"Språkmodeller modellerer ikke virkeligheten, de modeller språk," skriver @jilltxt@aoir.social i kjølvannet av flere nylige feil gjort i kunnskapsproduksjon med generativ KI: https://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/debatt/i/LMyAwR/stopp-bruken-av-kunstig-intelligens-til-kunnskapsarbeid #NorskTut
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Center for Digital Narrative
@cdn@fediscience.org
mastodon 4.6.9CDN is a Norwegian Centre of Research Excellence (SFF). We focus on algorithmic narrativity, new environments and materialities, and shifting cultural contexts in humanities-driven research.
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UiB, Bergen, Norway
Men, #Masculinity and Digital Media – multidisciplinary seminar exploring how men’s digital media practices—including gaming, incel communities, gambling, and prepping—reflect and shape contemporary masculinities, motivations, and social dynamics in the #Nordic context:
In #Bergen, March 5, 09-16: https://www4.uib.no/en/research/research-centres/center-for-digital-narrative/events/men-masculinity-and-digital-media #UMG
European book launch of @nickmofo@mastodon.social and Lillian-Yvonne Betram´s new anthology of computer-generated texts from the last 70 years, today in Bergen or streamed online: https://www.uib.no/en/cdn/174492/output-anthology-computer-generated-text-1953%E2%80%932023
Deadline: tomorrow!
We welcome applications from PhD students in disciplines such as digital culture, literary studies, game studies, media studies, digital art or design.
https://www.uib.no/en/cdn/174423/cdn-digital-narrative-phd-summer-school #CFP #DigitalNarrative
«For brorparten av ChatGPTs brukere er ikke ChatGPT først og fremst en «teknologi», men et medium – en formidler av tekst og bilder,» skriver postdoc Anne Sigrid Refsum i denne kronikken: https://www.dagsavisen.no/debatt/du-ma-kunne-mye-for-a-bruke-ki/10056002 #KI #NorskPolitikk #forskning
“It’s pretty easy to imagine that English will become more standardized to whatever the standard of these language models is,” said @jilltxt@aoir.social, a professor of digital culture at the University of Bergen’s @cdn@fediscience.org in Norway": https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/04/great-language-flattening/682627/ #AISTORIES
We have an open position for an incoming postdoctoral research fellow position within computational narrative systems.
The applicant must propose an individual project in computational narrative systems that will be the focus of the postdoctoral work. The Center for Digital Narrative’s Computational Narrative Systems node, led by @nickmofo@mastodon.social studies and researches the computational modeling of narrative, which includes developing new computational models of narrative and re-implementing historical models (also known as “storytelling systems”) so that they can be easily studied and used.
https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/277025/lead-ai-postdoctoral-research-fellow-position-within-digital-narrative #researchjobs
On this episode Scott talks to Espen Aarseth, Dean of the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong, about his groundbreaking work in #GameStudies: https://podtail.com/no/podcast/off-center/episode-40-from-cybertext-to-video-game-studies-wi/
Master's in Nordic or Comparative Literature, you say? Come here!
The project is part of the research project #AISTORIES: Narrative Archetypes for Artificial Intelligence, a European Research Council Advanced Grant led by Professor @jilltxt@aoir.social:
@alexandrasaemmer@mastodon.art in today's Digital Narratives Summer School Keynote talks about punk poetics and feed-cuts, creating poetry from our personalised feeds.
(And indeed, CDN is also on Mastodon, the exception.)
"The point is not to debate whether the output generated by generative AI is ‘good’ or ‘bad’. They may become ‘good’ someday. But clearly, certain kinds of users deem it to already be ‘good enough’ to be able to start daydreaming."
#ALGOFOLK postdoc Debarun Sarkar writing about synthetic media as wish fulfillment: https://algofolk.substack.com/p/synthetic-media-as-wish-fulfillment
We are calling for scholarly essays, short contributions, reviews, images, remixes, and creative works of digital media for a special issue of electronic book review engaging Joseph Tabbi’s works and career as a researcher, organizer, and digital publishing pioneer.
DH Lecture Series: Four theses on algorithmic folklore. In
DHKO's lectures Gabriele de Seta shares some key examples in this first in the series.
On Zoom February 13th, 11.30-12.00 (CET): https://www.uib.no/en/digitallab/175778/dh-lecture-series-four-theses-algorithmic-folklore #DigitalCulture #ALGOFOLK
The Center for Digital Narrative invites #PhD students who are writing a dissertation on #DigitalNarratives to participate in a five-day PhD #SummerSchool at the @UiB@mstdn.science from 10-14 June 2025.
We welcome applications from PhD students in disciplines such as #DigitalCulture, #LiteraryStudies, #GameStudies, #MediaStudies, digital #art or #design. Applicants can be working on a research-based PhD or a PhD using creative practice or artistic research.
Apply by June 30th: https://www.uib.no/en/cdn/174423/cdn-digital-narrative-phd-summer-school
"This workshop has been a step towards creating a community of #feminist scholars in #esports #research," writes the organisers, among them two of our PhDs: https://coe-gamecult.org/2024/12/12/maria-ruotsalainen-tom-legierse-azul-romo-flores-finja-walsdorff-ida-martine-gard-rysjedal-egil-trasti-rogstad-reflections-on-workshop-feminist-approaches-to-esports-research/