Blar i Department of Linguistics, Literary and Aestetic Studies på forfatter "Rettberg, Jill Walker"
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Algorithmic failure as a humanities methodology: Machine learning’s mispredictions identify rich cases for qualitative analysis
Rettberg, Jill Walker (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This commentary tests a methodology proposed by Munk et al. (2022) for using failed predictions in machine learning as a method to identify ambiguous and rich cases for qualitative analysis. Using a dataset describing ... -
Algorithmic narrativity: Literary experiments that drive technology
Rettberg, Scott Robert; Rettberg, Jill Walker (Journal article, 2024)This paper extends Raymond Williams’ insights on technology and society by asserting that not only scientific, social, and economic conditions but also aesthetic factors are crucial for technological adoption. The concept ... -
Apps as Companions: How Quantified Self Apps Become Our Audience and Our Companions
Rettberg, Jill Walker (Palgrave Pivot, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2018)Self-tracking apps gather intimate information about our daily lives. Sometimes, they take the role of a confidante, an anthropomorphised companion we can trust. Humans have long confided in non-human companions, such as ... -
Ask Rosa – The making of a digital genetic conversation tool, a chatbot, about hereditary breast and ovarian cancer
Siglen, Elen; Vetti, Hildegunn Høberg; Lunde, Aslaug Beathe Forberg; Hatlebrekke, Thomas Akselberg; Strømsvik, Nina; Hamang, Anniken; Hovland, Sigrid Tronsli; Rettberg, Jill Walker; Steen, Vidar Martin; Bjorvatn, Cathrine (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Objective: We aimed at developing a pilot version of an app (Rosa) that can perform digital conversations with breast or ovarian cancer patients about genetic BRCA testing, using chatbot technology, to identify best practices ... -
The Data Sprint Approach: Exploring the field of Digital Humanities through Amazon’s Application Programming Interface
Rettberg, Jill Walker; Berry, David M.; Borra, Erik; Helmond, Anne; Plantin, Jean-Christophe (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-12)This paper documents the results of an intensive "data sprint" method for undertaking data and algorithmic work using application programming interfaces (APIs), which took place during the Digital Method Initiative 2013 ... -
Digital Narratives — Theories, Criticism(s), Achievements: Introduction
Torres, Rui; Rettberg, Scott Robert; Rettberg, Jill Walker; Tabbi, Joseph Paul (Journal article, 2023)This issue of RCL addresses how an awareness of digital technologies, platforms and algorithms can help us understand newly emerging digital narratives in our current globalized network society. Digital narratives include ... -
Electronic Literature Communities
Rettberg, Jill Walker; Tomaszek, Patricia (Computing literature, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2014)This chapter presents key findings from the sixteen separate analyses of communities in the Dichtung Digital issues and analyses of the data in the Knowledge Base of Electronic Literature. -
Electronic Literature Seen from a Distance. The Beginnings of a Field
Rettberg, Jill Walker (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2012)This paper outlines the development of the hypertext fiction community that developed in the United States of America from the late eighties and onwards. This community was separate from the interactive fiction community ... -
Et algoritmisk blikk: Algoritmers rolle i produksjonen av hverdagsfotografier
Rettberg, Jill Walker (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Algoritmer styrer i økende grad visuelle medier, ikke bare ved å sortere og rangere bilder i sosiale medier, men også ved å styre hvilke bilder som i det hele tatt blir tatt, gjennom algoritmer for estetisk inferens som ... -
Experiences with Geographical Collaborative Systems: Playfulness in Geosocial Networks and Geocaching
Hooper, Claire J.; Rettberg, Jill Walker (Conference lecture, 2011)Playful geosocial services are being used more and more widely, yet we still don’t understand people’s experiences with them. With wide-ranging privacy issues and enormous choice between rival services, it is important to ... -
‘Freshly Generated for You, and Barack Obama’: How Social Media Represent Your Life
Rettberg, Jill Walker (European Journal of Communication, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2009-12)This article discusses the ways in which social media help us craft the narratives of our lives. Many discussions of social media look at self-presentation and the construction of identity on social network sites in ... -
Hand Signs for Lip-syncing: The Emergence of a Gestural Language on Musical.ly as a Video-Based Equivalent to Emoji
Rettberg, Jill Walker (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-10-24)Video-based communication is increasingly common online. This article looks at the hand signs that are used in lip-syncing videos on the app musical.ly and argues that they constitute a codified, non-verbal language of ... -
Machine vision situations: Tracing distributed agency
Gunderson, Marianne; Solberg, Ragnhild; Kronman, Linda Maria Jessica; de Seta, Gabriele; Rettberg, Jill Walker (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This article proposes a new method for tracing and examining agency in heterogeneous assemblages, focusing on the role of machine vision technologies in creative works. We introduce the concept of the “machine vision ... -
Machine Vision: How Algorithms are Changing the Way We See the World
Rettberg, Jill Walker (Book, 2023)Humans have used technology to expand our limited vision for millennia, from the invention of the stone mirror 8,000 years ago to the latest developments in facial recognition and augmented reality. We imagine that ... -
Mining the Knowledge Base: Exploring Methodologies for Analysing the Field of Electronic Literature
Rettberg, Jill Walker; Rettberg, Scott (Lecture, 2013-01-25)This is a work-in-progress report from an exploration of the intersection between the fairly conventional digital humanities method of creating a database - specifically, the ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base ... -
“Nobody Is Ever Alone”: The Use of Social Media Narrative to Include the Viewer in SKAM
Rettberg, Jill Walker (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021) -
'Now Objects Perceive Me': Art that Interrogates Machine Vision
Rettberg, Jill Walker (Conference lecture, 2016-10-05)This paper analyses three recent works of art that interrogate the relationship between human perception and machine vision: Nadav Assor’s art-documentary Lessons on Leaving Your Body (2014), Muse’s VR music video Revolt ... -
Online Diaries and Blogs
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Representations of Machine Vision Technologies in Artworks, Games and Narratives: a Dataset
Rettberg, Jill Walker; Kronman, Linda Maria Jessica; Solberg, Ragnhild; Gunderson, Marianne; Bjørklund, Stein Magne; Stokkedal, Linn Heidi; Seta, Gabriele de; Jacob, Kurdin; Markham, Annette (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This data paper documents a dataset that captures cultural attitudes towards machine vision technologies as they are expressed in art, games and narratives. The dataset includes records of 500 creative works (including 77 ... -
Seeing Ourselves Through Technology: How We Use Selfies, Blogs and Wearable Devices to See and Shape Ourselves
Rettberg, Jill Walker (Book; Peer reviewed, 2014-10-03)Selfies, blogs and lifelogging devices have become important ways in which we understand ourselves. Jill Walker Rettberg analyses these and related genres as three intertwined modes of self-representation: visual, written ...