Saturday morning at Aesthetics of Play and the World of Warcraft panel is on. There are three presnetations about WoW and the abstracts are all here.
I’m fighting a very strong desire to just play World of Warcraft. Oh dear.
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.
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.
Saturday morning at Aesthetics of Play and the World of Warcraft panel is on. There are three presnetations about WoW and the abstracts are all here.
I’m fighting a very strong desire to just play World of Warcraft. Oh dear.
Finally I can share what I’ve been working on! I absolutely loved writing this book, taking the time to dig deep into histories, ideas and theories that I think really help understand how machine vision technologies like facial recognition and image generation are impacting us today. I wanted the book […]
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Great link! Thanks!
David Surman
thanks for attending our panel; Tanya Henry and me had a great time in Bergen.
been playing wow since I got back, should really do some teaching prep (x _ x)