When Demi Moore posted photos of herself at the dentist with one of her front teeth missing, she made the paparazzis superfluous. When Salam Pax blogged from Bagdad and US soldiers blogged their experiences of fighting in Iraq we were excited to […]

I’m teaching a 5 credit (ECTS) course on Communicating with Social Media this autumn (in Norwegian!). I’m really excited about the course. It’s a short, intensive course – three full days followed by independent work, so should be ideal for people who […]

Benjamin arrived 10 days after his due date, on February 16, and is absolutely beautiful. We’re busy sleeping and eating and spending time with eager relatives and learning how to be a family of five – the latter probably posing the most […]

Look at this! I think that the symbols on the blue banner, to the left of the word “Blogging”, may spell out my name. Or part of my name. Does anyone read Korean? I can’t even figure out how to google to […]

We recently had great news: we’ve received nearly a million euros to fund a large, European project exploring creativity in the field of electronic literature. The project is led by Scott Rettberg and involves researchers from a total of seven universities in […]

Privacy of the Self Originally uploaded by snappybex Quite often I receive emails from high school students writing papers about blogging who have long lists of questions they’d like me to answer. Unfortunately I don’t often have time to answer ten questions […]

We have two PhD fellowships advertised right now, with a deadline of January 31. We’re particularly interested in candidates interested in researching electronic literature (perhaps in connection with our freshly-funded project on creativity in electronic literature), digital art, social media, gender and […]

Internationally, it seems that the most popular blogs are about gadgets, technology, politics and weird web finds, at least if we can trust Technorati’s ranking list. In Norway, the most popular blogs are written by teenaged girls, like 14-year-old “Voe“, who’s the […]

My belly has grown a LOT since October. Only a month left now and my little boy will be born! While he’s been growing, videos have been processed, and video of the talk I gave at the Wikipedia Academy in October is […]

“Nobody knows you’re a dog on the internet“, right? Although many of us still engage in a little harmless identity tourism now and then, the internet in general is not an anonymous space, and current trends in social media are making it […]