Jill Walker Rettberg

Person
Residency: 
Bergen
Norway
NO
Nationality: 
Norway
NO
Australia
AU
Born: 
1971
Record Status: 
Short biography: 

Jill Walker Rettberg is professor of Digital Culture at the University of Bergen, and co-director of the Center for Digital Narrative. Her research focus is on how we tell stories online, and she has a particular interest in social media and personal narratives. She has published several articles on early hypertext fiction, electronic literature, digital art and social media, as well as the book Blogging (Polity Press, 2008). She also co-edited an anthology of scholarship on World of Warcraft (Digital Culture, Play, and Identity, MIT Press, 2008). Jill has been blogging at jilltxt.net for two decades, and tweets as @jilltxt.

Note: Works published before 2007 under name Jill Walker.

Critical writing by this author:

Titlesort descending Publication Type Publisher Year
Hypertext Criticism: Writing about Hypertext Article in an online journal Journal of Digital Information (JoDI) 2003
Hypertext Fiction from 1987-1999 Conference paper or presentation 2010
Hypertextual Criticism: Comparative Readings of Three Web Hypertexts About Literature and Film Book (M.A. Thesis) 1998
Identifying, Deceiving, Protecting and Hunting: What Fictional Machines and Humans Do with Machine Vision Technologies Conference paper or presentation 2021
International Electronic LIterature Conference panel or roundtable 2007
Kid E-lit elektronisk litterature for barn og ungdom Anthology of creative work or online gallery 2015
Life Poetry Told by Sensors Keynote address 2014
Mining the Knowledge Base: Exploring Methodologies for Analysing the Field of Electronic Literature Conference paper or presentation 2013
Mirrors and Shadows: The Aestheticisation of Oneself 2005
Network Analysis and Visualization as a Method for Studying Electronic Literature Conference paper or presentation 2013
Notes on N. Katherine Hayles: Literature and the Literary: Why Electronic Literature is Key to Their Future Notes and Drafts, Weblog 2007
Personal Narratives, Corporate Templates Conference paper or presentation 2009
Piecing Together and Tearing Apart: Finding the Story in afternoon Conference paper or presentation Association for Computing Machinery 1999
Seeing Ourselves Through Technology: How We Use Selfies, Blogs and Wearable Devices to See and Shape Ourselves Book (monograph) - print Palgrave Macmillan 2016
Selvbilder Keynote address 2014
Student Research Using the ELMCIP Knowledge Base Conference paper or presentation 2011
SurREAL: Dramatis Personae on the Digital Stage Conference paper or presentation 2000
The ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base: Documentation, Connections and Visualisations Conference paper or presentation 2013
The Emergence of Electronic Literature Exhibition Catalogue Exhibition Catalog 2013
The Future of the Digital Humanities at the University of Bergen Conference panel or roundtable 2018

Curator of:

Titlesort descending City Country Date
The Emergence of Electronic Literature Bergen Norway August 20, 2013 to September 30, 2013
Full Name: 
Jill Walker Rettberg
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