I just signed a petition calling for Norwegian universities to use research expertise on AI when deciding how to implement it, rather than having decisions be made mostly administratively. , If you are a researcher in Norway, please read it and sign it if you agree – and share with anyone else who might be interested. The petition was written by three researchers at UiT: Maria Danielsen (a philosopher who completed her PhD in 2025 on AI and ethics, including discussions of art and working life), Knut Ørke (Norwegian as a second language), and Holger Pötzsch (a professor of media studies with many years of research on digital media, video games, disruption, and working life, among other topics). This is not about preventing researchers from exploring AI methods in their research. It is about not uncritically accepting the hype that everyone must use AI everywhere without critical reflection. It is about not introducing Copilot as the default option in word processors, or training PhD candidates to believe they will fall behind if they do not use AI when writing articles, without proper academic discussion. Changes like these should be knowledge-based and discussed academically, not merely decided administratively, because they alter the epistemological foundations of research. Maria wrote to me a couple of months ago because she had read my opinion piece in Aftenposten in which I called for a strong brake on the use of language models in knowledge work. She was part of a committee tasked with developing UiT’s AI strategy and was concerned because there was so much hype and so few members of the committee with actual expertise in AI. I fully support the petition. There are probably some good uses for AI in research, but the uncritical, hype-driven insistence that we must simply adopt it everywhere is highly risky. There are many researchers in Norway with strong expertise in AI, language, ethics, working life, and culture. We must make use of this expertise. This is also partly about respect for research in the humanities, social sciences, psychology, and law. Introducing AI at universities and university colleges is not merely a technical issue, and perhaps not even primarily a technical one. It concerns much more: philosophy of science, methodological reflection, epistemology, writing, publishing, the working environment, and more. […]
Charles
Korean is alphabetic, and the sounds to the left of blogging look like “bul lo ging” (or “pul lo king” to me. So it’s a phonetic rendition of Blogging.
Knud
Oh, how cool! Korean is a phonetic script like our Latin script, so you could look up in a table how to pronounce those characters. That would give you an indication of whether or not it is your name.
E.g.,: http://www.omniglot.com/writing/korean.htm
Mikhail Pushkin
Looks like so much fun! Nice see the book catching on so well internationally, how many languages so far?
Konrad M. Lawson
Hei Jill,
Linn S. pointed out your posting to me but I am much delayed in visiting the link.
Congratulations on the translation of your book into Korean. The word to the left of BLOGGING is 블로깅 or beul-lo-ging (blogging).
Your book is currently the #1 hit for “블로깅” (Blogging) when you search on Kyobo, the equivalent of Amazon Books in Korea (but not 블로그, the Korean word for “Blog”) and the largest bookseller in the country. Your book is selling there for 13,000 won (ca. 67 kr) which I’d say is pretty standard for mass market paperback books. It came out 11th December last year.
ISBN 13 9788957112533
ISBN 10 8957112537
This is the book display on Kyobo Academy (The regular Kyobo bookstore, like many Korean websites, only works properly in Internet Explorer so I couldn’t reach it):
http://www.kyoboacademy.co.kr/academy/product/general/bookInfoKor.laf?barcode=9788957112533&ejkGb=KOR
The full title is: 블로깅: 블로그학 개론
I don’t know what the original title of your book is but I guess a translation would be: “Blogging: An [introduction to|survey of] [the study of|the practice of] the blog”
Your name transliterated in Korean for the book is:
질 워커 레트버그
Transliterated back using the new 2000 romanization system:
질 jil
워커 wokeo (sounds something like “walkaw”)
레트버그 reteubeogeu (umm….hard to explain how it sounds in words, maybe forvo.com can help you)
Your books is also already available on the Bookoa secondary market website selling used for 4-5000 won (ca. 21-26 kr):
블로깅(BLOGGING) : 블로그학 개론
컴퓨터 > 기타컴퓨터서적
질 워커 레트버그
http://www.bookoa.com/module/book/book_view.asp?book_no=5607320
luke patterson
It says 블로깅, which is the title of your book ^__^.
Which I’m sure someone said already.