A journalist rang me last night with questions about YouTube – Marika suggested he call me, he said, which was cool (thanks Marika!), because unlike last summer, by now I do know stuff about YouTube, more than enough for the two brief quotes needed for the article. And the great thing about journalists calling you is they fill you in on bits you didn’t know – I hadn’t thought to search YouTube for the Norwegian stars, for instance, and this article nicely presents some who’ve got way more fame than they’d expected. Fun 🙂
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.
Marika
oh, my pleasure Jill! I too had a little chat with the journalist, but I’m afraid I was talking in a rather incomprehensive way.
nick
You actually like talking to journalists now, Jill?!
Jill
Um. Well. Sure, if they ring rather than sending long email interviews that take hours, and if they’re to the point and don’t take up lots of time… Heh.