Ian Bogost’s analysis of the “glassed out” vacant stare of Google Glass users surfing the web is particularly interesting in that it allows us to think more clearly about the now-familiar way people mark distance from their immediate surroundings by staring down […]
I was shocked to realise my students had never seen that classic cartoon about the anonymous dog on the internet. I suppose it is 20 years old. Luckily, Nitrozac has been making web comics since the 90s and definitely remembers. And just as […]
I love seeing popular social media genres repurposed into something playful, into a story, into a game. Tiffany Beveridge‘s Pinterest board My Imaginary Well-Dressed Daughter is an example. It’s just a Pinterest board, but filled with fashion photos of children, each captioned […]
In Norway, the term digital humanities is not really established, although a lot of work has been done here that could well be called digital humanities – at the University of Bergen a few projects that come to mind are the classics:Â Wittgenstein […]