me to explain the difference between MSN chat and IRC or web chat rooms so that my grandma could understand it in 40 seconds, with a discussion of what the dangers are and whether you can be anonymous. The background […]
Ooh, Bergen National Academy of the Arts has advertised an assistant professorship in electronic media. They want an artist who can teach the practical and artistic aspects of video-, sound-, web and image-based electronic art and do artistic research and development or […]
This appeals to the leave-my-mark part of me: scan your skin and send this project the jpg. A square of your skin will become part of a database of human skin possibilities. This may be ironic or politically incorrect, or maybe just […]
Scott moved his blog to WordPress and a new domain! I helped tag old posts, which turned out to be rather interesting. Old posts are often rather good, and one of the disadvantages of blogs is that they so rapidly become almost […]