I'm Jill Walker Rettberg, Co-Director of the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen, and Professor of Digital Culture. Blogging here since October 2000.
I'm Jill Walker Rettberg, Co-Director of the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen, and Professor of Digital Culture. Blogging here since October 2000.
I had assumed it was, but decided to do a little sleuthing after I saw your post.
The “elitedesigners.org” domain name was registered by the Danish firm Robert/Boisen + Likeminded, which appears to count Ikea among its customers. So I’d say yes.
Thanks, Liz! They list some of their other sites for IKEA, including ikea-fans.dk, which is a deliberately-terribly designed “fan club site”, complete with an un-anti-aliased spinning logo. You might think the fan club was real if you hadn’t followed the link from the ad agency. Though the member hints and the idea that a fan club would really make a television commercial are a little over the top. I haven’t seen any of these ads on TV or in print – are they actually everywhere? I’m pretty good at ignoring ads. Oh Ikea!, on the other hand, appears to be a real fan site.
Whenever I give talks about ChatGPT and LLMs, whether to ninth graders, businesses or journalists, I meet people who are hungry for information, who really want to understand this new technology. I’ve interpreted this as interest and a need to understand – […]
Having your own words processed and restated can help you improve your thinking and your writing. That’s one reason why talking with someone about your ideas can help you clarify your thoughts. ChatGPT is certainly no replacement for a knowledgable friend or colleague, […]
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 […]
A few weeks ago Meta released Galactica, a language model that generates scientific papers based on a prompt you type in. They put it online and invited people to try it out, but had to remove it after just three days after […]
This spring when I was learning R, I came across a paper by Anders Kristian Munk, Asger Gehrt Olesen and Mathieu Jacomy about using machine learning in anthropology – not to classify big data, as machine learning is often used, but to […]
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 […]
Liz Lawley
I had assumed it was, but decided to do a little sleuthing after I saw your post.
The “elitedesigners.org” domain name was registered by the Danish firm Robert/Boisen + Likeminded, which appears to count Ikea among its customers. So I’d say yes.
Jill
Thanks, Liz! They list some of their other sites for IKEA, including ikea-fans.dk, which is a deliberately-terribly designed “fan club site”, complete with an un-anti-aliased spinning logo. You might think the fan club was real if you hadn’t followed the link from the ad agency. Though the member hints and the idea that a fan club would really make a television commercial are a little over the top. I haven’t seen any of these ads on TV or in print – are they actually everywhere? I’m pretty good at ignoring ads. Oh Ikea!, on the other hand, appears to be a real fan site.
mcb
I’d say it’s an ikea ad campaign.
Sneaky…