Jill Walker Rettberg cand.philol., dr.art. | |
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Born | 1971 (age 52–53) |
Nationality | Norwegian |
Other names | Jill Walker |
Known for | blogging, social media, digital narratives |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Internet studies, Digital humanities, Science and Technology Studies |
Institutions | University of Bergen |
Thesis | Fiction and interaction how clicking a mouse can make you part of a fictional world (2004) |
Website | jilltxt |
Jill Walker Rettberg (born Jill Walker in 1971) is co-director of the Center for Digital Narrative[1][2] and Professor of Digital Culture at the University of Bergen. She is "a leading researcher in self-representation in social media"[3] and a European Research Council grantee (2018–2023) with the project Machine Vision in Everyday Life: Playful Interactions with Visual Technologies in Digital Art, Games, Narratives and Social Media[4][5]. Rettberg is known for innovative research dissemination in social media, having started her research blog jill/txt in 2000,[6] and developed Snapchat Research Stories in 2017.[7][8]
Det nye senteret vil utforske de estetiske og samfunnsmessige effektene av nye former for digitale fortellinger. Det vil skape dypere kunnskap om hvordan digitale teknologier påvirker en av de mest fundamentalt menneskelige aktivitetene: Hvordan vi forteller historiene som former våre liv og hvordan vi forstår verden. University of Illinois at Chicago er samarbeidspartner. Scott Rettberg og Jill Walker Rettberg er senterledere.